Dear Reader,

Ahh it's our favourite day - new issue day! It's the first issue for 2026 and we're off to a cracking start! This issue is bursting with colour, creativity, and community, plus ten beautiful projects covering all your favourite techniques.

Applique? yes!
Foundation piecing? You betcha.
Traditional piecing? Naturally!

We're joined by Karen Brown of Just Get it Done Quilts who shares her five dos and don'ts for a calm, creative sewing room. Perfect timing for a new year reset, yes? We chat with Quinn Tailor, founder of QLT GEN, about crafting a community and turning a dream into action.

But let's look at some photos too - because as they say, a picture paints a thousand words!

Our cover quilt is this beautiful pieced design by Tristan Parker. One block repeated, a simple colour scheme in warm solids, and the result is a showstopper of a quilt! Get your copy of Issue 68 here!

If you think our cover quilt is a pop of colour, wait until you see the rest ... retro blooms, scrappy stars, tiny hexies, and rainbow quilts! You'll be itching to grab your rotary cutter before you've even finished your cuppa. Here's a peek at what's inside.

This issue we meet Makers, Lauren Metang, whose love of reading and quilting collide with her Books and Blocks Club, and Rebecca Cynamon-Murphy, who describes herself as a fat-lady queer Jewish artist from the Chicago MQG who makes quilts, tends the hearth and mends the world in equal measure; make ten fabulous quilts that blend modern flair with timeless techniques – appliqué, foundation piecing, traditional blocks, and scrappy play. Whether you’re sewing from your scraps stash or finally giving yourself permission to cut up that good fabric (yessss!!), we will be your biggest cheerleaders!; and motivate yourself with thoughtful articles on finding calm in your sewing space, stepping out of your creative comfort zone, and connecting with a quilting community that lifts you up.

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Let's make 2026 your most colourful, creative quilting year yet.

Happy making!

Kristy, Lara, Jane & Nic

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