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Featured Quilt - Superior Threads Best Miniature Quilt Award at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2025
Scandinavian Summer by Barbara Kilbourn won the Superior Threads Best Miniature Quilt Award at AQS QuiltWeek - Paducah 2025. "Barbara's original design was inspired by traditional Scandinavian folk art. Because her grandfather was Swedish, she made the quilt to honor her Scandinavian heritage. The 14" x 14" quilt includes 329 appliquéd pieces and 100 scallops. Barbara says, "Quilting is a journey. Be open to trying new things."" |
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The Unlimited Opportunities of DIY Silk Screens with Lauren Vlcek |
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Silkscreen Your Way to Success
In our brand new Masterclass on Surface Applications, Lauren Vlcek shares a fun and budget-friendly way to design and create your own silk screen. Once it's made, she offers tips and tricks for printing on both solid and patterned fabrics. She even demonstrates how to enhance commercial prints using your custom DIY silk-screen designs.
Learn from Lauren, and the other Surface Design Masters, by watching them in Using Surface Applications | Surface Design Masterclass 1. |
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Alex Anderson LIVE: "Wishes" - Class 04 |
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The Fly Stitch
Alex will demonstrate the Fly Stitch for her Wishes Wool Appliqué class. It is used as decoration on the stems of the plants. These stitches expand your skills and make your project more joyful.
Alex is LIVE TODAY, June 16, 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: Muscogee Journey - An Exploration of Identity, Belonging, Home and Heritage – Melinda Schwakhofer |
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An Exploration of a Journey
Presented by SAQA: "Join Melinda Schwakhofer on her Muscogee Journey, the story of how Schwakhofer has used art quilts and textile art to map her re-connection with her Native American roots. Schwakhofer began this body of work in 2008 to process and articulate not only her personal story and exploration of challenging family roots, but also how her personal experiences relate to the wider story of her Muscogee ancestry."
Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, June 18, 2025, at 2 PM EDT.
(Above Photo: Melinda Schwakhofer - As Long As Grass Grows) |
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In The Store - "Patchwork Math Using Quilting Design Components" by Lynn Wilder (Our 2025 BOM Designer!) |
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This Is a Tool Every Quilter Should Have in Their Arsenal!
Patchwork Math makes easy work of those tough Math situations we sometimes get into when making a quilt. This handy guide has formulas and piecing techniques for dozens of the most common quilting blocks, including half square triangles, quarter square triangles, Y-Squares, flying geese, and lots more!
Patchwork Math user T.M. says, "Lynn's easy patchwork math is a must have for anyone wanting to resize block. It has saved me so much work whether I am following a pattern exactly or working on my own designs. Thanks Lynn" |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: An Unconventional Wonderland |
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