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Featured Quilt - First Place Abstract at Houston 2024
Climb Every Mountain by Kazuyo Doi won First Place - Abstract (Sponsored Sew Steady) at the Houston International Quilt Festival 2024. Kazuyo's quilt is an original design and features machine piecing and quilting, along with hand appliqué. She says, “I am grateful for my mother, who loved life. She suddenly passed away while gathering cherry tomatoes in her mountain cottage garden on a hot summer day. Each appliquéd circle on the left side, both the colored and the white ones, represents an alphabet that I designed and named The Tomato Code. It reminds me of her life and encourages me at the same time.” |
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Learn Ice Dyeing with Lynn Koolish |
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This Demo Is Beyond "Cool"
Lynn Koolish begins our latest show by introducing the fundamentals of dyeing fabric with ice and powder dyes, which create vibrant colors and intricate patterns. She explains how to achieve various effects depending on whether the dye is applied before or after the ice. Lynn also demonstrates how basic tools from around the house can be used to create a range of design effects, including spirals, stripes, and abstract mandalas.
Learn from Lynn, Sujata Shah, Mel Beach, and Pati Fried by watching Ice Dyeing with Lynn Koolish, Lattice Blocks with Sujata Shah, Block Prints with Mel Beach, Fabric Books with Pati Fried. |
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WeAllSew Tutorial: How to Make a Halloween Mask |
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It's Almost Time for Halloween
How about making a different kind of mask just for fun? Here's a quick and easy tutorial from Stacy Schlyer at Stacy Sews and WeAllSew. This project is a great base for all sorts of costumes whether it’s a superhero or villain. (We don't recommend wearing all of your masks at the same time) |
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Textile Talks: Connecting Threads - Socially Engaged Textiles in Practice |
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Social History Discussed Through Historical Textiles
Presented by the International Quilt Museum: "Join the International Quilt Museum for a special Textile Talk with Lynn Setterington! Setterington is a major British textile artist known for her hand-stitched quilts and embroideries. She creates tactile social history documents working with groups and communities to celebrate the overlooked and interrogate social injustices. Her research draws on popular culture, folk and textile history and she has undertaken many large-scale commissions with museum and galleries. Setterington’s work is in many museum collections including the V&A, Terrance Higgins Trust, Denver Museum of Art and the IQM in the US."
Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, October 30, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
(Above Photo: Artwork by Lynn Setterington) |
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In The Store - Pin Cushion Ring from Little House Japan |
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The Only Time You Want To Put A Pin In Your Finger
Pin Cushion Rigs from Little House make for convenient pin storage, keeping your pins close at hand (Ha! see what we did there?) during fiddly projects like English Paper Piecing, appliqué, or miniature quilting - anything where you add and remove pins frequently. |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Not Your "Garden" Variety Quilt |
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"Round the Garden" by Wendy Williams
When people hear the name Wendy Williams in the quilting world, they probably think of her Round the Garden quilt. Featuring wonderful wool work and embellishments, it stands out most because of its circular design. This design, which you may have already figured out, is a predecessor and influence on our 2021 BOM Color My World.
See more of Wendy's quilts and learn from Barbara Black in Block of the Month Quilt 2021 Color My World with Barbara Black | Organization Tips With Lilo Bowman. |
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