Featured Quilt - 1st Place Novice Quilts at 2023 Festival of Quilts Birmingham
Eden by Antari Foster won 1st Place - Novice Quilts at the 2023 Festival of Quilts Birmingham. Using Philippa Naylor's 'Bird by Bird' pattern with slight variations as her basis, Antari's quilt is a beauty with its lush colors, floral designs, and of course, birds flying about. For her design aesthetic
throughout the quilt she says, "I personalised colours, quilting and trapunto-ed all non circle appliques to make them pop."
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Shannon Conley and Pat Holly Lead The Way In Our Latest Show! |
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Working In Miniature Means Two Different Things for Our Guests
Art quilter Shannon Conley
loves science, religion and art. As a cell biologist, biochemist,and professor by day, this fearless artist’s work, inspired by her research, often involves using experimental methods that lead to spectacular 3D sculptural quilts. A proud self described science nerd Shannon shares how she blends science and art to build sculptural quilts with Canadian Smocking and frames for organic threadwork using a woodburning tool. PLUS, Pat Holly joins us to share tips for working on a miniature scale.
Watch Shannon and Pat in Learn Canadian Smocking and Open Work with Shannon Conley | Miniature Quilts with Pat Holly, which debuts today!
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For Your Inspiration - A Modern Bridge in England
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The Infinity Bridge: A Modern Marvel in Stockton-on-Tees
This week in our series focusing on
Modern Bridges that provide inspiration for quilters, Captn' John features a bridge that is based on a mathematical concept, that of the Infinity Bridge in Stockton-on-Tees, England. There are many forms from science that have been featured in quilts, and notice how this bridge achieves its form by interacting with its environment. Do your quilts interact with your environment?
(Photo from expedition.uk.com)
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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Miriam Nathan Roberts
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Meet Miriam
For today's segment focusing on the Quilt Alliance's Quilters' Save Our
Stories (QSOS) program, we are bringing you an interview from the earlier days of the project. Recorded in 1999, Miriam Nathan Roberts is interviewed about what it's like to be a unique and contemporary quilter of the time period and discusses her quilt Tectonic Boogie, which was inspired by the major earthquake in California in 1989.
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In The Store - Flower Vase Embroidery Quilt Kit
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Everything You Need to Make a Beautiful Quilt Is Right Here!
Inspired by needlepoint, this
beautiful Flower Vase Embroidery Quilt is made up of 44 beautiful shades of high quality Tilda Solids. Our kit includes all 44 of them and the printed pattern.
Pro Tip: Get the Easy Piecing Grid and a Silicone Pressing Sheet to make assembling this quilt faster, easier, and much less of an organizational challenge!
Click below to watch a FREE Class on how to use the Easy Piecing Grid Gridded Stabilizer.
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Fandom and Creativity Meet
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"Link" by Kestrel Michaud
Link is one of Kestrel's earlier
quilts and is fanart of the main character from the video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Kestrel's husband was the one who inspired the quilt because he wanted their Nintendo Switch gaming console back after Kestel had been hogging it and playing games on it. He told her, "Hey, if you like this game so much maybe you should make a quilt." Realizing what a great idea that would be, Kestrel ended up making this quilt and her husband got the console back.
See more of Kestrel quilts in A Mod Podge Appliqué Technique and Fabric Selection with Kestrel Michaud | Embroidery Hoop Quilting with Sarah Vedeler.
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No Safety Glasses Necessary
Unlike a regular quilting class that may require you to bring in materials to
work on a project, when you're learning at The Quilt Show all you'll need is somewhere to watch the show and an open mind. Sure, you can bring a notebook to write things down, or have some fabric ready to play around with, but the ability of just being able to sit down and watch the show whenever you want and wherever you are gives you the freedom and time to take it all in at your own pace.
So join us at The Quilt Show and see why the only glasses you might need are the ones to read the screen (unless you're working with very sharp objects, then maybe you'll need some safety glasses).
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