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Featured Quilt - First Place Appliqué at Houston 2023
This quilt holds a bit of personal attachment to us as it won the award we sponsored. Coming Home by Lyn Keogh won First Place - Appliqué, sponsored by The Quilt Show, at the 2023 Houston International Quilt Festival. This joyous quilt holds all the hallmarks of the Holiday season to come, wreaths, and appreciation for nature, and the giving of gifts.
Lyn says, "My original design was inspired by a dried floral wreath of gum nuts, seed pods, gum blossoms, and waratahs. The wreath was a housewarming gift from my daughter when we moved to our new house. The Japanese yarn-dyed cotton fabrics were needleturn hand appliquéd and embellished with hand-embroidered details and colonial knots using cream Sashiko thread. The free-motion machine quilting was designed to enhance and complement the appliqué work."
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Peter Byrne Will Have You Floating On Air With This Technique!
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Hooray For Hover Quilting
Peter Byrne starts off our latest show by demonstrating his Hover Quilting technique by piecing a variety of fabric units (Cathedral window, triangles, Half Square Triangles) that are appliquéd to a gridded sandwich, before being stitched and quilted in place. The raw edges fray during the washing process resulting in appliqués that appear to float above the quilt top.
Learn from Peter in Hover Quilting, City Landscapes, and Puzzle Quilts with Peter Byrne.
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WeAllSew Tutorial: How to Upcycle a Sweater Into Mittens
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Give The Gift of Warms Hands This Season
Giving Tuesday is coming up in a few weeks, specifically November 28, 2023, and WeAllSew has the perfect project for you to help out and participate. Kelly Dempsey will show you "how to repurpose sweaters from your closet or local thrift store into cozy mittens in just five minutes." Once you have made a pair for yourself, or a set for your family, make some more and "bring them into your local participating BERNINA Dealer for donation before November 28, 2023" to make an impact on this upcoming Giving Tuesday. Click through to learn more about how you can help.
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Textile Talks: QSOS Interview with Casey Engel
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Conducted by Kimberly English
Presented by the Quilt Alliance, "Join us for an oral history interview with quiltmaker Casey Engel conducted by fellow artist Kimberly English for the Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories project (QSOS)."
Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, November 8, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
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In The Store - Spring Social Quilt Kit
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Make a Very Sweet Bird Quilt
This sweet kit in warm Autumn tones features a bevy of beautiful birds on a creamy white background. The birds are pieced in fabrics from Gingiber's new Quaint Cottage collection for Moda Fabrics.
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: These Birds Are Cleaning Up
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"The Birdbath" by Pat Holly
The Birdbath was created by Pat for a challenge where the theme was a garden party, and to make the theme her own she decided to add some crazy, fantasy birds. Pat stitched the background and the border is put on with a frame technique.
See more of Pat's quilts in How to Machine Applique and Create Decorative Stitches with Pat Holly.
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