Eye of the Beholder

original applique patterns inspired by the world around us

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Quilt Fiesta 2022


  • Santa Fe Convention Center 201 West Marcy Street Santa Fe, NM, 87501 United States (map)

QUILT FIESTA 2022 hosted by No. NM Quilt Guild

October 7 - 8, 2022, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Booth 20-21

Fill your home with beauty, Create a new, beautiful quilt piece and add a touch of elegance to your life.

Beauty feeds the soul. Beauty inspires hope. When you make an Eye of the Beholder pattern you are spreading hope, because, “Quilting is a creative act of hope”!

And our hand and machine methods makes it so, sew easy! I

Be inspired!

Learn something New!

Delve into one of our great projects for 2022! Always unique! All created with our empowering reverse applique techniques! All our patterns come with complete, comprehensible, step-by-step directions and full-size, re-usable pattern pieces.  

Daisy Medallion XVII (40” x 40”)

Blocks! Medallions! Table runners! Quilts! Books! Kits! Notions! Something for everyone!

NEW! 

Daisy Medallion XVII (40” x 40”) A brand new medallion created in Banyan Batiks featuring the purity of the sweet, innocent daisy. hand or machine reverse applique with applique.

Bending Boughs table runner XIX (14” x 36”) is a great beginning pattern for hand or machine with its “Bowing branches in homage to the earth”.

Bending Boughs (14” x 36”) by hand or machine. This, a hand sample.

Bending Boughs (14” x 36”) by hand or machine. This, a machine sample.

“Summertime, and the Livin’ is Easy” is epitomized by this beautiful , Summertime Quilt XIX (50” x 50”). Everything is in bloom and the birds are singing. Instructions are for hand reverse applique, applique, under-coloring and paper-piecing fully explained step-by-step with, color charts and full-size pattern pieces. Summertime Kits are also available.

Summertime Quilt XIX (50” x 50”) This was the project for the Academy of Applique 2022. Kits available while they last!

Americana Quilt (52” x 52”) for hand or machine.

Celebrate our American heritage with two great patriotic patterns. Americana Quilt XVIII (52” x 52”) and Shooting Stars table decor set with table runner (16” x 40”) and placemats (16” x 16”). For hand or machine reverse applique with applique swags and star corner posts originally designed in fabrics by Island Batiks.

Shooting Stars table runner (16” x 40”)

placemats as part of Shooting Stars table decor pattern (16” x 16”)

Elegant beauty at your fingertips. 3 Patterns inspired by Victorian Doorknobs: The Crowns/ Crown-Tiara (19” x 19”), Honey Rose (18” x 18”), and May Day (22” x 22'“). The Victorians understood that beauty feeds the soul. That touch of elegant beauty was everywhere, even on doorknobs. The basic block of these patterns is 16” x 16” so you can mix and match them to make your own quilt patterns. All are for hand and machine reverse applique.

The Crowns-Crown/ Tiara. block 3 in our Victorian doorknob series.

Honey Rose block 2 in our Victorian doorknob series.

May Day block 1 in our Victorian doorknob series.

Enjoy Royal Dining with the Crowning Touch table runner (22” x 54”) on your table . Beauty with ease when you make it by hand or machine with our step by step directions.

Crowning Touch table runner (22” x 54”) for hand or machine reverse applique with applique.

Enjoy the Cool of the Day with our very newest table runner, Woodland Fern, table runner XVI (14” x 56”), a design in Malaysian batiks by Turtle Hand Batiks, for hand or machine reverse applique.

Woodland Fern (14” x 54”) for hand or machine beginning reverse applique.

Welcome! Open your Heart, Open your Arms and Open your Home! Hospitality Quilt XVII (50” x 50”) an exciting new collaboration with Cherrywood Fabrics and Siesta Silver Jewelry. Our center Pineapple blocks, meaning an invitation of welcome, so needed after our sequestered season from covid-19, are surrounded by a town, a community of homes, schools and churches. All so meaningful now, more than ever. Celebrate community and welcome with Hospitatlity Quilt XVII!

Hospitality Quilt (50” x 50”) for hand or machine reverse applique with applique & under-coloring, paper-piecing. A collaboration with Cherrywood Fabrics and Siesta Silver Jewelry.

Nostalgic Beauty, Delicate & Strong! Tulips & Lace (61” x 61”) A quilt of love and springy, Easter joy designed in fabrics by Batik Textiles that can be created by hand or machine reverse applique with applique.

Tulips & Lace (61” x 61”) for hand or machine reverse applique with applique and piece work with a special easy method for HST.

Pacific Splash (25” x 49”) for hand or machine reverse applique remade in fabrics by Banyan Batiks.

An Ocean of Joy! Dip your toes into the ocean while dipping your hand into reverse applique with Pacific Splash, table runner X ( 25” x 49”), for hand or machine reverse applique.

Kits available that take the guess work out for, Summertime Quilt (50” x 50”), Flowers in the Wind table runner XV kits (18” x 42”) , and more.

Great notions & helpful tools to successfully create our patterns-

Reverse Applique Revealed Tutorial booklet- Learn the wonders of our reverse applique technique for hand and machine in this handy booklet.