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In Step 9 of Making a Portrait Quilt with Rob Appell, Rob shows you how to layer your quilt by preparing the backing and pin-basting. Click here to go to Rob's classroom to see the entire series.

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A behind-the-scenes peek at Episode 902 - When Serendipity Strikes with Lola Jenkins.

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Sharon visits with Jackie Robinson of Animas Quilts and they talk about Jackie's new patterns inspired by the construction of her Yaak River cabin.

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Take a look at a Chinese "news" video about quilting and The City Quilter in New York.

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In Step 8 of Making a Portrait Quilt with Rob Appell, Rob shows you how to attach the inner flange and outer borders to the sides of the quilt.  For all the lessons, Click here to go to Rob's classroom.

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It's quilt show time again.  This time in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.  It's time for the American Quilter's Society 27th Annual Quilt Show & Contest at the Knoxville Convention Center.  The show opened July 13th and runs through July 16th. There are over 400 beautiful quilts on exhibit along with 300 vendor booths.  Saturday night you can join a TQS favorite, Laura Wasilowski (Episode 303) for Art Quilts - The Musical!

Click below to see photos of some of the amazing quilts that won prizes.  You might recognize a few of our TQS friends, like Deborah Kemball and Gammill artist, Ronda K. Beyer (Episode 807) who won two awards. To see a list of all the winners, click here.

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Sharon talks to Margaret Miller about using stripes in her Angle Play quilts. You can learn more about Margaret in Episode 401: Playing with Angles.

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Have you always wanted to create a quilt using your own photographs? Not sure where to begin? Let Susan Brubaker Knapp walk you through the entire process--start to finish--in her book, Point, Click, Quilt! Here are a few great tips from Susan to get your "wheels" turning.

• Take photo both vertically and horizontally.  While we naturally see the world horizontally, some subjects beg to be shot in a vertical format.
• Take photos at different times of the day if you are not happy with your initial results.
• Don't just take photos head on.  Shoot from various angles; high, low, from above, from below.
• Take lots of photos.  With digital cameras, there's no film or processing charge.  Remember, if you are lucky, you get one good shot in a hundred.
  
• Have prints made of your best photographs, the ones you might want to use in the future, and put them in an album.  
• Categorize the images.  Plants go in one place, animals, landscapes, and so on in another.  This album is a source of images and inspirations whenever the creative well runs dry.
• Stabilize your work with a fairly heavy stabilizer to help the piece lie flat and hang properly on the wall.
• Consider drapery-weight fabric as a backing.  It can add a desirable stiffness to art quilts and also acts as an additional stabilizer during the quilting process.
  

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We all have more than one hobby, some of us quilt and knit, some of us quilt and take photographs, some of us even like to cook!  Well, Michael Hinton, Global Sales and Marketing Manager of GAMMILL QUILTING SYSTEMS, has another hobby has well.  He is Owner/President of www.TheAntiqueTractorShow.com and as such recently had an honor bestowed.  His dedication to preserving antique tractors has resulted in the creation of Antique Tractor Preservation Day on September 23, 2011 in  West Plains, Mo.

Congratulations Michael for all your hard work!