QNM Issue #406 Nov 2008
Includes:
On the Cover: Joy - Sure to get your color juices flowing, Marilyn Smith's appliqu? and embroidered quilt is a beauty, both close up and from afar
Digital Entries - Quilt shows are starting to require digital photo entries. Gloria Hansen, a recognized computer expert and quilter tells you how to prepare your digital images to meet the requirements
Frequently Asked Questions about Machine Quilting - Award-winner Joanie Zeier Poole says she's the same questions time after time about how she achieves such perfection by quilting on a domestic sewing machine
Still Crazy after All These Years - Author, appraiser, and quilter Cindy Brick shares her vast knowledge of crazy quilting and some stunning examples of the style, past and present
Flying High - Art quilters Inge Mardal and Steen Hougs keep returning to the gull as a figure in their quilts. Trace their visual treatment of the bird through the years
Easy Lesson: Bobbin Drawing - Want to use decorative threads that are too thick to go through the needle on your sewing machine? Here's a way to use them for embellishment by machine anyway!
Color As I See It - The subject of QN's occasional series is colorist Carol Taylor.The Silk Road - A look at the manufacture of silk thread reveals some surprising facts
Readers' Quilt Show - The Association of Pacific Northwest Quilters show their quilted interpretations of The Spice of Life
Civil War Crossings - A collaboration among Barbara Brackman, the Alliance for American Quilts, Moda Fabrics, and Quilters Newsletter results in a lovely reproduction quilt made with Brackman's latest line of fabrics, also called Civil War Crossings
Poinsettia Pinwheels - Get started on a holiday quilt now and finish by Christmas. Using Jackie Robinson's fabric designed for Maywood Studio will give you a finished product that's easy to piece but looks so complex
Steppin' Out - The rage at Spring Quilt Market was black-and-white prints. Make use of the wide variety of new fabrics by making this black-and-white quilt
Dutch Circus - Part 1 of 2 of a new series quilt. It's based on an antique that Sandi McMillan saw in a book and fell in love with.
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