September 27, 2021

Featured Quilt - Houston 2021 Best of Show

The Houston International Quilt Show is doing something a little bit differently this year. They've announced the 2021 winners early! Winning the Handi Quilter Best Of Show Award is Rondo by Sachiko Chiba. Taking over 1 1/2 years to make, Sachiko used hand appliqué, hand quilting, hand embroidery, machine piecing, beading, and trapunto to create her multiple award-winning quilt, which also took a prize at Road to California. She says about her work, “I wanted to keep the beautiful flowers in my quilt forever. In particular, it took me a very long time to write the design. I sewed the flowers, being careful to choose the right fabric to make them look more realistic. I hope I can describe the stunning beauty of the flowers.”

Build (Smaller) Cathedral Windows with Lisa Ellis

Not Your Ordinary House Window

Lisa Ellis has developed a "quilt as you go" mock Cathedral Window block that is machine stitched using 2 ½” charm squares. Learn this simple and easy method so you too can start building your own Cathedral style quilt. Who knows, you might have the next Notre Dame on your hands!

Love Lisa's work? Then be sure to enter to win one of six signed copies of her book, Charming Cathedral Window Quilts, by going to our Facebook and Instagram pages. Winners will be announced this Friday in our newsletter!

Learn from Lisa in How To Make Cathedral Windows By Machine And Thread Paint with Lisa Ellis | Making A Contemporary Chinese Coins Quilt.

WeAllSew Tutorial: How To Free-Motion Quilt A Spooky Halloween Border With Sugar Skulls

A Bone-Chilling Technique

Did you like the Sugar Skull Mug Rug from yesterday's newsletter? Why not continue the theme in your Halloween decorations and add this Spooky Halloween Border with Sugar Skulls from Lori Kennedy at WeAllSew to one of your quilts. It will make a frighteningly good addition!

Alex LIVE: FREE Paper Piecing Sampler - Pineapple Block - Lesson 2

You CAN Make This Block!

You'll dive into the deep end this week with construction of the pineapple quilt block. It is beautiful, but can be tricky. Alex walks you through the steps so you can have pineapple perfection.

Alex will be LIVE TODAY, September 27, 2021 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.

In The Store - Stiletto & Pressing Tool from By Annie

Two Tools For The Price of One

The By Annie Stiletto & Pressing Tool enables you to easily hold fabric pieces in place as you sew, and the metal tip is sand ground for added grip, offering extra control.

The other end of the tool is angled at just the right degree to make a surface for pressing seams open so you can do it right at your machine instead of having to constantly disrupt your stitching to go back and forth to your ironing board.

Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game

Did you know that playing games can help you retain your memory longer? Play the Jinny Beyer Memory Match Game and feed your brain.

The Quilt Show Puzzle: A Daunting First Quilt

"Thistle Haleakala" by Ruth Chandler

This is Ruth Chandler's first quilt, Thistle Haleakala, that she made in 1991. It's a queen size, hand quilted, hand appliquéd Hawaiian quilt. Isn't that what everyone does for their first quilt?

See more of Ruth's quilts in Learn to Do Boro with Ruth Chandler | Ruching with Wendy Grande.