Pattern Pattern
Secret Stitches
4. Press carefully. Keep your
stitchery centred and trim each
Designed and Made by Janet Rowe
square to 6” using rotary cutter
Finished block: 8”
and ruler.
5. Using the Strips 1, 2, 3, &
Treat yourself to this pattern, a new stitchery set appears in each issue. Completed via the kit (see below) or with
4, sew two strips to top and
your own colour palette, it’s fun and ultimately, a lovely delicate quilt.
bottom. Press. Sew a strip to
each side. Trim the excess
Materials for Complete Quilt
fabric from each strip.
Pop your finished blocks on your
20” x WOF (width of fabric) Cream tone-on-tone fabric
design wall until next issue.
20” x WOF Weave line iron-on interfacing
52” x WOF Red tone-on-tone in five prints
Buy it!
6 Skeins DMC Stranded thread red or green
Aus$85.00 +p/h Secret Stitchery
For those of you looking to buy the ingredients as a kit, Honeysuckle Cottage,
Kit featuring 12 stitchery blocks.
www.honeysucklecottage.com.au, provides the fabric and thread kit by mail order.
You can also purchase Select
Your Own Stitcher’s Start Up
Pack. It’s perfect for gifts!
Materials for verse (A) and knotwork (B)stitchery
It includes permanent pens,
Two 7” squares of cream tone-on-tone
rotary cutters, rulers, cutting mats,
Two 6 ½ “ weave line iron-on interfacing
spring loaded hoops—everything
Red or Green DMC stranded cotton
you need to get started. Find it
online at:
Good chocolate to keep you company (as recommended by Janet)
www.honeysucklecottage.com.au
Colours
Once you decide on either green
or red, you’re ready to begin your
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stitchery.
When creating a
Cut two 7” squares from cream
STITCHERY
detailed stitching, Janet
recommends spring
Cut two 6½”squares of weave line
1. Using templates, a light source
loaded hoops. They can
interfacing and a thin permanent pen,
be a great help for even
trace the verse (Stitchery A) and
Cut one strip 2½” x WOF for four
stitch tension.
knotwork (Stitchery B), each
tone-on-tone prints, labeling each
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fabric 1, 2, 3 and 4.
onto a 7” square, on the centre
3. For Stitchery B, use two strands
Honeysuckle Cottage, (www.
of the fabric.
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