A Year of Quilting

INTRODUCTION

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

REQUIREMENTS

KEY TECHNIQUES
Hand stitches
Machine stitches
Chain piecing
Machine piecing - Square Triangles, Half Rectangle Triangles, Flying Geese, Crazy Patchwork, Checkerboard, Log Cabin, Dresden Plate, Square within a Square, Curved Piecing
Appliqué - Applying Shapes in an Order, Raw-edge Appliqué, Needleturn Appliqué, Appliqué with Card, Appliqué with Freezer Paper, Appliqué with Interfacing, Broderie Perse, Reverse Appliqué, Bias & Straight Strips
English Paper Piecing
Foundation Paper Piecing

ASSEMBLY, QUILTING & FINISHING
Quilt layout
Quilt assembly
Quilt sandwich
Quilting
Binding

BLOCKS
Week 1: Flying Geese 1
Week 2: Heart 1
Week 3: Star 1
Week 4: Small Flower 1
Week 5: Heart 2
Week 6: Bird 1
Week 7: Star 2
Week 8: Log Cabin 1
Week 9: Centre Panel 1
Week 10: Heart 3
Week 11: Large Pieced Block 1
Week 12: Heart 4
Week 13: Star 3
Week 14: Bird 2
Week 15: Dresden 1
Week 16: Star 4
Week 17: Tall Flower 1
Week 18: Heart 5
Week 19: English Paper Piecing 1
Week 20: Small Flower 2
Week 21: Small Flower 3
Week 22: Tall Bird 1
Week 23: Star 5
Week 24: Tall Flower 2
Week 25: Bird 3
Week 26: Small Flower 4
Week 27: Curved Piecing 1
Week 28: Heart 6
Week 29: Basket 1
Week 30: Flying Geese 2
Week 31: Star 6
Week 32: Star 7
Week 33: Log Cabin 2
Week 34: Heart 7
Week 35: Large Pieced Block 2
Week 36: Flying Geese 3
Week 37: Bird 4
Week 38: Heart 8
Week 39: Tall Flower 3
Week 40: Basket 2
Week 41: Dresden 2
Week 42: Star 8
Week 43: Small Flower 5
Week 44: Bird 5
Week 45: Basket 3
Week 46: Flying Geese 4
Week 47: English Paper Piecing 2
Week 48: Tall Flower 4
Week 49: Centre Panel 2
Week 50: Basket 4
Week 51: Tall Bird 2
Week 52: Curved Piecing 2

INSPIRATIONAL BLOCKS

TEMPLATES

About Debbie Shore

Debbie Shore is a best-selling and award-winning author. She began her career as a children's television presenter and since then has appeared regularly as an actress in various popular dramas and as a presenter on shopping channels. Debbie has developed her own range of fabrics, designed her own patterns, writes for several popular sewing magazines and has written over 30 books for Search Press with several more underway. Over 800,000 copies of her books have been sold worldwide. She is the winner of Craft Influencer of the Year 2020 in the Craft Business Awards, and Social Media Influencer of the Year 2019 in the British Sewing Awards.

Debbie has over 285,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, which has over 30 million views. In 2018, Debbie launched her Half Yard Sewing Club, a monthly subscription service based on the mega-selling Half Yard series, and won the 2019 IPG Digital Publishing Award. For more details about the club visit
www.halfyardsewingclub.com.

Debbie lives in Lincolnshire, UK. Visit her website: www.debbieshoresewing.com

Publishers Weekly

This cozy guide from Shore (Half Yard Autumn) and Nayler details how to create 52 fabric blocks that can be assembled into a large quilt. Writing for beginners, the authors recommend tools (rotary cutters are useful for cutting around curves) and show how to make blanket, overcast, running, and slip stitches. The blocks build on each other, with techniques from simple early designs later recurring in more creative configurations. For instance, week ones flying geese design is incorporated into the upper-left-hand corner of week sixs Bird 1 square, which is otherwise filled out by a half log cabin design, and week 26s Small Flower 4 square, in which the triangular geese are arrayed around a heart. Several blocks take inspiration from nature, such as the tall bird, created by sewing a triangular beak and teardrop wing on a half-circle, and the tall flower, which features an octagonal flower head with applique leaves. The authors also provide thorough instructions for assembling the blocks and attaching them, either by hand or sewing machine, onto quilt backing. The one-block-per-week conceit will help novices ease into the craft while learning a variety of design strategies. This is well worth seeking out.