Member Spotlight: Esther Frenzel As a young girl in the Netherlands, Esther Frenzel color-coded her belongings. For Frenzel, color-coding provided order in her world and began a relationship with storytelling. By applying visual logic to her items, suddenly, they gained meaning and awakened an emotional response. Even at a young age, Frenzel intuited color… Read More
Member Spotlight: Lisa Rice After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center’s twin towers, Lisa Rice turned her home into a hub for collecting comfort quilts for the families of the 343 firefighters who had lost their lives. She traveled with her son, who was about eight years old at the time, from… Read More
Textile Talk | Introducing The Quilt Index Learn how to use the Quilt Index to research quilt history, discover inspirational ideas for your own creative work, preserve your own quilt history, and teach others about quilts and their makers. The Quilt Index, an extraordinary freely-accessible digital humanities resource, is already preserving images and stories of nearly 100,000… Read More
Hartsfield Family Quilt Collection Sit down with Jim Tharpe as he shares about his family’s collection of quilts. The Hartsfield Family Quilt Collection spans generations, dating back to Jim’s ancestor Miss Molly, an enslaved woman in Whitlock, Tennessee. Learn how he came to appreciate the importance of these quilts in his and his family’s… Read More
QuiltCon Together 2021 Awards Ceremony Watch the replay of the 2021 QuiltCon Together Awards Ceremony to see the top winners of every category along with the top awards: Best Machine Quilting (Framed), Best Machine Quilting (Frameless), Quilting Excellence, and Best in Show. Read More
Quilt Your Life: Milestone Quilts for Every Moment What do you get when you combine quilting with living in a very literal way and create positive feedback loops with your quilt planning? Milestone quilts! Come explore the world of quilts created to mark milestones and see why these quilts are a fun and meaningful solution to joyful sewing… Read More
Lady Zen: January 2021 Lady Zen is the name of this quilt for a reason. It makes you embrace the pattern as well as the spaces in between. It makes you see symmetry and chaos at the same time. The balance is in the abstract direction of the squares and triangles. It is a… Read More
2020 Seeing Clear: February 2021 This quilt combines simple shapes and raw-edge appliqué with simple four-block construction to create a colorful geometric perspective. The use of fused raw-edge appliqué makes this a win for all levels. Read More
Porfee Quilt: March 2021 Flying geese, half-square triangles, and a log cabin construction make this quilt perfect for the beginner to build skills and practice precision. Quilt designed by Porfiria Gomez and made by Brenna Riley Gates, both individual members. Read More
Discovery Block: January, February, March 2021 The Discovery block takes a different approach from traditional block design. This block on its own may appear incomplete, but when combined into a 4 x 4 layout, its true beauty comes to life. Create a wide range of secondary designs in the quilt depending on how the blocks… Read More
