Second Place - Small Wall Quilts: 1st Entry in an AQS Paducah Quilt Contest 2024, See How Desserto's Cactus Alternative Leather Is Made, Dee LIVE: Ice Dyeing Fabric for Quilting, How to Supersize Quilt Blocks, Summer Splash Kits in the Store, A Breezy Puzzle
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Weekend Fun - June 21, 2024 |
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Featured Quilt - Second Place Small Wall Quilts: 1st Entry in an AQS Paducah Quilt Contest at Paducah 2024
Kalaloch Tree Of Life by Terri Shinn won Second Place - Small Wall Quilts: 1st Entry in an AQS Paducah Quilt Contest (Sponsored by The Appliqué Society) at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2024. Using a photograph of the Tree of Life, located on the Kalaloch Campground in Forks, Washington, as her inspiration, Terri lovingly recreated her quilt from the ground up (get it) with beautiful hand appliqué and hand embroidery. As the roots of the real Tree of Life grow with no soil around them, so too do the roots of Terri's quilt, but hers grows through the rich nutrients of thread and fabric. |
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See How Desserto's Cactus Alternative Leather Is Made |
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Creating From Cactus
Leather is a glamorous and luxurious material to use when making clothing, handbags, car interiors, and the like, but it can also be an expensive one. That's why the Desserto company has developed "a highly sustainable plant based material as an alternative to leather made from cactus, often distinguished by its great softness at touch while offering a great performance for a wide variety of applications and complying with the most rigorous quality and environmental standards"
Watch this video and see how Desserto creates their leather alternative, which may soon be used in a product that you purchase. |
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Dee LIVE: Ice Dyeing Fabric for Quilting |
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Learn How to Use Ice to Dye Fabric
Join Dee Christopher for some Summertime fun while you create beautiful and unique designs on quilting fabric with Ice Dyeing!
Dee is LIVE TOMORROW, June 22, 2024 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later. |
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WeAllSew Tutorial: How to Supersize Quilt Blocks |
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Supersizes Means Super Fun!
Faith Jones at WeAllSew loves to take traditional quilt blocks and re-imagine them in new and fresh ways. She might "over simplify" the design, play with the colors, or change the scale of the block. In this tutorial, she "supersizes" her quilt block. Learn how she starts with a 12" block and ends up with a 48" x 48" quilt. |
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In The Store - Join Our Summer Project!
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Learn Something New
Brush up on old skills and learn some new ones while you make a stunning Summer Splash Quilt with Diane Harris from Stash Bandit! Grab a Summer Splash kit and join Diane as she guides you through this skill-building quilt step-by-step in a free monthly class starting July 19. Our gorgeous kit removes all uncertainty from fabric selection and allows you to focus on learning! The kit comes in two colorways and includes the printed pattern and everything you need for the quilt top.
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Inspiration From Your Seat |
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"Delta Breeze" by Cindy Wiens
At a time when her husband was participating in the Men's Chorus, Cindy took a trip with him to one of their shows. After the show was over and her husband was helping to take the show down, Cindy sat waiting in a church pew. Trying to waste some time, she was looking at the upholstery where she sat and noticed some quilting possibilities in the design, even if it wasn't that attractive. She took a photo of it and decided that the quilt block that seemed most like the upholstery would be a Bear Paw. So she made that pew-inspired block in two different sizes, an 8-inch one and a tiny one, and created her Delta Breeze quilt, which was quilted by Darby Myers.
See more of Cindy's quilts in How to Turn a Photo Into a Quilt Design and Working with Solids with Cindy Wiens | Fringed Edge Finish with Ricky Tims. |
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