If Picasso Made a Quilt..., Free-Motion Quilting A Busy Bee Motif, Alex is Back, Understand Appliqué With Annie Smith, Jinny Beyer Quilt Block Game, A "Strange" Puzzle
July 12, 2021
Featured Quilt - Beautiful Cubed Flowers
You've probably never seen flowers quite like these. Masako Tsuda used a fairly traditional idea for her quilt, some flowers through a window, put turned the idea on its head. Square Windows 3 was featured in the Abstract, Large category at Houston in 2019 and depicts its flowers in a very modern way. Masako says, "This piece features images of Cubism in modern art. I designed the hollyhocks in box shapes. There are many beautiful hollyhocks over the window." With beautiful free-motion quilting and machine appliqué, it's hard to tell if Masako grew the flowers in her studio or manufactured them in a factory.
WeAllSew Tutorial: How To Free-Motion Quilt The Busy Bee Motif
You'll Be Buzzing With Excitement While Quilting
"The Busy Bee is a delightful motif to embellish any floral quilt and looks fabulous when stitched among appliqué flowers." Learn from Lori Kennedy at WeAllSew how to do this free-motion technique with ease!
Get caught up on what Alex has been up to as she answers questions, gives updates, and chats about what she learned in Sue Spargo's class.There will be some Show & Tell and sharing. She also will show fabrics from Ricky's "Ultimate Mystery Quilt" Project. Fun!
Join Alex LIVETODAY on Monday, July 12, 2021 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.
Summer Project: Kool Kaleidoscope - The Ultimate Mystery Quilt - with Ricky!
What Will Yours Look Like?
Ricky's Kool Kaleidoscope quilt is a popular and very fun method for making a kaleidoscopic quilt without fussy cutting individual fabric prints. This strip-pieced quilt is quick, easy, and great for advanced beginners and beyond, and no two Kool Kaleidoscope quilts come out the same!
To add to the fun, we bought more than 150 fabrics to put together into 20 piece kits. EVERY SINGLE KIT includes a different mix of fabrics!
Grab a kit and join Ricky for our FREEKool Kaleidoscope class starting July 26, 2021.
"The Strangest Vase That Ever Was" by Alethea Ballard
For The Strangest Vase That Ever Was, Alethea used fabric from the "Ghastlies" series, which features a sardonic family, to create this rather unusual quilt. If you look at each member of the family, and all around the quilt, someone always has their eyes looking at someone else. So you better keep an eye out, because someone's eye may just be on you.
