"Just Another Pretty Face", New Show with Kumiko Frydl, Red Cross Museum Quilt, Quilt Alliance Goal, BOM Kits in Store, An Inklingo Made Puzzle 
Sunday Smiles - December 5, 2021
Featured Quilt - Just Another Pretty Face

Beauty Queen by Kestrel Michaud highlights a different kind of beauty for which she is thankful often doesn't come her way.  She writes, "Her skin might be leathery, but this lovely lady enjoys soaking up the Florida sun just as much as the next girl." Can you guess who she is describing? This beautiful appliqué quilt was on display at the Houston International Quilt Festival 2021.

Want to learn more about Kestrel? Watch her recent interview with Alex.
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In our last newsletter we highlighted A Walk in the Meadow With Ellen by Nancy Kerns and misspelled her last name. We apologize for the error and hope you'll enjoy another look at her beautiful quilt.
Our New Show With Kumiko Frydl Debuts Today!
Learn Shadow Trapunto and Micro Stippling

The master of miniature quilts, Kumiko Frydl, loves a challenge and it shows. Her full-size quilts filled with tiny and beautiful details on a miniature scale make for astounding quilts. In this show she shares tips for creating shadow trapunto and micro stippling. While Alex shares tips for expanding your quilt designs by using stencils as a starting point.

Watch Kumiko in How to Do Shadow Trapunto and Micro Stippling with Kumiko Frydl | How to Enhance Quilting Stencils with Alex Anderson, when it debuts today!
A Quilt in the Red Cross Museum
(Photo: Florence Nightingale’s lamp on display in the museum. Photograph: British Red Cross Museum & Archives)

A Quilt with a Coded Message

"A quilt stitched with coded messages by allied female prisoners of war and a lamp believed to have been used by Florence Nightingale are among the “objects of kindness” that are to go on display for the first time this week in the British Red Cross Museum in London." - theguardian.com
Help the Quilt Alliance Reach Their Goal
The Quilt Alliance is a non-profit organization founded in 1993 to support and develop projects to document, preserve, and share the history of quilts and quiltmakers. They bring together groups and individuals from the creative, scholarly and business worlds of quilt making to advance the recognition of quilts and their makers and they would like your help.
All donations received through December 31, 2021 will be DOUBLED thanks to a matching gift by a generous donor.
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Millefiori by Way of Inklingo
"Silent Garden" by Linda Franz

Silent Garden is one of the quilts from Willyne Hammerstein's book, Millefiori Quilts 3. After interest began to spark in Willyne's books, people began to immediately ask Linda for Inklingo shaped collections related to the books. So Linda got in touch with Quiltmania and began to produce an Inklingo version that allowed quilters to make a version that is easier to put together than using english paper piecing. This is a quilt top Linda made of Silent Garden using Inklingo.

See more of Linda's quilts in How to Use Inklingo for Quilt Blocks and Fussy Cutting with Linda Franz.
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