Last fall, a crew from the CBS Sunday Morning national television program visited International Quilt Festival Houston to film and conduct interviews for a report on contemporary quilting in the U.S.
Below is the segment that aired on the CBS Sunday Morning Show, March 16.
Video courtesy of CBS Sunday Morning Show
Looking for a little Valentine’s gift idea for your “sweetie,” (and yourself at the same time)?
How about The Little Box of Quilter’s Chocolate Desserts? Inside this sturdy snap-closed box are recipe cards for 20 fabulous desserts like White Chocolate Marble Cheesecake, Double-Chocolate Coconut Scones and Mocha-Iced Espresso Brownies. Each 5 1/4″ x 8 1/4″ laminated, wipe-clean card details not only the dessert recipe with a to-die-for photo of chocolate heaven, but also a quilt block “recipe” with simple piecing diagrams. Mmm…perhaps a reward for finishing
the block?
How about giving your sweetie a dessert of the week, and making yourself a finished quilt at the same time? Look for The Little Box of Quilter’s Chocolate Desserts (Martingale & Company) on FabSearch or visit your favorite local quilt or fabric shop. If you’re lucky, perhaps there will be samples on display as well!
Remember, they’ve taken the calories out of chocolate and all that remains are those healthy anti-oxidants. Now, who was it that said that?
Images courtesy of Martingale & Co.
Deck the floor, or the wall with an easy no-sew project.
Designer and writer Ellen Highsmith Silver turns your favorite quilt patterns into walkable art in the book Floorquilts!: Fabric Decoupaged Floorcloths’ No-Sew Fun.
With 12 complete projects and lots of how-to photographs and inspiring examples, this 80-page book is a must have. The same no-sew techniques can be used to make not only floorcloths, but also placemats, coasters, luggage tags, trivets, bookmarks, etc. any project where fabric needs a little protective coating for durability.
Marcus Fabrics commissioned the author to make this floorcloth for their booth at Houston’s Quilt Market. Made from several of their reproduction fabric collections, the piece now graces their office walls. It’s too much fun to walk on!
Look for Floorquilts! (C&T Publishing) on FabSearch or visit your favorite quilt or fabric shop.
Images courtesy of Marcus Fabrics and C&T Publishing
Make a quick quilt featuring this lovely Japanese princess, glimpsed in her garden through your window. It’s much easier than it looks! The main portion of the quilt is made up of just a few pieces, with all straight seams. The fan blocks are easy to assemble–just sew the fan blades together and appliqué onto the background square, then appliqué the yellow centers. There are no set-in seams.
You can purchase just the panel fabric and add your own coordinates, or you can get a complete kit containing the printed pattern and all the fabrics for the quilt top at The Craft Connection, www.craftconn.com, for $26.35.
Nancy Smith of Great American Quilt Factory writes:
Choo choo! All aboard! Take a ride playing on this fun playmat featuring fabrics from Ride the Rails collection by Possibilities for Avlyn, Inc.
This cute quilt/playmat features a center panel ideal for trains or cars and easy-to-assemble outer border.
The kit includes all the fabric you need for the top and binding. In addition, you’ll need a 58″ x 48″ batting and 3 yards of backing. (Want coordinating backing? Click here to view the “Ride the Rails” line of fabric).
Finished quilt measures approximately 54″ x 44″.
Click on the photo below for a close-up view.
Jean Wells of the Stitchin’ Post writes:
Make this fun quilt in no time at all! Simple strip piecing makes this quilt quick and easy. We’ve chosen a number of fun floral fabrics designed by Valori Wells, Kaffe Fassett, Martha Negley, and others; and put it together in a strippy setting with multicolored vertical sashing.
Flora Quilt Kit includes the pattern and all the fabric needed to make the quilt top, you’ll need to provide batting and backing.
Kit is made from either the honeydew or the persimmon colorway of Valori’s “Felurish” fabrics, with coordinating prints and solids from other fabric lines.
Flora Quilt Kit 59″ x 64″
Karen Snyder of Anna Lena’s writes:
Little Bronco
What little buckaroo or buckarette wouldn’t love to have their own Little Bronco? The pattern for this 13″ tall horse is adapted from one pictured in a 1949 Aunt Ellen’s Needlework catalog. Little Bronco Kit contains pattern and all fabric, felt, floss, cording and buttons needed to make your own Little Bronco. Just add stuffing!
Charlotte Wolfe of Charlotte’s Sew Natural writes:
This FRAPPE SKIRT pattern really caught my eye! Nannette Holmberg sort of started the chenille craze a few years ago. Now she has published patterns that use just a touch of chenille. She is also producing CHENILLE-IT blooming bias strips that are easy to use to embellish anything with a touch of chenille.
If you are intrigued by texture and chenille and would like to try your hand at making your own strips, check out one of my TIPS - FUZZY BY THE FOOT and the patterns I’ve written using this method.
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