Every year since 2008 THE QUILT SHOW has presented a beautiful BLOCK OF THE MONTH quilt project FREE for Star Members. These quilts have been created exclusively for The Quilt Show by the various designers, available only for that year from this worldwide quilting community, an Internet based show.
These quilts always provide excellent instruction for exceptional designs. Everyone who completes one of these quilts has learned a lot and can be proud of their accomplishment.
Here are just a few of the many BOM quilts that have won awards at quilt shows around the world. Enjoy and be inspired:
2021 COLOR MY WORLD designed by Wendy Williams. When I first saw this design, two years before it was our BOM, I loved it and knew it would be a success. The taping for the January 2021 show had to be done in August 2020. Do you remember the PANDEMIC? It was clear in April that Wendy would not be able to travel from Australia to the US to tape the show. I was sent the kit and had 8 weeks to make it, quilt it, and travel to Dallas for the taping. Here is mine:
This quilt has won MANY awards at shows worldwide. It often wins VIEWERS CHOICE. This next quilt deserves special recognition. Carole Berry made this as her FIRST QUILT EVER. And she used WOOL!
As she was making it, she shared progress photos on the FORUM of The Quilt Show. When it was complete, I told her she simply had to enter it in major competitions. So she did.
Let her tell you how this quilt has done in competition. Don't think she is bragging, she is humble and gracious and deserves all the awards this quilt has brought her way:
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| Carole Berry "HOME" Quilted by Cindy Paulson |
FROM CAROLE: Attached is photo from the 2024 AQS Daytona Beach Show where I got first place in my category of Wall Quilts-Moveable Machine Quilted and Viewers Choice.
Other accolades "Home" received:
2023
AQS Grand Rapids 2nd Place
Maine Quilts 1st Place, Exceptional Handwork, Viewers Choice
Cocheco Quilters Guild 1st Place, Exceptional Merit, Viewers Choice
2024
Road to California 2nd Place
AQS Daytona Beach 1st Place, Viewers Choice
AQS Branson 3rd Place
AQS Paducah 3rd Place
AQS Lancaster 3rd Place
2027
AQS Engagement Calendar
Thank you for encouraging me to show this quilt! I never imagined all the places it would bring me and the wonderful people I would meet. I’m currently working on a temperature quilt to commemorate our travels in 2024 following Home around the country.
Here are photos I was sent from The Quilt Show members:
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| Barbara Colvin York Quilters Guild |
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| Karon Rufenacht Natrona County WY fair - People's choice, 1st place and sweepstakes ribbon. WY state fair - blue ribbon |
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| Cec Larsen |
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| Jacquelyn Jacobi 1st place ribbon at the Victoria (BC Canada) biennial judged quilt show. In the bottom left I have substituted the Parliament Building in Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, and in the bottom right I have substituted the Skylon Tower in Niagara Falls Ontario, my home town. |
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| Jan Aji Ribbon Winner at her local show. |
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| Sandra Bonomo kept hers round when she had printing trouble and decided this was large enough. It is hanging at the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier. She made a facing and adding tubing to create the perfectly round shape for display. |
Several people made this design their own by changing the Skyscrapers in the four diagonal corners to represent buildings important to them.. Here is one of my favorites, made by Sunday Sew and Sew Donna Daniel. She added her church, the bell tower at the University of Alabama, the Saturn V Rocket at the Space Center here in Huntsville and the Washington Monument:
2022 GARDEN PARTY DOWN UNDER designed by Irene Blanck. The taping for this BOM was August 2021 and guess what? The world was still on lockdown and Irene could not travel from Australia to Dallas for taping. So, once again, I had 8 weeks to make this quilt, quilt it and travel to the taping.
This was only possible with the help of my Sunday Sew and Sews. And since the kit would not be available for months yet I used my own fabric. Over two long days Joan Cook helped me cut kits for 9 of us to use--each person made one pieced block and one appliqued block. They had exactly one month to complete their task--all met the deadline. In the second month I made the borders, assembled, basted and quilted it. This is one of my most favorite quilts because of the friendships that made it happen. Here it is on the set of The Quilt Show in Dallas:
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Others I was sent:
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| Barbara Colvin Best Use of Color, York Quilters Guild |
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| Janet Miller, Best of Show, 1st place Large Appliqué Quilts, and Best Domestic Quilting, The Arapahoe County Quilters, Festival of Quilts, 2023. Located in Colorado. |
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| Liz Anderson Viewer's Choice and Best of Show, Cadiz, Ky show |
2023 HOMEWARD BOUND designed by Sarah Fielke:
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| Susan Wolak Quiltfest Rochester NY 2024 |
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| Joyce Cambron On Display at Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show 2025 |
2024 PICK A PETAL designed by Jen Kingwell:
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| Pick a Petal by Jen Kingwell |
2025 LAUREL RIDGE designed by Lynne Wilder:
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| Barbara Colvin York Quilters Guild, First Place and Best Traditional Quilt |
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| Evelyn Spaudling, Teal Time, Fanfare 2026 Huntsville AL |
2026 GAME ON! designed by Becky Goldsmith--this is the current year's BOM so no one has entered it in any shows yet. I expect to see ribbons on this design in the future too:
I recently completed both the SOLID and PRINT tops:
2027 FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE, designed by Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson. This is a spectacular design that will teach you a LOT! I am learning things. Patterns will be released monthly starting in January 2027, FREE for Star Members Only:
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| OCEAN WAVES Colorway |
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| MOUNTAIN MEADOWS Colorway |
I will be helping to teach this project with lots of tips and suggestions. I sure hope you will join us on this Joyful Journey!
NOTE: A few of the photos were taken from the
GALLERY on The Quilt Show. There are many quilts there to inspire and educate you.
To see the Block of the Month quilts from 2008-2020 see
PART 1
Let's quilt.
Barbara
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