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Welcome to Wednesday October 15, 2025 |
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Featured Quilt - Viewer's Choice at Houston 2025
The Houston International Quilt Festival for 2025 may have ended, but not without the quilting community crowning a Viewer's Choice for the show. They chose The Man Lost in His Memories by Marina Landi, a color and creative portrait quilt, to receive the Viewer's Choice Award (Sponsored by Quilter's Rule). Not only did Marina's quilt win Viewer's Choice, it also won First Place in the People, Portraits, & Figures category (Sponsored by Wonderfil). Marina says of creating her quilt, "My style is characterized by the fusible raw-edge appliqué in a wide range of colors in the composition of figurative images. The challenge of transmitting expressions and feelings through small fragments of fabric leads me to represent mainly human physiognomies." |
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Create Abstract Faces Using Improv Piecing with Jamie Kalvestran |
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Have Fun with Faces Utilizing Improvisational Piecing
Jamie Kalvestran begins her demo in our brand new show by building the left side of a face using improvisational piecing, starting with the eye as the focal point. By creating multiple versions of this unit, she opens up a range of options for use. She then repeats the process with the right side. With several half-face units to choose from, Jamie shares the fun and unexpected full-face compositions that result with the blending of different left and right sides.
Learn from Jamie, and Alex Anderson, by watching Making Foundation Paper Pieced and Improv Faces - Jamie Kalvestran | Hand Embroidery On Painted Fabric - Alex Anderson. |
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Two New Exhibitions are Now Open at the National Quilt Museum |
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Make Your Visit Twice as Fun!
That's right, not one, but TWO brand new exhibitions are now open at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY. The first, Quilts of Valor: Countdown to America250, "celebrates the semiquincentennial and features quilts that showcase custom QOV patriotic quilt panels commemorating this historic American milestone." While the second, Charles Cameron: A Curious Modern Quilter, shows how Cameron "employs curiosity to explore modern elements, color and value using a mix of precision and semi-improv techniques."
Both exhibits are on display at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky, Quilts of Valor: Countdown to America250 from now through December 30, 2025, and Charles Cameron: A Curious Modern Quilter now through March 24, 2026.
[Above Quilts: The Gathering Designed by Nancy Cann (Left) and Sudoku by Charles Cameron (Right)] |
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🪡 Sew Many Reasons to Celebrate Fall! |
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Our Fall Sale Is On Now
Take 20% Off* in our store with code FALLQUILTING at checkout.
STAR MEMBERS- check your email for a special code that gives you BONUS SAVINGS!
*Offer excludes already marked down products in our Sale Department, software, BOM kits, and Memberships & Gift Memberships. |
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Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game |
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Inexperience is temporary, and once you know something well enough you can do it with your eyes closed. Isn't that what you've been playing Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game all this time for? (Wait, you're saying you can't do it with your eyes closed?) |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: A Magical Mosaic Quilt |
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"Shaman" by Tamara Leberer
Shaman is a mosaic quilt that came about after Tamara made what she calls an "ugly" silk fusion piece. Finding the piece unsatisfactory due to it having so many colors going every which way, she decided to cut the piece up. Cutting it up into little pieces, she found all of the tiny squares beautiful individually and she began to play with them. Those pieces became two beautiful shimmering mosaic quilts, Shaman and Breaking Through.
See more of Tamara's quilts in How to Do Silk Fusion with Tamara Leberer.
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