Featured Quilt - The Gammill Master Award for Machine Artistry at Houston 2023
Today is the last day of the 2023 Houston International Quilt Festival. But don't fret, we'll have plenty of quilts and content to bring you from the show for a while. In the meantime, here's one more straight from the show itself and if you know anything about Houston then there's one name that you're probably going to hear. That's right, Janet Stone won big again, this time for her quilt Filigree Calligraphy, which received The Gammill Master Award for Machine Artistry.
This quilt is the second to last in a series that Janet that has been working on for a long time. Here's what she had to say about it, "I wanted to use linen fabrics and a collection of solid hand-dyed fabrics and incorporate a free-motion embroidered alphabet. This is the 25th quilt in my "Alphabet" quilt series."
If you want to learn even more about the quilt, and Janet herself, be sure to click the Quilt Video tab once you're in the gallery to watch an interview with Janet and Bob Ruggiero where they discuss her life in quilting and she goes more in depth into the creation and inspiration of Filigree Calligraphy.
Learn from Janet right here on The Quilt Show by watching her in Block of the Month Quilt 2014 A-Z for Ewe and Me! by Janet Stone.
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Peter Byrne Builds You Up On Our Brand New Show!
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Scaling The Heights of The Quilting World
In 2017 Canadian quilt artist Peter Byrne took up quilting after a 25-year career as a stylist and salon owner. By 2023 he was winning major prizes on the quilt show circuit. Known for putting his original spin on traditional design elements, Peter will show you how to achieve shadowing with grid quilting, how to strip-piece an improv cityscape, build a luminous puzzle design with ombre fabrics, and create a textured design featuring raw edge fused appliqués that appear to hover over the background.
Watch Peter in Hover Quilting, City Landscapes, and Puzzle Quilts with Peter Byrne, which debuts today!
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Barbara Black's Tips for "Homeward Bound" Month 11
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Home Is Where The Heart Is
While we released the patterns for both Months 11 and 12 of the 2023 Block Of the Month, Homeward Bound by Sarah Fielke, Barbara Black will still be releasing her tips monthly for the rest of the year. So she returns with her tricks and tips for completing Month 11, where you will "add the 4 Hearts to the pieced borders made last month" and "make the 12 Cabins for the last border."
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Alex LIVE: A Quilt Market Update
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In Case You Missed It
As we mentioned earlier, the Houston Quilt Festival is ending today. But before the Festival is the Quilt Market, and Alex just returned from the Market and gave us all a quick update on Wednesday about how it went, the things you fear the most, the quilts, Libby Lehman and more. Watch the video to see how it went.
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Introducing Confetti Stars - Another Exclusive Fabric from The Quilt Show
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Confetti Stars is a perfect low-key but fun
fabric that works great for backgrounds, backings, and anywhere you need a fabric with interest that isn't distracting, and its black on white coloring makes it a good fit for projects of almost any color. Keep a few yards of this handy basic in your stash!
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Knock, Knock. Who's There?
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"May Day" by Margaret Willingham
May Day was inspired by Victorian doorknobs. Margaret's home theater that she had back in the days when she had her dance company in the 80s in Cambridge, New York was an 1878 opera house. The theater included a magician's trapdoor in the middle of the raked stage, or a stage that slopes upward away from the audience, and three intricate and gorgeous doorknobs all made in a Victorian style. The central design of May Day was inspired by one of those doorknobs. The title itself comes from a quote, "May your Days be Beautiful like the Blooms of May."
See more of Margaret's quilts in Learn Hand and Machine Reverse Appliqué and Molas with Margaret Willingham.
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No Need To Travel Here
One of the coolest parts about The Quilt Show is that you don't have to travel to see the best quilting teachers in the world, they come to see you! Every new episode features a great quilter, or quilters, who may live just down the street, or all the way in Australia, to teach you the latest and greatest that they have to offer. So sit down in your comfiest first-class seat at home and enjoy your in-flight entertainment, brand new episodes of The Quilt Show!
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