Sunday Smiles August 8, 2021

Featured Quilt - "Inspired by Paradise"

Inspired by Paradise is vibrant whole-cloth, hand-painted quilt by Denise Rutter-Lang that was juried into AQS Paducah in 2018. Measuring 104" x 104", it began as a single piece of white fabric. Denise sought to replicate a Hawaiian style quilt.

She writes, "Once all of the "blocks" and center area were designed, I transferred the designs to my big piece of white fabric, which I then quilted on my longarm. Once quilting was finished came the most time-consuming phase- hand painting the whole-cloth, using Inktense pencils, Jacquard colorless extender, with some PearlEx powdered pigment (for shimmer). The painting took about ten months. In all, the quilt took about one and a half years to complete."

Barbara Black's Tips for "Color My World" Month 8

Inching Closer to the Sky

Get all the latest tips and tricks from Barbara Black on the third set of Tall Buildings for Month 8 of the 2021 BOM, Color My World. Barbara says, "We are getting through these Tall Buildings quickly. This month they are getting bigger, as we work our way toward the Skyscrapers in the four corners."

Plus, if you haven't downloaded the pattern for Month 8 yet, what are you waiting for? It's right there waiting for you to get started!

Faith Ringgold's Art of Fearlessness and Joy

See An Artist Talk About Her Life's Work on CBS Sunday Morning

From CBS Sunday Morning: "Ninety-year-old artist Faith Ringgold is best-known for her story quilts – a patchwork of lush, colorful and daring images with a story written right onto the fabric. Correspondent Nancy Giles talks with Ringgold, who for decades refused to bow to convention during her career, as she stitched a vibrant tapestry of art, history and social commentary, currently featured in an exhibition at the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland."

Last Day to Enter for Quilters Take A Moment 2021 Tickets!

You Snooze You Lose

Today is the last day to enter to win two tickets to Quilters Take a Moment 2021. You don't want to miss out on this great event by the Quilt Alliance featuring captivating speakers, deep-dive interviews, joyful conversations, a quilt exhibition, and a spotlight Quilter's Save Our Stories interview with Bisa Butler! So don't miss out and enter now!

The deadline for entry is today, Sunday August 8, 2021.

WeAllSew Tutorial: How to Make a Quilted Jacket With Scraps

"With A Box of Scraps"

Every quilter has a bin, or a spot, or a pile, or a corner full, of scraps that they are saving for the perfect project. This could be that project for you!

Katie Kortman at WeAllSew has a tutorial for you on how to take that mess of scraps just sitting somewhere in your house and turn them into a beautiful quilted jacket just waiting to be shown off to your friends.

In The Store - Faultless Hot Iron Cleaner

Get Your Iron Squeaky Clean!

Faultless Hot Iron Cleaner is an easy to use wipe-on wipe-off cleaner that gets gunk off fast with no scrubbing.

This hot iron cleaner works magic! To use it, heat up your iron and apply the cleaner to a clean cloth. Wipe the bottom of your gunky iron and voila, the gunk will come right off! Use it to clean hot glue guns too!

(1 oz. Package)

The Quilt Show Puzzle: "High Flying, Adored!"

"Flying Beauty" by David Sirota

Flying Beauty is a paper pieced quilt that features a combination of two classic blocks, the Flying Geese and the New York Beauty. But in order to create the smaller circles of Flying Geese, David added an extra bit of negative space to his curve around the combined block. By doing this, when he put four of his blocks together for the quilt, an extra circle of flying geese was born.

See more of David's quilts Learn Paper Piecing with the Maven, David Sirota | Adapting Your Studio For Change with Lilo Bowman.

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More Stars Than There Are in the Sky

At The Quilt Show we have more than 250 Stars (teachers) ready and waiting to teach you all there is to know about quilting. So, search the sky (or our Show List) and reach for quilting heaven.