A Marvelously Quilted Work, The Houston Quilt Show Founders Joyous Interview, Quilting Creativity Class Begins Today, The Future of Contemporary Fibers, QS Free Fuse Basting Powder, A "Dragon" Puzzle

Featured Quilt - A Marvelously Quilted Work

Guanaco by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry won Third Place - Small Wall Quilts: Pictorial (Sponsored by PFAFF) at AQS Quiltweek 2022 in Paducah. Caryl's quilt features a guanaco, which is an animal that is closely related to the llama.

Of her work, Caryl says, To create the design, I combined elements from two different photos with digital painting. One photo was of the guanaco, and the other was of the Andes mountain range, shrouded in clouds. The background was digitally painted, and the edges were faded to white. The image of the guanaco is very heavily quilted with dozens of different colors of thread and the sky and outer edges are quilted in a meandering, and spiraling pattern."

Learn from Caryl right here at The Quilt Show by watching her in How to Do Applipiecing and a Studio Visit with Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry.

The Houston Quilt Festival Founders Are A Delight

One of the joys of The Quilt Show is being able to go in depth on a topic you might know something about, but don't know the whole story. This doesn't just apply to quilting techniques however, as we also take a deep dive into the lives of quilters. For this show, we did just that with Karey Patterson Bresenhan and Nancy O'Bryant Puentes, the founders of the Houston Quilt Festival, and our members just loved it:

The lovely interview with Karey and Nancy brought tears to my eyes! Having been to the festival in Houston (my idea of heaven) and witnessing all the work that goes into this wonderland for quilters, my respect and gratitude for these women rose even higher after seeing the "rest of the story" !! - Marie Misgen

Learn about Karey and Nancy, and some great lessons from Heather Black, in Curved Piecing and Quilt Design with Heather Black | Karey Bresenhan - Nancy O'Bryant Puentes Houston Quilt Show Founder.

Meet Katie Fowler

Katie Fowler is a creative coach who will help you overcome your barriers to excellence. How should you think about creativity? What is slowing you down? How do you approach design? You probably have even more questions, and Katie will help you through it along with Alex. It's time to transform your quilting with new ideas, less barriers, and more fun.

Alex is LIVE TODAY Monday, June 27, 2022 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.

"Donald the Dotted Dragon" by Sue Bleiweiss

Donald the Dotted Dragon, like most of Sue's other quilts, utilizes her hand-dyed fabrics. Every fabric color you see in the quilt is hand-dyed, including the blacks. For this quilt, Sue wanted to do something more whimsical, having previously focused on cityscapes, buildings, and geometric shapes. What differentiates this quilt from her others, besides the fact that there is a dragon, was Sue having a primary focal subject to work with, which provided new challenges for her.

See more of Sue's quilts in How to Do Fabric Dyeing and Collage Techniques with Sue Bleiweiss | Quilts with Meaning.

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