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Featured Quilt - First Place Wall Quilts: Modern Quilts at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2025
Prickly Pear by Susan Braverman won First Place in the Wall Quilts: Modern Quilts category (Sponsored by by Statler by Gammill) at AQS QuiltWeek - Paducah 2025. This is not Susan's first award for this quilt, as it also received First Place in the Pieced category (Sponsored by TrueCut) at the 2023 Houston International Quilt Festival. This Modern marvel takes some quilting's time-honored designs and turns them on its head to create something new and exciting.
Susan says, "The familiar New York Beauty block gets an unexpected makeover with scale and vivid color. The blocks are all made from the same fabrics, but dense straight-line quilting with different thread colors provides a nuance of visual variation and definition. The graphic blocks bring to mind the colorful blooms, sharp spines, and round shapes of the prickly pear cactus." |
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Making Improv "Littles" with Karla Alexander |
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Find Out Why These "Littles" Are a BIG Deal
In our latest show, Karla Alexander shares how to construct 'littles' —miniature improv units (without paper piecing) that can be used to create small quilted items or act as filler in a larger quilt. Don’t miss the clever ruler guide tip using Post-it notes, and her technique for adding a 'bridge' to transition seamlessly from one fabric to another.
Learn from Karla, and Ricky, by watching Improv Littles, Inset Circles and Arcs the Karla Alexander Way | Learn How to Make Ricky Tims’ Blink Block. |
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Alex Anderson LIVE: AQS Paducah Top Quilt Winners 2025 |
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A Wrap-Up of This Year's Winners and More!
The Quilt Show had a wonderful time at the 2025 AQS Paducah Quilt Show. Alex will talk about the show, the atmosphere, and show you the top winners (with close ups).
Then we talk with Kristin Goedert, TheQuiltShow.com Director of Marketing, about her quilt that got into QuiltCon this year.
Alex is LIVE TODAY, May 5, 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: Textile Travels in Uzbekistan - Marin Hanson and Roderick Kiracofe Reflect on Their Recent Trip to Central Asia |
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Take a Textile Tour In The Latest Textile Talk
Presented by the International Quilt Museum: "IQM Curator of International Collections Marin Hanson and International Advisory Board Member Roderick Kiracofe look back on their recent trip exploring the textiles of Uzbekistan."
Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 2 PM EDT. |
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In The Store - Eight Point Star Quilt Kit by Heather Ross for Windham Fabrics |
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This Is Eight Point Star Kit Is a "Ten" In Our Books
Create a striking star quilt with our Eight Point Star Quilt Kit, featuring vibrant Ruby + Bee solids and Blenders. The kit includes all the fabric you need for the quilt top and binding. |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: How "Bazaar" |
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"Bazaar Quilt" by Tara Faughnan
Utilizing folded fabric, Tara's Bazaar Quilt is an improv wonder. In order to make the quilt, Tara had to lay down a row and sew it, then the next, and work her way up the quilt. This means she had to imagine how the quilt was going to look before quilting each row, causing some patterns to go in and out as the quilt was made. When viewed in full, it's amazing to see how all the patterns come together.
See more of Tara's quilts in A New Way to Look at Color with Tara Faughnan | Quilt Studio Tour Diana McClun.
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