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New Quilt Kit - Fairy Tree as seen in the Australian Quilters Companion

Saffron Craig - Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The Fairy Tree quilt was inspired by a childhood of fairy tales—especially Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree—and was designed for my daughter. To my great excitement the quilt is featured in the current Australian Quilters Companion, Volume 10 Number 1, page102. This edition also has a few great giveaways, amongst them two of my fabric bundles. And if that's not enough it also features a lovely quilt by the talented Bec from Chasing Cottons. So, a few very good reasons to buy the magazine I think.

And big thanks to the editor Claire Mooney for all her support, it's a lovely feature and I'm very grateful that my work is shown in such a great publication.

It all started when I wanted to have a small paper piecing project that I could make in front of TV at night. It slowly grew into this single bed sized quilt for my daughter, who really loves it as there's lots to look at and I get to enjoy it as I walk past her room, which is pretty much every time I go anywhere in the house!

As I'm writing this though it is the roof of a cubby house taking up the entire lounge room, full of toy cars and my snoring husband. Cute.

Perhaps you remember I blogged about the process of making the Fairy Tree quilt a few months back. It was a real challenge to design it as it kept on growing and getting harder and harder, but I wouldn't change anything now. Knowing when to stop isn't always easy and like any artwork it can easily be overworked.

You can purchase the kit to make a replica of this quilt here.

The kit includes all the fabrics, the magazine featuring the pattern with full colour instructions and binding and is sold for $125.00. The backing is an additional $77.00. As I have almost sold out of the Fantastic Fairy range so there are only 10 kits available.

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Amelia Sliedrecht commented on 25-Jan-2011 04:41 PM

Congratulations Saffron, it's a beautiful quilt! I got my copy yesterday :)

Kirsten commented on 21-Jan-2011 08:11 AM

Beautiful quilt!! The Faraway Tree was one of my favourite books when I was young too:)

Kelli Hynes commented on 20-Jan-2011 02:47 PM

Well done sweetie, your Mum must be proud! I am going out now to see if I can find the magazine, I have made one of your quilts, look forward to the second.

Kate Conklin commented on 20-Jan-2011 08:23 AM

Congratulations on a fantastic quilt in a great publication! I got my copy yesterday and was so thrilled to see your quilt in it as well as Becky's.