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Featured Quilt - 1st Place Windham Fabrics Artisan Cotton Fabric Challenge at QuiltCon 2024
Overprint by Betsy Vinegrad won 1st Place in the Windham Fabrics Artisan Cotton Fabric Challenge (Sponsored by Windham Fabrics) at QuiltCon 2024. The quilts in this challenge had to use at least 3 of the 6 challenge fabrics chosen by featured artist Jacquie Gering.
Betsy writes of her quilt, "Overprinting is when a color is printed directly over another causing a mix of those colors. When I received the challenge fabrics, I knew I would make something that had a transparency effect, like overprinting. Windham Artisan Cottons are a cross-weave fabric, meaning the warp and weft yarns are different colors. Imagine that apple green-chartreuse is printed on top of aqua-white first, then the turquoise-copper and grape-dark pink circles are printed on top. Where the circles overlap the green, they become darker, in those sections I used the darker aqua-blue and red-royal. The crosshatch quilting, stitched with green in one direction and light aqua in the other, mimics the warp and weft in the fabric.
"Overprint" was inspired by Jenny Haynes' "Twice Cut Drunkard's Path" technique, and I used her 14" Drunkard's Path Template Set to cut the shapes @pappersaxsten. It was machine pieced and quilted on a stationary machine."
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Quiz: Earn More Entries into International Quilting Weekend Contest
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How Well Do You Know Your Sewing Machine History?
If you are sure you are on top of your machine game, you can earn another entry into our International Quilting Weekend Contest. Even if you are not, the quiz is fun and you'll learn some interesting bits of history. You do not have to have correct answers to earn extra entry.
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Enter through Midnight PST Monday March 18. The winners will be notified by email by March 20.
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Watch Our New Show With Sue Sherman - It's Magic!
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Documentation Days This Weekend
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Document Your Quilt Over International Quilting Weekend
Celebrate at the National Quilt Musuem by documenting your quilt on March 15 & 16, 2024! Choose a time slot, bring 1 or 2 quilts to be assessed and documented to the Kentucky Quilt Registry and then record a 3-minute video for the “Go Tell It!” project.
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Textile Talks: Fiber Artists vs Artificial Intelligence - What We Know That It Doesn’t
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What do Fiber Art and Artificial Intelligence have in common?
Presented by Surface Design Association, "What do fiber art and Artificial Intelligence have in common? More than many people—including most computer scientists—realize. String, the earliest fiber technology, is 50,000 years old, and fiber has informed myriad technologies since, especially digital computing. Looking toward our digital future, we will use case studies of our own experiences, primarily in quilting and crochet, to address the potentials and limitations of the impact of Generative AI with large language models (LLMs) on fiber arts design and production."
Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, March 13, 2024, at 2 PM EDT. (Please Note: Note time change for Daylight Saving)
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Learn to Do Improv Quilting in an Easy, Low Pressure Way in our FREE Class!
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What Will Your Quilt Look Like?
Join Dee Christopher for a relaxed multi-week class where we'll unleash our creativity and craft improv quilts together. Each week Dee will tackle different styles of improv blocks using lines, curves, and free form cutting. When the class is finished, you can assemble your blocks into a beautiful quilt that will be unique to you.
Our exclusive Easy Improv Kit offers a grouping of 100% cotton quilting fabrics in vivid colors and patterns selected to excite and inspire your creativity and work well within the improv framework. Get yours before it vanishes!
The class takes place on our Facebook page and YouTube Channel Saturday mornings at 10:00 AM PST starting March 23, 2024 and will run for 8 - 10 weeks.
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: A Different Home for Penguins
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"Sanctuary?" by Sue Sherman
Sanctuary? is Sue's imagination of a future in which there's no snow left on Antarctica and it's too warm for penguins to reproduce. So an artificial environment has had to be created for a penguin rookery. The environment itself is a geodesic dome in which the penguins live inside, powered by a coal-fired furnace that spews out smoke that generates electricity to power an air-conditioner that cools the penguins. Under the dome, there are about 100 different uniquely designed penguins each individually dye-painted with their own distinct details in the quilting. The quilt itself is primarily dye-painted, with some metallic labels on the equipment, and the rocks and smoke feature fabric-painted touch-ups.
See more of Sue's quilts in How to Paint
with Thickened Dyes and Use Thread Painting with Sue Sherman | The Potato Chip Block with Tracy Mooney.
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