From BERNINA:
"Like last year in December, our presser feet take a break from hectic everyday sewing life and venture into the snow. They even dare to go on a frozen lake. Watch the video to see how they do on ice skates! Our presser feet keep surprising us with their secret skills.
BERNINA wishes you a joyful festive season and all the best for you and your families. Take care, be safe and stay creative!"
Our good friend, Margo Clabo, shows Alex how she makes these wonderful quilt labels. Your quilt will be well documented and even more beautiful.
Click here to download the pattern(s).
Join Alex LIVE on Monday December 14, 2020 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.
Marci Baker's quilt, Winter Snow, can be found in her book, Not Your Grandmother's Log Cabin. It is not what you'd expect of a typical log cabin quilt.
Learn from Marci in Show 1810: Quilting Tools & Techniques.
Original Photo: Gregory Case
Cosmic Collisions is a part of Katie Pasquini Masopust's Watercolor to Quilt series, where she takes water color paintings that she has made and crops them to find a great composition to make into a quilt. With exquisite threadwork throughout, it is another out-of-this-world quilt from Katie.
Watch Katie in Show 2713: Quilt Legends Masterclass and in her own Legends turn in Show 1913: TQS Quilting Legend 2016.
Original Photo: John Anderson
From the Pantone website:
(Photo Credit: Pantone Color of the Year 2021 Video)
PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating, two independent colors that highlight how different elements come together to support one another, best express the mood for Pantone Color of the Year 2021. Practical and rock solid but at the same time warming and optimistic, the union of PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating is one of strength and positivity. It is a story of color that encapsulates deeper feelings of thoughtfulness with the promise of something sunny and friendly.
A message of happiness supported by fortitude, the combination of PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating is aspirational and gives us hope. We need to feel that everything is going to get brighter – this is essential to the human spirit.
As people look for ways to fortify themselves with energy, clarity, and hope to overcome the continuing uncertainty, spirited and emboldening shades satisfy our quest for vitality. PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating is a bright and cheerful yellow sparkling with vivacity, a warming yellow shade imbued with solar power. PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray is emblematic of solid and dependable elements which are everlasting and provide a firm foundation. The colors of pebbles on the beach and natural elements whose weathered appearance highlights an ability to stand the test of time, Ultimate Gray quietly assures, encouraging feelings of composure, steadiness and resilience.
(Photo Quote Credit: Pantone)
Emboldening the spirit, the pairing of PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 highlights our innate need to be seen, to be visible, to be recognized, to have our voices heard. A combination of color whose ties to insight, innovation and intuition, and respect for wisdom, experience, and intelligence inspires regeneration, pressing us forward toward new ways of thinking and concepts.
This looks like it would make a great celtic knot if you put just a few of them together.
Find out what it's called when you play Jinny's game.
Antonia Hering's quilt represents a more surreal view of the animal kingdom than one would normally see. Winning First Place Innovative Appliqué at Houston in 2012, Dreamtime displays it's animals in more abstract way. With creatures more indigenous to the outback, like the platypus and kangaroo, than the African savanna, Antonia's quilt gives off a more playful vibe while still featuring exquisite appliqué (just look at the hundreds, if not thousands, of tiny circles in the background) and design.
Dreamtime by Antonia Hering won First Place Innovative Appliqué at the International Quilt Festival in Houston 2012.
You are not in a box and labels don't define your journey, but as of today, do you consider yourself a Traditional Quilter OR an Art Quilter? Just for fun, try to guess the percentages before you vote, and then take a look.
(Picture by Lauren Vlcek)
Previous Polls Included:
Adoration was inspired by the Gustav Klimt painting Mother and Child, and Emily Taylor wanted her quilt to portray the same feeling of the painting. Displaying an affectionate scene of a mother embracing her child, the painting struck a chord with Emily as it is the same way she felt about being a mother herself. Beautiful in its collage landscape, you can really sense the warmth and love that is on display.
Learn from Emily in Show 2712.
Original Photos: Zumi Hidalgo