Telecast Thursday - Book Review: Modern Roots

Welcome to Telecast Thursday.

Photo courtesy of www.ctpub.com

This week I'm looking at Modern Roots: Today's Quilts from Yesterday's Inspiration: 12 Projects Inspired by Patchwork from 1840 to 1970 by Bill Volckening. This intriguing book shows you how to create modern projects based on antique quilts. I was amazed at how modern these quilts, some of them over 100 years old, looked. 

Photo courtesy of www.ctpub.com

To see more of Modern Roots, please watch the video below or on my YouTube channel.

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If you admire vintage quilts and would like to recreate them using modern fabrics, you'll want to purchase Modern Roots.

Creatively,

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Telecast Thursday - Colouring Appliqué

Welcome to a colourful Telecast Thursday! I've been having fun using QuiltFusion for appliqué designs, but have found another way to use this amazing program. 

Do you like to colour? or color? Many adults have taken up this children's activity again since it is so relaxing. No thinking, just playing with colours - how fun is that?! I decided to try some colouring too, but rather than searching for colouring pages, I turned to appliqué patterns.

My favourite tool to create appliqué patterns is QuiltFusion. I looked through some of the designs I had created to find one that I thought would work well as a colouring project. 

To see how I did coloured appliqué, watch the video below or on my YouTube channel.

This was so fun and quick to do and my daughter enjoyed this activity as well (she's not a quilter, but loves to colour). 

If you're looking for a relaxing activity to try this fall, why not try colouring appliqué - no fabrics necessary.

Creatively,

Telecast Thursday - Book Review: The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting by Angela Walters and Christa Watson

Welcome to another Telecast Thursday! Today I'm excited to share a quilting book with you that I'm sure you'll want to buy for yourself. It's about quilting - you know the last thing you do with a quilt - well, before binding, that is, but definitely before you are able to snuggle in it.

Photo courtesy of www.martingale-pub.com

In The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting by Angela Walters and Christa Watson, you'll get helpful information for quilting your project on a domestic sewing machine and on a long arm machine. Yes, pros and cons for quilting on both types of machines are covered in this one book, making it a reference book you'll want to add to your quilting library.

From The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting by Angela Walter and Christa Watson, Martingale, 2016; used by permission. Photography by Brent Kane. All rights reserved.

To see more about this book, please watch the video below or on my YouTube channel.

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I'm sure you'll find lots of helpful information in The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting, no matter the machine on which you quilt.

Creatively,

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Telecast Thursday - Organic Feathers on the Handi Quilter Infinity

This Telecast Thursday I'm playing with feathers on my Handi Quilter Infinity.

I love the look of elegant feathers, but haven't mastered the technique of creating perfect feathers - yet! Remember, practice makes perfect. In the meantime I'll settle for just creating some type of feather and am enjoying stitching free motion organic feathers. There's no stress to make them perfect and it's a very creative and freeing form of quilting.

Watch the video below or on my Youtube channel to see how I quilt out this free flowing design.

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How are you doing with quilting feathers? Leave me a comment below to let me know your favourite type of feather to stitch and any tips you may have for me.

Creatively,

More Prizes in the One World Quilt Along

Last week I was thrilled to announce that we would be awarding prizes for those members who have registered in the One World Quilt Along. This week I'm pleased to let you know that we have added another prize to these!

Curious.com is providing us with a one year's subscription to be awarded to one lucky Quilter. Curious.com is the website for lifelong learners and I teach several online classes there: Essential Guide to Fusible Web Appliqué, Hand Embroidery Essentials and The Joy of Vintage Sewing Machines. I'm not the only teacher on Curious.com: there are hundreds of teachers and thousands of lessons viewable on their website. There are many quilting and sewing courses, but you don't have to limit yourself to just those! You'll be able to watch lessons on baking, photography, exercise and computer applications. There are even courses on calculus, if you're so inclined (which I definitely am not, but don't let me influence you!). 

Awesome Blossom project in The Essential Guide to Fusible Web Appliqué

How do you enter to be eligible for this one year subscription to Curious.com? This prize is for the early birds! Sign up for the One World Quilt Along as a Quilter before 11:59 pm EST on September 14, 2016 and you'll be eligible for this prize. Keith and I will do a random draw and one Quilter will win a year's subscription to Curious.com. You'll definitely find my courses on fusible web appliqué and hand embroidery helpful in making your version of the One World quilt.

Register now as a Quilter for the One World Quilt Along to be eligible or sit back and keep your fingers crossed if you are have already signed up as a Quilter.

Good luck!

Creatively,