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Featured Quilt - Handi Quilter Best Wall Movable Machine Workmanship Award at Paducah 2023
Melissa Sobotka and masterful pictorial quilts have done it again. Her beautiful quilt, Memories of a Maiko, received the Handi Quilter Best Wall Movable Machine Workmanship Award at AQS Quiltweek Paducah 2023. Previously winning Second Place in the Pictorial Large category at the 2022 Houston International Quilt Festival. Who is the subject of this stunningly realistic quilt you may ask? Melissa had this to say about that: "This portrait is of a young Maiko, who was training to become a Geisha. — Kyoto, Japan, 2018"
Learn from Melissa and see more of her amazing pictorial quilts, including the multi-award winning
Chihuly's
Gondola, by watching her in How to Create Photo Imagery Quilts with Melissa Sobotka.
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Embellish Your Tote with Alex Anderson!
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Make Your Bag Go From Drab to Fab
Alex shares a fast and fun no-sew way to decorate a class storage tote
using stash fabrics and trim in our latest show. After discussing fabrics selections with Ricky, it's on to assembling and layering the fabric around the bag. Simple tools and artist supplies mean there is no sewing, even the eye popping trim along the outer edge. After drying, the tote is ready for class supplies or gifting.
Learn from Alex, and Scott Hansen, by watching them in One Unit Two Blocks and Modern Quilt Design with Scott Hansen | Decorate a Fun Storage Tote with Alex Anderson.
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Barbara Black's Tips for "Homeward Bound" Month 5
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Time To Begin Some Borders
We're a few days into May now, have you started this month's pattern
for the 2023 Block Of the Month, Homeward Bound? If you haven't, or even if you have, Barbara Black has brought us her usual supply of monthly tips and tricks so that you can work on Month 5's task, the pieced border that surrounds the center of the quilt.
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Just Released - Kaffe Fassett's New Book!
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Get "Timeless Themes - 23 New Quilts Inspired by Classic Patterns"
Timeless
Themes explores the bold beautiful patterns Kaffe and the Kaffe Fassett Collective have made famous, taking readers on a flashback journey through more than fifty years of fabric patterns, photos, and travel mementos.
This visually stunning book includes 23 quilts at a range of skill levels, with fully illustrated, step-by-step instructions, and templates for each quilt.
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Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game
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Play Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game and start your day the right way! Are you done doing today's crossword puzzle? Then it's time to start a new game to get those creative juices going!
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: And A Little Everything Nice
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"Sugar & Spice" by Deb Tucker
Outside of the box from her normal quiltmaking ways, Sugar & Spice came about when Deb's Australian distributor asked her at Market to design something that featured their Tilda line of fabrics. While the company had some wonderful products, they didn't have many quilts, so Deb agreed to create something. When the package arrived at Deb's house, it sat there for six weeks because she didn't know what she was going to do with it since she didn't work with low-contrast fabrics. What emerged was a sweet quilt design "made using an on-point arrangement of Lemoyne Stars accented by Half- and Quarter-Square Triangle units," with the LeMoyne Stars being one of Deb's trademarks.
See more of Deb's quilts in How to Make a LeMoyne Star with Deb Tucker | How to Paint on Fabric with Carrie Bloomston.
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