The Featured Quilt Today: 3rd Place - Mid-Century Mod Winner, New Show with Sarah Bond (Amazing Family History), Bisa Butler Exhibit Extension, Flying Flags Quilt Tutorial, QS 2.5" x 18" Ruler, A "Hex" of a Puzzle
Sunday Smiles June 20, 2021
Featured Quilt - Monochromatic in the "Moonlight"
To make a quilt stand out, it just needs that one thing to make you go, "wow." For Cindy Carey's quilt, that one thing is its color. Moonlight Radiance is a magnificent monochromatic quilt that won 3rd Place - Mid-Century Mod at the 2021 Virtual Spring Quilt Festival. Cindy says, "This quilt was an experiment with piecing an ombre fabric into a design. I worked with ombre fabric to create a center focal point and then reversed the ombre to fade out away from the center into the points. The background is a blue/teal solid to create a monochromatic quilt. The quilt is an original design inspired by mid-century style."
Travel From Kansas to Oz in this Technicolor Journey
Sarah Bond’s dynamic and colorful quilt designs, based on traditional patterns, are influenced by the work of her female ancestors. In this show, 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 diamond quilt.
It's Been Extended, Now Don't Miss It A Second Time
Bisa Butler's beautiful exhibit Bisa Butler: Portraits has been extended through September 2021 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Find out why this is a collection that is not to be missed.
With the Fourth of July coming up, there is no better time to get your flag out and hang it up. But what if you don't have a flag to wave? Amy Smart of Diary of a Quilter has a tutorial to show you how to make a Flying Flags Quilt instead to wave just as proudly.
Becky made the Hexie Garden Quilt because she was tired of appliquéing on squares and triangles. Each hexagon block consists of six triangles with every triangle housing a different flower type, creating nine hexagons with nine different flowers growing throughout. As usual with Becky, she wanted to create the quilt to keep her quilting life creative, fresh, and different.
Only Becky Goldsmith can tell you, and that's just one of the many tips and tricks that she shows you in her brand new show (Show 2812). But this isn't just a one-time deal, with every show you will learn great new techniques and lessons from the world's best quilting teachers all right here at The Quilt Show. So don't let the candle blow out and get learning today!
