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Featured Quilt - First Place Pieced at Houston 2023
Prickly Pear by Susan Braverman won First Place in the Pieced category (Sponsored by TrueCut) at the 2023 Houston International Quilt Festival. Here's what Susan had to say about her inspiration for the quilt, how she took a traditional design and made it her own. "The familiar New York Beauty block gets an unexpected makeover with scale and vivid color. The blocks are all made from the same fabrics, but dense straight-line quilting with different thread colors provides a nuance of visual variation and definition. The graphic blocks bring to mind the colorful blooms, sharp spines, and round shapes of the prickly pear cactus."
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On The Set with Valerie C. White and Kate Colleran
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A Look at Behind-The-Scenes Fun
On The Quilt Show this week we have one returning guest and one new one. Valerie C. White is back to talk about a product that has changed the way she approaches making her quilts, and Kate Colleran debuts with a lesson on how to stitch braids using pre-cuts from your fabric stash. Get a glimpse of both as we go on the set for behind-the-scenes fun at TQS.
Watch Valerie and Kate in Using Evolon for Die Cutting and Monoprinting with Valerie C. White | Fabric Braids with Kate Colleran, when it debuts this Sunday, November 19, 2023.
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DAR Museum: Sewn in America Exhibit - Making, Meaning, Memory
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How Has Dressmaking Evolved In the Last 250 Years?
Take a sneak peek at the DAR Museum's upcoming exhibit, Sewn in America: Making - Meaning - Memory, which "will examine dressmaking innovations from 1770 to the 1920s."
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Dee LIVE: Favorite Holiday Quilt Blocks
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Winter Star Block
The holidays are upon us! Join Dee Christopher as she demonstrates how to make some of her favorite holiday quilt blocks and offers creative suggestions for their versatile applications, both in quilts and as thoughtful gift ideas. This week's featured block is the Winter Star.
Dee is LIVE TOMORROW, November 18, 2023 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.
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Introducing our 2024 Block of the Month Quilt "Pick a Petal" by Jen Kingwell
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| Celebrate Spring In the Fall with Our 2024 BOM
This vibrant 72" square quilt embodies the colorful and eclectic spirit of Spring, and its scrappy vintage style, intricate patterns, and playful designs reflect Jen's unique and instantly recognizable style. Our kit, inspired by Jen's vibrant quilt, includes 100 different fabrics from 9 distinctive brands and our Backyard Blooms 12 wt. thread set from Wonderfil. Pick a Petal is a learning project that will have you brushing up on old skills and gaining some new ones. Join the fun!
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Stringing You Along
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"String" by Peter Byrne
String was made using the traditional Grandmother's Flower Garden block but crafted by Peter using a Modern twist. After hand-sewing together all the original Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks, Peter bravely cut them all in half and created strings of hexies. The strings were pieced together with white fabric and then pressed to alternating sides to make the design. Peter then ran the quilting motif through the strings of hexies to create an edge-to-edge quilting motif.
See more of Peter's quilts in Hover Quilting, City Landscapes, and Puzzle Quilts with Peter Byrne.
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