Did you see Sue de Vanny's amazing quilt, On Reflection - Cape Town Harbour Fenders, in Sunday's Newsletter?
This bird will put your sewing skills to shame. Watch the video and find out why! Plus, see a quil that Sue Graham made of the sewing bird!
Let's thank the Girl Scouts for showing us this great site which tells us how to remove just about any kind of stain.
"Back in 2017, Japanese international outreach organization Imagine Oneworld started the Kimono Project, with the aim of creating a unique kimono pattern for every country on Earth. The designs would be developed in cooperation with that country’s embassy and embody influences from and references to their unique cultures, histories, and natural and architectural beauty."
(Photo and Quotes: soranews24.com)
Lori Kennedy wants you to get over your fear of ruining your quilt with machine quilting. She highlights six ways to ruin a quilt and follows up with ways to avoid that ruination. I think we all want to avoid...
Lisa Walton, textile artist and past President of SAQA, talks with fellow Australian quilter, Tania Tanti about her quilt, The Beginning, her painted quilts, her inspirations, and so much more. Go down under on a new installment of Quilt Stories.
Superior Threads suggests that there are some things that quilters should stop doing. Do you have any of these bad habits? Learn what practices Superior recommends you should quit doing.
Lisa Walton, textile artist and past President of SAQA, discusses her latest quilt, Knocking on Heaven's Door, and explains how she made it and the inspiration behind it. This quilt was made as part of her work with the international textile group - Cloth in Common. It's all right here on another great installment of Quilt Stories.
Join Dr. Nithikul Nimkulrat, Olivia Valentine, Lee Jones, along with moderator Khadija Aziz, today as they consider how hand and machine contribute to the potential of crafts in a discussion on crafting with technology.
BERNINA USA recently shared this wonderful podcast on college basketball player turned quilter Michael C. Thorpe. Discover how everything, including quilting, impacts him to allow him to see the unlimited possibilities that life has to offer.
, textile artist and past President of SAQA, talks with Maggie Vanderweit about her quilts involving chairs. They discuss how the chair is Maggie's icon, and how to choose your own quilting icon. Don't sit still and watch this next installment of Quilt Stories.
Sometimes sewing over a needle can completely stop a machine in its tracks. The Sew Yeah Show wanted to see if their machine would still work after a little demolition. What does that mean? Find out by watching the video. ()
Lisa Walton from Sydney, Australia was invited to exhibit at the Quiltfestival in Groningen, Netherlands in 2020 but due to COVID it was unfortunately cancelled. She was invited to exhibit virtually in 2021 and this is her Exhibition.
Now that you know that the exhibit has been extended to September 2021, listen to Bisa Butler talk about the inspirations behind some of her work as she tours her own exhibit, Bisa Butler: Portraits, at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Bisa Butler's beautiful exhibit Bisa Butler: Portraits has been extended through September 2021 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Find out why this is a collection that is not to be missed.
On June 18, 2021 the Sacred Threads Exhibition is gathering virtually for a very special event. They have partnered with the Quilt Alliance to bring you some very special stories of joy, inspiration, spirituality, healing, grief and peace/brotherhood through quiltmaking in their Sacred Threads Quilt StoryShare.
Lisa Walton, textile artist and past President of SAQA, talks with to Lisa Flowers Ross about her quilt, Flathead Lake, which came about as the result of an artist residency that she did. Take it all in on the next exciting Quilt Stories.
Lisa Walton, textile artist and past President of SAQA, talks with to Cindy Grisdela about her quilt Neapolitan, and how she shows how improvisation still requires interesting thought processes. It's all happening here on another fascinating episode of Quilt Stories.
Lilo Bowman, our resident TQS Wizard, was recently featured on Roxane Cerda's, of C&T Publishing, podcast. Come and listen as Lilo talks with Roxane about TQS, what tapings are like, how we've adapted over the past year, her new box, how to organize your creative space, and so much more!