Featured Quilt - Best Machine Quilting Stationary at Road to California 2023
BEE yourself by Simone Steuxner won Best Machine Quilting Stationary at Road to California 2023. Simone's beautiful and stunningly machine quilted work was born from her love of nature and the quilt's titular subject matter. She says, "The quilt is my original design and was inspired by nature and my garden life. I love being outdoors and I
especially love bumblebees."
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Amy Pabst Exhibit: Hundreds of Thousands of Pieces - Very Tiny Quilts
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Mighty Miniature Marvels
These quilts are small, but mighty, and made up of hundreds of thousands
of pieces (if you add them all up). Amy Pabst had an exhibit of her micro pieced quilts at Road to California 2023. Here are a few highlights from that exhibit.
AND, if you want to learn more about Amy, we also have a video where Amy walks us through her 2019 exhibit, Log Cabin: 100K, at the International Quilt Festival in Houston. This series of quilts focused on a miniature scale and explored the unlimited layout and design options of the log cabin block. There are a total of 102,779 individual pieces in this exhibit.
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Quilt Alliance Looking For QuiltCon 2023 Volunteers
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Sign up to Demo in the Labeling Lounge Booth at QuiltCon 2023
If you are attending
QuiltCon and have a smidge of time available, would you consider the following request and if you’re not attending, pass on to friends? Show off your labels and/or techniques in the Quilt Alliance’s Labeling Lounge at QuiltCon. Sign up for a 30-min time slot (all days are open) to show our booth visitors how you label your quilts.
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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Pauline Salzman
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A Vintage Story with Timeless Advice
Pauline Salzman is interviewed this week for the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance, and comes from the Houston Quilt Festival back in 2000. In it, Pauline talks about a wall hanging she made which she'd like to update (wouldn't we like to do that with all of our quilts), and how "a good quilt must tell a story and be technically sound."
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In The Store - Quilting Ruler Rack & Organizer By Quilters Select
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Every Tool Within Reach
Rein in those rulers and get your craft room organized for the year with a Quilting Ruler Rack & Organizer from Quilters Select.
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Having A "Ripple" Effect
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"Ripple" by Maria Shell
As Maria has been making a lot of curves and circles in her
quilts and teaching a class about making a circles and curves sampler, Ripple was born out of her recent exploration into the different shapes. She has moved from the lines and linear shapes of her past quilts to curvy ones, and Ripple features what she calls her braided curve technique. Maria's braided curves begin with a simple curve and then become braided through the magic of quilting.
See more of Maria's quilts in Braided Curves, Lines and Triangles Equal Squares with Maria Shell | For the Love of Quilting with Nancy and Karey.
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Seeing Beneath The Surface
Quilting isn't all about what the eye can see. Learning the skill and technique
that goes into making a masterpiece quilt is more than just top level details. At The Quilt Show, we have expert quilters like Sharon Schamber, Sue Nickels, and many more who will show you how to dig beneath the surface and get to the heart of the quilt making to make yourself a better quilter. Join us and unearth the master quilter inside of you!
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