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Featured Quilt - First Place Wall Quilts: Movable Machine Quilted at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2024
Subtle Reflections by Laurie Tigner won First Place - Wall Quilts: Movable Machine Quilted (Sponsored by Juki America, Inc.) at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2024. Actually we had to stop counting the ribbons on this stunning appliqué quilt as it also won 1st Place Large Quilts - Movable Machine Quilted Category at 2023 AQS QuiltWeek - Des Moines, Best Original Design at 2024 AQS QuiltWeek - Daytona Beach, and 2nd Place Large Quilts - Appliquéd at 2024 AQS QuiltWeek - Branson.
Laurie used fused appliqué, machine appliqué, and raw edge appliqué to create the lovely hand-dyed flowers and threw in some fabric painting, decorative stitching, and free-motion quilting to complete the design. Take a look.
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Christa Watson Returns With Machine Quilting Fun!
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Christa Watson Wears Many Hats
Award-winning quilter, fabric designer, and author Christa Watson returns to share tips and tricks for quilting with success on your domestic sewing machine. Learn how preparing your quilt top, proper basting, and creating a quilt plan can make all the difference in your machine quilting results. Then take your quilting from good to great when you mix walking foot quilting with free-motion quilting. Plus, learn the clever way Alex uses Half-Square Triangles to create a fun border design.
Watch Christa and Alex in Learn How to Plan and Do Domestic Machine Quilting with Christa Watson | Half-Square Triangle Borders with Alex Anderson, which debuts today!
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InStyle: How Bridgerton Costumes Were Made |
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Bridgerton Is Back, and So Are the Amazing Costumes
This weekend the first part of the third season of Bridgerton, the period costume drama depicting the romantic lives of the eight Bridgerton siblings, debuted on Netflix. While taking place in the 1800s, the costumes that designers John Glaser, George Sayer, and Dougie Hawkes have created don't always adhere to the time that they are portraying. Get an in-depth look at these breathtaking costumes and how they came to life in this insightful video from InStyle.
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Texas Tech University: Alphabet Quilt |
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Learning Your A, B, C's
Find out about the Alphabet Quilt in the latest article from the Museum of Texas Tech University. Quilters often make small quilts for the children in their family. A baby quilt is usually the first project a new quiltmaker will undertake. Grandmothers also join the celebration of new family members by making quilts for their grandchildren, as is the case with this Alphabet quilt made by Martha Alma Baker for her grandson Billy Baker.
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The Alphabet Quilt, designed by Florence La Ganke, was published in newspapers, generally over a 25-week series, as part of the Nancy Page Quilt Club.
(Above Photo: Alphabet Quilt, made by Martha Alma Smith Baker. Gift of Ms. Lorelyn Lewis, TTU-H2022-075-003.)
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In The Store - Ricky Tims' Stable Stuff Poly
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Ricky Tims Stable Stuff Poly Roll
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Ricky Tims Stable Stuff Poly Sheets
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Tear It Away - Or Not!
Ricky Tims' Stable Stuff Poly is a versatile, machine printable multi-purpose stabilizer for appliqué, machine embroidery, foundation piecing, machine quilting, and more. Once stitched you can tear it away - or not!
Available as a 20" x 10 yd Roll, or as 8-1/2" x 11" Sheets, click below and watch a video to learn all about it!
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Experience The 1920s
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"Roaring 20's" by Judy Gauthier
Roaring 20's was designed by Judy for Studio E Fabrics using the Peppered Cottons line of fabrics by Pepper Cory. Pepper and Judy got together to talk about designing a quilt that used the new colors that Studio E was adding for the Peppered Cottons line. When they asked Judy her thoughts on a quilt, it was approaching the 2020s, which in the moment was not the most happy time. So she thought the quilt needed to be cheerful and make people really want to feel good about something. Roaring 20's is therefore named after the decade of the 1920s and reflects the prosperous times people were experiencing at the beginning of that decade.
See more of Judy's quilts in Learn Simple Color Theory and How to Organize and Cut Your Scrap Quilts with Judy Gauthier.
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What Will You Find Next?
Just like an Easter Egg, you never know what you're going to find when watch the next episode of The Quilt Show. Will it be about scrap quilting, stained glass quilts, or maybe it will be about machine quilting like our brand new show this week with Christa Watson? You'll just have to keep coming back to see what quilting magic The Quilt Show has in store!
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