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Featured Quilt - First Place Balanced Piecing and Appliqué at Houston 2025
East Meets West by Molly Hamilton-McNally with Yange Gong won First Place - Balanced Piecing and Appliqué (Sponsord by BERNINA) at the Houston International Quilt Festival 2025. The quilt was the melding of two creative styles, featuring an original design inspired by two traditional paper piecing methods. "This quilt has an interesting and unusual background. It’s a unique collaboration and combination of the skills of two women, a Chinese student and her Chinese-American teacher. It shows the meeting of the East and West by incorporating the two traditional methods of paper piecing, the Western technique at the center of the quilt, and hand appliqué for the Eastern surrounding designs. The entire quilt is made of silk. Art unites the world." |
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See How Alex Blends Art with Hand Embroidery |
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Spark Your Creativity By Mixing Two Fields Together
Our brand new show features Alex discussing how she was inspired again by using a piece of abstractly painted fabric she created during a demo with Sherri Lipman McCauley. She cut the fabric into 18” squares and used them as the base for her project. To stay true to the original abstract design, she set guidelines for herself—focusing on the printed rings, adding embroidered squares, and using a limited color palette. She explains how to stabilize the fabric, draft and secure a stitched square grid, demonstrating lazy daisy stitches and sharing tips on choosing thread types.
Learn from Alex, and Jamie Kalvestran, by watching Making Foundation Paper Pieced and Improv Faces - Jamie Kalvestran | Hand Embroidery On Painted Fabric - Alex Anderson. |
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WeAllSew Tutorial: Make Your Own Custom Dog Collar and Leash |
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The Perfect Present for Your Pooch
Today is National Make a Dog’s Day, and what better way to celebrate than by making something special for that special friend of yours. Heather Stadelman at WeAllSew has just the gift for the occasion, as she'll show you how to make your Own Custom Dog Collar and Leash that'll show off your dog's personality and your own creativity. |
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In The Store - Hand Sewing by Becky Goldsmith |
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Was $26.95, Now $19.95!
Discover the joy of hand sewing with Becky Goldsmith’s step-by-step guide to appliqué, quilting, and paper piecing by hand, Hand Sewing: A Journey to Unplug, Slow Down & Lean Something Old. Perfectly portable and beautifully detailed, this inspiring book teaches timeless techniques and essential tools to create one-of-a-kind quilts that will last a lifetime. |
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Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game |
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What sort of magic do you conjure up to become a Memory Match expert? Well, if you're a mere mortal like most of us then you just play Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game each week to get better and better. Otherwise, you probably just wave a wand or something and get it solved for you. (Which is cheating we think!) |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: A Negative Space Portrait Quilt |
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"Malcolm X" by Lola Jenkins
Lola wanted to capture Malcolm X in a portrait due to his being so misunderstood. Thinking how she would create this in quilt, she realized she had never done a portrait in negative space. So she decided to see if she could portray Malcolm's essence using negative space. To accomplish this, she created the pieces of the portrait separately and then laid them on top of the black background.
See more of Lola's quilts in How to Make a Collage Portrait Quilt with Lola Jenkins | Quilt Finishing Techniques.
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