A Year of Quilting

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 magazine and has written over 30 books for Search Press with several more underway. 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 230,000 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 Melissa Nayler is an avid quilter and sewist, and has been sewing seriously since her teens. For several years and in her spare time, she worked on mainly dressmaking projects, until her move to Bude in Cornwall, UK, changed her direction in sewing. Melissa discovered patchwork and quilting while volunteering at the local Citizens Advice Bureau, and became hooked before she’d even sewn a stitch. When Melissa retired in 2014, she contacted Debbie Shore to offer her sewing skills for making samples for her TV shows. It was at the time when Debbie was really busy with TV demonstrations, and she was delighted to have some help. Over the past 10 years Debbie and Melissa developed a great friendship, and Melissa and Debbie have collaborated on several quilting projects, including the Block of the Month Quilts on Debbie’s award-winning Half Yard Sewing Club.

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