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Featured Quilt - The Hexagons Are How
Big?
Panier de Fleurs by Michele Dumy, featured at the 2022 Houston International Quilt Festival, is a hexagon quilt filled with the smallest hexagons you can find. This hand appliqued, hand pieced, and hand quilted beauty was inspired by a quilt, circa 1850, in the Oscar and Toby Fitzgerald collection and is filled with the intricate and precise details one would come to expect from all that hand work.
Michele says, "Hexagons are 1.5 cm per side. They make stars and Grandmother's Flower Gardens. The Central medallion represents a flower basket. Lots of fabrics were offered to me by my quilter friends."
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Redwork with Rosie
Texas quiltmaker, hand embroiderer, businesswoman, and teacher Rosie de Leon-McCrady began collecting redwork while on road trips with her mother-in-law.
In Show 1509, Rosie discusses the history of Redwork and shares examples of pieces that she has both collected and designed. Alex also shares her favorite Redwork pieces.
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Rosie covers the tools you'll need, demonstrates the three basic Redwork stitches, and reveals how to update your work by
introducing "the unexpected" in color and fabric. After watching, try your hand at making a small Redwork block created just for us by Rosie. The download has the complete instructions for making the block, tracing the pattern, and instructions on embroidery stitches.
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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Make Perfect Circles with Sarah Fielke
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You're Going to Need A Lot of Them for The Block Of the Month
Sarah Fielke says that the
2023 Block Of the Month, Homeward Bound, is a skill builder as you move along in the project, and one skill you'll need to master is making circles. But guess what? Sarah has a technique so simple to make perfect circles for the quilt that you'll be gobsmacked you never thought of it before. Watch and see what you've been missing.
Learn from Sarah by watching her in Block of the Month Quilt 2023 Homeward Bound by Sarah Fielke.
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Barbara Black's Tips for "Homeward Bound" Month 1
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Home Is Where The Heart Is, and That's Where You'll Start
It's a new year and as you probably already know,
that means there is a brand new TQS Block Of the Month. This year's BOM is called Homeward Bound and is designed by Sarah Fielke. As always, The Quilt's Show's resident BOM expert Barbara Black will be there with you each month to guide you in making this fantastic quilt. For Month 1, she has tips on making "the small center cabin and the four star point units that surround the cabin."
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In The Store - Storage and Organization
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Be Open To Organization
Get organized for the year ahead! Check out our Storage and
Organization tools department for ruler racks, pretty storage bins, project bags and more. Make a place for everything and then put everything in its place!
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Anyone For a Game of Improv?
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"Pick Up Sticks" by Lynn Koolish
Beginning with blank white fabric and created from scratch, Pick Up Sticks (26" x 21") comes from a class that Lynn teaches. Each student begins with the same white fabric and spends the morning painting it, stamping it, and stenciling it. Then afterward they can create any style quilt they want by picking up and arranging the fabrics they painted earlier, hence the name.
See more of Lynn's quilts in Fabric Dyeing and Shibori with Lynn Koolish | Sun Printing on Fabric and Applipops with Pokey Bolton.
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