Featured Quilt - First Place Minimalist Design at QuiltCon 2023
Aura No. 1 by Audrey Esarey won First Place in the Minimalist Design category at QuiltCon 2023. While simple in its appearance, hence winning in Minimalist Design, the work Audrey has put beneath the surface of the quilt is much more complex and brings a deeper appreciation of the quilt.
She says, "The
Aura series is focused on minimalist pieced rings of hand dyed fabric with an overlay of dense quilting lines. The texture of the vibrant hand dyed turquoise and royal purple is visible through the dense straight line grid quilting. From afar, it appears that multiple shades of each fabric were used, but upon close inspection, the viewer can see that each stitched line of neon thread begins to shift the single hue of fabric beneath."
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Cristina Arcenegui Bono Shows Off Apps and Machine Quilting In Our Brand New Show
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And Denise Lopez is Back with Ruler Work
Cristina Arcenegui Bono loves to
create pictorial wholecloth quilts depicting children or fairy tale scenes. With a passion for machine quilting, she shows how the technology and convenience of apps and artist marking tools bring life and whimsy to her designs. Plus, longarm specialist Denise Lopez gets down to the basics of ruler work on sit-down and domestic machines.
Watch Cristina and Denise in How to Use Your iPad for Design and Whimsical Quilting with Cristina Arcenegui Bono | Ruler Work With Denise Lopez, which debuts today!
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See Ricky Tims' Timestamps Exhibit
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A Solo Retrospective Quilt Exhibit of Ricky Tims
With more than 30 quilts on display, this
is Ricky's largest solo exhibition to date. In the Timestamps exhibit, you’ll visually experience Ricky’s self-expression through quilts designed over his 30-year (and counting) career. Included are his first quilt, Simple Gifts, which was selected as the 101st Best Quilt of the Twentieth Century, Sampler with Rings (a contemporary version of an antique sampler), his multi-award-winning Bohemian Rhapsody, and his newest quilt, premiering at the Iowa Quilt Museum, Sunshine on a Cloudy Day - a tribute to the people of Ukraine.
The exhibit is on display at the Iowa Quilt Museum in Winterset, Iowa from March 14, 2023 through June 18, 2023.
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Quilters' Save Our Stories with Andrea Brokenshire
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Quilts and Stories and Inspired by a Nature-ly Lived Life
Andrea Brokenshire, whose stunning and lifelike nature-inspired quilts have been a staple of quilt shows the last few years, is up next on our series highlighting the Quilters' Save Our Stories (QSOS) program from the Quilt Alliance. For her QSOS, Andrea, who has been a two-time guest on The Quilt Show, chooses to focus on her quilt Summer Solitude, which she made for her daughter. Among other things in this interview conducted at the Houston Quilt Festival, Andrea "explains her quiltmaking process, as well as fiber
art as a therapeutic practice."
Learn more from Andrea by watching her in her most recent appearance on The Quilt Show in How to Use a Photograph For Your Quilt with Andrea Brokenshire | New York Beauty Block Design.
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Back in Stock While They Last - Rotary Cutting Mats from Quilters
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Get 'Em Before They're Gone
These sell out quickly (and we only have a few) so don't wait
to order!
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Sending A Message Out
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"Message in a Bottle" by Irene Blanck
The title of Irene's quilt is a clever play on
words. See if you can spot the meaning of it from her description of the quilt. She says, "I designed Message in a Bottle because of my love for scrip/newsprint fabric. Background for the blocks include newsprint fabric as well as some linen. Blocks methods include needleturn applique as well as some machine pieced blocks."
See more of Irene's quilts in How to Prep Appliqué and Needleturn Appliqué with Irene Blanck | Vintage Appliqué Quilts with Lisa Erlandson.
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Cut To The Chase
We know that everyone's time is valuable, that's why we here at The Quilt Show
we want to help prioritize what you see. Each one of our shows is divided into chapters so that you can jump to whatever part of the show you feel like learning that day. Whether you want to watch the whole show, or just a snippet, The Quilt Show is here to help you learn at a comfortable pace.
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