Featured Quilt - The Grace Company Master Award For Traditional Artistry at Houston 2022
It's Christmas so we're featuring, what else, a Christmas quilt! But not just any Christmas quilt, it's one that took home a big award at Houston this year. Merry Christmas by Aki Sakai won The Grace Company Master Award For Traditional Artistry at the
2022 Houston International Quilt Festival. Aki wanted to make a quilt that would bring joy to anyone who sees it. She says, "This is my second Christmas quilt. It took about a year to make this. I made it with the hope that everyone can have a happy Christmas."
As Aki mentions, this is not her first Christmas quilt. Click below to see her first, also titled Merry Christmas, and marvel at the fact that it's done entirely in miniature!
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Celebrate Christmas with TWO Ricky Tims Concerts!
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Ricky Has Two Gifts For You Today!
If you missed it last week, we shared Ricky's 2020 concert,
Comfort and Joy. Now, just in time for Christmas, you can rewatch that show, PLUS another of Ricky's classic Christmas concerts, this one featuring the lovely Kat Bowser. Enjoy, and Happy Holidays to all!
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2022 Quilt Alliance Giving Quilt
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Give The Gift of Giving This Holiday Season
This year the Quilt Alliance has a fun and easy way for you to be part of their work to save quilt stories. Shop the Giving Quilt to support the work of the Quilt Alliance today and throughout the holiday season. Your gift of any amount will help them continue doing the important work of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of all quilts and quiltmakers.
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Relax and Enjoy Meg Hawkey's Show |
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Watch Meg's Show for FREE This Week
Alex recently mentioned Meg Hawkey's show during her LIVE presentation and we wanted to make sure everyone was able to view it. So during this holiday week, we are opening up Meg's show FREE to everyone.
Meg is the creator of Crabapple Hill Studio. Her easy quilting tutorials show you how to achieve a vintage look using crayons and hand embroidery stitches that will give your work an added dimension. You will welcome the easy quilting techniques whether you are beginning quilting or looking for new quilting techniques to add to your current project. Plus
Meg says, "Everyone will have the chance to rediscover the joys of sitting and stitching something beautiful."
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In The Store - Gift Membership
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Last Minute Gift!
It may be Christmas, but you can still send someone a gift with ease. Give your favorite quilter a gift membership to The Quilt Show! Send it now and it will be in their email box instantly.
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Inspiration From The Ruins
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"Ruins of Roussillon" by Sheila Frampton Cooper
While living in France, Sheila had the
opportunity to visit some really beautiful sites. One of those sites was the Colorado Provençal, which has a village called Roussillon. In Roussillon, they used to mine ochre, with the landscape surrounding it being a lush green and all of the structures having a beautiful ochre color. While Sheila is often inspired by color, she doesn't plan what her piece is going to be, and this quilt was not her usual color palette. Using the colors of Roussillon as her inspiration, Sheila created her quilt. Upon showing the quilt to someone, they said it reminded them of looking down on the ruins of an ancient civilization, and thus the title was born as Ruins of Roussillon.
See more of Sheila's quilts in Improv with Intention and Working with Jelly Rolls with Sheila Frampton Cooper.
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May Your Days Be Merry and Bright
From all of us here at The Quilt Show, we are so thankful that we are
able to enrich and nourish your lives through the gift of quilting. We will continue to provide that gift for you consistently throughout the year with new shows, new classes, and new quilts. If you think someone you know may enjoy what we do too, point them our way. There can never be too many quilters in the world. Happy Holidays from The Quilt Show!
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