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Sunday Smiles - April 9, 2023
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Featured Quilt - 2,500 Pieces of Fabric, 100 Hours to Create
Maya Angelou by Devida Bushrod was featured in the AP&Q Log Cabin Quilting Challenge at QuiltCon 2023. She says, "This quilt of Maya Angelou is made up completely of log cabin blocks. Each of the 108 blocks has a center element that is built upon. As
much as possible I tried to keep the center element one solid color, but there are places that it would have taken away critical details, so on those blocks the center element may be broken down into 4 squares. I made this quilt to honour Maya's legacy as I admire her work. This is the second version of this quilt, the other version was made without the log cabins throughout and has been offered to a museum, I made this version to keep for myself and challenged myself to make it slight differently with the log cabins. It is made up of 12 different colours of fabric, approx. 2,500 pieces of fabric and took in the region of 100 hours to create."
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David Owen Hastings Is Your Conductor On Our Brand New Show!
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All Aboard The Train To Modern Land
Graphic designer, gallery owner, and modern quilter David Owen Hastings brings a unique approach to his modern, minimalist, and graphic quilt work. He shares an easy and fun technique for testing a design using paper and machine stitches. Then learn how he transforms an architectural photo into an abstract quilt design.
Plus, BERNINA embroidery expert Connie Fanders stops by to share how to design your own computerized quilting design for your domestic machine.
Watch David and Connie in Paper Study with a Maquette and Abstract Quilt Designs with David Owen Hastings | Quilt Designs with Connie Fanders, which debuts today!
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See The "What That Quilt Knows About Me" Exhibition
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A New Exhibit at the American Folk Art Museum
From the American Folk Art Museum,
"Featuring 35 quilts and related works of art, What That Quilt Knows About Me will explore the deeply personal and emotional power associated with the experience of making and living with quilts. The exhibition’s title conveys the idea that quilts have the capacity for “knowing” or containing information about the human experience. Reflecting on this sentiment, the exhibition presents quilts as collections of intimate stories."
What That Quilt Knows About Me is on display at the American Folk Art Museum in New York, NY from March 17, 2023 to October 29, 2023.
(Above Quilt - Kaleidoscope XVI: More is More by Paula Nadelstern)
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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Carolyn Mazloomi
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A Brilliant Story Told and Saved
The Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance brings us another riveting interview this week. Conducted in 2009 with Karen Musgrave, Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, Historian, Curator, Author, Lecturer, Artist, Mentor, Founder, and Facilitator, talks about her quilt He Stands on the Shoulders of Many, a story quilt made for the 2009 exhibit "Quilts for Obama" at the Historical Society of Washington, DC, as well as the Women of Color Quilters' Network, which Mazloomi founded in 1985.
(Photo: carolynmazloomi.com)
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In The Store - "Guess How Much I Love You" Precuts by Anita Jeram for Clothworks
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Sweet Fabrics to Make an Even Sweeter Quilt
These sweet fabrics feature wonderful illustrations of Big &
Little Nutbrown Hare from the beloved childrens' book Guess How Much I Love You. Available in two different colorways, blue and pink, use them to make a treasured quilt with a loving sentiment for a baby or child!
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: A Goat To Gloat About
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"Henry the Goat" by Rhonda Denney
Henry the Goat is a
portrait quilt of one of the two goats that Rhonda owns. She took a collage class with Sue Carlson, and Henry was the design she wanted to make in the class. Rhonda changed the color palette from the original photo, and the quilt just came out of the fabric in a wonderful and lively way. The piece is one of Rhonda's most popular that people always take notice of when it is displayed.
See more of Rhonda's quilts in Learn Pigment Patchwork and Stitching for Dimension with Rhonda Denney.
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Sharpening Your Skills
We're all a little dull and rusty when it comes to learning a new skill.
But that's okay, and that's where The Quilt Show can come and help you! We know every topic we cover won't be familiar to all quilters, so that's why we bring in the best teachers to teach them to you. Spend an hour with any of our shows and you'll be on your way to becoming an expert on a new quilting subject.
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