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Featured Quilt - Second Place Large Quilts: 1st Entry in an AQS Paducah Quilt Contest at Paducah 2025
Wetlands by Paula Curry won Second Place - Large Quilts: 1st Entry in an AQS Paducah Quilt Contest (Sponsored by Gammill®) at AQS QuiltWeek – Paducah 2025. Paula's quilt takes its inspiration from two different patterns by Judy & Bradley Niemeyer at Quiltworx.com, which are Cattails in the Meadow and Celtic Sunrise. Quilted by Sherry May, we love the way Paula uses machine appliqué, foundation piecing, machine piecing, paper piecing, and free motion quilting to vividly create the Wetlands of the title. |
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Creating Pet Portraits with Jane Haworth |
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Find Out How She Does It, and Gets the Eyes Just Right Too
On our latest show, Jane Haworth shows how she creates her exquisite pet portraits. Starting with a line drawing from an original photograph, she uploads and enlarges the photo to create the pattern and guides for your fabric shapes. She then shares examples of fabrics for fur, the nose, and other textural elements of the animal before moving on to one of the most important features—the eyes.
Jane believes the eyes are what give an animal its personality and sense of life. She demonstrates how small details, such as shadows and highlights, can make the eyes appear lifelike and expressive.
Learn from Jane, and Alex, by watching Make a Pet Portrait and How to Create a Collage Background with Jane Haworth | How to Block a Quilt with Alex Anderson. |
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Alex Anderson LIVE: Exotic Quilt Edges and Bindings |
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Quilting Keeps Growing and Changing
At this year's Paducah Quilt Show we saw a lot of creativity on the edge of the quilts. Alex brings you pictures of these fun finishes.
Alex is LIVE TODAY, May 19, 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: Cecilia Koppmann Shares the Healing Power of Quilts in an Interview with Teresa Duryea Wong |
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A Wonderful Discussion on the Power of Quilting and Quilts
Presented by SAQA: "Cecilia Koppmann is an award-winning artist based in Argentina who is known for her striking, modern quilts, as well as her generous teaching style. Throughout her adult life, Cecilia believes the art of quilting has rescued her multiple times, specifically during two different bouts with cancer, the pandemic, as well as moments of personal stress. In this interview by Teresa Duryea Wong, Cecilia will share how the power of quilts has helped her heal in her own life, and how others can apply these life lessons to their own journeys."
Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, May 21, 2025, at 2 PM EDT.
[Above Photo: Grief (Duelo) by Cecilia Koppmann] |
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In The Store - Home Sweet Haunt Fat Quarter Bundle from Moda Fabrics |
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Get a Head Start on your Halloween Sewing!
This sweetly scary bundle from Stacy Iest Hsu for Moda includes all your Halloween favorites - pumpkins, ghosts, black cats, and lots more. It also comes with a panel that can be left whole as the center of a quick quilt, or separated into blocks. |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: A Quilt Made Among Friends |
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"Friendship" by Tommy Romono
Friendship is one of Tommy's students' favorite quilts. He hangs it up in his classroom and as a bonus for quizzes asks them how many triangles are in the quilt. It was created as part of a block exchange with Tommy's local quilt store in Katy, which is a suburb of Houston. Blocks were submitted, returned, and exchanged around, which is why her called it Friendship, because it features all sorts of fabrics coming together to make the quilt, just as different people come into your life to help you out.
See more of Tommy's quilts in Top 10 Tips for Quilt Piecing and Patchwork with Tommy Romano.
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