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Weekend Fun - April 12, 2024
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Featured Quilt - Stacey A. Watson's Judge’s Choice Award at QuiltCon 2024
Scrappy Manhattan by Clara Stoikow received Stacey A. Watson's Judge’s Choice Award at QuiltCon 2024. Clara's quilt depicts the island of Manhattan in New York City, and she was very meticulous in her approach to designing the entire piece. Here is her in-depth description:
"This quilt shows a map of Manhattan, one of New York City's five boroughs. The street grid was machine quilted. The main roads were highlighted with the help of appliquéd cords. Narrow elastic bands were appliquéd as motorways and tunnels. I used dark grey fabric for water (the East River, Hudson River, Harbour). It was quilted with short running stitches, following the outlines of the shore in the direction of the water flow. This created a dense texture, from which the colorfully pieced Manhattan stands out well. Since the focus of this quilt is on the island of Manhattan, the surrounding neighborhoods were meant to look more subtle. They are an improv pieced patchwork of white and white-patterned fabrics, hand quilted with a diagonal
grid of white running stitches. The hand quilting is intended to bring the different fabrics together to create an even, reserved background."
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"Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women" on Display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Check Out The Latest Quilt Exhibit at the Smithsonian
From the Smithsonian American Art Museum: "Explore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States. Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women looks beyond quilting as a utilitarian practice. It reveals historical quilting among the Amish as an aesthetic endeavor that walked a line between cultural and individual expression. The quilts paradoxically twin the plain with the spectacular, tradition with innovation, and a dismissal of personal pride with objects often seen as extraordinary artworks."
The exhibit will be on display from March 28, 2024 – August 26, 2024 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
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WeAllSew Tutorial: Differences Between Walking Foot and Dual Feed |
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Two Different Feet, Two Different Uses, Twice The Quilting Power!
From Susan Beck at WeAllSew: "Fabric feeding isn’t something we think about very often, but it can be important to the final results of your sewing projects. Poor feeding of the fabric can result in mismatched patterns, ill-fitting garments, and misaligned projects. Walking Foot #50 and the Dual Feed available on some BERNINA models can help."
Learn the differences between the two feet and find out which one you should use for which project.
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Dee LIVE: Easy Improv - Class 03 |
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Another Saturday of Learning with Dee is Almost Here
Dee Christopher returns for Week 3 of her Easy Improv Class. Have you been following along? Want to start now? Both options are available to you as we record our LIVE classes to be viewed when it's most convenient for you. In these classes Dee will tackle different styles of improv blocks using lines, curves, and free form cutting. When the class is finished, you can assemble your blocks into a beautiful quilt that will be unique to you!
Dee is LIVE TOMORROW, April 13, 2024 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.
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Learn To Do Wool Appliqué and Embroidery in Alex's Next FREE "Magic Garden" Wool Appliqué Class!
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Your Next Quilting Adventure Begins Soon
Join Alex starting Monday May 10, 2024 to learn all about wool appliqué while you stitch a sweet mushroom garden from buttery wool, complete with a cheeky gnome. Get the "Magic Garden" Wool Appliqué Kit to follow along with Alex, then embellish your garden to your hearts delight while you learn embroidery techniques and stitches.
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Stitching Together The Past
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"Memory of Stitches" by Maday Delgado
Memory of Stitches is a quilt that Maday made all about the past. She is enamored with the past as she did not grow up with the techniques she uses now but had to learn them herself. She loves to incorporate vintage textiles and appliqué, which this quilt has throughout. Memory of Stitches features shapes cut out both organically and using an AccuQuilt, including ones cut out using Ricky Tim's own AccuQuilt die. Other materials used in the quilt include old flower sacks, wool, and even new textiles. The quilt is a double-sided one too, because Maday says she doesn't want to have twenty quilts in one place she wants ten.
See more of Maday's quilts in Improv Curved Piecing and Stitching with Maday Delgado | Working with Scraps with Ricky Tim.
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