|
|
Featured Quilt
- Third Place Pictorial Small at Houston 2022
Come On In, the Water's Fine by Roxanne Nelson won Third Place in the Pictorial Small category at the 2022 Houston International Quilt Festival. Derived from a Shutterstock image, Roxanne's quilt brings awareness to one of nature's most beautiful creatures that's in danger of disappearing.
She says, "This majestic Sumatran Tiger is one of 400 critically endangered animals remaining in the wild. I hope to honor and share his beauty through this quilt. My technique is a micro-collaged and fused fabric for realistic expression. Frayed-edge fabric enhances the water texture, suggesting movement. From a distance, the tiger seems real, but upon close inspection, the exclusive use of fabric is evident. The tiger is enticing
you into the water…how can you resist?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Let Your Fabric Do the Work
In Show 2010, the Queen of Kaleidoscope Quilts, Paula Nadelstern, is here to teach a new method for making complex-looking quilts. She uses easy piecing techniques and lets the symmetrical fabric do the work of fooling the eye.
|
|
|
You can practice piecing with complex fabrics with this sample block from Ann Myhre based on Paula's
techniques.
Missed Transform Your Quilting 1? Click Here to see the previous tips and techniques featured.
To participate in Transform Your Quilting, make sure you are LOGGED IN as a Star Member. Then, open your newsletters and follow the links for our Transform Your Quilting program.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Watch Sheila Frampton Cooper's "Inspirational" Show!
|
|
|
|
|
Find New and Creative Ways To Inspire Your Quilting
Our latest show brings back the wonderful
Sheila Frampton Cooper, who has inspired us with each visit to The Quilt Show. But it's not just us who are singing her praises, it's all of our members who are doing it too:
"Thanks so much for having Sheila Frampton Cooper on again - she is so inspirational - I remember when she was first on TQS and I was so awestruck that I sent her an email !! thanks also for featuring Margaret Fabrizio who is just amazing and I was lucky enough to stumble onto her work on youtube a couple of years ago!" - Leanne E.
"I have been a member for quite a few years and love the shows and variety of guests. I was in the audience the first time Sheila Frampton Cooper was a guest. I liked her then and I love her now. What a talented, personable woman! Her piece with Margaret Fabrizio was fantastic. I will remember so many of her comments, as well as her quilts and wonderful attitude. Thanks so much for providing a fabulous
hour of inspiration." - Charlene Van W.
"Fabulous" - Jayni B.
Learn from Sheila by watching her in Improv with Intention and Working with Jelly Rolls with Sheila Frampton Cooper.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
WeAllSew: Sewing a Hand Muff
|
|
|
|
|
Protect Yourself From The Winter Cold
Just because Christmas is over doesn't mean it stops
getting cold. You'll still need to be bundled up for the next few months or so, and Emily Hall at WeAllSew has a quick and easy tutorial to show you how to sew a Hand Muff to keep those hands of yours nice and toasty (in addition to the big heavy coat, hat, and snow pants you are also wearing to keep warm).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
In The Store - Rotary Cutting Mats Just Came In!
|
|
|
Revel in Rotary Cutting Fun
Get ready for the new year with a fresh new Rotary Cutting Mat - we just got a shipment!
Time to get cutting...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Quilt Show Puzzle: Rings of Double Wedded Bliss
|
|
|
|
|
"Double Wedding Ring" by Tara Faughnan
When Tara Faughnan saw that Julie Silber was selling an antique Double Wedding Ring quilt, she knew that she wanted it. At the time though she just couldn't bring herself to purchase it. So to honor the quilt, she made her own. Tara's Double Wedding Ring quilt is hand quilted, and it was her first foray into harmony and discordance. The idea that you can have two things at the same time being both chaotic and in order. We think Tara did an excellent job merging the two conflicting concepts into one harmonious quilt.
See more of Tara's quilts in A New Way to Look at Color with Tara Faughnan | Quilt Studio Tour Diana McClun.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
