First Place Innovative - PIQF 2021, Meri Henriques Vahl's Show is Free This Week, Making PIQF's Best of Show, Alex Is Off At Taping, EQ Printables, Memory Match, A Totally "Blue" Puzzle
October 18, 2021
Featured Quilt - First Place Innovative at PIQF 2021
Kathy McNeil's art quilts are always a joy to behold, and this one is no different. Her quilt, Spring Harmony, won First Place in the Innovative category at PIQF 30 and features beautiful Machine Piecing and Hand Appliqué. As for what inspires a great work such as this, Kathy says, "Japanese gardens are a feast for our eyes in the spring, Enter thru the Tori gate, sit by the stream, waltz across the bridge and find a place to fall in love again."
The Making of the Best of Show, A Summer Christmas
How Do You Make A Best of Show Quilt?
Did you see the PIQF Best of Show, A Summer Christmas, in our Friday Newsletter? If you did, you're probably wondering how Mariya Waters and Gina Perkes-Tidwell put together such a stunning quilt. Well, Gina has been kind enough to provide us with some up close photos of Mariya's hand appliqué and her own machine work on the BERNINA Q20 while they were putting it together. Come take a look and see an award-winning quilt being born.
Have You Seen Meri Henriques Vahl's FREE Super Show?
Just The Thing to Start Your Week Off Right
Meri Henriques Vahl and her landscape quilts are a hit, and we love the show so much that we are opening it up this week for FREE for everyone to enjoy while we are taping! If you don't believe in our enthusiasm for the show, just hear what your fellow TQS members have to say about it. "Super show. Just the sort of thing I am working on at present. I have just received the book that I ordered on Monday after watching the show. I am most interested in doing the figures. Thank you so much" - Brenda Cupryna
Alex is taking a break from Facebook LIVE this week as she is off with Ricky to tape a brand new set of shows! But don't worry, she'll be back next week with more of her Paper Piecing class to get the creative juices flowing. In the meantime, check out what Alex has started in the Paper Piecing class so you are up to speed when Class 5 rolls around next Monday!
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Alex will be LIVE again on Monday, October 25, 2021 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.
Print photos and designs on 100% cotton quilting fabric using your inkjet printer and EQ Printables. Make memory quilts, quilt labels, fabric scrapbooks, or whatever you can dream up!
Available in two different packages of either 6 or 25 of 8.5" x 11" 100% cotton inkjet printable fabric sheets.
What sort of magic do you conjure up to become a Memory Match expert? Well, if you're a mere mortal like most of us then you just play Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game each week to get better and better. Otherwise, you probably just wave a wand or something and let get it solved for you. (Which is cheating we think!)
Alex loved this quilt from her recent chat with Teresa so much that we knew it had to be a puzzle. The Blue One got into Houston 2021 and is all improv pieced. It measures 62" square and contains over 2,600 pieces cut down from larger improv pieces that Teresa had made. Every piece is about an inch to an inch-and-a-half across, with all of the fabric coming from Marcia Derse's blue lines. What is most impressive about the quilt though, is that each of the over 2,000 pieces contains a unique free-motion design that Teresa quilted.
