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Featured Quilt - First Place Handmade at Houston 2025
Invitation to Japanese Tea Ceremony by Yoko Izumi won First Place - Handmade (Sponsored by Fat Quarter Shop) at Houston International Quilt Festival 2025. Yoko wanted to make a quilt that celebrated a Japanese ceremony and all that it encompasses. She says, "There are many things other than chadogu that are needed for a tea ceremony. ”Kakejiku” is one such item. “Kakejiku” are hung on the walls of the tea room and represent the seasons. I tried to express the “kakejiku” of spring, summer, and autumn using grapes as a motif. In spring, the flowers bloom, in summer the grapes bear fruit, and in autumn the leaves turn red. The grape blossoms in spring are so beautiful that I enlarged them."
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WeAllSew Tutorial: Halloween Totes with Witch Hat Pattern |
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The Perfect Bag for All Your Spooky Season Needs
Halloween is just one week away, and Pat Bravo at WeAllSew has a fun project to get you into the spooky spirit. Whether you have someone in your home who is going trick or treating, or you just want a festive accessory for the season, you can't go wrong with these Halloween Totes, which feature a FREE Downloadable Witch Hat Pattern that you can adorn to it or any other Halloween decoration you may have.
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Conserving a Delicate 18th-Century Fan |
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Are You a "Fan" of Fan Conversation?
From the Victoria and Albert Museum: "Join Senior Paper Conservator Susan Catcher as she conserves a fragile 200-year-old fan from the era of Marie Antoinette. Using specialist conservation techniques (plus plenty of patience and a porcupine quill!) Susan addresses the structural integrity of the fan – reinforcing the back and creating a hinge to allow it to open and close once again. She also re-adheres fiddly loose sequins, stabilises areas of wear, and subtly retouches the design using watercolour paint." |
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Dee LIVE: Quilting by the Book With a Splash of Color - Class 04 |
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Heading On Down the "Color Brick Road"
Join Dee Christopher for Class 4 of our FREE, multi-week quilting adventure based on Judy Gauthier's book, Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers! This week, Dee will guide you through assembling the blocks for the seventh quilt in your Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers book, Color Brick Road, and share tips for designing and adding the borders.
Dee is LIVE TOMORROW, October 25, 2025 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later. |
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In The Store - 5.5" Surgical Seam Ripper by Tula Pink |
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Pretty and Precise
The Tula Pink 5.5" Surgical Seam Ripper is as stylish as it is sharp. Its curved surgical blade glides effortlessly through heavy stitches while protecting your fabric, and the vibrant Tula Pink handle adds a splash of color to every stitch you undo. |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: A Delightfully Designed Whole Cloth |
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"Hear Me Roar" by Jamie Kalvestran
Hear Me Roar is a whole cloth quilt. Jamie loves designing quilts, and wanted to make a quilt that she couldn't "quilt". Meaning that if she were to create this same quilt by piecing it or what have you, it wouldn't really come together the way she would like. For Hear Me Roar she exclusively designed the quilt, executing what she would really like to make work whether she could actually make it or not. She then took that design and had it printed at Spoonflower to then be quilted after.
See more of Jamie's quilts in Making Foundation Paper Pieced and Improv Faces - Jamie Kalvestran | Hand Embroidery On Painted Fabric - Alex Anderson. |
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