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Featured Quilt - First Place Animal Kingdom at Houston 2025
My Texas Spiny Lizard Muse by Lori Cook won First Place in the Animal Kingdom category (Sponsored by French European Dress Forms) at the Houston International Quilt Festival 2025. Lori says of her photogenic quilt subject, "The day is lovely, and once again, this Texas Spiny Lizard is out and about in my yard and my flowerpots. He runs around my feet. Once I found him inside, sunbathing on my window blinds. To my surprise, he is calm and ready for his photo-op. On hands and knees, I look into his eyes. I think we love each other. I wonder if he is a prince in disguise or a relative from another life. Thank you for inspiring me! You are My Texas Spiny Lizard Muse." |
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The Met: Installing the Wari Feathered Panels, 600–900 CE |
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What Once Adorned a Building Wall Now Hangs in The Met
From The Met: "Join scholar Carol Rodríguez and conservator Christine Giuntini in an exploration of the Wari Feathered Panels (600–900 CE), nine of which are now installed in the newly-renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. In 1943 a cache of ninety-six feather panels was found in the Churunga Valley in Peru. The panels had been rolled up and placed in ceramic jars that were then buried at a ceremonial center. Each panel is densely covered with tens of thousands of feathers, primarily from the blue-and-yellow macaw, which lives in the Amazonian rainforest." |
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WeAllSew Tutorial: Jack-O’-Lantern Free-Motion Quilting |
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Carve Up Some Great Designs Using Your Sewing Machine
Halloween is less than two weeks away, have you finished all of your decorations yet? If you haven't, or would like to add some extra frightful flair to the ones you're already working on, Lori Kennedy at WeAllSew is here to show you how to free-motion quilt Jack-O'-Lanterns on any designs you may have up your spooky sleeve. |
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Texas Tech: Overall Sam and Quilting Bees |
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From the Museum at Texas Tech University: "During the Great Depression, photographers sent out to document life across the United States often returned with images of quilters stitching together. The theme of “Stronger Together” resonated throughout the relief efforts of the era, and quilting became a powerful symbol of this collective spirit. People gathered to create quilts not only out of necessity but also as a way to support one another—sharing time, materials, and stories.
Even today, stitching with friends—whether around a guild table or at a quilting retreat—remains a meaningful way to build community and share life’s challenges."
(Above Photo: Overall Sam pillowcase made in 1930 by Anne Lindemann. Gift of Cynthia Glass, TTU-H2025-043-012 b.) |
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🍎 Harvest The Savings - FINAL DAY TO SHOP! |
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Our Fall Sale Ends Today
Get 20% Off* in our store with code FALLQUILTING at checkout.
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*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: Mixed Media by Way of Quilting |
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"Surviving Everything" by Jamie Kalvestran
When Jamie began making Surviving Everything, she looked at the art she had done in mixed media for inspiration. The common thread she noticed among the pieces was her use of a photographic eye. What are photographic eyes? They are free stock images of eyes that Jamie found on the internet and then printed onto fabric for use in her quilts. Not having done improv quilting before, Jamie approached it in this quilt liked mixed media and cut, sewed, and added pieces where she felt they were necessary. Not liking the the first look of the initial finished piece, Jamie cut one of the faces she had made in half and divided it up between the corners of the quilt and mixed the pieces together, which she liked much better.
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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What's That On the Horizon?
For us, it was a riverboat that we saw on the lake as we were taping at our beautiful location shoot in Branson, Missouri last March. For you, it can be whatever you want it to be. Your future and what you choose to learn is wide open, but if you'd like a little direction The Quilt Show is here to provide it. Pick any topic, machine quilting, embroidery, hand quilting, what have you, The Quilt Show has done it and will help you toward becoming better at it. Set sail for new quilting sights to see right here at TQS! |
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