by Amy Milne | Oct 15, 2021 | Jigsaw puzzles
Your Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle for October is below! Do you love the monthly Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle? We’d love to have you as a member if you’re not already on the team! We rely on the generous support of donors and members to sustain our projects. If you support our mission of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of quilts and quiltmakers, join us by starting and maintaining an annual membership, making a donation, or learning how your business or corporation can become a supporter of the Quilt Alliance. We thank our members each month with special content like StoryBee episodes and QSOS interviews. 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 our puzzles have all been entries in past Quilt Alliance quilt contests. Still Crazy After All These Years by Ramona Bates This month’s puzzle spotlights a quilt titled Still Crazy After All These Years made by the Ramona Bates of Little Rock, Arkansas for the 2009 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, Crazy for Quilts. Materials and processes: Old crazy quilt c. 1900’s (I think). Hand embroidery, applique old lace, some beads. Machine pieced & quilted. Artist’s Statement I used an old crazy quilt top as the “beginning” of my quilt. This was my way of “salvaging” the work of some woman from the early 1900’s. That’s why the name – “Still Crazy After All These Years”. [Also, I love the Paul Simon…
by Amy Milne | Sep 10, 2021 | Jigsaw puzzles
Your Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle for September is below! Do you love the monthly Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle? We’d love to have you as a member if you’re not already on the team! We rely on the generous support of donors and members to sustain our projects. If you support our mission of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of quilts and quiltmakers, join us by starting and maintaining an annual membership, making a donation, or learning how your business or corporation can become a supporter of the Quilt Alliance. We thank our members each month with special content like StoryBee episodes and QSOS interviews. 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 our puzzles have all been entries in past Quilt Alliance quilt contests. The Best by Yvonne Porcella This month’s puzzle spotlights a quilt titled The Best made by the late Yvonne Porcella of Arnold, California for the 2014 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, Inspired By. Materials and processes: Silks, cottons, fused, buttons, machine stitched Artist’s Statement I used the Quilt Index search function to find my crazy quilt inspiration. From there I navigated over to alphabet quilts. Documented by the Kentucky Quilt Project Anna Marie Schmidt Steinbock 1876-1900 stitched family names on her crazy quilt scraps. With modern tools I added stitching and words onto my crazy…
by Amy Milne | Aug 13, 2021 | Jigsaw puzzles
Your Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle for August is below! Do you love the monthly Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle? We’d love to have you as a member if you’re not already on the team! We rely on the generous support of donors and members to sustain our projects. If you support our mission of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of quilts and quiltmakers, join us by starting and maintaining an annual membership, making a donation, or learning how your business or corporation can become a supporter of the Quilt Alliance. We thank our members each month with special content like StoryBee episodes and QSOS interviews. 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 our puzzles have all been entries in past Quilt Alliance quilt contests. Ciao Bella Limoncello by Michele Muska This month’s puzzle spotlights a quilt titled Ciao Bella Limoncello made by Michele Muska of Enfield, Connecticut for the 2009 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, Crazy for Quilts. Materials and processes: Silks, cottons, glass beads & felted postcards, sterling silver and glass enamel button, silk bias tape ruching and grosgrain ribbon flowers. Artist’s Statement When my son returned from Sicily he made Limoncello from our friend’s organic Meyers lemons. He had to peel many lemons and go through a long process to get to the end result. I helped him strain the citrus libation several times and now it sits in my freezer for special occasions. This little block evokes the brightness and contrast that this special brew and experience represents…
by Amy Milne | Jul 16, 2021 | Jigsaw puzzles
Your Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle for July is below! Do you love the monthly Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle? We’d love to have you as a member if you’re not already on the team! We rely on the generous support of donors and members to sustain our projects. If you support our mission of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of quilts and quiltmakers, join us by starting and maintaining an annual membership, making a donation, or learning how your business or corporation can become a supporter of the Quilt Alliance. We thank our members each month with special content like StoryBee episodes and QSOS interviews. 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 our puzzles have all been entries in past Quilt Alliance quilt contests. A Day at the Beach–Oh, How Fashion Has Changed by Joyce Hughes This month’s puzzle spotlights a quilt titled A Day at the Beach–Oh, How Fashion Has Changed made by Joyce Hughes of Warminster, Pennsylvania for the 2013 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, New From Old. Materials and processes: 100% cotton fabrics, tulle netting for the water, shells for embellishments; raw edge applique stitching with free motion quilting. Artist’s Statement I am a self taught quilter and fiber artist. I started sewing in 2006. My first quilt was a tee-shirt quilt, which I enjoyed making, but felt limited in the ability to express my artistic capabilities. Shortly, I started to design pictorial landscape quilts using raw edge applique, thread painting. Finding a love and passion for quilting has allowed me to try a variety of new and different techniques with added dimension and…
by Amy Milne | Jun 11, 2021 | Jigsaw puzzles
Your Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle for June is below! Do you love the monthly Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle? We’d love to have you as a member if you’re not already on the team! We rely on the generous support of donors and members to sustain our projects. If you support our mission of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of quilts and quiltmakers, join us by starting and maintaining an annual membership, making a donation, or learning how your business or corporation can become a supporter of the Quilt Alliance. We thank our members each month with special content. This month, we’re excited to present a new QSOS interview with Allie Aller, conducted on May 10, 2021 by Michele Muska. Login to your member’s portal to watch this video and the full content archives available just for members. 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 our puzzles have all been entries in past Quilt Alliance quilt contests. Home Tweet Home by Terri Stegmiller This month’s puzzle spotlights a quilt titled Home Tweet Home made by Terri Stegmiller of Mandan, North Dakota for the 2012 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, Home Is Where the Quilt Is. Materials and processes: Machine pieced commercial cottons, free-motion quilting, free-motion thread sketching, water soluble crayons, textile paint and textile medium Artist’s Statement I enjoy watching the birds that visit my yard. I feed them and provide nesting boxes. The bluebird is one that I haven’t yet observed raise a family in my nesting boxes, although I see them around the neighborhood throughout the summer months. Hopefully they’ll take up residence one of these years. Maybe they know I also love…
