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Featured Quilt - Best In Show at The Festival of Quilts 2024
Congratulations to recent TQS guest and all around wonderful person Sue Sherman! Sue's quilt, Dear Humans..., just won Best In Show (Sponsored by Handi Quilter) at The Festival of Quilts 2024 in Birmingham, England. If you haven't see this quilt yet, prepare to be amazed as it is both a beautiful work of art and shares an important message as well.
Sue says of her quilt, "The animals are sending a message to humans, offering their opinion about the state of things. If you look closely, you can see where the humans have filled the sky with their empty talk about addressing habitat loss and climate change, but don’t do enough to help. Wholecloth cotton painted with thickened dyes."
If you'd like to see more of this amazing quilt, AND learn some great techniques from Sue as well, then join us right here at The Quilt Show and watch How to Paint with Thickened Dyes and Use Thread Painting with Sue Sherman | The Potato Chip Block with Tracy Mooney. |
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How Are Team USA’s 2024 Gymnastics Leotards Made? |
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Featuring 47,000 Crystals and Costing $3,000!
The 2024 Olympics are in full swing in Paris, France and we love watching the world's top athletes performing at their peak for a chance at the gold. But while the events are a sight to behold, we can't take our eyes off of the astounding uniforms we've seen the participants wearing. The prime example being Team USA's gymnastics leotards. Fortune magazine got an inside look at how these amazing uniforms were made and they are "adorned with thousands upon thousands of Swarovski crystals." Take a look and see all the work that was put into making Team USA sparkle! |
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Barbara Black's Tips for "Pick a Petal" Month 8 |
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Keeping Up With the Appliqué
Did you start Month 8 of Pick a Petal, the 2024 Block of the Month designed by Jen Kingwell, yet? Have you already finished? Are you catching up on previous months? Wherever you're at in the project, Barbara Black is here to help, this time with her tips for Month 8. She says, "This month we work on more appliqués for the Log Cabin borders." |
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Quilters Take a Moment 2024 Registration is Open |
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Virtual Event Registration is Now Open
Quilters Take a Moment (QTM), the annual fundraiser and "virtual educational series created to help you document, track, and organize your quilts," is coming back. Register for your tickets now and come back and watch all the events when QTM takes place on Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21, 2024. Click through to find out all that is going on at this annual event put on by the Quilt Alliance. |
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Our 25% Off Sizzling Summer Sale Ends Tomorrow! |
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Scorching Savings Like These Won't Last Forever
Get a hot deal on EVERYTHING but Memberships, Gift Memberships, Software, and items in our Sale department. Use code SIZZLE at checkout to get your 25% off. |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: The Touch of a Green Thumb |
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"The Patron Saint of Gardeners" by Lesley Riley
At a point when she was making dolls, Lesley read how Egyptian mummies were wrapped and was inspired to create a quilt based on that idea. The Patron Saint of Gardeners is that quilt, and Lesley likes to say that she quilted her quilt with seeds because she used a small seed stitch throughout the piece. The quilt is the first time Lesley printed a photograph on fabric to create the idea of a full-sized person.
See more of Lesley's quilts in How to Use Photos to Make Fabric (TAP - Transfer Artist Paper) with Lesley Riley. |
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How Do You Watch The Quilt Show?
One of the best features of The Quilt Show is you can watch it anywhere! On a plane, in a train, on a boat, or near moat (with a good wifi connection of course). You can even prop your phone up on your pin cushion and watch while you sew to help you follow along. Wherever, or however, you choose to watch, The Quilt Show is available to you 24/7 to help you learn at a moment's notice. |
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