The Quilt Show Newsletter - September 11, 2022

Nature's Doorway Quilt, A New Show with Priscilla Bianchi, Quilters Take a Moment Get Your Tickets, Patchwork Ghost Pillow, Christmas In The City Fat Quarter Bundle, A Past Inspired Puzzle

Featured Quilt - A Trip Through Nature's Doorway

Our next quilt from Christine Porter's 2020 UK Doorways challenge is Spirit in the Woods from Catherine Millar. Her door design came completely by happenstance as she took a journey to the past. She writes, "The inspiration for the design came from a chance discovery of the ruins of St Luke's Chapel accessible only on foot in woodland near Abbotsbury, Dorset. (Design by Tim Millar from a photograph by Catherine Millar). Only the thirteenth century West end and West Doorway survive today. The title comes from a poem by William Wordsworth."

It's Time to Head to South America, At Least With Our Quilting

Join Guatemalan artist, Priscilla Bianchi, as she introduces you to the vibrant world of handwoven Mayan textiles and demonstrates how seamlessly they blend with other fabrics with results that are stunning, unique, and very textural. Whether it's working with stripes or creating an improv quilt, Mayan textiles offer you, the quilter, a world of options.

Learn from Priscilla in Working with Mayan Textiles and Stripes and Textile Tours with Priscilla Bianchi, which debuts today, September 11, 2022!

That's Right, It's Almost Here!

Quilters Take a Moment, the annual virtual fundraiser for the Quilt Alliance, begins next Tuesday, September 13, 2022 and runs through September 18, 2022.

Join in on all the fun and see some Quilters' Save Our Stories with Tula Pink and Jennifer Sampou (who've both been on The Quilt Show). Watch some of the panels on re-using vintage and antique quilts, or making quilts with the Earth in mind.

Whatever it is you love about quilting, there is something for you at Quilters Take a Moment. So get your ticket today, and get ready for a quilting good time!

"Broken Dreams" by Rayna Gillman

Broken Dreams was made as part of Rayna's Urban phase of quilts. After her quilt Warsaw 1997, she began to look at all the buildings and cities that were beginning to fall apart and torn up for inspiration. This quilt was inspired by a factory in Lowell, Massachusetts. The place was all boarded up and had a sign that said, "Luxury Lofts Coming". When Rayna saw that she knew what her next piece was going to be. The windows seen throughout the quilt were demo blocks that she made in a printing with found objects class that she taught, with the grids being made from construction fence.

See more of Rayna's quilts in Upcycling Orphan Blocks and Improv Strip Piecing with Rayna Gillman | How To do Y-Seams with Ricky Tims.