Quilts with legs
Participating in a community quilt show is such a pleasure. Every year I look forward to entering one of my quilts in the Quilt Show at Echter’s. The weekend-long exhibit is a collaboration between two...
View ArticleHow can we help?
We quilters are a lucky bunch. There’s something we can do when bad things happen. As I read the news about Hurricane Sandy online, I also saw modern quilter Victoria Findlay Wolfe announce, on...
View ArticleMeet the AQS Staff – Gloria Bolden
Gloria Bolden is the advertising account manager for American Quilter and The Quilt Life magazines. A Hoosier by birth, Gloria attended Indiana University in Bloomington. Gloria lives in Indianapolis...
View ArticleLet’s Get Organized! by Carolyn Woods
It’s that time of year! Did you make a new year’s resolution to clean and organize your sewing room? This article from The Quilt Life by Carolyn Woods will give you some helpful hints to get you...
View ArticleJoyce Gross
Recently we learned that Joyce Gross, one of the foremothers of quilt life as we know it, passed away on Christmas Eve. Joyce, early on, was a person who knew that quilts, and the women who made them,...
View ArticleMore Grate Inspirations
The other day I met some friends for lunch. On my way back to where I’d parked the car, I saw a quilt. Well, it’s not a quilt yet. But it might be. A building along the street had painted, rustic...
View ArticleMore about SMP
At TQL, we’ve heard some nice feedback from folks who’ve read “Mending Communities, One Sewing Machine at a Time” in the February issue. It’s the story of the Sewing Machine Project, an effort to...
View ArticleDon’t Let Your Selvage Languish
For the uninitiated, the term “selvage” can conjure up images of wrecked and decrepit vehicles languishing in a junkyard. But to intrepid quilters and sewers, lots of colorful images and fun projects...
View ArticleFree – Holiday Paper Piecing Patterns from The Quilt Life
Get three free holiday paper piecing blocks from The Quilt Life magazine absolutely FREE. You’ll get an 8″ Uncle Sam, 8″ Tree, and 8″ Pumpkin. These blocks are particularly great for quilts made of...
View ArticleBarn Quilts
One of a quilt editor’s greatest joys is hearing from a reader who has been inspired by the magazine. We were just delighted when TQL columnist Laura Fisher (“For All It’s Worth”) passed along this...
View ArticlePaducah
What a pleasure it was to see the TQL readers who stopped by our booth in Paducah. You’re the reason we make the magazine, and I felt humbled and honored by your kind words. When I got home, I was...
View ArticleLook at that face
Last summer (in “It’s my nature” in the August 2012 issue, to be exact) you saw the face of Iliamna, an Arctic wolf captured in fabric by Barbara Beasley. We recently learned that another of Barbara’s...
View ArticleWhat are the odds?
Last weekend marked the opening reception of Quilt National 13. Artists whose work has been accepted into this prestigious biennial exhibition are sworn to secrecy. They are prohibited from revealing...
View ArticleSmiling faces
Have you made your self-portrait quilt yet? I hope you’ve been inspired by the June issue to give it a try, just like Alex, Ricky, Libby, Joe, and I did. There’s some great advice from real experts in...
View ArticleOkrahoma, OK!
Ricky Tims had a great time encouraging his Facebook fans to help him come up with punny names for his entry in the August TQL Cookoff. (Recipes for this issue’s cookoff had to be inspired by stage...
View ArticleBeach day
Take an armchair trip to the beach with me. At TQL, we learned about a program called Operation Surf, and we were so impressed we featured it as a Helping Hands article in the August issue. This...
View ArticleTribute to a quilter
Earlier this week we heard from David Wells, Solveig’s husband. Ricky introduced us all to Solveig in the April TQL. She was the quilter who lost her fabric stash to Hurricane Katrina but found some...
View ArticleImaginary friends
In 1998, Susan Else got bored making flat abstract quilts and decided to try making some cloth figures. Suddenly, fabric became a skin for three-dimensional objects and she was able to tell stories as...
View ArticleFabric Play – Free Pattern!
A daily dose of fabric play will jump-start your creative energy. Darra Williamson shares her instructions for making a 3” x 5” fabric collage that can be as inventive as you want to make it. With your...
View ArticleHands across the water
It might be a week or so before you can get your hands on the October 2013 issue of TQL, but I couldn’t wait to introduce you to the people in the picture at the end of this post. They are, left to...
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