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Sunday Smiles - September 28, 2025 |
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Featured Quilt - Third Place Wall Quilts Stationary Machine Quilted at AQS QuiltWeek Branson 2025
Carmen María Cambronero's quilt, Hextesela - El Camino Azul, is like one of those games where you try and guess how many marbles are in a jar. You think you know how many there are, but when you find out the actual number you can't possibly believe there are that many. In the case of Carmen's quilt the marbles are individual pieces, and you certainly won't know how many there are upon a first look.
Hextesela - El Camino Azul won both Third Place - Wall Quilts – Stationary Machine Quilted at AQS QuiltWeek - Branson 2025 and Second Place - Pieced (Sponsored by Road to California, Inc.) at Road to California 2025 this year. As to how many pieces are in the quilt, and how much time it took to put together, we'll let Carmen explain that.
"I love working with just two colors and small hexagons (11 mm side). At times, I just need to get started; after finishing the star, I had no idea how to continue. Last year, I created the big circle and corners, looking to give it a medallion appearance. “Hextesela” has 11,243 pieces (10,949 hexagons, 252 pentagons and 42 circles). Fussy cutting: 1762 pieces. About 240 quilting hours." |
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Lynn Czaban and Dorie Hruska Are Ready to Quilt in an All New Show! |
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You'll Be Delighted to See What They Have to Teach
Lynn Czaban, known for her art quilt portraits, began her quilting journey with a baby quilt that took thirteen years to finish. Along the way, she discovered a passion for creating stunning, lifelike portrait quilts. Learn how to build a self-portrait by achieving realistic effects through thoughtful fabric selection and value placement, then create a “road map” for machine stitching to enhance realism with contoured quilting. Then, quilting professional Dorie Hruska shares machine quilting tips for adding dimension and texture using a mandala framework to stitch flower centers, petals, and rows of decorative designs.
Watch Lynn and Dorie in Self Portrait Design and Contour Quilting with Lynn Czaban | Machine Quilted Mandalas with Dorie Hruska, which debuts today! |
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Big News in Ricky Tims' World |
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Ricky with his Best of Show winning quilt, The Visitation |
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Keep Up With Everything Ricky
You may have heard by now that Ricky’s quilt, The Visitation, has won Best of Show at the International Quilt Festival. The show runs October 8-12, 2025. Ricky hopes to see you there.
Due to the outpouring of support and questions about the quilt, Ricky is creating a new seven-part online self-paced seminar called The Visitation Process that will launch on December 20th. It covers everything from the inspiration behind the quilt to designing, pattern making, curved-piecing, appliqué, embroidery embellishments and even includes how he made his embroidered binding and colorful label. Registrants will have access to the seminar as often as they wish…FOREVER.
Ricky also has an extensive list of upcoming online classes, plus he’s releasing a new book! To get all the details about what is happening in Ricky’s world, please check out this link to his newsletter. |
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Quilt Alliance: Spotlight Fundraiser with Ruby Star Society’s Sarah Watts & Meagan Guité |
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Celebrate New Voices In the Quilting World
From the Quilt Alliance: "Join the Quilt Alliance for a special virtual fundraising event celebrating the voices shaping the quilting world. “Quilt Alliance Spotlight” will feature a Quilters’ Save Our Stories (QSOS) oral history interview with Designer Sarah Watts conducted by Project Manager Meagan Guité of Ruby Star Society, offering a rare behind-the-scenes look at Sarah’s creative journey, inspiration, philosophy, and the stories woven into her work. Following the interview, Sarah and Meagan will be joined by RSS Creative Director Melody Miller, Moda’s Lissa Alexander & the Modern Quilt Guild’s Karen Cooper for a panel discussion about Ruby Star Society's community impact." |
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Join Dee Christopher’s FREE Class Starting October 4! |
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Ready to Have Fun and Spark New Ideas? This Class is for You!
Discover creative ways to work with small fabric pieces, explore simple color theory, and learn how to make multiple quilts from the inspiring book Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers. |
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There's Still Time to Enter Your "Odette Quilt" Top to be Quilted by Houston Best of Show Winner Ricky Tims! |
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Spend A Day Making a Top and You Could End with a Quilted Treasure
The Odette Quilt kit is easy to make in just a day or two, and you have step-by-step video classes to guide you through every stitch. To enter to have your quilt quilted, stitch your quilt top along with Ricky's class, snap a photo, and complete the entry form.
You Provide: Your finished quilt top + backing
Ricky Provides: Batting, round-trip shipping, and his stunning quilting (a $400 value!)
Deadline To Enter: September 30, 2025 | Quilt must arrive by October 31, 2025 | No purchase necessary | Odds 1:200! |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: A Tiny Sampler Quilt with Kitties
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"Stitch by Stitch - Japanese Kitties" by Susan K. Cleveland
Stitch by Stitch - Japanese Kitties is one of several samples of quilts that Susan made as part of her Stitch by Stitch series, which focuses on "tiny quilts with lots of detail and many techniques" that are favorites of hers to make. This one was made using a Japanese linen fabric printed in Japan covered in cute kittens, and features ric rac in the edge work. The scale of the kitten fabric and the scale of the Stitch by Stitch quilts were a perfect match for each other which Susan felt needed to be married together.
See more of Susan's quilts in Stitching with Heavy Threads and Braided Ribbon with Susan K. Cleveland | Lace and Linen Dyeing with Wendy Richardson. |
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You're A Star!
Whether you're making eight-pointed stars, five-pointed ones, or your own crazy twenty-seven pointed variations, that makes you a Quilting Star in our book! But if you need a little help perfecting those points, want a refresher on certain tips and tricks, or just want to expand your quilting playbook, The Quilt Show is the place for you. With our own roster of almost 500 guest stars (see what we did there), there is no better place to begin or continue your journey to quilting excellence!
(Above Photo: Flowered and Feathered Frenzy by Susan K. Cleveland - Detail) |
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