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Weekend Fun - April 7, 2023
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Featured Quilt - It's Not Always Point A to Point B
Journeys Aren't Straight Lines by Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill was featured in the Handwork category at QuiltCon 2023. Sheri says about her own personal journey to creating this quilt, "Navigating into the third year of a global pandemic forced me to start thinking about my own path - as a designer, artist, business owner, and human. 2022 has been a year of personal and professional exploration. I designed this quilt, Journeys Aren't Straight Lines, at the beginning of 2022 and spent most of the year hand piecing (English Paper Piecing) the blocks. While stitching this project at home and while traveling to various places, I meditated and thought about what directions might
be in store for me next. While the quilt might be complete, the journey isn't over."
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On The Set with David Owen Hastings & Connie Fanders
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Modern Flair and Quilt Design Is On Its Way
David Owen Hastings and Connie
Fanders join us this Sunday for a show all about design. Want a preview of what's going to happen? Go on the set with TQS and see how David shares an easy and fun technique for testing a design using paper and machine stitches, while Connie demos computerized quilting design.
Watch David and Connie in Paper Study with a Maquette and Abstract Quilt Designs with David Owen Hastings | Quilt Designs with Connie Fanders, when it debuts this Sunday, April 9, 2023.
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The 10 Very Best Sewing Machines
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Do You Own One of the Best Sewing Machines Around?
New York Magazine's The Strategist recently
debuted an article naming the ten very best sewing machines. The machines were named best in various categories from Best Overall, Best Portable Sewing Machine, Best Splurge Sewing Machine, etc. Do you agree with their choices? Read on and find out what they picked.
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How Quilting Was Used As Therapy Throughout History
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One Stitch In, Then Another, and So On and So On
From the DAR Museum,
"Quilting, and sewing and crafts more generally, are known to have therapeutic effects. Many invalids take up knitting or sewing projects not just to pass the time, but because the meditative repetitiveness is soothing. Surely too, a sense of accomplishment while physically limited, has a beneficial effect. Occupational therapists use sewing and other needlework in their toolkit." See how Nellie Everhart of Jennings, Indiana in 1879 took the repetitive quilting therapy process to new heights to create a quilt that is 60" by 79", but all of the pieces are just 2/3 of an inch square!
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In The Store - Earth Views is Back!
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Get This Fat Quarter Bundle While You Can
Designed by retired astronaut Dr. Karen Nyberg,
Earth Views incorporates photos she took during her time on the International Space Station. Dr. Nyberg hopes that showing the beauty of the Earth through the prints will bring awareness to people about our planet and its fragility, beauty, and importance.
This bundle sold out FAST when we first had it! We were able to get a few more, but don't wait to order, as we won't be getting more after this.
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: I've Got My Eye On You
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"Zebra" by Rhonda Denney
Zebra, like Cheetah, is a part of Rhonda's The Eyes Have It series of quilts focusing on the eyes of animals. Unlike Cheetah
though, which was an appliqué quilt, Zebra is a whole cloth quilt. Both however feature Rhonda's pigment patchwork technique. Each quilt is mounted permanently to a wood panel, at the request of mentor Carol Ann Waugh, which Rhonda says was the scariest thing she ever did due to the unchangeable nature of the action.
See more of Rhonda's quilts in Learn Pigment Patchwork and Stitching for Dimension with Rhonda Denney.
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