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Christa Watson is walking you through a quick and easy quilt from start to finish at WeAllSew.com. Sort out your scraps and make forty 2 1/2" strips or use up that jelly roll occupying space on your shelf to create this Simple Strips quilt.
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Enjoy more quilts from 2016 AQS QuiltWeek Paducah. The quilts this year ranged from very traditional to extremely modern with just a bit of whimsy thrown in to keep things fun.
Click here for a list of winners.
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Lola Jenkins does wonderful collage work of people, places and times. Here she shares some of that fabulous creativity.
Star Members can watch Lola in Show 1809: Portrait Collages and Binding Concepts, as well as, Show 902: When Serendipity Strikes - Portrait of a Quiltmaker.
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Make this super functional and fun Woodland Tote from Art Gallery Fabrics and WeAllSew.com. Learn how to apply a zipper, make quilted straps and how to sew with the BERNINA Walking foot #50.
Click here for corner templates.
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Sometimes your quilt doesn't really call out for a binding. When that happens, facing your quilt might just be the right thing to do. Here's a quick and easy way to face your quilt from TheSillyBooDilly.
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Can't wait until 2017? Star Members can watch Angela in Show 1306: No-Pin Curves and Quilting "Modern."
Registration: Member pre-registration kicks off Saturday, July 25, 2016. The registration process has been improved this year. The registration link will be posted on the Community site one full week before member pre-registration begins at 10 AM EDT on the 25th. The registration site will not be functional until registration actually begins on the 25th. That means you don't have to wait for the email or visit the site at the stroke of 10 AM EDT to get to the registration site — you can bookmark the link and register as soon as it opens!
Be a Super Volunteer!
New this year, Super Volunteers who work 16 hours or more during QuiltCon are eligible for early registration for the next QuiltCon. For instance, if you worked 16 hours at QuiltCon 2016 in Pasadena, you are eligible for early registration to QuiltCon 2017. (More information will be sent soon to Super Volunteers who qualified in 2016.)
QuiltCon 2017 Super Volunteer signups run from May 15 through June 15, and we will have more information for you in May.
Faculty:
Click here for a complete list of instructors and lecturers.
Important Dates:
May 15: Super Volunteer sign-ups open
June 1: Course Catalog released
June 20: Last day to become an MQG member for member registration
June 25: MQG Member Pre-Registration opens
July 1: General Registration opens for the public
July 1: Quilt entries open
November 30: Last day for member registration*
November 30: Quilt entries close
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Alex and Wendy Grande (Show 813 - Enhance Your Appliqué Repertoire... with Ribbon!) visited the National Museum of American History in Washington DC. It is part of the Smithsonian Museums. They searched and found only one quilt on display. It's a wonderful quilt made in 1847 and even has a picture of Saturn on it. Take a look at all of the interesting block designs.
Click on the photo to see a slideshow of the quilt.
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Sharon teaches you how to make your own stencils using layers of freezer paper.
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In the previous lesson with Christa Watson at WeAllSew.com, we completed the quilt top. Now we are going to piece the back and and get a few tips to spray baste the quilt.
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Even though I had tons of organizing and packing for the road trip, I could not pass up the opportunity to listen to one of the Grand Dame's of Quilting share her thoughts and quilts at the Stitchin' Post in Sisters, Oregon. 2016 is Gwen Marston's last year of teaching and she will be retiring to her home on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan. It must be a magical place to have nourished such an artistic soul. 32 miles long and with only 450 full-time residents it provided a place for her to realize and nurture her creations. Her quilts were amazing, but I also left with an appreciation of her wit and wisdom. The presentation not only gave me courage to be freer in my quilting, but also to be less critical. Gwen's new book, Free Range Triangle Quilts, with Cathy Jones is definitely going to be on my wish list!
We are continuing our trek making it across Death Valley...all I can say is WOW!!! Next week I will have a wonderful slide show of The Tater Patch in Merrill, Oregon..the first quilt shop stop. It really is packed full of quilting yumminess. My "Car Quilt" this trip...although we are in an RV, is hand quilting my Buttermilk Basin Quilt from 2015. I am now on block 3 stitching with Valdani Thread...and, you know what? I am ok with my stitches because Gwen says she embraces the pucker!!! LOL
Enjoy the slide show and we'll see you next week! And don't forget to visit Anna's blog, Woolie Mammoth. Click here to watch her videos on YouTube.
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