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Weekend Fun - August 11, 2023
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Featured Quilt - Handi Quilter Best In Show Award at the 2023 Festival of Quilts Birmingham
We all know how hectic it can be being at a quilt show. The hustle and bustle, who won this, who won that, and so on. Well, the clever group of quilters known as Nine to Five took that concept and made an award-winning quilt out of it. Their quilt, Antics at The Quilt Show, won the Handi Quilter Best In Show award at the 2023 Festival of Quilts Birmingham.
Here's what they had to say about their fun and playful
design: "Our trip to Festival of Quilts 2022 was the inspiration for this quilt. We imagined Sunbonnet Sue rampaging around the show doing what she does best, leaving mayhem as she goes!!! We challenged ourselves to produce a variety of miniature quilts."
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On The Set with Shannon Conley and Pat Holly
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Science Based and Miniature Quilts Are On Their Way
Shannon
Conley, cell biologist, biochemist, professor, and quilter, and Pat Holly, master miniature quilt maker, are our guests this week on The Quilt Show. What will you be learning on this Sunday's show? A little of all that was mentioned above and so much more! Watch the on the set video to get a peek at what's to come.
Watch Shannon and Pat in Learn Canadian Smocking and Open Work with Shannon Conley | Miniature Quilts with Pat Holly, when it debuts this Sunday, August 13, 2023.
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Dee LIVE: How To Use Gridded Stabilizer
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An Efficient and Accurate Way to Stabilize Your Quilts
Join Dee Christopher to
learn about Gridded Stabilizer! What is it, why do you want it, and how do you use it? Dee will tell you all you need to know.
Dee is LIVE TOMORROW, August 12, 2023 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.
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DAR Museum: Making a Dress Using 19th-Century Dressmaking Methods
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Do You Think You Could Make a Dress from These Patterns?
From the DAR Museum:
"Our costume curator and some of her colleagues are going to try some 19th century dressmaking methods in preparation for next year’s exhibition, “Sewn in America: Making, Meaning, Memory,” which will look (among other things) at the evolution of home dressmaking."
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In The Store - All Hallows Eve Fat Quarter Bundle with Panel by Sue Zipkin for
Clothworks
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Time to Get Ready for Halloween
Make a sweet Halloween quilt featuring beautiful black cats, jolly jack-o-lanterns, spooky spider webs, and a wonderfully painterly panel.
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: "Quoth the Raven"
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"The Last Call" by Kestrel Michaud
Kestrel's goal with The Last
Call was to illustrate the idea of fate. With fate being such a nebulous concept, Kestrel wanted to know what that would look like in a two-dimensional piece of art. Using a raven as its centerpiece, considered a sign of death, doom, and gloom, a stormy night, and low lighting to produce terrifying shadows, the quilt is meant to give off a sinister tone that something bad is coming on the horizon. And, to go along with Kestrel's steampunk aesthetic seen throughout her quilts, the raven has a clockwork wing.
See more of Kestrel's quilts in A Mod Podge Appliqué Technique and Fabric Selection with Kestrel Michaud | Embroidery Hoop Quilting with Sarah Vedeler.
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