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Featured Quilt - 1st Prize Sustainable Quilts at the 2023 Festival of Quilts
We Talk About Love, We Talk About Dishwasher Tablets by Russell Barratt won 1st Prize in the brand new Sustainable Quilts category at the 2023 Festival of Quilts in Birmingham. To be in this category, your quilt had to justify why it was sustainable. According to Russell it is sustainable because, "All the fabrics in this quilt are items I’ve used for many years, secondhand or found items including a tea towel, bed sheets, upholstery fabric, a torn table cloth, a towel, remnants and scraps from making clothes. The wadding is 100% bamboo and the quilting thread is cotton crochet thread."
As for the inspiration and naming of the quilt, he says, "This quilt is inspired by a collection of fabrics all from a domestic setting. The title “We Talk About Love, We Talk About Dishwasher Tablets” is a lyric from the song “Seven” by Fever Ray which, to me, sums up the little pleasures and mundanity of domestic life."
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Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo Shows You Couching with Silk Wrapped Horsehair
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Alex LIVE: Mystery Tie Quilt - Class 3
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Turning Ties Into Triangles
How does Alex approach 1/2 Square Triangles? Does she do anything different when using silk? Join Alex for this FREE class working with ties.
Alex is LIVE TODAY, September 25, 2023 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.
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Textile Talks: Quilters Take a Moment - Then & Now
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A Trip Down Memory Lane and A Look to The Future
Presented by the Quilt Alliance, "In this Textile Talk, attendees will sample programming from the last three years of Quilt
Alliance’s annual virtual event Quilters Take a Moment. Watch excerpts of Quilters’ Save Our Stories oral history interviews with two accomplished and celebrated quilt artists: Dindga McCannon and Carla Hemlock. Watch Go Tell It! interviews with quilt collectors and museum curators about lesser-known gems in their collections. We’ll also show excerpts from a panel discussion about what it means to be a Quilt Keeper today. Quilt Alliance staff will end the program with a sneak peak of this year’s event--nine workshops over three days to help you step up your quilt documentation game, from photography to writing to labeling and record keeping."
Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, September 27, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
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In The Store - Love Always Collection by Anna Maria for FreeSpirit Fabrics
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True - Love Always Collection
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Licorice - Love Always Collection
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Fabric That Is Full of Love
Love Always by Anna Maria Horner is a love letter from Anna Maria to you. This signature collection focuses on some of the juiciest florals and designs that she has ever created, newly updated to a colorful, deep, and rich palette.
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: A Hand Made Tribute
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"Pepper's Star Of Bethlehem Variation" by Pepper Cory
Pepper's Star Of Bethlehem Variation is, as the name would suggest, Pepper's modern tribute to an early 20th-century quilt that she purchased that was very similar in design and created by a Lumbee Native American quiltmaker. The Lumbee Native Americans are a band of the Southeastern Cherokee. Having always wanted to make a lone star quilt and a quilt completely by hand, Pepper decided to knock out two goals at once with this piece. All hand pieced, all hand quilted, there is not a single machine stitch in it.
See more of Pepper's quilts in How to Do Sashiko with Pepper Cory.
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