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Featured Quilt - The Stevii Graves Memorial Director’s Choice Award at Road to California 2025
Two-time guest of The Quilt Show, and all-around great quilter Andrea Brokenshire, took home what she calls "a bucket list award" this weekend at Road to California 2025. She received The Stevii Graves Memorial Director’s Choice Award (Sponsored by The Graves Family) for her quilt, Dogwood: The Promise. This quilt was featured in the Pictorial category at Road to California and the Pictorial Small category (Sponsored by AllBrands.com) at Houston International Quilt Festival 2024.
Dogwood: The Promise is an apropos quilt for this time of year, as the titular flower that it depicts is a signifier that Spring is about to arrive, which many are looking forward to as the cold winter persists. Andrea says, "When winters linger, the flowering dogwood speaks of the promise of spring. I was walking in my old neighborhood one spring day when the dogwoods were blooming. A riot of pink and white greeted me. This quilt was inspired by that day."
Learn from Andrea right here at The Quilt Show by watching her in How to Make a Confetti Quilt with Andrea Brokenshire | How to Do Straight Line Quilting with Melody Crust. |
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See Ian Berry's "Secret Garden" at the Garden Museum, London |
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Delve Into A Botanical Denim Den
Ian Berry is known for his masterful works created exclusively from denim. This last year he had a denim installation on display at the Garden Museum in London, which actually was a garden that Ian created entirely from denim. This Secret Garden as it was titled featured flora, fauna, grass, and everything else one could find in nature patterned out in that all too familiar shade of denim blue. Click through to learn more about this amazing display and to see some great photos as well.
Ian Berry Secret Garden was on display at the Garden Museum in London, UK from July 16, 2024 through September 8, 2024.
(Above Photo from www.ianberry.org) |
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The Costume Design of Gladiator II |
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Bringing History to Life
Recently nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design, go behind the scenes of Gladiator II with costume designers Janty Yates and Dave Crossman and get an inside look into the creation of the wide variety of historical costumes that were created for Ridley Scott's latest epic. |
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WeAllSew Tutorial: How to Make a Pressing Ham |
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Have Perfect Pressing Every Time
If there is one thing that all garment sewers know, it's that you are usually doing a lot of pressing. But how do you press that perfect piece every time? Look no further, because Megann Freese over at WeAllSew has a fast and easy pattern to make you a Pressing Ham, also known as a tailor’s ham, that will help you press your garments correctly each and every time! |
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In The Store - Quilting Is My Voice Banyan Batik Roll by Scott Flanagan for Northcott |
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Roll This Into Your Next Project
Featuring calming grays paired with vibrant pops of tomato red, Quilting Is My Voice by Banyan Batiks is perfect for crafting a stunning, modern jelly roll quilt. |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: A Melding of Different Images
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"First Light" by Wen Redmond
Wen considers First Light to be a turning point in her work. It features more than one image melded or blended together in Photoshop. It started with the statue of a Buddha that sat on Wen's windowsill. She dropped a piece of painted interfacing behind it and then took a photograph of it. She then blended that image with images of trees, a rusted car, and more to create the main image. The quilt was then constructed in Wen's segmented quilt presentation, which means the quilt is not sewn together but rather tied back together. The edges of the quilt are not bound, but painted with inexpensive paint.
See more of Wen's quilts in Create Holographic and Textured Images with Wen Redmond | Spider Web Quilt Block with Ricky Tims. |
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Do Not Adjust Your Settings
No you are not experiencing the Blue Screen of Death, although we have come across that a time or two. You are just seeing what our camera operators see as they ready The Quilt Show for another day of taping. You didn't hear it from us, by TQS is getting ready to shoot another round of shows sooner than you think. We can't say when or where, but we can tell you that it's happening someplace we've never shot before, and we'll have a host of new guests and some longtime favorites joining us. So stay tuned, because more quilting fun is heading your way! |
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