Best Use of Color - Innovative at PIQF 2024, Bringing Panels to Life with SusanClaire Mayfield, How to Embellish a Table Runner, Make Your Life Easier with Quilting Rulers with Seam Allowance, Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game, A "Rubber" Puzzle

Welcome to Wednesday - August 14, 2024

Featured Quilt - Best Use of Color Innovative at PIQF 2024

The Meeting Place by Andrea Barrett won Best Use of Color - Innovative at Pacific International Quilt Festival 2024. It's not hard to see why Andrea's quilt won for its use of color as it uses 69 different ones overall. She says, "As a quilter bringing together 69 colors in a glorious mélange to meet and mingle in one quilt was a special treat. This quilt felt like a playground of color with largely improvised piecing and finding "friendly" groupings of blocks to arrange to create the secondary pattern. But joining these together with rows and rows of diagonal and spiral quilting was a task I thought would never end."

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Bringing Panels to Life with SusanClaire Mayfield

Practice Your Panel Work With These Helpful Tips

SusanClaire Mayfield loves to find unusual ways to utilize large digitally printed panels of color. Learn how to bring characters to life when she inserts a trio of Emu’s into a panel with free motion appliqué in our newest show. Then, see examples of other panels and the creative ways you can make use of graphic prints.

Learn from SusanClaire by watching Using Scraps, Fussy Cutting Panels, and Creating a “Skitch a Day” with SusanClaire Mayfield.

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WeAllSew Tutorial: How to Embellish a Table Runner

Entertain with Embellishments

We all probably have a table runner somewhere in our home. You know, the one you put out for holidays and special occasions. But do you really like the design on it? Take that outdated or just not your style table runner and embellish it to give your own personal touch. Don't know how to do that? Julie Bridgeman at WeAllSew is here to help with this straightforward and easy-to-follow tutorial on how to Embellish a Table Runner.

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Make Your Life Easier with Quilting Rulers with Seam Allowance

Quilters Select 12.5" x 12.5" Quilting Ruler

Quilters Select 8.5" x 8.5" Quilting Ruler

Let The Ruler Remember The Seam Allowance For You

Quilters Select Rulers with a half inch added are made for situations where you need to cut something with a seam allowance included. They are perfect for squaring up and cutting borders & binding, and can eliminate those mistakes that we all make when we have to remember to add that extra half inch ourselves. Squaring up a 12" finished block? Get the 12.5" Ruler. 10" finished block? Get the 10.5" Ruler, and so on. Do it the easy mistake free way!

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Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game

Think you've lost your edge if you haven't played for a week? Take a stab at Jinny Beyer's Memory Match today and find out if you're rusty or just as sharp as ever!

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The Quilt Show Puzzle: A Bouncing Baby Quilt

"Rubber Ducky" by Heidi Farmer

Rubber Ducky is a baby quilt made from a pattern that Heidi created using the draw feature in her longarm software. It is an edge-to-edge all over wholecloth quilt, and she took the motif of the ducky and enlarged it to create a focal point for the quilt. The larger ducky is made using minky fabric which also appears on the back of the quilt.

See more of Heidi's quilts in How to Do Longarm Embroidery with Heidi Farmer | Stabilizer Examples with Judy Fredenburgh.