Posts Tagged ‘The Quilt Life’
Meet the Staff – Jan Magee
Jan Magee is the Editor-In-Chief of The Quilt Life magazine. Since starting her first quilt and her career in publishing in the early 1970s, Jan has enjoyed seeing both industries grow and evolve along with technology and the Internet. Her publishing experience includes [Read More]
Where the magic happens
The other day Irene Berry and I took a road trip. Our destination was the home and studio of TQL photographer Gregory Case and his wife and photo stylist Elena Morera. Our mission–to try our hand at setting up a “style shot” to showcase a quilt for an upcoming [Read More]
The Quilt Life August 2012 Issue is Hot! Here’s why
The August 2012 issue of The Quilt Life magazine is with the printer and will be in your mailbox and on store shelves soon. Click on the cover here to open a sneak peek and two free patterns! [Read More]
News from the big apple
This morning I had an email from Dale Riehl. TQL readers might recognize his name from an article in the June 2011 issue, “Quilt shop to the world.” Dale and his wife, Cathy Izzo, are the proprietors of The City Quilter, a New York City quilt shop with such a vast [Read More]
Hear a Song by Laura Wasilowski
Laura Wasilowski is a contemporary quiltmaker, teacher, and creator of hand-dyed fabrics and threads. She is also a song composer and singer extraordinaire! Listen to Laura’s rendition of ”There Once Was a Quilter from North Illinois,” a companion to her [Read More]
Total Immersion
Sorry, bad pun, but I couldn’t resist. Back when we were just beginning the April issue of TQL, Ricky confessed his colossal obsession with the Titanic. It was no surprise that his obsession found its way into a quilt. After all, isn’t that what happens when we are [Read More]
You don’t have to be religious
You don’t have to be religious to love religious art. Just read about Laurie Tigner in the latest TQL (“In the Company of Angels”). She’s always been fascinated by icons, and paintings of saints and angels, and she learned to paint icons in the traditional manner. A [Read More]
A passion for our work
Ann Fahl said something great in “Yesterday and beyond,” her article in the April TQL. “And when choosing subjects for our quilts, the ideas we are passionate about are more likely to become successful pieces than subjects about which we are only lukewarm.” Isn’t [Read More]
What’s a basilisk?
1) An herb farmer who grows many varieties of basil 2) a tall column with leafy ornamentation; or 3) a legendary lizard? You don’t have to Google the answer if you’ve read “The Stuff of Legends” in the April TQL (oops, I think I just gave it away). Yup, a basilisk [Read More]
He’s pretty smart, that Ricky
Libby Lehman used a circle attachment and the fancy stitches on her sewing machine to make a great pair of quilts, Piñata and Piñatita. The pattern’s in the February TQL. But it was Ricky who figured out how to sew circles with any sewing machine (yours! mine!) [Read More]
