‘The Quilt Life’ Archives
Rundy – Rugged Centerfold in The Quilt Life Magazine
Meet Rundy He’s ruggedly good-looking and seems to be peering into your soul through the masterful fabric painting and quilting of Marilyn Belford. Created as a portrait of her neighbor, both the quilt and the man are a joy to admire. This masterful creation was a [Read More]
Behind the scenes
Once in a while it’s fun to share a little behind-the-scenes story about the TQL issue you have in your hands. When we decided to do an issue with a “faces” theme, our thoughts turned pretty quickly to the work of Marilyn Belford and the quilt Rundy, a portrait of her [Read More]
Free – Two Trees Pattern by Irene Berry
Sometimes a quilter needs a “no wrong answers” kind of project, as an antidote. After an intense quilt experience — the designing, the auditioning, the second guessing, the making all the corners meet and the points match–a person can use a break. [Read More]
Road Trip
Are you making vacation plans? How about a road trip? Yours will likely be a little shorter than the trip Laurie Gibb took (“Journey 65” in the April issue of TQL). If you’ve read the story, you know that Laurie celebrated her 65th birthday by taking off for a whole [Read More]
Farewell to a Brave Lady
We got word that Solveig Wells, who was featured in our April 2013 issue in the article “A Wrinkle in Time,” has passed away and that saddens us alot. If you’ve read the article, you know how Solveig, sick as she was, took the misfortune of Hurricane [Read More]
Crazy
Every so often there’s a quilt that is so spectacular, and so complex, that I find myself wishing that each and every one of you could see it up close in person. “His Majesty-the Tree,” in the April TQL, is one of those quilts. If you’ve read Dana Jones’ article, [Read More]
Hug (Yellow)
Bet you smiled when you read Jennifer Rounds’s story about making a quilt that her college-bound son might actually permit her to give him (“Invisible Hug” in the April TQL). She shares the pattern as well, and you just may want to make one of these quilts for someone [Read More]
Something old, something interesting
If you’ve read the newest (April) issue of TQL, you know about the old quilt I bought at the antiques mall. Barbara Brackman’s Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns showed a pattern sort of, but not quite, like the block in my quilt, and called it Crossroads. That still [Read More]
Great friends, great quilts
The Mother’s Day Quilters, originally from Marietta, Georgia, have been meeting for more than 30 years. As you might imagine, there’s been a lot of water under the bridge since the quilters first met in the 1970s. Lola McCracken’s article (“Two Weddings and a [Read More]
More Grate Inspirations
The other day I met some friends for lunch. On my way back to where I’d parked the car, I saw a quilt. Well, it’s not a quilt yet. But it might be. A building along the street had painted, rustic wooden siding. Surprisingly, each of the basement windows was covered with [Read More]
