Sunday Smiles - November 20, 2022

Featured Quilt - First Place Pictorial Small at Houston 2022

Not Today by Kestrel Michaud won First Place in the Pictorial Small category at the 2022 Houston International Quilt Festival. Kestrel's quilt depicts that eternal back and forth seen in so many Looney Tunes cartoons before, except this time it's not a coyote chasing a roadrunner, it's a roadrunner chasing a lizard!

She says, "The chase is on! The Roadrunner is after his next meal, chasing a Common Collared Lizard through a steampunk junkyard. The desert is a favored dumping ground for the detritus of progress, even in a fantasy world. A steam-powered industrial revolution creates iron refuse, and pieces of broken machinery have been left to decay in the dry desert air. That doesn’t bother these critters. To them, this is home. Will that lizard wind up as dinner? Not today!"

Meet Colette Dumont in Our Brand New Show

The Master of Beading Comes To The Quilt Show

Award-winning Canadian quilter Colette Dumont designs quilts that are complex, filled with color, and embellished with thousands of hand-sewn beads. Many of her quilts have won multiple Best of Show awards. Join us as she shares the secrets to making stained glass quilts using Lamé and how to create your own bit of beaded bling to add to a quilt. Alex continues the embellishment theme with fun ways to use vintage or contemporary button embroidery in your next quilt project.

Watch Colette and Alex in How to Do Stained Glass Quilts with Lamé and Beaded Borders with Colette Dumont | Button Embroidery with Alex Anderson, when it debuts today, November 20, 2022.

Quilters' Save Our Stories with Jane Hall

Celebrate Jane Hall's Life In Her Own Words

With the recent passing of Jane Hall at the age of 90, we'd like to share her Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) interview from the Quilt Alliance where she discusses everything from quilting during difficult times to the functions of quilts, pineapple designs, and finding joy in quilting (which we think she did quite often).

We've opened up Jane's show for FREE through Thanksgiving week so you can watch and enjoy her special talents: Show 1709 - How to Make a Pineapple Quilt with Jane Hall | How to Use a Photo and Paint to Make a Quilt.

Detail Photos From the 2022 Yokohama Quilt Show

Get The Details on All These Detailed Photos

We recently featured Victoria Stone's trip to the 2022 Yokohama Quilt Show in Japan to get a look at the amazing quilts on display. Now, we have detailed and up-close shots of some of those quilts for you to view. You'll be able to see the textures and quilting so well that it will be just like you're visiting the show alongside Victoria.

(Photo from Victoria Stone at Okan Arts)

2023 BOM "Homeward Bound" Kits Back in Stock

Quantities are Limited

Our 2023 Block of the Month Fabric Kit Homeward Bound is back in stock! Order NOW - we have a LIMITED QUANTITY available to start shipping in late December/early January and we do not anticipate additional kits becoming available in the future. 

The Quilt Show Puzzle: Waves Come Crashing In

"He Heard The Surf Roar" by Ana Buzzalino

He Heard The Surf Roar is one of the quilts that Ana finished recently. Its inspiration came from a photo of Lawrencetown Beach in Nova Scotia, which was printed on fabric and used as the background. Ana visited there in 2012 to teach and just loved the foggy early-morning look of the photo she took so much that she needed it to be a quilt. She says that some of the rocks from the beach came home with her in her pockets. She started piecing the quilt but put it away for a while because she didn't like some of the free-motion quilting and knew she would have to take it out. After sitting for TEN HOURS hand-picking away the bad free-motion quilting, Ana went back to work and finished her amazing quilt.

See more of Ana's quilts in How to Design with PowerPoint - Embellishing Appliqué Rocks with Ana Buzzalino | How to Load a Longarm with Denise Lopez.

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