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This month you will make the first of 3 paper pieced star blocks. There are 3 copies of this block in the quilt. If you are using the Buttons and Blooms fabrics to make your quilt, you will see that the fabrics used for the star points have a stripe on them. The instructions for this month (and the video too!) show you how to align the stripe so that it is centered through the star points.

Be sure to also watch the companion instructional video here.

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Sonja Hinrichsen Snow Drawing looks a lot like a stitched quilt!  No surprise that this is the area where David Taylor lives.

Snow Circles from Beauregard, Steamboat Aerials on Vimeo.

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This Wednesday is "leap year" day, February 29th.  What are you doing to celebrate? Are you going to take a leap of faith, like TQS member sheilakg and try something new this year?

Here's what she has to say about her quilt, Taking the Leap: My art quilting guild challenged members to make a small auto-biographical quilt. The wood duckling leaping from her nest into the unknown captured a recurrent theme in my life.

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Hey gang!!

Here is a short video about the quilt festival in Aschaffenburg, Germany where I have spent the past few days teaching. The sold out GALA dinner was fun! The decorations were southwestern. The wait staff and many of those who attended wore their western clothes. Thank you Anja Pundt and those involved in putting together this great quilt show!

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Photo by Gregory Case Photography

It's another fabulous "twofer" show! First, award-winning machine quilter, Gammill spokesperson, author, and teacher Gina Perkes demonstrates how you can appliqué and quilt at the same time on the long-arm machine...and add a little "dazzle" from the bobbin as well. Then quilt artist, author, designer, and (fast-talking) teacher Pat Yamin visits the set, showing some of her quilts and divulging her brush with Hollywood fame. She also shows how to use templates to quickly and accurately cut and piece a two-patch pattern, using Robbing Peter to Pay Paul as an example. You'll pick up tons of tips on this info-packed episode.

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See a snippet from a great show with Pat Yamin and Gina Perkes.

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Grape Harvest was Best of Show at Road to California 2009.  It was made by Gina Perkes, Lynn Drennen, Jessie Marinas and Marilyn J. Smith and quilted by Gina.  It was completed in 2008 and is an original design. The quilt measures 96" x 62."

Artist statement: This quilt depicts a day in the life of vineyard workers as they harvest grapes. The "Grape Harvest" was created using a variety of machine techniques including: pintucking, Broderie Perse, threadplay, and freehand quilting.

Grape Harvest - 35 pieces non-rotating

Grape Harvest - 96 pieces non-rotating

Grape Harvest - 96 pieces rotating

Grape Harvest - 299 pieces non-rotating

Grape Harvest - 299 pieces rotating

You can watch Gina in Episode 308: Artistry on a Long Arm and Episode 1005: "Twofer" the Money: Terrific Time Saving Techniques featuring Pat Yamin and Gina.

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Here are some the quilts from the fabulous faculty at Road to California this year.  Some of them have been guests here at TQS.

 Have you watched their shows?  Are they in your Star library?  

Remember, you may still have a gift certificate for free shows and after seeing the artist's quilt, you may want to choose one of these.  

• Patt Blair - Episode 510
• Pam Clarke - Episode 912
• Carol Doak - Episode 602
• Beth Ferrier - Episode 210
• Rose Hughes - Episode 413
• Cindy Needham - Episode 202
• Nancy Prince - Episode 1004
• Sarah Vedeler - Episode 904

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Take a peek at my first video from this crazy 57 day, 12 Country tour. Meet a TQS member (Snowcat) who completed a beautiful Sue Garman BOM and see the excitement of students taking classes at the Main (pronounced Mine) Quiltfestival.