A Thread-Painted Quilt Winner, Bisa Butler Exhibition Stories, Appliqué the Shelley Tobisch Way, Sarah Bond on the Lone Star, Translucent Vellum Paper, Jinny's Memory Match, A Changing Puzzle
June 21, 2021
Featured Quilt - "Into The Woods"
Social Distancing by Barbara Matzke won 3rd Place - Innovative at the 2021 Virtual Spring Quilt Festival. Barbara says of her work, "A stop along Russian River Road with my son inspired this thread-painted quilt. The trees were so impressively tall and my son looked so small walking in front of me. The trees are simply appliqué pieces of plain fabric, thread-painted to give substance, color and texture. The bottom portion is a pieced disappearing nine-patch pattern emphasizing again the tallness of the trees."
Now that you know that the exhibit has been extended to September 2021, listen to Bisa Butler talk about the inspirations behind some of her work as she tours her own exhibit, Bisa Butler: Portraits, at the Art Institute of Chicago.
After technical difficulties last week, we now bring you another way to do finished appliqué, as Alex shows you how to do appliqué the Shelley Tobisch (Show 2506) way. Shelley has a way of doing Machine Appliqué that is fantastic and Alex is going to share it. See what Shelley does and why it scares Alex a little.
Join Alex LIVE TODAY on Monday, June 21, 2021 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.
In our newest show, Sarah Bond shares her modern interpretation of Louvinnia's Lone Star, a quilt made by Louvinnia Clarkson Cleckley. See how Sarah has updated this classic design in a contemporary style.
In The Store - Translucent Vellum Paper by Simple Foundations
Discover Perfect Paper Piecing
See-through Simple Foundations paper makes paper-piecing projects simple to prepare and stitch. Use an inkjet or laser printer to print paper piecing designs, or just trace your patterns - no light box is needed because the design shows right through the paper!
The Quilt Show Puzzle: "If I Could Change the World"
"Climate Change" by Gail Garber
Climate Change is Gail's interpretation of our environment's change from cool to warm. Gail writes about the quilt, "A study in extremes: warm versus cool and gently curving versus jagged edginess. Climate change is neither gradual or calm, but can be quite violent as evidenced by the hurricanes and wildfires of 2017, four years following the completion of the quilt."
