First Prize Quilters' Guild Challenge - 2023 FOQ Birmingham, Threaded Openwork with Shannon Conley, Alex LIVE: State of the Union, New Tula Pink Bundle Alert, Memory Match Game, A Puzzle with a "Twizzle"

Welcome to Wednesday - August 16, 2023

Featured Quilt - First Prize Quilters' Guild Challenge at the 2023 Festival of Quilts

Couched Birds by Sheena Norquay took home 1st Prize in this year's Quilters' Guild Challenge at the 2023 Festival of Quilts in Birmingham. This amazing avian quilt took, as its name would suggest, a healthy supply of free motion couching and free motion quilting to complete. Each bird of the sixteen featured has its own distinctive personality that at any moment could just fly off the fabric to come and greet you.

Sheena says about the creation of her work, "I had so much fun expressing myself with colour and pattern in the creation of fantasy birds and a variety of decorative, circular patterns, all my own original designs. I hope the birds make you smile."

See The Quilt

Threaded Openwork with Shannon Conley

How Is a Soldering Iron Involved?

Cutting and burning holes into a quilt might terrify most, but Shannon Conley shows how fun it is to create delicate and shadowy openwork designs using a wood burning tool, stabilizer, and colorful threadwork right here on The Quilt Show.

Learn from Shannon, and Pat Holly, by watching Learn Canadian Smocking and Open Work with Shannon Conley | Miniature Quilts with Pat Holly.

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Alex LIVE: State of the Union - LIVEs Update

What's On The Horizon For Alex Anderson?

Join Alex as she updates everyone on the status of the LIVEs and what projects are coming up and being considered. Find out what's up with her and the fun that's coming.

Alex is LIVE TODAY, August 16, 2023 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.

Watch Alex LIVE

New Tula Pink Bundle Alert!

Tula Pink's Fabrics Feature Many Different Colors Other than Pink

Introducing our curated Woodland Creatures Bundles, featuring colorful favorites from Tula's Tiny Beasts and Curioser & Curioser Collections. Available in both a Fat Quarter and Half Yard Bundles, don't pass up this opportunity to get a heaping of great fabric at a great price!

Get the Fat Quarter Bundle

Get the Half yard Bundle

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!

Play The Game

The Quilt Show Puzzle: Putting A Twist on a "Twizzle"

"Space Twizzle" by Rob Appell

After being "afraid" that they would stop producing great-looking sea life fabric and that he would be "out of the job", Rob Appell decided to pivot towards making bio-mechanic, weird science quilts that have become a part of his Twizzleman Project. At the time of its inception, Rob was doing some tattoo study and cleaning Pat Twissleman's sewing machine the day after he finished Space Twizzle. Looking down at the work order and thinking about the "twissle" part of the name, and the fact that the quilt he had made a twizzle in it itself, he asked Pat if he could use her name in the quilt when she came to pick up her machine. She gave her blessing after seeing the quilt and Space Twizzle and the rest of the Twizzleman Project was born.

See more of Rob's quilts in How to Make an Animal Portrait Quilt with Rob Appell.