A Viewer's Choice Winner, Renée Fleuranges-Valdes Debuts and Clara Cartwright Returns In A Brand New Show, Textile Talks with Joanna Dermenjian, Catch Up with Alex' Interviews, In The Store - A Quilt Journal from the Quilt Alliance, A "3-D" Quilt Puzzle

Sunday Smiles - December 14, 2025

Featured Quilt - Birds of a Feather, Eat Together


Kathy McNeil's quilt, Audubon's Christmas, celebrates one of her favorite winter scenes; many types of birds feasting together at their bird feeders. The diverse colors of the birds seem more brilliant against the snowy white.


Kathy's Quilt won 1st Place and the Viewer's Choice Award at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2012.


Learn from Kathy right here at The Quilt Show, and see more of her quilts, by watching her in Using Crayons on Fabric and Quilt Collage with Kathy McNeil | Precision Piecing with Ann Harwell.

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Renée Fleuranges-Valdes Debuts and Clara Cartwright Returns In A Brand New Show!

Step Into the World of Two Creative and Inspiring Quilting Artists


Renée Fleuranges-Valdes discovered quilting in 1999 as a way to escape the stresses of her demanding software career, and what began as a hobby evolved into a powerful form of self-expression. Learn how to design a warrior woman that embodies strength, courage, and resilience, with every detail telling part of her story. Discover Renée's 4-layer technique for adding deep and sculptural texture and movement to your free motion quilting. Plus, see how Clara Cartwright uses freezer paper as a reusable paper piecing pattern to achieve beautifully crisp and precise results.


Watch Renée and Clara in Self-Representing Quilts and Four Layer Quilting - Renée Fleuranges-Valdes | Freezer Paper Piecing - Clara Cartwright, which debuts today!

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Textile Talks: A Conversation with Researcher Joanna Dermenjian

Join the International Quilt Museum for a conversation with researcher Joanna Dermenjian.


Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, December 17, 2025, at 2 PM EDT.

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Alex Anderson LIVE: What Have You Missed?

Alex Will Be Taking Some Time Off Over the Holidays


So now is a great time to watch what you have missed. Over the past year during Alex LIVE, she has interviewed a number of great quilters, artists, textile interpreters, sewists, and more. Including:


Candice Phelan - SAQA Camouflage Exhibit

Kathy Deggendorfer

Carol Ann McCandless

Clare O'Donohue

Veruschka Zarate

Maritza Soto

Bianca Springer

Kristin Goedert

Lina Owen

Amy Milne

Nichole Vogelsinger

Kaitlin Esquivias

Fiona Johnstone

Teresa Duryea Wong

Christy Burcham - BERNINA

Becky Goldsmith - BOM 2026 - "Game On!"

Lauren Vlcek - Quilting Design


Is there someone you missed? Now is the time to watch! And don't forget to look at interviews from past years.

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In The Store - The Quilt Journal from the Quilt Alliance

Give the Quilter in Your Life a Meaningful Holiday Gift


The Quilt Journal from the Quilt Alliance is the perfect place to capture the heart and history behind every stitch. Designed to record designs, fabrics, challenges, successes, and new learnings, it keeps a beautiful, organized record of each project.

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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Changing Up the Background

"Linked" by Ruth Ann Berry


Linked was Ruth Ann's second attempt at making a 3-D quilt. Her quilting partner, Greg, thought that instead of the traditional tumbling blocks, they should try to create a 'solid' background. Can you figure out how she did it?


See more of Ruth Ann's quilts in Design a Bargello with Ruth Ann Berry | Creating a Lake Block with Clara Cartwright.

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Quilting Isn't Just Black and White


And it doesn't have to be complicated like a game of chess. Take some time over the holidays, sit back, relax and learn something new here at The Quilt Show. From beginners to those more advanced, we have more than 450 shows from which to choose. (...Have you ever thought about making a chessboard quilt?...)

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