Best Longarm Machine Workmanship Traditional, Gee's Bend in Fashion, Free-Motion Quilt an Owl, Running Stitch Podcast Season 3, Take 25% off Halloween in the Store, A Puzzle in a Grid
Sunday Smiles October 31, 2021
Featured Quilt - Best Longarm Machine Workmanship Traditional at PIQF 2021
Spring Meadow by Marci Gore won Best Longarm Machine Workmanship in the Traditional category at PIQF 30 in 2021. Marci says of how she put her quilt together, "A One Block Wonder made from a border print called 'Garden Square' by Kim Schaefer for Andover. Leftover border print fabric and hexagons are included in the back. If the back looks a little strange, it's because after quilting the first row, I realized the back was upside down. So, I took it off the frame, cut off the unquilted portion of the back, turned it 180, sewed it back together and reloaded it."
WeAllSew Tutorial: How To Machine Quilt an Owl Motif
Hoo Is It?
Just in time for Halloween come some spooky owls for you to add to your spooky quilt. Watch as Lori Kennedy at WeAllSew shows you how to free-motion quilt an owl motif to feature that slice of nature, or mysterious watching bird, to your next quilt.
The Quilt Alliance's Running Stitch podcast is back for its third season and features quiltmakers such as Eliza Hardy Jones, whose quilts interpret folk songs through color and pattern, Zak Foster, a high school teacher turned full-time quiltmaker, and Sarah Steiner, who taught herself to quilt during the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch the trailer for the new season now and new episodes will be released weekly.
On Friday we featured a segment on how to turn a hoodie into a quilt. Well now Greg Lauren and the quilters at Gee's Bend have taken that concept up a notch and designed a whole collection of clothes using their quilts as the basis. "Mosaic : Gee’s Bend and Greg Lauren, is a collaboration between 14 quilters from Gee's Bend and Greg Lauren, celebrating the ingenious artwork by the women of this community."
Take 25% off Halloween Fabric Bundles and our Pumpkin Festival Quilt Kit!
Halloween Savings In The Store
Do you know what you're doing for the spooky holiday tonight? Maybe you'll go out trick or treating, maybe you'll go to a party, or maybe you'll stay in and start on next year's Halloween decorations. Take 25% off our Halloween Fabric Bundles and our Pumpkin Festival Quilt Kit by using the code TRICKORTREAT at checkout. If those savings don't give you a scream, perhaps the trick or treaters at the door will.
The Quilt Show Puzzle: Let The Grid Do the Talking
"Color Grid" by Cindy Grisdela
Color Grid is emblematic of Cindy's usual process when making a quilt, that is, dumping a box of scraps and start making improv log cabin blocks. Cindy says, "Many of my designs start out with scraps from other projects and Color Grid was no exception. I usually don’t know exactly what the piece is going to look like when I start–this one began with 4″ squares of bright Improv blocks, grounded with neutrals and black stripes. The colors seem to float across the background grid, which is where the name came from. Irregularly spaced vertical lines in a soft pastel thread adds texture."
Costumes are a staple of sewing just as much as making quilts, and today of all days is when it should be celebrated. And here at The Quilt Show we have shows on costuming as well as quilting. Watch both of our shows with cosplay designer Gayle Schliemann (Show 2413 and Show 2503) and see what inspires you for tonight or perhaps next year. Either way, it's time to think about what mask you're going to put on (or make) and The Quilt Show is here to help!
