Join Us at

Kansas city regional

Quilt Festival

2025!

We’re excited to be an EMERALD Sponsor and to vend at Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival. Come learn about Molas at our demo on the Demo Stage..

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Dates and Times of Festival

All times are Local

Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 8:00 am - 7:00 pM (classes only)
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 9:00 aM - 5:00 PM
Friday, June 13, 2025 - 9:00 aM - 5:00 pM
Saturday, June 14 - 9:00 aM - 4:00 pM

Fill your home with beauty, Create a new, beautiful quilt piece to 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!

Be inspired!

Learn something New!

attend our demo!

Margaret is teaching “Holy Mola! Multi-Layered Reverse Applique” on the Demo Stage. Molas are colorful multi-layered hand reverse applique pieces associated with the Kuna Indians. Making a mola is a playful stitching journey that encompasses technique and design. I’ll show you how using our Trace, Baste, Snip & Stitch method. Be empowered to make a mola as unique as you.

What’s new?

North Star Medallion XXIII (36” x 36”) “Star light, Star bright, First star I see tonight.” For hand and machine reverse applique with added applique. The north star is bright and fixed in the night sky so is used in ships to navigation to find their way.home.

Solstice & Equinox, Medallion XXII (40” x 40”) For hand and machine reverse applique, and machine piecing. This medallion is inspired by the seasonal cycles of the Sun and moon. Designed in the Flora Nova collection by Island Batik.

L’Chaim Medallion XXI (30” x 30") “Seeds of Hope Sprouting to Life. Live Fully and Passionately” in this NEW medallion in fabrics by Banyan Batiks for hand or machine reverse applique. Helping you to live fully and passionately.

Hearts Within table runner XVII (14” x 38”) “Two Hearts are one. Intertwining in Love.” Celebrate enduring love with this table runner created in Island Batik by Lumin Fabrics featuring the Black Cherry collection for hand or machine reverse applique.

Deco Diamonds table runner XX (18” x 46”) a pattern for hand or machine inspired by the art deco era, “Your Key to Opulent Dining”.

Grandmother’s Kitchen Quilt XX (62” x 82”) evokes cozy memories of love and home . For hand or machine reverse applique and applique, constructed with Quilt-as-you-go method (directions included). Designed in fabrics by Island Batiks.

Plus Fabric kits for Grandmother’s Kitchen Quilt XX (64” x 82”) in these fabulous Flour Sack batiks by Island Batik.

Grandmother’s Kitchen (64” x 82”) for hand or machine reverse applique and applique with machine piecing. Patterns and fabric kits available.

Summertime Quilt XIX (50” x 50”). Most recently seen on display in the IN FULL BLOOM exhibit at Houston Internationl 2024.

“Summertime, and the Livin’ is Easy” is epitomized by this beautiful , Summertime Quilt XIX (50” x 50”). See Summertime in the exhibit IN FULL BLOOM at Houston. Then get the pattern from us! 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.

New Medallions! Spring Rains Medallion XVIII (32” x 32”) A sweet expression of new life ushered in with the early rains of spring. hand or machine reverse applique.

Flying Goose Medallion XIX (30” x 30”) Mr. Goose streaks across the sky. He first appeared with the Northern CO Shop Hop in June 2023. For hand and machine reverse applique. Flying Goose Medallion kits (30” x 30”) are available.

Molas! Molas! Molas!. 3 mola patterns for you to eperience the multi-layer process. Each with multiple pattern choices so you can either copy a design or use your own creativity to create your own. Festive Blooms (12” x 12”), Mola Magic with Block 10 (12” x 12”), and Sprig Mini Mola Mug Rug (8” x 8'“), as seen on The Quilt Show with Ricky Tims on Oct. 22(show 3309). Get them as patterns alone or as fabric + pattern mola kits for each mola design.. All are for hand reverse applique.

Bending Boughs table runner (14” x 36”) has quickly become our top-selling table runner, with its sweeping branches.. You can make it by hand or machine with our step by step directions.

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!

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.

Kits available that take the guess work out for Grandmother’s Kitchen Quilt XX kit (64” x 82”) in the fabulous Flour Sack batiks by Island Batik, Flying Goose Medallion kits (30” x 30”), 3 Molas-Festive Blooms, Mola Magic with Block 10, & Sprig Mola Mug Rug, Twinkling Star Ornaments, , Crown Pineapple Block kit (12” x 12”), Spring Rains Medallion kits (32” x 32”) and assorted colorways of Beehive & Tudor Rose Mug Rugs.

Great notions , including Aurifil 80 wt. thread, John James needles, Kai Scissors specially blunted exclusively for Eye of the Beholder, Beam N’Read personal lights, Flexi-Fuse, Quilt-as-you-go supplies & many other helpful tools to successfully create our patterns.

20 colors of Aurifil 80 wt. thread for hand reverse applique and hand applique. Plus 3 colors of thread for hand basting.

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

Eye of the Beholder

Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival 2025