Quilt Puzzle: Holiday Edition: Five Calling Birds

Your Quilt Jigsaw Puzzles for December are below! Do you love the monthly Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle? We’d love to have you as a member or donor 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. Do You Have a Bernina by Yvonne Porcella This puzzle spotlights a quilt titled Do You Have a Bernina? made by Yvonne Porcella of California for the 2009 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, Crazy for Quilts. Materials and processes: Silks fused, cotton, Dream Green batting, machine applique and quilting. Artist’s Statement When I was stitching on this quilt, I kept thinking how wonderfully my Bernina sewed all the satin stitches and how easy it was to change feet on the machine for specific areas of stitching. The two birds look like they are talking – Imagine the larger bird suggesting if the smaller bird had a Bernina machine, it also could have a long tail. E Pluribus Unum by Loree Marquardt This puzzle spotlights a quilt titled E Pluribus Unum made by Loree Marquardt of Colorado for the 2011 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, Crazy for Quilts. Materials and processes: 100% cotton fabric, warm & natural cotton batting, cotton thread, foundation paper piecing, hot fix swarovski rhinestone crystals, machine quilted. Artist’s Statement With a few artistic liberties this is my rendition of the Great Seal. The Great Seal is a symbolic reminder of the unity between the thirteen colonies and becoming the United State of America. Chintz Bird by Pat Holly This puzzle spotlights a quilt titled Chintz Bird made by Pat Holly of Michigan for the 2008 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, My Quilts/Our History. Materials and processes: Decorative machine stitched background, stitched raw edge fused, machine appliquéd, machine quilted. Artist’s Statement This quilt reflects many aspects of my quiltmaking journey. I love antique textiles (this was inspired by an 18th C. Indian chintz fabric) and want to bring these old images to the present. Embellishing the background with machine stitches is a technique I’ve been using for years. I enjoy using modern machines and exploring ways to incorporate the stitching into my quilts. Finally, I continue to be intrigued with the bird image, both real and imagined. Chickadees at Home by Cynthia St. Charles This puzzle spotlights a quilt titled Chickadees at Home made by Cynthia St. Charles of Montana for the 2012 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, Home Is Where the Quilt Is. Materials and processes: Cotton – handpainted, block printed, screen printed, fused applique. Fabric paint. Artist’s Statement The birdfeeder outside my dining room window attracts large groups of lively chickadees year around. I’ve been able to get good digital photos of them, which I converted for screen printing. I began with white cotton fabric, then hand painted, block printed and screen printed before adding machine quilt to crate this piece called “Chickadees at Home”. Beulah and Irene by Sue Rook Nichols This puzzle spotlights a quilt titled Beulah and Irene made by Sue Rook Nichols of California for the 2015 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, Animals We Love. Materials and processes: The materials I used were 100% cotton with low loft polyester batting. I fused the raw edge applique to the background and stitched them down with a straight stitch. A double layer of batting is behind Beulah and Irene to make them stand out. I quilted this on my HQ 16. The binding is machine applied and hand stitched to the back. Buttons were added for eyes. Artist’s Statement Beulah and Irene, our two hens, used to hang out on our patio and watch us through door.  Every so often they would peck on the glass as if to ask “Hey!  Can we come in?”  Before this I never realized that chickens have such funny…

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Quilt Puzzle: Contest Quilt

Your Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle for November 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. Contest Quilt by Klara Schafler This month’s puzzle spotlights a quilt titled Contest Quilt made by Klara Schafler of Landesberg, Israel for the 2006-7 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, Put a Roof Over Our Head. Materials and processes: cotton, applique, machine quilting Artist’s Statement During the last decade we have witnessed all over the world a growing number of hungry and homeless people, caused not only by nature’s disaster but by globalization of the economy. I think it is about time for the world’s “great” powers to unite and find a solution to all the…

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Quilt Puzzle: Still Crazy After All These Years

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…

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Quilt Puzzle: The Best

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…

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Quilt Puzzle: Ciao Bella Limoncello

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…

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Quilt Puzzle: A Day at the Beach–Oh, How Fashion Has Changed

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…

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Quilt Puzzle: Home Tweet Home

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…

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Quilt Puzzle: Twenty Years in the Garden

Your Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle for May 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 host our very first Go Tell It in the Zoom Room! event. Members are invited to share and tell about a quilt they made or own. Login to your member’s portal to find the link to sign up to share a quilt or to watch on Tuesday, May 18 at 7pm EDT. 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. Twenty Years in the Garden by Allison Aller This month’s puzzle spotlights a quilt titled Twenty Years in the Garden made by Allison Aller of Washougal, Washington for the 2013 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, TWENTY. Materials and processes: Cotton, silk, linen, velvet, silk ribbon, embroidery threads, beads, sequins; machine appliqued and hand embroidered Artist’s Statement Quilting and gardening have always been completely intertwined in my life. This quilt celebrates my husband Robert’s many years of vegetable gardening. But you’ll notice I always sneak some…

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Quilt Puzzle: Quilting Makes My Heart Blossom

Your Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle for April 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 share a new StoryBee interview with author Marie Bostwick conducted by Frances O’Roarke Dowell. Watch a teaser! 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. Quilting Makes My Heart Blossom by Margarita Korioth This month’s puzzle spotlights a quilt titled Quilting Makes My Heart Blossom made by Margarita Korioth of Longwood, Florida for the 2012 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, Home Is Where the Quilt Is. Materials and processes: Pieced, silkscreen, applique, paper lamination, metal leafing, machine and hand embroidery Artist’s Statement I want to demonstrate that cloth and recyclable materials can be used to create and interpret your thoughts. This is an enjoyable technique that I feel is just the beginning of a new and innovative way to do art. The title of my quilt is “Quilting Makes My Heart Blossom.” I gave it this title because I feel the happiest when I am at home quilting. Like the garden, my family blossoms when I nourish them with…

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Quilt Puzzle: Happy It’s Spring

Your Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle for March 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 share with members two new QSOS interviews with quiltmakers that inspire us: mother-daughter quiltmakers Cathy Fussell and Coulter Fussell. Cathy’s work is inspired by landscape, literature, and the American South. Coulter’s work uses donated and vintage textiles from her north Mississippi community.  We’ll share a few excerpts from their recent QSOS interviews, and then Cathy and Coulter will join us as we open the floor for questions. Join today to attend this conversation about quilts, family, artmaking, tradition (or breaking with tradition!) and the places that inspire us.   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. Happy It’s Spring by Allie Aller This month’s puzzle spotlights a quilt titled Happy It’s Spring made by Allie Aller of Washougal, Washington for the 2016 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, Playing Favorites.  Materials and processes: Silk fusion “fabric”, hand dyed cotton, black solid cotton. Machine appliquéd and quilted. Artist’s Statement I’ve loved making stained glass quilts for two decades now. There are always new ways to experiment with this…

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Quilt Puzzle: Love Monkey

Your Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle for February 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. Don’t miss this month’s members-only programming: Aurifilosophy: It’s All About the Thread sponsored by Aurifil and presented by Master Educator & Aurifilosopher Karen L. Miller of Redbird Quilt Co. All attendees will receive a free spool of Aurifil thread and color brochure. Members, check this month’s member’s newsletter for details on how to access. 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. Love Monkey by Mary Kay Davis This month’s puzzle spotlights a quilt titled Love Monkey made by Mary Kay Davis of Sunnyvale, California for the 2015 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, Animals We Love.  Materials and processes: Cotton Fabrics, Machine Quilted and Machine Appliqued Artist’s Statement I seem to find Sock Monkeys fascinating. I don’t know why as I never had one as a child. Maybe it’s because they are always smiling, after all, what’s not to…

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Quilt Puzzle: Blue Muse

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. Blue Muse by Sondra Millard This month’s puzzle spotlights a quilt titled Blue Muse made by Sondra Millard of Wichita, Kansas for the 2016 Quilt Alliance contest and auction, Playing Favorites.  Materials and processes: All cotton quilting fabrics, broderie perse, machine applique and quilting on a sit-down domestic machine. Artist’s Statement Blue Muse honors my favorite quilt artist-Danny Amazonas, fabrics- Kaffe Fassett Collective, subject-Jane Sassaman’s garden art statue Blue Muse and technique-broderie perse. I designed the binding as an homage to Yvonne Porcella, my favorite teacher. I wanted my subject to convey the mysterious process of where ideas come from and how they can take on a life of their own. My quilting choice represents ideas flowing out from our muses with the outline quilting giving definition to the flowers in the gardens our our imaginations. 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…

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