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Featured Quilt - First Place Appliqué at Houston 2022
Cherry Blossom by Akiko Yoshimizu won First Place in the Appliqué category at the 2022 Houston International Quilt Festival. This Hand Pieced, Hand Appliquéd, Hand Embroidered, and Hand Quilted marvel is certain to put a smile on your face, especially because there 640 faces smiling right back at you. Akiko says, "I wanted to create a quilt with many girls on a pink background. Each of them has various faces with different hairstyles, clothes, and suited bags. There are 640 of them. It took a lot of time and effort to gather and arrange the fabrics to make the background a pink gradation. I hope this will make you feel gorgeous, as if cherry blossoms are in
full bloom, or make you smile and feel kind."
P.S. We just found out it was winner of the Viewers' Choice Award for the 2022 Festival Judged Show—as voted on by attendees. The $250 prize was sponsored by Quilter's Rule.
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Wrapping Up the Week
This week we learned about Penny Circles from Kim Diehl
and Hexies from Mary Elizabeth Kinch.
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Missed Transform Your Quilting 1? Click Here to see the previous tips and techniques featured.
To participate in Transform Your Quilting, make sure you are LOGGED IN as a Star Member. Then, open your newsletters and follow the links for our Transform Your
Quilting program.
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On The Set with Colette Dumont and Alex Anderson
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See What Wonders Await You This Sunday
Complex, colorful, and thousands of hand-stitched beads are
Colette Dumont’s trademark when it comes to creating her award-winning quilts. Take a sneak peek at this week's show as Colette shares tips for making your own Lamé bias tape and beaded edging for a quilt. A dig through her mother’s button box led Alex to find fun and creative ways to embellish a quilt with button embroidery.
Watch Colette and Alex in How to Do Stained Glass Quilts with Lamé and Beaded Borders with Colette Dumont | Button Embroidery with Alex Anderson, when it debuts this Sunday, November 20, 2022.
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52 Week Photo Challenge Class (Part 1) with Ricky Tims
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Take Part in Ricky's Latest Photography Class
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Join Ricky Tims for the 2023 edition of his popular 52-Week Photo Challenge Class. Registration and complete information is at www.photoclassforyou.com.
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What's Up with the Wonderful Libby Lehman? |
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Here's An Update on the Lovely Libby
Ricky recently met up with one of our favorite people, Libby Lehman. Here's what he had to say...(p.s. Ricky said she looked absolutely beautiful before the traditional cake smash)...
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Dee LIVE: The Handmade Quilt - Lesson 09
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The LeMoyne Star
Tomorrow is Saturday, which means it's time for another lesson on The Handmade
Quilt with Dee Christopher. This week Dee will be showing you how to make the LeMoyne Star, the next in line of great sampler blocks from this amazing quilt designed by Carolyn Forster.
Dee is LIVE TOMORROW, November 19, 2022 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Inspiration Can Strike Anywhere
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"Abandoned" by Ana Buzzalino
Abandoned came
about because of a trip that Ana took to Hawaii where she stayed with her friends. On one of their day trips, they came upon an abandoned sugar mill factory, and because Ana loves abandoned buildings they stopped to take a few photos. When they saw there was a piece of fence missing, they went in to take closer photos and discovered rusted pieces everywhere (rust is another thing that Ana loves). Inspired by the experience, the next day she and her friends got some fabric and rusted it themselves using water, vinegar, and some of the rusted pieces at the mill. Abandoned was made using that rusted fabric and its imagery is taken from that trip.
See more of Ana's quilts in How to Design with PowerPoint - Embellishing Appliqué Rocks with Ana Buzzalino | How to Load a Longarm with Denise Lopez.
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