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Featured Quilt - First Place Abstract at Houston 2025
Red Molly by Karen K. Stone won First Place in the new Abstract category featured at Houston International Quilt Festival 2025. Karen says, "This was improvisationally pieced and machine quilted. The title is from Richard Thompson’s song, “1952 Vincent Black Lightning.”"
Learn from Karen right here at The Quilt Show by watching her in How to Do English Paper Piecing with Karen K Stone | See an Antique Quilt Collection.
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An Interview with Ricky Tims From Houston 2025 About His Quilt, "The Visitation" |
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Get The Scoop On This Year's Best of Show Winner and More
As has been mentioned once or twice around here, our very own Ricky Tims won Best of Show at this year's Houston International Quilt Festival for his quilt, The Visitation. The quilt is quite the sight to see on its own, but knowing the story behind it gives it a personal connection that will help you to appreciate it on a deeper level. Our friends at BERNINA interviewed Ricky on the floor of Houston to get that story, take a look at his career in quilting, and more.
Plus, in case you haven't heard, Ricky and company are looking to turn The Visitation into a mural in Paducah, KY as part of The Quilt Mural Project. They need your help to fund it and are halfway towards their goal. Find out how you can participate in making this dream a reality and help make The Visitation last for generations to come.
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2025 World of WearableArt Show: RISE Highlights |
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See Outfits Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
From the World of WearableArt: "At the 2025 World of WearableArt Show: RISE, we invited audiences to enter an imagined city teeming with creative energy. The WOW Show is a world-class arena spectacle seen by 60,000 people over three weeks in Wellington, New Zealand. The stage comes alive with works of wearable art, dancers, aerialists, captivating music, and awe-inspiring performance. Featuring 85 garments by 100 finalist designers from around the world, the 2025 section themes were Open, Avant-garde, Air, Aotearoa, Neon and Myths & Legends." |
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Dee LIVE: Quilting by the Book With a Splash of Color - Class 03 |
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Owls Well That Ends Well
Join Dee Christopher for Class 3 of our FREE, multi-week quilting adventure based on Judy Gauthier's book, Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers! This week you'll be covering row by row finishing of one owl block along with discussing color and fabric choices.
Dee is LIVE TOMORROW, October 18, 2025 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later. |
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Our Fall Sale Continues
Treat yourself to 20% Off* in our store with code FALLQUILTING at checkout.
STAR MEMBERS - check your email for a special code that gives you BONUS SAVINGS!
*Offer excludes already marked down products in our Sale Department, software, BOM kits, and Memberships & Gift Memberships. |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: An Air of Nobility |
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"Ennobled" by Jamie Kalvestran
Alex first saw Ennobled on Facebook and was enthralled by it. And even though she didn't know who made it, she need to find out who that was. That person turned out to be Jamie Kalvestran, who created the quilt back in 2024 as a way to see if she could quilt and find the same joy and excitement she found when creating artwork. The title came about as a word that just kept popping into Jamie's head as she was finishing up the quilt. Unsure of what it meant, she looked it up and discovered it typically refers to being raised up into nobility. But the definition that she found that resonated with her was more about finding ourselves pursuing something that lifts us up, meaning that we feel ennobled. Once she completed the quilt, Jamie herself felt ennobled, or empowered, and believed that the quilt gave off the look of nobility.
See more of Jamie's quilts in Making Foundation Paper Pieced and Improv Faces - Jamie Kalvestran | Hand Embroidery On Painted Fabric - Alex Anderson. |
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