The Quilt Alliance membership includes some of the most interesting people in the quilt world! This series introduces and documents the rich stories and talents of our members. In this episode meet Sandy Teepen, an art quilter from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia. We first met Sandy at Quilters Take Manhattan, our biennial fundraiser in the Big Apple. She has been a passionate supporter of our mission ever since and we were eager to pay a virtual visit to her colorful home studio. Sandy went to art school and has a background in costume shop and theater, but motherhood delayed her creative career. After she and her late husband moved to Atlanta in 1982, she began taking classes as the Atlanta campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design and found her love for collage with paper and fabric–her gateway to quilting. Sandy is an ardent and confident marketer of her own work and has found success in working with an IT professional to help her enter shows and document her work. Follow Sandy on Facebook and Instagram, and visit her website to see more of her work and get updates on her upcoming one-woman show in 2021. We hope you enjoy this virtual visit with Sandy!
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Your Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle Tip: for best results, solve puzzle on this page on a desktop computer or laptop. If you are solving on a mobile device, click on the puzzle piece icon in the lower righthand corner to solve on the Jigsaw Planet website. Welcome to another quilt jigsaw puzzle from Quilt Alliance! The beautiful quilts in the puzzles have all been entries in past Quilt Alliance quilt contests. UGH by Earamichia Brown This month’s puzzle spotlights a quilt titled UGH made by Earamichia Brown of New York City, NY (now Texas) for the 2017 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, Voices. Fabric and Misty Fuse, raw edge appliqué and machine quilted. Artist’s Statement The title is often said under my breath or in my head. It seems to be happening a lot more the older I get. The voice that comes out can be a frustrated “I Got This”. In this comic book setting, you can imagine the superwoman having to drop what she is doing to handle the emergency of the day. For the Quilt Alliance Voices theme, I chose this because lately I have been required to rush in and “handle” things. Ugh is a new favorite word… and I got this is a now overused phrase. About Quilt Alliance We rely on the generous support of donors and members like you to sustain our projects. If you support our mission of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of quilts and quiltmakers, join us by becoming a member or renewing your membership, making a donation, or learning how your business or corporation can become a supporter of the Quilt Alliance. We rely on the generous support of donors and members like you to sustain our projects. If you support our mission of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of quilts and quiltmakers, join us by becoming a member or renewing your membership, making a donation, or learning how your business or corporation can become a supporter of the Quilt…
Your Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle Tip: for best results, solve puzzle on this page on a desktop computer or laptop. If you are solving on a mobile device, click on the puzzle piece icon in the lower righthand corner to solve on the Jigsaw Planet website. Welcome to another quilt jigsaw puzzle from Quilt Alliance! The beautiful quilts in the puzzles have all been entries in past Quilt Alliance quilt contests. Stories by Sylvia Weir This month’s puzzle spotlights a quilt titled Stories made by Sylvia Weir of Beaumont, Texas for the 2012 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, Home Is Where the Quilt Is. Vintage machine pieced quilt top, applique and thread work, cottons/multitude of thread. Artist’s Statement There is a sort of quiet confidence and composure that exudes from those who have lived many years. Those eyes have seen sorrow and gladness, the hands have made meals and comforted those who wept. Home resides in each one of us and grows stronger with each passing year. About Quilt Alliance We rely on the generous support of donors and members like you to sustain our projects. If you support our mission of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of quilts and quiltmakers, join us by becoming a member or renewing your membership, making a donation, or learning how your business or corporation can become a supporter of the Quilt Alliance. We rely on the generous support of donors and members like you to sustain our projects. If you support our mission of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of quilts and quiltmakers, join us by becoming a member or renewing your membership, making a donation, or learning how your business or corporation can become a supporter of the Quilt…
The Quilt Alliance membership includes some of the most interesting people in the quilt world! This series introduces and documents the rich stories and talents of our members. In this episode, meet Connie Kincius Griner, a quiltmaker and retired OB/GYN living in Burlington, North Carolina. We first documented Connie’s work at the International Quilt Festival in 2016. She recorded a Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! video with her quilt “View from the Microscope: Pickled Paramecium.” And at the 2017 QuiltCon in Savannah, Georgia, Connie recorded a second Go Tell It! in our booth about her quilt “Wrinkly, Irony.” . Connie is busy caring for her grandchildren at home these days with not much time for quilting, so she decided to draw from her collection (she’s quite prolific) for an outdoor quilt show. Since March 27 Connie has displayed a quilt (or two) outside her home each non-rainy day for neighbors and passersby to enjoy. She shared #35 on May 7. Follow her on Facebook and Instagram to see updates to the outdoor show and more of her work. We hope you enjoy this virtual visit with Connie! Begin or renew your Quilt Alliance membership today. …
Your April Quilt Jigsaw Puzzles (3 this month!) Welcome to another group of quilt jigsaw puzzles from Quilt Alliance! The beautiful quilts in this month’s puzzles were all entries in the 2010 New From Old quilt contest and featured in this video, the first in our Label Love series.
Tip: for best results, solve the puzzles on a desktop computer or laptop. If you are solving on a mobile device, click on the puzzle piece icon in the lower righthand corner to solve on the Jigsaw Planet website. Grandmother’s Curtains by Star and Sophia Prim of Huntsville, Utah A combination of vintage, recycled and new cotton fabrics, wool felt, beads, hand applique, machine applique, hand-stitching, machine quilting. When my daughter was three and money was tight, I made her a simple dress out of some old vintage curtains. She loved it, and I loved seeing her in it, knowing that it cost nothing and I had given new life to something old. Looking out the window, you can see a little girl wearing her new spring dress made from the same fabric as grandma’s curtains. My New Sues by Kathy Guardia of Grottoes, Virginia Vintage feedsack fabric, my own handdyed fabrics with some commercial fabric – hand applique turned and raw edge – hand embroidery; machine quilted 20 years ago I found this treasure in the bottom of a cardboard box full of fabric purchased at an estate sale in Florida. A dingy plastic bag with one completed Sunbonnet Sue sewn on a stained dishtowel and about a dozen Sues cut out of vintage feed sack fabrics never finished. So I introduced the Vintage Sues to my hand dyed fabrics and a few commercial pieces to come up with My New Sues. Pink Basket 2010 by Mark Lipinski of Califon, New Jersey Vintage hand pieced basket block, ribbon and floss embellishment, completed with new fabrics. I found this vintage, hand-pieced, 1930’s pink basket block for $6 at an antique shop, The Rusty Rooster, during a teaching/lecture engagement for The Washington Stars Quilt Guild in Olympia, Washington in May 2010. Scheduled to lead a quilting retreat at the Thunder Bay Resort in Hillman, Michigan in June, I brought the block with me and with some support from my fellow retreaters (and in traditional quilt-making style), we managed to design and quilt this new block from the old. About Quilt Alliance We rely on the generous support of donors and members like you to sustain our projects. If you support our mission of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of quilts and quiltmakers, join us by becoming a member or renewing your membership, making a donation, or learning how your business or corporation can become a supporter of the Quilt Alliance. Welcome to another quilt jigsaw puzzle from Quilt Alliance! The beautiful quilts in the puzzles have all been entries in past Quilt Alliance quilt contests. Be sure to sign up for our blog notifications, so that you don’t miss any of the upcoming puzzles. We rely on the generous support of donors and members like you to sustain our projects. If you support our mission of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of quilts and quiltmakers, join us by becoming a member or renewing your membership, making a donation, or learning how your business or corporation can become a supporter of the Quilt…
