2021 Vermont Quilt Festival Best of Show, Annie Smith's New Show, Sew & So... Podcast with Michael C. Thorpe, Ann Myhre's FREE Chinese Lantern Class, "American Gathering" Bundle and Book, A "Ribbon" Puzzle
Sunday Smiles July 4, 2021
Featured Quilt - Tiling Her Way To Victory
More kudos are in order as another TQS member has won another big award (and then some). Betsy Vinegrad's quilt, Azulejos, just won Best of Show at the 2021 Vermont Quilt Festival and also won 2nd Place - American Patchwork and Quilting Wedge Challenge and a Judge’s Choice ribbon at Quiltcon a few months ago. The quilt came about from an improv paper piecing workshop with Amy Friend. As for its name, "When I was done, I thought it looked like ceramic tiles or in Portuguese, Azulejos." Congratulations Betsy!
It's A New Day, And A New Series with Annie Smith!
Become A Machine Appliqué Expert
Returning guest Annie Smith joins Alex and Ricky at our new studio to demonstrate the basics of machine appliqué. Plus, C&T publisher, and quilter, Amy Barrett-Daffin shares an iPad cover gift idea made using TAP (Transfer Artist Paper) and Kraft-Tex. Don't miss these great techniques, and so much more, in our brand new show!
BERNINA USA recently shared this wonderful podcast on college basketball player turned quilter Michael C. Thorpe. Discover how everything, including quilting, impacts him to allow him to see the unlimited possibilities that life has to offer.
Quilt Photo:Family by Michael C. Thorpe (2021) [Fabric, Quilting Cotton and Thread, 57.5" x 84"]
Ann Myhre's FREE class for the Chinese Lantern Box project has wrapped up and all lessons are now available for your viewing pleasure. This hand crafted project will help you bust some stash of fabric, yarns, beads, and threads. It will help you explore new skills and techniques while creating a beautiful box to use for your hand stitching or knitting projects. Perfect for road or air travel to work out of. You can also use the box for storing fabrics, yarns, threads, beads, markers, brushes... any number of crafting materials
Get Primitive Gathering's Fat Quarter Bundle and Pattern Book!
Celebrate the Fourth of July in the USA with Primitive Gathering's American Gatheringbundle of 36 glorious fabrics in red, white, and blue! Then, use those fabrics and the patriotic patterns featured in the American Gathering quilt book to create red, white, and blue projects for years to come. Designed by Lisa Bongean, these beautiful projects use a range of techniques including traditional piecing, English paper piecing, appliqué, and more.
Ribbon Quilt is the initial result of Sarah's classes with Nancy Crow. Featuring all solids, Sarah says she made it in a fugue state, unable to stop working on it. Piecing the quilt inside of two months while she was working full time, Sarah submitted it to QuiltCon one year and it was rejected. The following year, knowing the quilt was good, she submitted it again and it won the eQuilter Quilting Excellence Award.
Whether you are working with a reliable BERNINA, or the machine you've had since you were a beginning quilter, it is always important to know how to use your machine to get the effect you want. At The Quilt Show, we like to talk about not only how to do a technique the right way, but how to use a sewing machine properly as well. Learn to master the craft of quilting, and tame the sewing machine, all right here at The Quilt Show!
