October 11, 2021

Featured Quilt - "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"

In honor of the MLB playoffs we present Baseball: As American as Apple Pie and Quilts, a quilt by Holley Junker, and a machine quilted gift of Yvonne Porcella (Show 713) to the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. This quilt was shown as part of a groundbreaking exhibit at the Museum in 2017. It was a groundbreaking exhibition because it looked at the emergence of the Studio Art Quilt Movement in the 1960s and 1970s and the significant role California played in the creation of this new art form.

Learn to Landscape (Quilt) with Meri Henriques Vahl

It Starts With A Photograph

Have you ever wanted make your very own beautiful landscape quilt? Well, Meri Henriques Vahl is here to show you how to do just that. Watch as she demonstrates how to create a collaged landscape using a photograph as inspiration, and pretty soon you could be making your own!

Learn from Meri in How to Make a Landscape Quilt with Figures with Meri Henriques Vahl | A Bedturning of Antique Quilts with Lisa Erlandson.

WeAllSew Tutorial: Spooky Halloween Bat

They're Simply Batty

You've made quilts with bat designs on them for Halloween, but have you ever actually made a bat? Erika Mulvenna at WeAllSew has a fun tutorial for you to make your very own Spooky Halloween Bat that you can use to decorate your house for the ghostly season (and to leave up afterwards if you just want surprise people too!)

Alex LIVE: Paper Piecing Class #4 - Kaleidoscope Quilt Block

A Tricky, Pointy, But Reasonable Block To Make

This block can be tricky. Paper piecing helps with the accuracy, but Alex thinks the Kaleidoscope quilt block rivals the New York Beauty in that it takes care to get those points just right. Join Alex and see what advice she has for you.

Alex will be LIVE TODAY, October 11, 2021 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.

New In The Store - Small Perfect Multipurpose Scissors

These Are Your Paper Scissors from Karen Kay Buckley!

With comfortable soft handles, straight blades and a sharp tip, these 4.5" Small Perfect Scissors from Karen Kay Buckley are great for cutting paper, freezer paper, fabric, and fabric with fusible stabilizer on the back.

Suitable for both lefties and righties!

Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game

Inexperience is temporary, and once you know something well enough you can do it with your eyes closed. Isn't that what you've been playing Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game all this time for? (Wait, you're saying you can't do it with your eyes closed?)

The Quilt Show Puzzle: Radiating Circles From Space

"Space Age" by Cathy Franks

All the coloring on Cathy's quilt, Space Age, was done with colored pencils. There is no piecing on this quilt. She also took up the challenge to use rulers when doing her quilting. Those are all radiating 4" circles.

See more of Cathy's quilts in How to Embellish on a Longarm Quilt with Cathy Franks.