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Featured Quilt - Best Original Modern Design at QuiltCon 2025
Poppy Quilt by Audrey Esarey won Best Original Modern Design (Sponsored by A Gathering of Stitches) at QuiltCon 2025. Audrey says, "This is my version of a flower quilt block designed using primarily curved piecing. The various reds contrast against the turquoise fabric, and the corner stars create a secondary mini block that continues into the border. A subtle color gradation is applied diagonally throughout the design. While not directly inspired by another quilt block, the Poppy Quilt shares some design elements with a traditional block, the Petal Circle in a Square, dating back to 1955." |
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Ann Feitelson and Alex Anderson Bring Their "A" Game to an All New Quilt Show |
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Here A, B, C Stands for Ann/Alex, (Quilt) Backings, and Color
Meet Ann Feitelson, a painter, passionate knitting educator, and quilt artist with three art degrees. She’s renowned for her intricate, vibrant quilts that showcase a perfect blend of artistic techniques. Learn how to design stunning half-circles of radiating stripes using freezer paper templates, and discover how gradation and color sequencing can add a dynamic sense of motion and flow to your quilt designs. Plus, Alex shares tips about the importance of not overlooking your quilt backing.
Watch Ann and Alex in Half Circles, Stripes, and Gradation Color Sequences with Ann Feitelson | Quilt Backs with Alex Anderson, which debuts today! |
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Barbara Black's Tips for "Laurel Ridge" Month 3 |
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Tips and Tricks for Triangles of the Half Square Nature
So you got your patterns for Month 3 of Laurel Ridge, the 2025 Block Of the Month designed by Lynn Wilder, a few days early. Have you finished this month's blocks already? Do you need a little extra help? Barbara Black has her go-to set of tips and tricks just for that. She says, "This month we make Half Square Triangles--BIG ONES! We make a lot, 48 total, but the designer's method for making 8 at once makes it fast and easy." |
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The "Laurel Ridge" Story Continues |
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Have You Been Following Along?
In addition to designing Laurel Ridge, our magnificent 2025 Block Of the Month, Lynn Wilder also created a story to go along with the quilt. Each month we will be featuring a chapter of the Laurel Ridge story. Each chapter will be available under the Patterns/Documents Tab.
Lynn's Laurel Ridge quilt design pays homage to the courageous women of the 1930s American Depression era who were employed by the newly established Work Progress Administration (WPA) as Packhorse Librarians, the pioneering traveling 'bookmobile'. Follow the story of some of these women every month as you create your Laurel Ridge quilt.
Catch up on the first two chapters of the story below, then read the newest chapter for Month 3. |
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In The Store - Introducing Mayfair from Andover Fabrics |
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Mayfair Fat Quarter Bundle |
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Just In Time For Spring
These charming Mayfair Bundles from Andover Fabrics showcase playful conversational prints featuring squirrels, ducks, and rabbits, paired with coordinating dot prints for an extra touch of whimsy. Perfect for springtime sewing and stitching up delightful Easter treats! |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Soaring On The Wind
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Are You Seeing Spots?
No, your eyesight hasn't gone bad, those are the colorful spots, or dots, or circles, that feature prominently in the quilts of Kyra Reps. How Kyra made and incorporated those into her design was just one of the many things we learned in our latest show. But there's still so much more to learn as well! With over 450 episodes of The Quilt Show you can teach yourself a new topic everyday for over a year-and-a-half, and our shows usually feature multiple demos and techniques. So maybe it's good that you're seeing spots, and squares, and half-square triangles, because it means you're just becoming a better quilter right here at The Quilt Show!
(Above Photo: Detail Shot of Kyra Reps' Quilt, Serendipity) |
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