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Featured Quilt - A Bisa Butler Original
TheQuiltShow.com was lucky enough to visit the Jeffrey Deitch gallery in NYC on the final day of the Bisa Butler The World is Yours exhibit. Over the next few weeks we will be sharing photos from her fabulous exhibit. We've featured Bisa before and you can learn more about her here and here. Her colorful and impactful quilts are created using quite unusual fabrics for quilts and you'll want to
look at all the details from the background fabrics to her quilting designs.
Up first, The General, which is based "After a portrait of Harriet Tubman by W.H. Ernsberger, 1900 via Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture." What's amazing about all of Bisa's quilts is their scale. You just don't understand the grand size of each one until you see it in person. For example, this one measures 85.3" x 60", or 7 feet tall by 5 feet wide!
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WeAllSew Tutorial: Machine Embroider a Rope Bowl
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Caution: Super Fun Bowls Lie Ahead
As quilters, from time to time, we get in the habit of making one thing
over and over just because we love it so much. Whether it's log cabin blocks, star blocks, or doilies, we'll keep making them until we find our next obsession. Well, does Kate Toney at WeAllSew have one for you. Learn from Kate how to Machine Embroider a Rope Bowl, but be warned, once you start you might not stop. She says, "Once you start sewing them up and adding awesome designer details like wrapped yarn, painted rope and more, you’re gonna be so eager to keep making more and more bowls."
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Dee LIVE: Make a Box Bag from Vintage Linens
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Make The Old New Again With This Fresh Design
Join Dee Christopher as she
demonstrates how to make a beautiful and practical box bag from those lovely vintage linens that you aren’t sure what to do with. The holidays will be here before you know it and these make wonderful one-of-a-kind gifts!
Dee is LIVE TOMORROW, July 8, 2023 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.
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Barbara Black's Tips for "Homeward Bound" Month 7
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Building Borders One Block at a Time
If you've already downloaded the patterns for Month 7 of the
2023 TQS BOM, Homeward Bound by Sarah Fielke, then you already know you're on the road to making borders for the next few months. Luckily our Block Of the Month expert Barbara Black is back as always with a catalog of tips to help you build your borders. She says, "It's time to start on the wide applique border that features lots of flowers, leaves and birds. We will work on these borders in Months 7, 8 and 9."
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We Still Have a Few Summer Project Kits Left!
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It Isn't Summer Without a Summer Project to Do!
Grab your 2023 TQS Summer Project
Kit today and be ready for when the project begins next Monday, July 10, 2023. Learn how to make a Mariner's Compass in a unique way that not only makes it faster and more accurate, but also easier! Get in the seasonal spirit and enjoy making Summer Bloom by Robin Long (seen above), and once you're finished with that you can tackle her Winter Wreath and have it ready in time for the chilly months this winter.
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Trying To Stay Dry
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"Rainy Day Ballet" by Geri Patterson-Kutras
Rainy Day Ballet
is one of Geri's favorite quilts and the inspiration for it just came out of her imagination. She thought about the big city, and in the big city when it rains everybody is doing a kind of dance along the sidewalks trying to make their way around the droplets. Notice the details of the gal whose umbrella is turned inside out, the businessman with his newspaper over his head so he doesn't get wet, and the child doing the child-like thing of performing the "swan lake ballet" by jumping in the puddle. It's details like these that bring Geri's quilts to life with her inspired imagination.
See more of Geri's quilts in Learn How to Make Cityscapes, Creating with Parchment Paper, and Where to Find Inspiration with Geri Patterson-Kutras.
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