Featured Quilt - Charlotte Angotti's Judge's Choice Award at Houston 2023
Party at the Cabin by Wendy L. Starn received Charlotte Angotti's Judge's Choice Award (Sponsored by Bohin France) at the 2023 Houston International Quilt Festival and was featured in the Abstract category. Wendy says of her quilt, "I started Party at the Cabin as part of an improvisational piecing challenge, using the prompts as suggestions but pretty much doing my own thing. There are also some components from an earlier challenge to myself to learn how to piece very thin lines and curves (including those tricky spirals). The quilt came together with this joyous result!"
In addition to awarding this lovely ribbon to Wendy at Houston, Charlotte has also been a guest on The Quilt Show. Learn from her right here by watching How to Do Mystery Quilts with Debbie Caffrey and Charlotte Angotti.
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Pat Bishop and Tracy Mooney Make Their TQS Debuts!
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Making The Abstract Clear
When Wisconsin fiber Artist Pat Bishop transitioned from traditional quilting to art quilting she brought with her a deep understanding of sewing, needlework, and watercolor painting skills. Trading in paint for torn and rough-cut fabrics, her resulting quilts feature a watercolor-like background and slightly abstracted imagery with stunning results.
Pat shares how to create a simple abstract landscape and how to abstract a photograph down to its simplest elements as a quilt design that becomes an interpretation of the original image. Then Tracy Mooney shares a fast and easy way to build two colorful Log Cabin quilts using a stack of fat quarters.
Watch Pat and Tracy in How to Abstract an Image or Landscape Quilt with Pat Bishop | Using Pre-Cuts with Tracy Mooney, which debuts today!
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BERNINA Holiday Presser Feet Video 2023
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Watch These Presser Feet Fill the Season with Joy!
From BERNINA: "Did you make the nice list this year? Then the BERNINA presser feet are sure to fill your stockings with great gifts! Our camera team was lucky enough to observe their secret Christmas activities. Have fun watching!"
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What is this Quilt's Origin?
Not much is known today about this beautiful pale pink and aqua satin quilt designed with padded puffs of satin fabric around a rectangular pink satin center, but the quilt is well worth a look. Find out more about it in this new article from the Museum of Texas Tech University.
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In The Store - Essential Color Card Deck from Joen Wolfrom
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A Great Stocking Stuffer!
From Color Expert Joen Wolfrom comes the Essential Color Card Deck with 200 color cards and 5 essential color plans - use them to audition and choose colors for your next project. When you finalize your color choices, take those cards with you to shop!
PLEASE NOTE: Tomorrow is the last day to place an order and receive it by Christmas with Priority Mail shipping!
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Filled with Joyous Laughter
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"The Best Medicine" by Amy Pabst
The Best Medicine was inspired by an antique quilt that Amy found on Barbara Brackman's blog. The original quilt was made by a woman named Anna Horn during World War I when her son Albert Horn was out fighting. Both mother and son shared the initials A.H. which Anna put in over and over in the quilt, and Amy feels that maybe she did this as a way to think of him while he was away. When Amy saw the original, she thought of it more as a funny quilt, as she read the initials as both H.A. and A.H., which when read the first way created the words Ha Ha continuously. This then inspired the name of Amy's quilt because, as the saying goes, laughter is the best medicine.
See more of Amy's quilts in Foundation Piecing Miniature Log Cabins with Amy Pabst | How to Do Embroidery on Silk with Alex Anderson.
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Drink It All In
More often than not, many things have more than one use. Take the glasses above, while their main purpose is to help you enjoy a nice drink, you can also use them to draw different size circles to create new designs. The Quilt Show itself is also a jack of all trades. We provide you with an educational television show, a yearly BOM pattern, LIVE projects with great teachers, and much, much more. So raise your glass and toast everything that you learned this year from TQS and all you will learn in the year to come!
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