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Featured Quilt - First Place Minimalist Design at QuiltCon 2025
Suspend by Irene Roderick won First Place - Minimalist Design (Lo & Behold Stitchery) at QuiltCon 2025. Irene says, ""Suspend" came out of a trip to Newfoundland. In spite of all the blues and greens of the forests and seas, the looming forms of giant rocks along the shore, ravaged by time spoke the clearest to me. I love the monumental presence of these craggy forms and when I returned to my studio, this happened." |
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Susan Carlson's Scrap Fabric Collage |
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Turn Your Scraps Into a Totally Tubular Turtle
Susan Carlson demonstrates how to create a simplified turtle using fabric collage, emphasizing the importance of selecting a wide variety of fabrics in our fabulous new Working with Scraps Masterclass. Watch how color sequencing, value, blending, and fussy cutting prints are used to mimic details like the turtle’s feet, barnacles, and the background. Then, see how tiny strips of fabric can be used to create shading on the turtle.
Learn from Susan, and the other Scrap Masters, by watching Working with Scraps | Scraps Masterclass. |
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SAQA’s 2025 Spotlight Auction |
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Get Your Bidding Paddles Ready!
From SAQA: "The Spotlight Auction will be an online event taking place from March 26, 2025 to April 5, 2025. Pieces will also be displayed at the 2025 SAQA "Fabricating Excellence" Conference. You do NOT have to attend the conference to participate - bidding is open to everyone. All proceeds will help support SAQA programs."
(Above Quilt: Melting by Catheryn L. Cheal) |
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Textile Talks: We Gather at the Edge - Black Women and Contemporary Quilts |
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Curating The Collection of Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi
Presented by SAQA: "We Gather at the Edge: Black Women and Contemporary Quilts is an exhibition that celebrates Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi's collection acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2024. The exhibition is organized around themes that reveal why Black women gather. The quilts, diverse in style and technique, share histories of consciousness, personal memories, and calls to action."
Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, March 26, 2025, at 2 PM EDT.
(Above Quilt: Myrah Brown Green, In My Akuabaa Form, 2000, cotton fabric and cotton batt, 95 × 86 in. (241.3 × 218.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Fleur S. Bresler, 2023.40.19, © 2000, Myrah Brown Green) |
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In The Store - Seeing Spots & Poppie Cotton Rulers |
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Seeing Spots from Poppie Cotton |
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Pink Poppie Cotton Rulers |
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Poppie Is the Perfect Choice For Your Quilting Needs
Polka dots and pink rulers—a patchwork-perfect match from Poppie Cotton! Add a pop of fun to your projects with playful dot fabrics, perfectly paired with your favorite pink quilting tools. |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Hamilton and the "Hurricane" |
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"Hurricane" by Ricky Tims
When Meg Cox appeared on The Quilt Show, she, Alex and Ricky issued each other a challenge to create a quilt based on a broadway musical. For Ricky's quilt, it should come as a surprise to no one that his inspiration was his favorite musical, Hamilton, based on the life of Alexander Hamilton. The quilt, Hurricane, takes it's name and inspiration from a key point in Hamilton's life when a hurricane ravaged his town. Alexander wrote an essay in response to the storm and after reading it a group raised funds for him to travel to New York to receive his college education and start his path towards the American Revolution. Ricky says, "There is a song where Hamilton is reminiscing about life and how his words have been his salvation as well as his ticket to advancement. In the song he sings, “In the eye of the hurricane there is quiet, for just a moment, a yellow sky”. That phrase became my inspiration for this quilt."
See Ricky's quilt and the other challenge quilts in Challenge Quilt Designs with Meg Cox, Alex Anderson, and Ricky Tims.
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