Visit A Quilt Studio Like No Other: Maria Shell’s Alaska Off-the-Grid Hideaway
Peeking into an artist’s workplace can open a window into their creative process. When you consider how much time and effort it takes to create a body of work like Maria Shell’s – full of intricate improvisational piecing, exuberant color, and innovative techniques – and the prolific nature of her quilt making, you just know that the spaces in which she creates must be exceptional … Vivika DeNegre, Quilting Arts, 20 August 2021
Missouri Inmates Sew Custom Quilts for Foster Children
Every so often, Jim Williams wakes up in the middle of the night and lies awake inside his prison cell, thinking about quilt designs.
As his fellow inmates at South Central Correctional Center snore and shift in their sleep, Williams mulls over the layout of cloth shapes, rearranging them in his mind. “I’m kind of a perfectionist,” he said. “I’ll wake up at 2:30 in the morning and think, ‘That color really isn’t going to work.’” Associated Press, 12 July 2021
… (Dr Carolyn Mazloomi) went home determined to make a quilt of her own. She knew that she wanted her quilt to have a cotton batt, but all the batts she found were polyester. She decided to make her own batt using the only source of flat cotton she was aware of: wound dressing…. Suzanne Labry, International Quilt Festival, 9 August 2021
Top 10 Children’s Books about Quilts
With so many children's books available these days, it can be hard to know the perfect book to get for your favorite quilting family. Sharing our love of quilts with younger generations is so important. And before you can sit a child in front of a sewing machine and teach them to quilt, you can read them books about quilts. That's why we're excited to share our top 10 children's books about quilts! Laura Hopper, Suzy Quilt, 28 May 2021
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