Hello My Quilting Friends! Today I’m chatting with Ann Holmes, the creator of my favorite No Sewing Until You Quilt It applique technique. Get to know Ann and her assistant Rachel and how this cool technique works in this podcast.
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Or watch the podcast and see me cooking sausage and apples for lunch!
Click Here to check out Ann’s website AnnHolmesStudios.com. Ann is both a stained glass artist as well as a quilter and her goal in creating the No Sewing Until You Quilt It Applique technique was to easily make her original stained glass art into quilts.
Ann mentioned working on many quilts in this podcast. One of my favorites is Summer’s End which is also on the cover of her book:
Another beautiful example of what you can do with the No Sew technique her with Enchanted Evening:
The last quilt here is Cygnus where flying geese form a quilting constellation. These beautiful swirling shapes make me want to go pull out fabric right now and start slicing! Remember, this is not pieced – it’s turned edge applique built on a base of French Fuse:
That finishes up our Rainbow Log Cabin Quilt completely! This has been a wonderful project and I’ve really loved sharing it with you.
Remember you can always join in the fun and make this quilt too. Click Here to find the quilt pattern in the book Explore Walking Foot Quilting.
We will be continuing the Machine Quilting Party into March working on our Marvelous Mosaic quilt. Every Friday you’ll find a new quilting tutorial guiding you through quilting a new walking foot quilting design on your home machine.
This quilt along has definitely been keeping me busy and this week I’ve been filming the videos for Prism Path which we will begin in April.
I’ve also been working hard on my fiction novel Mally the Maker. It’s funny, just last week I thought I’d settled on the subtitle, but nope! I just changed it again. I’m going to wait until I finish the book completely before I finally settle on the final title.
I’ve also been working hard on a very fun project made from this month’s Quilty Box. The box included an awesome Sidekick Ruler that is so wonderfully designed. It cuts diamonds and triangle shapes super easily and very accurately.
So I’ve tumbled down the rabbit hole that is Tumbling Block quilts and I’m not sure I’ll be emerging anytime soon. These are so much fun!
Be looking forward to this Tumbling Block Mini Quilt tutorial on Monday Feb 26th.
Nope, I didn’t get much done on Dream Goddess or fabric design this week because I spend a lot of time playing with tumblers. But I had loads of fun and made a quilt just for me and that feels great.
A lot is changing in the quilting world and as I mentioned at the end of my introduction, businesses that were once considered the best and brightest can suddenly disappear.
It’s certainly made me much more introspective this week and take stock of what I’m creating and sharing, and how I feel about my business in general. I’m working on letting go of a lot of weight I’ve been carrying around in the form of regrets and working happier and lighter.
It certainly feels amazing to be wrapping up Mally The Maker and I’m really looking forward to what comes next for this new quilting / writing challenge.
I love hearing from you so please leave a comment if you enjoyed the show and let me know what you’re working on as you listen!
Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.
I’ve also been working hard on a very fun project made from this month’s Quilty Box. The box included an awesome Sidekick Ruler that is so wonderfully designed. It cuts diamonds and triangle shapes super easily and very accurately.
