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Featured Quilt - The Janome Master Award for Innovative Artistry at Houston 2025
Painted Ponies on the Prairie by Melissa Sobotka won The Janome Master Award for Innovative Artistry at Houston International Quilt Festival 2025. This is not Melissa's quilt's first rodeo, as it won Best Of Show at the 2023 Dallas Quilt Show. The quilt holds a personal meaning to Melissa, as the inspiration for it came from her family history.
She says, "This image depicts a traveling carnival and horse-powered merry-go-round on the plains of Nebraska and South Dakota during the early 1900s. Attendees of the carnival included Sioux, who enjoyed riding the merry-go-round’s painted ponies. The carnival was operated by Marion and Edith Whaley, my husband’s great-grandparents. The Sioux became fond of the Whaleys and gifted Edith with moccasins for her tired feet and a beaded purse to hold tickets."
Learn from Melissa right here at The Quilt Show by watching her in How to Create Photo Imagery Quilts with Melissa Sobotka.
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Jamie Kalvestran Makes Abstract Faces Using Foundation Paper Piecing |
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Put Together A Happy Face Using Foundation Paper Piecing
Jamie Kalvestran explains how a rough sketch of the left side of a face can serve as the starting point for creating a foundation paper piecing pattern in our latest show.
By beginning with the darkest part of the eye and working outward, the method simplifies the sewing process—primarily using straight lines—and supports decision-making as the face takes shape. She then uses examples of completed left and right side faces to audition and determine what combinations work best to create an unusual and striking full-face design.
Learn from Jamie, and Alex Anderson, by watching Making Foundation Paper Pieced and Improv Faces - Jamie Kalvestran | Hand Embroidery On Painted Fabric - Alex Anderson. |
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Alex Anderson LIVE: BERNINA - New Machines and New Features |
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An Update on the Latest From BERNINA
Alex speaks with Christy Burcham, VP of Education at BERNINA, about the new machines and features that have recently come out. Is Alex about to upgrade? Are you?
Alex is LIVE TODAY, October 13, 2025 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later. |
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Textile Talks: Francelise Dawkins - Collaging Textiles |
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A Conversation on Collaging Textiles
Presented by the Surface Design Association (SDA): "Born in Paris, Francelise Dawkins has been living in the United States for four decades. She studied fiber arts at the Indianapolis Art League before moving to upstate New York, where she began developing the textile collages she would coin “silkollages.” Dawkins works across abstraction and figuration and 2-dimensional works and sculptures using colorful, patterned silks and cotton fabrics from Asia, Africa, and Europe, embracing multiplicity and expansion.
Dawkins is a featured artist in the exhibition "Up to Us: Black Dimensions in Art, 1975–Tomorrow," at the Tang Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. The exhibition celebrates the 50th-anniversary of the New York Capital Region’s longest-running Black arts collective, of which Dawkins has been an active member for two decades. Dawkins will be in conversation with the exhibition’s curator, Rebecca McNamara."
Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at 2 PM EDT.
(Above Photo: Francelise Dawkins, Exposed Belonging, 2025, textile collage, image courtesy Tang Museum, Skidmore College) |
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Our Fall Sale Starts Today! |
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The Leaves Aren’t the Only Things Dropping — So Are Our Prices!
Take 20% Off* in our store with the code FALLQUILTING at checkout.
STAR MEMBERS - check your email for a special code that gives you BONUS SAVINGS!
*Offer excludes already marked down products in our Sale Department, software, BOM kits, and Memberships & Gift Memberships |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Turning The Way of the Square |
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"Square Turn" by Gyleen Fitzgerald
Square Turn is a contemporary quilt comprised of cobblestone and brick blocks, or building blocks, which are block designs that come from Gyleen's book, Bricks, Cobblestones and Pebbles: A Path to Modern Quilts. It is quilted in a way where they thread appears to curve, but it is actually quilted with a straight thread.
See more of Gyleen's quilts in How Make a Modern Scrappy Quilt with Gyleen Fitzgerald.
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