A Lovely Circle Quilt, Making Kaleidoscope Mandalas with Kyra Reps, Alex Anderson LIVE: How Did Carol Ann McCandless Make This Quilt?, Textile Talks: Intertwining Identities, New In The Store - Cross Stitch Kits Featuring Robin Pickens Designs, Puzzle

February 17, 2025

**Featured Quilt - For the "Love" of Circles**

Circle Love by Beatrice Gilbert was part of the Appliqué Category, Sponsored by your very own TheQuiltShow.com, at Houston International Quilt Festival 2024. Beatrice says of her work, "This quilt was designed organically in layers of hand-pieced raw silks and pieced organza circles, followed by smaller charmeuse circles, and topped with even smaller hand-appliquéd trapunto circles to achieve a dimensional effect."

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Making Kaleidoscope Mandalas with Kyra Reps

Making Mandala Magic

Kyra Reps loves making mandalas because the repetitive designs help improve your skills. Working on a black fabric, she creates a grid with registration marks as a framework for arranging colorful, pre-cut fusible appliqué elements. She also shares tips for testing designs before fusing and explains how limiting the palette to black and white can reduce distractions.

Learn from Kyra, and Sondrasa, by watching Learn Kaleidoscope Mandalas with Appliqué and Dot Painting with Kyra Reps|Different Ways to Use Appliqués with Sondrasa.

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Alex Anderson LIVE: How Did Carol Ann McCandless Make This Quilt?

Alex Finds Out How

Alex was in love with this quilt the first time she saw it. She had to reach out and find out how Carol Ann McCandless made this quilt. Carol took the time to explain in detail how it was made.

Alex is LIVE TODAY, February 17, 2025 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.

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Textile Talks: Intertwining Identities

Putting Things Together

Presented by the Surface Design Association (SDA): "Hear from SDA Symposium Keynote Speaker, Verónica A. Pèrez, on their work as a community artist and their personal artistic practices. Using textile processes like braiding, weaving, and crocheting, combined with sculptural techniques, as well as unconventional materials such as hair, Pèrez addresses themes of erasure, empathy, and ambiguity as a member of the Puerto Rican diaspora."

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New In The Store - Cross Stitch Kits Featuring Robin Pickens Designs

Pine Crossing

Sweater Weather

Seasonal Courier

Cool Cross Stitch Kits For You To Make

Enjoy the soothing art of cross-stitch—easy to learn, engaging enough to stay interesting, and perfectly relaxing! These charming kits include everything you need to create a sweet design, ready to frame if you wish.

See The Pine Crossing Cross Stitch Kit

See The Sweater Weather Cross Stitch Kit

See The Seasonal Courier Cross Stitch Kit

The Quilt Show Puzzle: Turning Memorials Into Quilts

"The Cemetery" by Susan Lenz

The Cemetery is a whole cloth quilt that contains one of Susan's largest grave rubbings from one of her favorite cemeteries located in Nottingham, England. The tombstones there are almost all made of slate making them excellent candidates for grave rubbings. This is because the slate can contain very intricate cravings that hold up over time and rub off well for Susan's designs. She says, "I planned this quilt more than many of my others. After a trip to Nottingham with Julie, I knew I wanted to return to the hundreds of perfect slate stone with a really big piece of silk."

See more of Susan's quilts in How to Use Unusual Tools to Make a Quilt with Susan Lenz | How to Use Shiva Paintstiks.