By The Bundle

Quilters love collecting these precut bundles, but often don’t know what to do with them. Because they are a specific cut of fabric (18 x 22’’ instead of a ¼ yard cut from fabric that measures 9 x 44’’ and is much less usable) the instructions for a project need to be specifically written to accommodate these fat quarter cuts. No quilter can resist a stack of beautifully co-ordinated fabrics all neatly folded into a bundle and tied with a bow. As more fabric stores specialise in combining and marketing their own custom bundles of fat quarters, it leaves many quilters with just a ‘taste’ of many fabrics in the form of these 18 x 22’’ cuts (called fat quarters) but not really enough to make an entire quilt out of. Emma, a former fabric shop owner in Australia herself, inspires quilters to create one of her 12 quilts specifically designed to showcase these fabulous cuts whether they are from a single fabric collection or a complementary combination of many fabric lines. Emma’s patterns cross over beautifully between the modern and the new traditional quilt maker alike.