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Featured Quilt - Best of Show at 2023 AQS QuiltWeek Grand Rapids
Another guest of The Quilt Show has taken home a major award. Colette Dumont, who was recently featured on the show demonstrating her beading techniques, has taken home Best of Show at the 2023 QuiltWeek Show in Grand Rapids with her spectacular quilt, Set Fire To The Sky. There are some great close-ups in the gallery, so make sure you click through all the images.
With Set Fire To The Sky, Colette wanted to test some very fine point paper piecing, so fine you wouldn't be able to make the quilt without it. The center represents a fire as it makes its way to the outside blue fabric, which is the sky in this case. The quilt also won Best of Show at Quilt Canada 2022 last year.
See this amazing quilt, plus learn some of the beading techniques from Colette herself, by watching How to Do Stained Glass Quilts with Lamé and Beaded Borders with Colette Dumont | Button Embroidery with Alex Anderson.
P.S. You can also do a puzzle of Colette's quilt too if you just can't get enough of it.
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Barbara Black's Tips for "Homeward Bound" Month 9
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Time To Finish Up Those Borders
We're halfway through September, which means we're halfway to the next set of patterns for the 2023 TQS BOM, Homeward Bound by Sarah Fielke. But if you haven't finished Month 9 yet, or just want to bookmark some reminders for later, Barbara Black has got another round of tips to help you out. This month she says you will be finishing "the wide applique borders by adding the birds and more leaves."
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Dee LIVE: Make an Autumn Acres Halloween Quilt - Class 2
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The Second Class Is Tomorrow!
Join Dee Christopher as she walks you through the second part of the
construction of this sweet but sophisticated Halloween Quilt. Get the Autumn Acres pattern and use your own fabrics!
Dee is LIVE TOMORROW, September 16, 2023 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.
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Quilters Take a Moment 2023: Day 1 Workshops - Writing For and About Your Quilts
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What Can You Learn From The Comfort of Your Home
The annual Quilters Take a Moment (QTM) is fast approaching next month and the Quilt Alliance has begun to shine a light on what workshops you will be able to take part in.
The event will feature "three workshops a day, over three consecutive Thursdays: October 12, October 19 and October 26. Each day will feature a live Q&A session with the instructors, and all will be recorded so you can watch whenever it’s convenient for you." The first day's workshops will focus on Writing For and About Your Quilts. Come take a look and see what you can learn.
Stay tuned to the newsletter in the next couple weeks to get more updates on the workshops and more taking place at Quilters Take a Moment 2023.
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In The Store - NEW SPECIAL EDITION PINK 6" x 6" Non-Slip Ruler By Quilters Select
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Everything Is Better in Pink!
All the benefits of Quilters Select Rulers, plus a percentage of your ruler purchase will go directly to the Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research. And - PINK!
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Come and Visit The Park
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"Around the Bend" by Vicki Conley
Around the Bend is one of Vicki's National Park poster quilts and celebrates Big Bend National Park in South Texas. Using the view that she saw from the Rio Grande River as her inspiration and the focal point of the quilt, she surrounded it with the beautiful yellow-golden grass seen there in the winter and populated it with javelinas, an animal similar to a wild boar, crossing through. The lettering of the park title was done using silkscreen that Vicki designed in Photoshop and created Thermofax screens which she then silkscreened on top of the finished quilt.
See more of Vicki's quilts in Learn Turned Edge and Fussy Piecing with Vicki Conley | Make a Soul Box with Carrie Bloomston.
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