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Featured Quilt - Amazing Hand Quilting on a Nearly 200 Year Old Quilt
Captn' John saw this Applique Rose Quilt at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles while on a recent visit. He was amazed by the tiny and intricate hand quilting. Unfortunately, the quiltmaker is unknown (remember to label your quilts people). Take a look and see if you are amazed too.
If you enjoyed this quilt, and would like to see more like it, please consider supporting the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, who are in need of donations to keep its doors open and continue operating. Click the button below to learn more and how you can lend your support.
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Our Brand New Show with Maday Delgado Debuts Today!
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See Sustainable Art Made with Hand Stitching and Improv Piecing
Maday Delgado’s passion for taking care of the environment is directly related to her colorful and dynamic quilts made using upcycled fabrics combined with hand stitching. She considers herself to be a visual storyteller who loves to embrace slow, mindful stitching mixed with bold color choices and freeform shapes. Learn how to work with sourced fabrics, hand stitching, and how to sew free form cut, no pin blocks. Plus, Ricky gets in on the fun too and shares helpful tips for using scraps to build fabric that can become the background for art quilts or cut into units for traditional 9-patch blocks.
Watch Maday in Improv Curved Piecing and Stitching with Maday Delgado | Working with Scraps with Ricky Tims, which debuts today!
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“A New Deal for Quilts” Exhibit on Display at the International Quilt Museum |
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See How Quiltmaking Got People Through Tough Times
From the International Quilt Museum (IQM): "Have you seen “A New Deal for Quilts” yet? Set aside some time to join us before the exhibition closes on April 20! With quilts from the IQM collection as well as historical photos and documentary sources, this exhibition tells the stories of quiltmakers in the United States and how they coped with the hard times of the Great Depression. It also explores how quiltmaking was used by government agencies as an emblem of American perseverance and frugality, and to promote new vocational and homemaking skills for women."
The exhibit will be on display from now through April 20, 2024 at the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Barbara Black's Tips for "Pick a Petal" Month 4 |
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It's Time to Start Building Log Cabin Blocks
Barbara Black returns with another set of handy and helpful tips to get you going on Month 4 of the 2024 TQS BOM, Pick a Petal, designed by Jen Kingwell. Here's what Barbara has to say about this month, "This month we make the Log Cabin blocks from light neutrals/low volume prints. They will form a border that gets lots of appliqué and embroidery embellishment."
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In The Store - Australian Aboriginal Designs Fabrics & Pattern Book from M&S Textiles, Australia
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Australian Aboriginal Designs Fat Quarter
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"Australian Spirit: Designer Projects to Quilt, Fuse and Sew" by Barbara Campbell
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Go Down Under With These Vibrant Fabrics and Great Book
These beautiful and unique Australian Aboriginal Designs Fabrics feature original designs from accomplished indigenous artists representing waterholes, bush seeds, gatherings, ancient stories, desert flowers, and many more traditional symbols and stories. The tradition of these symbols and stories goes back 50,000 years revealed by carbon dating of rock painting and cave painting.
The pattern book, Australian Spirit: Designer Projects to Quilt, Fuse and Sew offers 9 creative projects plus information about traditional aboriginal symbols and motifs and their meanings.
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: All Kinds of Triangular Fun
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"45 Degrees" by Cathy Perlmutter
Cathy's 45 Degrees quilt is the type of work that she is doing now that features, as the title would suggest, 45 degree triangles. These triangles can be played with in a similar improv way to 60 degree triangles, with Cathy finding the 60 degree ones to be more liberating in terms of design while the 45 degree ones can be a little bit more complicated.
See more of Cathy's quilts in Improv Log Cabin Triangle Piecing, Cityscapes, and Judaic Quilting with Cathy Perlmutter.
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Shining A Light On Quilting Talent
This week The Quilt Show turns its spotlight on Maday Delgado, and with it we bring you a piece of the quilting world ripe with possibilities ready to be discovered. Every month TQS is welcoming brand new guests, some experienced professionals and others fresh on the scene ready for their shot. This mix of talent provides a wide spectrum of learning opportunities for all to take part in. Join us and soak up the knowledge of quilting teacher's
past, present, and future.
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