Transform Your Quilting Week 6 Begins with Alex and Ricky, A Twice Award-Winning Quilt, Revel In Rayna Gillman's Show, Alex Is Taking The Day Off, Textile Talk - A Change of He(art), Banyan Classics Bundles, A Log Cabin Puzzle

Everyone has their favorite method of marking their quilts. But sometimes a debate arises over the "best" tool. Alex and Ricky discuss their Favorite Marking Tools and Why (technique) - watch Show 1803 - Click on Chapter 1. Freezer paper, painter's tape, disappearing thread, and more, do you use any of these to mark your quilt?

Don't remember what needle you left in your sewing machine? Keeping Track of your Sewing Machine Needles with Sharon Pederson (tip) will help you remember. You just might need to head to the stationery store first.

Featured Quilt - Double The Awards, Double The Fun

All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go by Katherine Jones has won two awards. It won Best Traditional Design at AQS QuiltWeek Grand Rapids 2022 and Best Of Show at the Tasmanian State Quilt Show in Australia. Here's what she had to say about her Best Of Show win, "Over two years in the making I can finally share this hand appliqué machine quilted quilt made from linens and Oakshott Cottons which won Best Of Show last night at the Tasmanian State Quilt Show. Many thanks to BERNINA for providing such a fabulous prize, a BERNINA 720. Binding based on Bethanne Nemesh's online binding course, "The Devil Is In The Details"." And don't miss out on all the great detail photos in the gallery.

Rayna Brings The Fun and a No Rules Agenda to The Quilt Show

Rayna Gillman quilts her own way, and that's the way she likes it. And apparently, all of you do too! Rayna is raking in the rave reviews with our latest show, and here are just a few to give a taste of why everyone loves her:

"Rayna was wonderful, loved the show. Her way to do Improv was out of the box great way to do it." - Lucy Kise

"I absolutely loved this show. It was so much fun with lots and lots of fun." - Maureen Barber

"Rayna added levity to the show. In addition inspiring to ask What if?" - Carol Mann

Learn from Rayna, and Ricky, by watching Upcycling Orphan Blocks and Improv Strip Piecing with Rayna Gillman | How To do Y-Seams with Ricky Tims.

Going In New Directions

Change is usually a good thing. It helps us switch up our routines and expand our horizons to better ourselves. There has been a lot of change in the last couple of years and we've all handled it in different ways. For artists Charlotte Bird and Marty-O, "they each have had significant solo installations at the Oceanside Museum of Art, a regional art museum in San Diego County. The installations stretched both out of their comfort zones in different ways." This week's Textile Talk is a discussion with both artists about those changes and the new directions they may be taking them in.

Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, September 7, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.

(Artwork by Charlotte Bird)