Welcome to Wednesday

August 11, 2021

Featured Quilt - Caught Up In The Quilting Current

To depict the flow of water in a quilt is a very difficult task. We feel that Phyllis Cullen stepped up to the challenge with her quilt, Maelstrom, which was featured in the Wall Category at PIQF 2017. With ebbing tides and crushing waves rendered beautifully with machine appliqué, longarm quilting, fabric collage, and threadwork, Phyllis transports you down a river just the way the current would take a fish downstream. Or, as she would like to describe it so succinctly, "Feeding frenzy. Koi create/are caught in churning waters."

Still Time to Start the BOM 2021

This one minute video tells some of the story and shows some of the quilts in progress. "Color My World" by Wendy Williams is a quilt you will be proud of. It's different, it's fun, it can be personalized, and all the patterns are free to Star Members.

Ironing Ergonomics 101

Learn To Iron the Proper Way

How many times have you spent the day ironing away and after you've completed your great work all you feel is pain? It's probably because you aren't ironing the proper way. Rose Parr from C&T Publishing, and author of Sew Healthy & Happy, is here to show "you how to iron safely" and do away with the pain!

Quilters Take a Moment Ticket Winners

Are You a Winner?

Two lucky TQS Star Members have won tickets to attend the Quilters Take a Moment conference in September. Were you one of them?

Alex LIVE: How to Work with Solids

Solid Teaching About Solid Fabrics

Solid fabrics look fantastic in quilts, but how do you pick the right ones? How do you make them sparkle and enhance the quilt? Join Alex and get some "solid" advice.

Join Alex LIVE TODAY on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.

How Does David Sirota Floss His Quilts?

You Can Do So Much More With Floss Than Just Cleaning Your Teeth

"Dave, Thank you, Thank you!, for the dental floss idea to secure points, works so great! I am piecing a small sample Storm At Sea using traditional paper piecing and do look forward to trying the vellum to eliminate all the paper tearing struggles. Am thrilled with success of first large paper piecing project." - Elicia Buckland-Toole

Learn from David, and Lilo Bowman, in Learn Paper Piecing with the Maven, David Sirota | Adapting Your Studio For Change with Lilo Bowman.

In The Store - Kitty Corn Quilt Kit

Let This Black Cat Cross Your Path

Make a cute vintage-inspired Kitty Corn Halloween Quilt with this kit from Moda Fabrics. If you start it now you can have it finished by Halloween!

The kit includes fabric to make the top and binding including a digital panel with the big kitty print, three additional images, and a label.

(Quilt Size: 57" x 63")

The Quilt Show Puzzle: Follow The Light

"Forest Light" by Sheila Christensen

Sheila decided this quilt, Forest Light, needed more "pop" so she created scrap bags of fabric with additional colors to choose from and added them to the quilt to give it that "light".

See more of Sheila's quilts in How to Do Triangle Patchwork Quilts with Sheila Christensen | Unique Fabric Designs with Tami Pfeil.