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Featured Quilt - Second Place Hand Quilting / Hand Made at Houston 2022
A Spark of Joy by Zena Thorpe won Second Place in the Hand Quilting / Hand Made category at the 2022 Houston International Quilt Festival. The title of the quilt reflects Zena's enthusiam for both it and the joy she felt while making it. She says, "This quilt was an uplifting endeavor. It gave me a spark of joy every time I picked it up to work on it."
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Learn Precision Piecing with Bonnie K. Hunter
Bonnie K. Hunter, author, designer, blogger, and self-described "scrapaholic", made her first quilt using her grandmother's cardboard templates. In her show, she shares her quilter-friendly system for cutting and sorting scraps. Bonnie also has a technique for making quick 2"-finished half-square-triangle units from strips, with her ingenious "Leaders and Enders" technique, and makes thrifty use of leftovers and thread.
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Bonnie has created an exercise to help you practice your string piecing and precision piecing
while making a block from her Jamestown Landing quilt.
Missed Transform Your Quilting 1? Click Here to see the previous tips and techniques featured.
To participate in Transform Your Quilting, make sure you are LOGGED IN as a Star Member. Then, open your newsletters and follow the links for our Transform Your
Quilting program.
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Catherine Redford Shows You How to Embroider With Flair
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Ooh! Sparkly Embroidery!
Inspired by vintage, antique and global embroidery, Catherine
Redford is always looking for ways to enhance simple stitches to make them appear more complex. In our new show she shows us her techniques for embellishing a wool butterfly with a chain stitch, building lace-like wings using a buttonhole stitch, and creating sparkly dragonfly wings using bobbin thread.
Learn from Catherine by watching her in Embroidery Stitches, Straight Line Quilting, and Dorset Buttons with Catherine Redford.
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Alex LIVE: Kaffe Fassett in Houston
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Lilo Bowman talks with Kaffe Fassett at Houston 2022
Alex shares Lilo Bowman's
interview with Kaffe Fassett at his 85 and Fabulous exhibit in Houston 2022. They discuss a number of his quilts and how and why he began designing fabric.
Here's what Quilts, Inc. said about his exhibit. "Kaffe Fassett is the undisputed genius of color. From his partnership with Bill Gibb in which multi-colored, complex knitwear designs became his trademark, to becoming the first living textile artist to have a one-man show at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Kaffe has reigned supreme in textiles, patchwork, needle arts and more for over 50 years. As he reaches a milestone birthday this December, we reflect on his influence which has encouraged quilters across the world to embrace the brilliance of glorious colors and the beauty of bold designs in their craft and into their lives."
Alex is LIVE TODAY, December 5, 2022 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are
recorded so they can be viewed later.
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Textile Talks: Learn & Make with SDA!
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Find Out How You Can Learn, Make, and Create In The New Year
Join the Surface Design Association (SDA) in this week's Textile Talk for Learn & Make with SDA and get a preview of their "inaugural online workshop series starting in early 2023." You will get a sneak peek of their "workshop instructors and learn more about their personal art practice."
Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.
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Happy Birthday Kaffe Fassett!
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A Present For You On Kaffe's Birthday
Monday and Tuesday only, save 30% off the original price
on our Basket Rendezvous kits featuring fabrics by Kaffe Fassett! Each kit includes 19 different Kaffe Fassett fabrics from FreeSpirit and a coordinating solid fabric from Andover's Century Solids collection. Add them to your stash or watch our FREE Basket Rendezvous class and make the quilt!
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Creative Quilted Cranes
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"Festival of the Cranes #24" by Gail Gerber
Festival of the Cranes
#24 is a raffle quilt that Gail made in 2017 for the Hawks Aloft Organization, which does research on wild populations of birds, helps to educate the population on the subject, and does conservation work. She writes, "I have long had a passion for group quilts and began designing and coordinating group quilts since the mid 1980s. Every year, I design a new raffle quilt for Hawks Aloft that 12 of us gather in a retreat setting to stitch the quilt top, usually in one day. It’s my little Sweat Shop with mountains of fun and friendship."
See more of Gail's quilts in How to Foundation Paper Piece with Gail Garber | Contemporary Irish Chain Quilt.
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