Tonight’s Free eQuilter Pattern features our adorable Kitten Wizard panel. A scholarly kitty peaks out from under the brim of his wizard hat, as he practices a spell from the tomes on the book shelf.
To make this 67″ x 67″ quilt design, you’ll start with our 29″ x 44″ digital panel. Then piece the borders using our coordinating magic wands and colorful nebula prints.
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this exquisite quilt pattern (orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).
Order the pattern as configured, or customize it to your liking with any of our thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your Wish List, and these fabrics will appear in the Fabric Selector below the pattern.
Happy December! As we approach the Winter Solstice, and the long dark nights, we are finding ways to generate our own light from within.
We are writing to you, as our first real snowstorm is hitting here in Boulder Colorado. I will be sharing images from the Taiwan Quilt Festival over the next couple weeks. Enjoy!
Artist: Pan Yu Ying “Source, Circle – Be Your Own Light” 200 cm x 200 cm (79″ x 79″)
Artist Statement: I have always liked painting, and in recent years I have learned light watercolor sketches and dyed fabric flowers. I like the rendering effect of watercolors. This work uses fabrics to express the watercolor effect, so the petals of the flowers have the effect of dancing in the wind.
Materials: Cotton, organza, pearl yarn, wool, wire, sequins, beads, crystals.
My comments: This large luminous quilt had layers of sheer organza and brilliant cottons in floral jeweltones, with 3-D embellishment details. The bright colors really ‘pop’ on the solid black background.
Travel/Lecture Dates: Dec 10 – Canadian Quilt Association – Zoom Lecture – Intl Quilt Trends Feb 2 – SAQA Europe/Middle East – Zoom Lecture Feb 18-21 – QuiltCon – Raleigh NC Apr 26 – May 1 – Alegre Retreat, Gateway CO May 16 – New England Quilt Museum, Soul Stories Artist Reception
Use the Coupon Code: AUSSIE on the checkout page to receive $10 off your purchase of $50 or more, through 12/6/25 only! (This gift coupon cannot be combined with other Promotions or Gift Certificates.)
To make this 57″ x 66″ quilt design, you’ll start with our 34″ x 44″ digital panel, then piece the borders with two coordinating earth-tone Hoffman Hand Dyes plus a white tone-on-tone fabric. The Sprout Green Hoffman Hand Dye frame & binding accents the panel’s foliage.
Order the pattern as configured, or customize it to your liking with any of our thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your Wish List, and these fabrics will appear in the Fabric Selector below the pattern.
Now is a good time to review your stash and see what hues and values may be missing, before the holidays fly by and the Winter Sewing Season begins!
Someone recently asked me about how to proceed in developing a color palette of fabrics, and I thought it might be useful to offer some ideas.
You probably have plenty of fabrics in your favorite color. If you re-organize your stash once a year, this will become obvious. My favorite color is a rich Amethyst Purple. (A jeweltone) Over the years I have expanded my purple stash to include:
Dark Purple – like Deep Eggplant Pastel and Midtone Purple – Lilac and Lavender Desaturated Purple – like Mauve Cool Purple – like Iris Warm Purple – like Plum
However we need more than one color so the next step might be to review the analogous colors – the adjacent colors on the color wheel:
Blue and Turquoise Magenta and Orchid
Then add a pop of a complementary color. Yellow is opposite Purple on the color wheel, so this is the perfect accent color. Every successful quilt needs a ‘pop’ accent color!
Explore different values and different saturation levels of the complementary color. Lay out your palette of favorite colors, and then audition your potential complementary colors to see which color combinations ‘sing’ to you.
I like to push my accent color just a little bit one way or the other, so I might choose a Marigold or a Citrus/Lime-Yellow.
Eventually you can work your way around the color wheel and develop a collection of darks and lights, warm and cool versions, hot brights and soft de-saturated choices.
Developing a Neutral Palette of Black and White, Gray and Brown, etc. helps you to see the rest of your rainbow color palette as you audition possible color combinations.
Developing a color palette in your stash takes time, and you will find your taste changes over time. You will notice that you have preferences for solids, blender prints, analogous prints, multicolor prints, batiks or hand-dyes. You will become more adventurous in choosing your accent colors. You will discover combinations that had never occurred to you before. That is the fun, and the joy of developing your stash…and how glorious is it one day to think of a new color adventure and everything you dream of is right there at your fingertips!
Well anyway, that’s what I’ve been doing for 30+ years. Have fun preparing for the post-holiday quilting season!
Travel/Lecture Dates: Dec 10 – Canadian Quilt Association – Zoom Lecture – Intl Quilt Trends Feb 2 – SAQA Europe/Middle East – Zoom Lecture Feb 18-21 – QuiltCon – Raleigh NC Apr 26 – May 1 – Alegre Retreat, Gateway CO May 16 – New England Quilt Museum, Soul Stories Artist Reception
Use the Coupon Code: KITTY on the checkout page to receive $10 off your purchase of $50 or more, through December 2nd only! (This gift coupon cannot be combined with other Promotions or Gift Certificates.)
To make this 71″ x 55″ quilt design, start with the exquisitely illustrated Emerald Kitty panel. Then use coordinating green Feathered Scroll & Forest Leaves prints, together with Solid Black to create the pieced borders.
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this exquisite quilt pattern (orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).
Order the pattern as configured, or customize it to your liking with any of our thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your Wish List, and these fabrics will appear in the Fabric Selector below the pattern.
It is Thanksgiving Eve, and I am home from my wonderful trip to Taipei. Many thanks to those who gave me such a warm welcome, and who took care of me during my visit. To all my quilter friends in Taiwan, Japan and Korea….you always inspire me with your grace, beauty and creativity.
As a featured artist and speaker, I was given a gallery space right at the entrance to the Taiwan Quilt Festival. I brought 7 quilts to share, and this one (above) was finished the day before I flew to Taipei. I made this piece special for the Taiwan event. (42″ wide x 52″ high) The background is Evolon, painted with Golden Fluid Acrylics. The dragon and goddess figure were built up with batiks and hand-dyes, using fusibles and raw-edge applique. Then it was quilted on my BERNINA Q 20, which is a sitdown midarm machine. I gave a demo for the Q 20 at the show, and it was a pleasure to share my tips and tricks for the machine.
This textile artwork is a depiction of the Buddhist goddess of Peace and Compassion, and she rides a dragon in a rainbow sky. Her name is Kwan Yin (Quan Yin) and she came to Taiwan as my prayer for peace. The red characters on the left also say “Peace” which is my wish for this free democracy. Having visited China many times, I understand why the people of Taiwan guard their independence so fiercely.
As I mentioned last week, there was an abundance of Taiwanese quilts in Houston this year. Something is cooking in this island nation, and I am sure we will be hearing more from this group of enthusiastic quilters. I am reviewing my thoughts and editing photos over this long holiday weekend, and will be sharing more with you next week.
Also….thank you for all the birthday wishes on my personal Facebook page! You made my day!
Travel/Lecture Dates: Dec 10 – Canadian Quilt Association – Zoom Lecture – Intl Quilt Trends Feb 2 – SAQA Europe/Middle East – Zoom Lecture Feb 18-21 – QuiltCon – Raleigh NC Apr 26 – May 1 – Alegre Retreat, Gateway CO May 16 – New England Quilt Museum, Soul Stories Artist Reception
Use the Coupon Code: WIZARD on the checkout page to receive $10 off your purchase of $50 or more, through November 25th only! (This gift coupon cannot be combined with other Promotions or Gift Certificates.)
To make this 56″ x 62″ quilt design, you will start with the brilliantly hued Wizard’s Universe panel. Then piece the borders using our coordinating magic wands and colorful nebula prints.
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this exquisite quilt pattern (orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).
Order the pattern as configured, or customize it to your liking with any of our thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your Wish List, and these fabrics will appear in the Fabric Selector below the pattern.
Today I am writing to you from Taipei, where the Taiwan Quilt Festival will open in 2 days. I am here as a featured artist and speaker.
This year in Houston, Taiwanese quilt artists had a huge presence, so I’d like to start his week by featuring one of those quilts:
Dance of the Silken Weaving By Hsu Mei Hua Machine applique, Original design.
Inspired by the blooming iris, the image uses layers of fabric and smooth delicate lines to depict the dancing of flowers in the breeze.
I’ll be returning on Thanksgiving Eve, and bringing you quilt photos and stories from this trip!
Sharing our passion for fabric… Luana & Paul
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Travel/Lecture Dates: Nov 17-26 – Taiwan Quilt Festival – Taipei – Feature Artist & Speaker Dec 10 – Canadian Quilt Association – Zoom Lecture – Intl Quilt Trends Feb 2 – SAQA Europe/Middle East – Zoom Lecture Feb 18-21 – QuiltCon – Raleigh NC
This exclusive eQuilter design is one of our all time favorites, with the Arctic Blue and White color story. Make something unique for your upcoming holiday celebrations!
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this exquisite quilt pattern (orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).
Order the pattern as configured, or customize it to your liking with any of our thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your Wish List, and these fabrics will appear in the Fabric Selector below the pattern.
This week I have been preparing to travel to the Taiwan Quilt Festival next week. I have made a special Chinese-themed quilt just for this event, where I will be a featured artist and speaker next weekend.
This weekend is the quilt festival in Yokohama Japan, which is currently the largest quilt show in that country. If you are on social media you might see photos being posted from that event. We all miss the Tokyo Quilt Festival (I attended the very last one in January 2020) but there is a lot of energy in Asia now, between Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China. I’ll be flying home on Thanksgiving Eve, and will share more photos and stories at that time.
I used to travel to Taiwan in the late 1980s when I was in the fashion industry. I would go for a month at a time, developing a collection while working with the sample department in a factory. So I am anxious to return to Taipei after all these years.
There were so many quilts from Taiwanese quilters, at the Houston Quilt Festival last month! Clearly there is something going on there, and I am going to go find out …what is the story?! I am sure my friend Danny Amazonas has something to do with this.
Also I am looking forward to having authentic Chinese food on this trip. I have always wondered about Americans who are desperately looking for burgers and pizza when traveling in Asia. There is just nothing like having authentic cuisine made from scratch with local fresh ingredients. As a vegetarian, I am absolutely in heaven when traveling anywhere in Asia. When my son Mason and I traveled to China in 2003 to adopt Sophie Quinn, we would both just scratch our heads when the other families would go out of their way to find fake “American” food. The best vegetarian food when traveling in Asia, is at a Buddhist restaurant. Yum, I am salivating just thinking about it. You can follow me on my personal Facebook page for daily updates during this trip!
Travel/Lecture Dates: Nov 17 -26 – Taiwan Quilt Festival – Taipei – Feature Artist & Speaker Dec 10 – Canadian Quilt Association – Zoom Lecture – Intl Quilt Trends Feb 2 – SAQA Europe/Middle East – Zoom Lecture Feb 18-21 – QuiltCon – Raleigh NC
