Every year, thousands of quilters and quilt lovers descend on Houston, Texas for the International Quilt Festival and Quilt Market. This year, Quilt Festival is from November 2-5, 2023. Many attendees’ favorite part of their annual trip is seeing the Festival Judged Show presented by Quilts, Inc.

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We were really excited to see this piece by artist Leslie Gabriëlse at the 2014 AQS show . Featured in the SAQA Masters II exhibit , Woma...

Have you ever wanted to turn a photograph into a quilt? That's exactly what we've been doing in the Meander Quilt Guild this month! I started with a photo of my beautiful Grandmother, Dorothy, taken right around the time of her wedding. Isn't she stunning? I then turned that photograph into a design that I could use.

We shot Quilting Arts TV Series 2200 at KS Productions’ studio in Solon, Ohio, last month. The 13 episodes in this series will be released to participating Public TV stations in late July, and will also be available on DVD and digital download through The Quilting Company then. Series 2200 guests are: Lesley Riley Sandra Bruce Luana Rubin Susan Brubaker Knapp Vivika Hansen DeNegre Susan Shie Jill Jensen Maria Shell Laurie Ceesay Mary McCauley Heidi Proffety * Maggie Vanderweit* Cindy…

The People and Portraits exhibit celebrates the expressiveness of the human face in stunning quilts created by an international array of ar...

It was a rather emotional day at the quilt show yesterday. Upon arrival, I stopped off at an information desk to inquire if there was a way I could contact the family of Shellie O'Donnell to thank them for choosing my quilt for their special award. In the process, I ended up talking with the volunteer about Shellie, and we were both in tears by the end of the conversation. I was able to get the information I needed, and now I'm just thinking about what I want to say to them. (If you missed…

Artist Bisa Butler (previously) draws from an array of vibrant patterned fabrics to create portraits of everyday people. She eschews representational colors, favoring layered jewel-toned hues to form the skin of her Black subjects, and often groups figures together into strong silhouettes. “I have always been drawn to portraits,” Butler explains in a statement onContinue reading "Colorful Quilts by Bisa Butler use African Fabrics to Form Nuanced Portraits"

Back at the beginning of this summer, at the end of June—which somehow seems both like yesterday and a year ago at least—I taught a Live Online class focusing on collaged portraits only. This was t…

In April, my mom and I went to Chattanooga for the weekend to take a class hosted by Spool and the BadAss Quilters Society with Melissa Averinos, who had just won the Best of Show award at QuiltCon…