Best Wall Quilt - 2022 AQS QuiltWeek Grand Rapids, Dior - Making of Essence d'Herbier, QSOS with Joe Cunningham, How to Sew Simple Fabric Bows, Our Taping Sale Continues, A Valuable Puzzle

Featured Quilt - You'll Go Bananas For This Quilt

You might have recently seen that Deborah Hyde won Best of Show at the 2022 QuiltFest in New England with her quilt Persephone (Jenn). Well, now she's won another award at a different show. Her quilt, Monkeys in My Hair (Evie) won the Best Wall Quilt Award at the 2022 AQS QuiltWeek in Grand Rapids.

Look deep into the quilt and see if you can spot all of the details, because it's here where you'll figure out where the quilt got its name. Deborah says, "Monkeys in My Hair has been my most ambitious project so far. There are 2 monkeys in her hair, but can you count the birds? The butterflies? The Frogs? The dragonflies? Even I have not taken time to add up the bees, flies, and ladybugs!"

Delectable Dior Does It Again

"In 2017, to coincide with the NGV’s House of Dior: Seventy years of Haute Couture, two new couture works were commissioned for the fashion and textiles collection with funds donated by the David Richards Bequest and the F&T Supporters Group. Essence d’Herbier was commissioned by the NGV after Katie Somerville, Senior Curator Fashion and Textiles attended Maria Grazia Chiuri’s first Dior Couture show in Paris in January 2017." - NGVMelbourne

You'll want to see how this masterpiece was created.

Joltin' Joe Is Here To Share His Story

This week's guest from the Quilt Alliance Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program is a special one. It's Joe Cunningham, who was the very first guest on The Quilt Show over fifteen years ago. In this interview, he shares his quilt, Tree Everlasting, "which he made in 2001 as part of his musical exploring the life of Joe Hedley from England, who lived in the early 19th century." He also "describes his evolving philosophy of the intersections among quilts, art, and tradition."

Tied Together With a Nice Bow

For some quilters, their hair can sometimes be more foe then friend, getting in the way when they're trying to sew those close up stitches. But not anymore! Christina Kenkel at WeAllSew has a quick, simple, and fun tutorial all about making Fabric Hair Bows that will keep your hair tied up nice and neat so that your quilting can get done quick and sweet. With minimal fabric required, and a barrage of colors at your disposal, you'll be creating a collection of them in no time.

"Value" by Blair Stocker

When people would come to Blair's upcycling classes, they would often ask for guidance and direction on how to create a design out of the unrelated fabrics that they brought. This quilt, Value, was the solution to the question her students were asking. The quilt takes little scraps of fabric and divides them up into different values from light to dark, thereby creating order out of the chaos of the mismatched fabrics.

See more of Blair's quilts in Upcycling Tips for a T-Shirt Quilt with Blair Stocker | Learn Creative Quilting Stitches on a Serger with Pam Mahshie.

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