First Place - Modern Traditionalism at QuiltCon 2024, Hand Stitching with Maday Delgado, Eclipse Quilts at the LaSells Stewart Center in Oregon, Textile Talks: Identity Is... Expansive - A Conversation with Michael Sylvan Robinson and Elissa Auther, Back In Stock - Jewel Tools Seam Presses, An Autumnal Puzzle in Spring
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April 8, 2024
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Featured Quilt - First Place Modern Traditionalism at QuiltCon 2024
Kiwi Peel by Ben Darby won First Place - Modern Traditionalism (Sponsored by String & Story) at QuiltCon 2024. What inspired Ben's quilt? He says, "Based on inspiration seen in an upholstery fabric, I used computer drawing software to quilt overlapping distorted circles, and had templates made for the resulting shapes. The fabrics are all Alison Glass Kaleidoscope yarn dyes. This is the second of what may become a series of quilts using these shapes."
Similar in design to Kiwi Peel is Ben's quilt Corona Wedding Dish, which he most likely considers the first in the series he was speaking about and won the BERNINA Best Sewing Machine Workmanship at the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza. See both quilts below and see if you spot the similarities and
differences between the two.
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Hand Stitching with Maday Delgado
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Creating Hand Stitched Works with Sustainable Fabrics
Maday Delgado begins her first demo on our new show by discussing waste in the textile industry and how she sources fabric from thrift stores, gifted clothes, cast offs, and more to have a wide variety of patterns, colors, and textures that she can incorporate into a quilt.
It’s then onto learning about the tools needed for hand quilting and stitching when you are working with these different types of fabric. Lastly she shares her quilt-as-you-go technique with pre-basting that allows you to easily hand quilt each panel individually before stitching the entire quilt together and samples of completed pieces.
Learn from Maday by watching her in Improv Curved Piecing and Stitching with Maday Delgado | Working with Scraps with Ricky Tims.
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Eclipse Quilts at the LaSells Stewart Center in Oregon
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Will You Be Inspired By This Cosmic Event?
Today there will a total solar eclipse occurring over North America, with the path of totality (when the moon completely covers the sun) crossing over the state of Texas in the cities of San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas. One of the last times a total solar eclipse happened in North America was in 2017, where the path of totality crossed over the state of Oregon.
The artists in Oregon were very inspired by this Great American Eclipse and created some quilts based on it. Here are a few of the quilts that were on display in the LaSells Stewart Center at the Oregon State University campus a few days before the big event took place.
(Above Quilt Photo: Eclipse in the Valley by Karen Miller)
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Textile Talks: Identity Is... Expansive - A Conversation with Michael Sylvan Robinson and Elissa Auther
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Learn How One Garment Can Embody A Concept
Presented by Surface Design Association: "Join us for Identity Is… Expansive with artist Michael Sylvan Robinson and Elissa Auther, MAD’s Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and William and Milford Lasdon Chief Curator. For his appearance at the MET Museum’s Gala in 2021, award-winning theater producer and fashion icon Jordan Roth commissioned the textile artist and queer activist Michael Sylvan Robinson to design a garment that represented Roth’s embrace of identity as an expansive concept."
Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
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Back In Stock - Jewel Tools Seam Presses
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These Sell Out Quickly, So Don't Wait To Order
Press those seams in style! This handy little tool is great to keep next to your sewing machine for those times when you don't want to get up and press with an iron. The resin tools have real stones inside, making them extra pretty and giving them a nice weight.
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: From a Photo of Fall Foliage
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