Weekend Fun - June 18, 2021

Featured Quilt - Two Awards, One Beautiful Quilt

A single picture can capture a lifetime of feelings. Lea McComas is amazing at that process. The Long Goodbye is a quilt that brings a texture and feeling to a special moment showing us a special love. Thank you Lea and congratulations on winning the Superior Threads Master Award for Thread Artistry at the Houston International Quilt Festival in 2019 and Best Wall Quilt at the 2021 Virtual Spring Quilt Festival. Watch the video under the video tab to hear Lea tell the story of the quilt.

Go Behind The Scenes with Sarah Bond

Join Alex and Ricky behind the scenes as they meet Sarah Bond and see her dynamic and colorful quilt designs that are influenced by the work of her female ancestors. Sarah will demonstrate how she modernizes a traditional Lone Star quilt, and her technique of playing tricks with color while working on a paper pieced design.

Watch Sarah in Learn to Quilt in Monochrome and Technicolor with Sarah Bond, when it debuts this Sunday, June 18, 2021!

The Quilt Show LIVE: Alex and Dee

Alex Talks to Amy

Alex interviews Amy Milne of the Quilt Alliance about makeing videos for the Go Tell It! Project. She's hoping you'll create and share videos as part of preserving your memories.

See more below in Alex Anderson's Memorial Quilt StoryShare.

Join Alex LIVE TODAY on Friday, June 18, 2021 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.

My Flower Garden Begins - FREE Class

Dee Christopher's brand new class, My Flower Garden, begins tomorrow.

It's a beautiful quilt and time to get started. With Dee Christopher as your teacher, even a confident beginner can make this quilt. Dee starts with the first two blocks in this video and will get you ready for the upcoming appliqué.

Dee will be LIVE TOMORROW, June 19, 2021 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.

Alex Anderson's Memorial Quilt StoryShare

Keep Your Quilt's Story Alive - Go Tell It!

The Quilt Show is teaming up with the Quilt Alliance and the International Quilt Museum to collect and share stories about memorial quilts. If you have made a memorial quilt or received one in honor of someone in your life, we would love to have you share your story.

The Quilt Show will select a number of these quilt videos to share via the newsletter in August and September. The Quilt Alliance will also share all videos submitted on the Quilt Alliance’s YouTube channel.

Check out what it's about and watch Alex's Go Tell It! video for inspiration.

The Right Sewing Machine Needle For Every Project

Pick The Right One Every Time

Even if you've planned a quilt down to the T, from the fabric choices, the quilting design, and the binding, there could always be something that you forget to think of. For a lot of people, that just might be the needle with which they are actually going to sew the project. Luckily, BERNINA has the perfect video to show you how to pick the right one!

On The Go Fat Quarter Bundle & Panel

Go! Go! Go! On That Next Fun Project

Make a quilted play mat for the little person in your life who is always "on the go!" with the On The Go Fat Quarter Bundle and Panel. This bundle includes 36 fat quarters in gray, green, yellow, aqua and red transportation themed designs by Stacy Iest Hsu (Show 1910) for Moda Fabrics, and a fun play mat panel with many areas for little ones to use their imagination.

Each bundle contains 36, 18" x 21" 100% cotton fabric pieces and a 36" x 54" canvas play mat panel.

The Quilt Show Puzzle: "Push It To The Limit"

"Pushing Boundaries" by Becky Goldsmith

Pushing Boundaries was created when Becky ran out of things to sew. What she wanted to accomplish with this quilt, and wants to revisit in a future one, is the idea that when you make a vine design it normally is carried seamlessly from panel to panel but for this quilt the vines would not meet up perfectly and create an off-kilter look. This fractured nature allowed the quilt to be created square by square instead of having a need to focus on the center.

See more of Becky's quilts in It's the Ultimate Thread Guide with Becky Goldsmith.