A Portrait of a Basketball Legend, Geri Patterson-Kutras Demonstrates the Wonders of Parchment Paper, Okan Arts Visits the 2023 Quilt Festival Long Beach, Get Your Owl O Ween Quilt Kit in Advance of Halloween, Memory Match Game, A "Diamond" of a Puzzle

Welcome to Wednesday - July 12, 2023

Featured Quilt - Going On the Defensive

Bisa Butler uses a variety of subjects for her portrait quilts, both recognizable and not. Today's quilt from her The World is Yours exhibit at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in New York City features the former and is of legendary basketball player Bill Russell. Based on a photograph of Bill by Nathaniel Butler via Getty Images, Bisa's The Secretary of Defense features Bill at a later stage in his life after achieving so much success. With several championship rings on each hand, his smiling face staring back at you in an array of technicolor fabric, you can't help but appreciate Bisa's distinctive style and knack for bringing out the humanity and warmth in each of her quilt's stars.

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Flexing A Design Using Parchment with Geri Patterson-Kutras

Become More Loose with Your Designs with Parchment Paper

In our brand new show, Geri Patterson-Kutras shares her technique for building a fused quilt design using parchment paper that allows her the flexibility to alter and shift elements around until she is committed.
She says that often an initial pattern will be simplified and this method easily allows for editing before the entire design is fused together.

Learn from Geri by watching her in Learn How to Make Cityscapes, Creating with Parchment Paper, and Where to Find Inspiration with Geri Patterson-Kutras.

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Okan Arts Visits the 2023 Quilt Festival Long Beach

Taking In The Beautiful Quilts (and Some of the Sights Too)

Victoria Stone of Okan Arts, whose mother and business partner Patricia Belyea was recently a featured guest on The Quilt Show, had the pleasure of visiting the 2023 Quilt Festival Long Beach in sunny Southern California this past week. Take a look at all the wonderful quilts and more that she saw as part of her write-up on the fun-filled event.

Learn from Patrica right here on The Quilt Show by watching her in Working with Yukata Fabric and Designer Facings with Patricia Belyea | Quilt Care and Storage with Lisa Erlandson.

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Halloween Is In 111 Days, Which is Plenty of Time to Make Our Owl O Ween Quilt Kit by Urban Chiks for Moda Fabrics!

We Only Have a Few (Whoooo Will Get Them?), So Don't Wait to Order

Make a starry night quilt featuring an Owl and bat with the cute and clever Owl O Ween Quilt Kit. The quilt is entirely pieced (no appliqué required) by making star blocks and flying geese blocks around a panel in the center.

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Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game

If you love making quilts, you probably love games that involve quilt blocks too. Play Jinny Beyer's Memory Match and see if that connection is true!

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The Quilt Show Puzzle: A Delightful Diamond Display

"Diamond Delight" by Carol Doak

Diamond Delight features the Australia block from Carol's book, Mariner's Compass Stars. Having just come back from Baton Rouge, Carol was really hung up on the colors that she saw in the area, the purples, yellow, pinks, and more, and decided to use those as the basis of the color palette for this quilt. The name Diamond Delight comes from the fact that there is a whole block in the center and portions of a block around the outside that, when viewed together, form a diamond shape.

See more of Carol's quilts in How to Foundation Paper Piece a Quilt with Carol Doak | Bob Purcell from Superior Threads.