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Mistaken Identity by Gail Stepanek & Jan Hutchinson won 1st place - Bed Quilts - Traditional, at the inaugural AQS QuiltWeek in Phoenix, AZ 2014. The interesting choice of a gray background juxtaposed with the pops of color highlights the beautiful quilting.
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Big Bertha, by Margaret Solomon Gunn, won the Masterpiece Award at Road to California 2014. Margaret writes about her quilt, "The traditional Dresden plate design is recreated in an original setting using bold modern green prints. Applique prairie points are updated with over 100 pink dots. Quilting designs are original and hand-guided."
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Quilt artist and author Gyleen Fitzgerald shares some of her quilts with TQS. You can watch Gyleen in Episode 1403: Build Beautiful Quilts with Butterfly Seams, where she shares some of her latest work, and offers many ingenious and practical ideas for sewing and pressing.
Gyleen can also be seen in Episode 909: Techniques, Tips...and Turning "Trash" into "Treasure" where she demonstrates stitching the "Grandmother's Flower Garden" block by machine using the "butterfly seam," shows how the same technique can be used for sewing a typical Y-seam; and demonstrates how to make a colorful "trash to treasure" Pineapple block using her pineapple ruler and lots of fabric scraps.
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Episode 1403 - Build Beautiful Quilts with Butterfly Seams
Alex and Ricky welcome back quilt artist, author, and publisher Gyleen Fitzgerald (Episode 909) who brings us up to date on life since her TQS debut, shares some of her latest work, and offers loads of ingenious - and practical - ideas for sewing and pressing that are sure to be a hit in any quilter's sewing space.
This show has been rated as good for your heart.
Also on hand: Connie Fanders, director of education and training for Bernina USA, who demonstrates how easy it is to piece a quilt top using a serger. You won't want to miss this!
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Janet Stone Show FREE To Everyone Sunday Only
The New Year at TQS started with Janet Stone in Episode 1401. Get a look at our New Year in HD and Closed Captioning. Janet shows her favorite Flying Geese method and how to fuse letters.
Join us for Janet and 195 other shows this year. 
Also, join us as we practice these techiques all year. 
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Here's a beauty from Road to California 2014 - Heralds of Spring by Joann Webb of Grain Valley, MO. Joann writes, "My goal was to put all my favorite spring flowers into a bouquet that would never wilt. Flower sprays were arranged as petals in one large flower head. Dimensional elements were developed with the "Do whatever it takes" method." Did we mention that included, hand quilting?
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Rie writes, "I love using many kinds of fabrics in one quilt like this." This quilt was part of the "World of Mother's Dream by Reiko Kato" exhibition at IQF Houston 2013.
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Joyce Paterson presents, Artie Facts, a representative of the dog world, along with some known dog facts. Joyce's quilt was exhibited at IQF Houston 2013.
Joyce writes, "I have long known that dogs have their own set of rules and facts about how the world works. So, when faced with a Mendocino Quilt Artists challenge to create a quilt based on the theme "Artifact," my mind went to the dog facts. Artie is a representative of the dog world, and these are some of the known dog facts."
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Alex, Ricky, and the TQS gang travel to the Omaha, NE, headquarters of AccuQuilt, where they connect with Linda Pumphrey, global sales manager (and self-described "Global Passionista") for a show loaded with fabulous projects and techniques.
Linda leads off with Fractured Triangles, a fast-and-fun, strip-and-triangle-based quilt made using AccuQuilt's efficient and accurate cutting system. (A downloadable pdf for this project will be available on the TQS website.) Alex joins the fun with a lesson on "squiggles" (Sorry! You'll just need to watch!), and Ricky shows how to create a stunning quilt that combines charm squares with sparkling slivers of color.
Finally, we couldn't leave our location without a tour of AccuQuilt's wonderful facility, hosted by director of marketing, Lynn Gibney.
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With all of the crazy weather going on throughout the country, it's nice to take a moment and reflect on the joy that a first snow can bring. First Snow, by Susan Brubaker Knapp, was part of the "An Exquisite Moment" exhibit at the Long Beach Quilt Festival 2013.
You can learn more about Susan in Episode 901: State-of-the-Art Quilting: Tradition Meets Innovation - It's a true "multimedia experience" as quilt artist, teacher, and pattern designer Susan Brubaker Knapp joins the TQS gang on location at the home of Hugh and Dee Dee Eaton in Monument, CO. Susan shares some of her traditional and art pieces in a wonderful show and tell, and then - after a brief "musical interlude" (accompanied by Ricky) - she gets down to business, demonstrating her method for making consistently sized vines and her techniques for needle-turn appliqué. She also shows how she designs and creates a quilt using an original photo and her computer. (Bonus: the demo pattern will be available on the TQS website for download.) We wrap up with a visit to the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Golden, CO, which opened its doors in 1990 as a showcase for Colorado quilts and quilting.
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