Third Place - Balanced Piecing and Appliqué at Houston 2025, Ruth Ann Berry and Clara Cartwright Introduce You To a World of Quilted Wonder in Our New Show, National Quilt Museum: Artist Talk with MJ Kinman, CBS Mornings: Inside NYC's Last Fabric Flower Factory, Our 30% OFF Cyber Quilting Sale Ends Tomorrow, The "Dawn" of a New Puzzle

Sunday Smiles - November 30, 2025

Featured Quilt - Third Place Balanced Piecing and Appliqué at Houston 2025


Kaleidoscope Garden by Judy Ballance won Third Place - Balanced Piecing and Appliqué (Sponsored by BERNINA) at the Houston International Quilt Festival 2025. Quilted by Patty Wilson, and using the "Fairground" pattern by Wendy Williams as her design source, Judy says, "This quilt uses vibrant colors, intricate curved piecing, wool appliqué, and hand-embellished embroidery stitches. The quilt evokes looking through a kaleidoscope at a magical garden. On the outside edges of the quilt, darker fabrics were used to create a border. I love to do a combination of wool and cotton with hand embroidery to give a dimensional look to my quilts."

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Ruth Ann Berry and Clara Cartwright Introduce You To a World of Quilted Wonder in Our New Show!

Bargello Quilts and Lake Blocks Come Bounding In


Meet Ruth Ann Berry, celebrated for taking the fear out of making Bargello and dimensional 3-D quilts. She loves intricate, colorful designs and has mastered techniques to simplify the assembly process for quilters. Learn how a column-based design, first created on isometric graph paper, can be transformed into a dynamic 3-D quilt. Then see how fabric selection, color placement, and value gradation work together to create movement in Bargello quilts.


Plus, see the Missouri Show Me Sampler and discover how Clara Cartwright designed and crafted the central block highlighting Table Rock Lake.


Watch Ruth and Clara in Design a Bargello with Ruth Ann Berry | Creating a Lake Block with Clara Cartwright, which debuts today!

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National Quilt Museum: Artist Talk with MJ Kinman

Listen To a Gem of a Quilter


From the National Quilt Museum: "In this edition, The National Quilt Museum’s Curator, Rachael Baar, introduces Collection Quilter, MJ Kinman, who shares her quilt-making techniques using gemstones. MJ explains how you, too, can make your quilts glow in this fascinating artist talk."


Learn from MJ right here at The Quilt Show by watching How to Make Gem Stone Quilts with MJ Kinman.


If you want to see the quilt that MJ talks about during her talk, Char #4, click the button below to see it in all its glory in the Featured Quilt Gallery with close-up detail shots.

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CBS Mornings: Inside NYC's Last Fabric Flower Factory

"Where a Century-Old Family Business is Blooming"


From CBS Mornings: "It's a floral wonderland inside New York City's last fabric flower factory. Nancy Chen introduces you to the family-run M & S Schmalberg as it prepares to celebrate its 110th anniversary."

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Our 30% OFF Cyber Quilting Sale Ends Tomorrow!

Save 30% Storewide*


And Don’t Miss Today’s Daily Deal at 9 AM PT/ 12 PM ET! Use code CYBER30 at checkout. Plus, check your email at 9 AM PT/ 12 PM ET for our Daily Deal!


*CYBER30 30% Off Coupon Excludes the Daily Deal Product, our 2026 Block of the Month "Game On!" Kits, Software, Products in our Sale department, Star Memberships and Gift Star Memberships.


Offer good through 11:59 PM PT December 1, 2025, or while supplies last. May not be combined with any other offer.

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The Quilt Show Puzzle: The "Dawn" of Something Beautiful

"Dawn Star" by Marci Baker


Dawn Star is from Marci and Sara Nephew's book, Not Your Grandmother's Log Cabin. For her fabric selections, Marci chose what she felt were very pure colors. This required her to work with value and strike the right balance of tones to create the radiating star effect that shines outward from the center of the quilt.


See more of Marci's quilts in Discover the Value of Fabric and Troubleshooting Bindings with Marci Baker | Quilted Bell Bottoms with Lorelai Kuecker.

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Reach For The Stars


Everything is achievable through perseverance and determination. So why not reach for the stars with your quilting aspirations. Whether that's to become an award-winning master quilter, or to make a star quilt like Marci Baker did with her quilt about, Galaxy of Stars. To reach those goals, there's no better place to start than The Quilt Show, where you'll be able to learn the techniques to make those dreams a reality!


(Above Photo: Galaxy of Stars by Marci Baker - Detail)

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