Third Place - Pictorial-Small at Houston 2023, Learn How to Embroider On Silk from Alex Anderson, Alex LIVE: Vintage Quilts at The Houston Quilt Show, In The Store - Reducing Lens by Kaffe Fassett Designs, Memory Match Game, A Dog Puzzle

Welcome to Wednesday - December 13, 2023

Featured Quilt - Third Place Pictorial-Small at Houston 2023

Sons of Sons of Kings by Georgia Williams, and quilted by Dena Angela Miskel, won Third Place - Pictorial-Small (Sponsored by AllBrands.com) at the 2023 Houston International Quilt Festival. Georgia was very happy to make this quilt and bring history to life for quilters and everyone else who got to see it. She says, "What an honor it was for me to create this quilt of our first Black congressman as a visual Black History teaching moment. Using the public domain image from the Library of Congress, I hope to enlighten individuals who are unaware. Due to segregation laws, our presence in Congress unjustly came to a halt in 1901. We did not regain our rightful place in Congress until 1928. This brought about a new sense of hope, albeit an arduous journey forward!"

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Learn How to Embroider On Silk from Alex Anderson

Enliven Your Silk Work with Embroidery

Alex shares a fun way to create an elegant embroidered design using Dupioni silk, a variety of simple circle shapes, and beautiful but easy to master stitches in our latest show. She also shares tips for stabilizing the silk and how the hoop size used can make a difference.

Learn from Alex, and Amy Pabst, by watching Foundation Piecing Miniature Log Cabins with Amy Pabst | How to Do Embroidery on Silk with Alex Anderson.

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Alex LIVE: Vintage Quilts at The Houston Quilt Show

Viewing Vintage Quilts

The American Quilt Study Group had a wonderful exhibit at the 2023 Houston Quilt Show. BUT it is not just quilts before 1940. Watch for a surprise quilt right at the start of the interview. Alex always gets inspiration from these vintage quilts and so will you. Lisa Erlandson and Nancy Bevor join Lilo Bowman to show you and talk about some amazing quilts.

Alex is LIVE TODAY, December 13, 2023 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.

Want to learn more about historical and vintage quilts from Lisa? Watch her right here on The Quilt Show in How to Prep Appliqué and Needleturn Appliqué with Irene Blanck | Vintage Appliqué Quilts with Lisa Erlandson. Use the chapters on the right hand side of the show and click Chapter 4 to watch Lisa's segment.

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In The Store - Reducing Lens by Kaffe Fassett Designs

Get a Better Perspective

This useful reverse magnifying lens helps you to avoid layout and design issues by shrinking what you view through it, allowing you to see your work as though from a distance and making things that you may not have noticed close up, stand out.

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Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game

With 2023 wrapping up, have you set a new record yet in the Jinny Beyer Memory Match Game? Can you make your best time before the end of the year?

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The Quilt Show Puzzle: A Quilter's Best Friend

"Bailey" by Pat Durbin

This is Pat's daughter Carol's dog, Bailey, looking hopeful. The image was painted with fabric paints on white cotton. The next step was to stitch the fur with many different colors of thread free-motion style. Then she sandwiched it with batting and quilted the rest. It is a fun technique and effective for that furry look.

See more of Pat's quilts in How to Make Mosaic Quilts with Pat Durbin.

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