Andrea Brokenshire's Second Winner, Libby Williamson's New Show, Name Alex's New Kitten, QSOS with Susan Shie, Handmade Kantha Fabric, A Puzzle For Ukraine

Featured Quilt - Andrea Brokenshire's Second Winner

Andrea Brokenshire doesn't do anything second-rate. No, she wasn't content winning just one award at AQS Quiltweek 2022, she went ahead and won TWO! Her first was Orange Crushed It, and her second, Stargazer Splendor, won First Place - Small Wall Quilts: Pictorial (Sponsored by PFAFF). Andrea had this to say about her splendid quilt, "My Momma has the most beautiful gardens. One of the flowers that flourishes there is the Stargazer Lily. Their scent is intoxicating and their beauty magnificent. The challenge for me in making this piece was creating the texture and colors of pollen filled anthers."

You can see this quilt by Andrea, and many more, by watching her in How to Use a Photograph For Your Quilt with Andrea Brokenshire | New York Beauty Block Design.

Wonky Faces and Rope Quilts Await

Fiber artist Libby Williamson works in many layers. In our newest show, Libby's back to share how to use fabric panels as a foundation for hand-embellishment, machine stitches, or a multi-layered collage. She shows off her Wonky Faces, a creative project for building a fun and whimsical portrait. And last but not least, she shows creative and unexpected uses for clothesline when it comes to making unique and multi-layered, and textural art pieces.

Learn from Libby in How to Use Fabric Panels, Create Wonky Fabric Portraits, and Make One-of-a-Kind Rope Quilts with Libby Williamson, which debuts today!

Susan Shie Shares Her Story

Beginning today, we will begin featuring a series of Quilters' Save Our Stories interviews, or QSOS for short. What are Quilters' Save Our Stories interviews you ask? "Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories (QSOS) is a project of the non-profit Quilt Alliance. The project creates, through recorded interviews, a broadly accessible body of information concerning quiltmaking, both present-day and in living memory. Our archive for the original audio recordings and photographs is the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. QSOS volunteers from across the country conduct and transcribe these interviews. We appreciate their generosity of time and dedication to the project!"

First up, TQS friend and guest Susan Shie!