Best Use of Color - Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival XXXIV 2023, Diane Harris Shows You Cohesion With Scraps, What Has Ricky Been Up To? - Part 3, Back in Stock - Quilt Builder Card Deck, Memory Match Game, A Puzzle That's Taking Steps

Welcome to Wednesday - September 6, 2023

Featured Quilt - Best Use of Color at Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival XXXIV 2023

Aquarium #3 by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry won Best Use of Color at the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival XXXIV Quilt Competition Heart & Soul 2023. While her quilt only won recently this year, the concept for it has been with Caryl for a long time. She says, "This quilt began with a small sketch made in 1989, shortly after returning from Australia and the Great Barrier Reef for the first time. I have kept the sketch for many years and have made several different interpretations of it. The shape of the fish bodies and tails are a kind of fantasy amalgam of many different species. The colors and patterns were inspired by parrot fish and other brilliantly colored tropical fish."

Learn from Caryl right here at The Quilt Show by watching her in How to Do Applipiecing and a Studio Visit with Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry.

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Diane Harris Shows You Cohesion With Scraps

Color, Contrast, and Cohesion Come Together

Working with scrap quilts requires a ‘glue’ to hold it all together. Diane Harris shares how to bring order and unify diverse fabrics with repetition, a single color, a theme or a bold striped binding to add that happy period at the end.

Learn from Diane by watching her in Learn How to Use Color, Contrast, and Cohesion When Making Scrappy Quilts with Diane Harris.

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What Has Ricky Been Up To? - Part 3

Building Begins

If you've watched parts 1 and 2 of What Has Ricky Been Up To? then you probably know by now what he's been up to. But in case you haven't (SPOILER ALERT!), he's been having his brand new BERNINA Q24 installed in his house in La Veta, Colorado.

Watch the video for Part 3 as Ricky and his BERNINA friends help him build the new machine in his studio and keep your eye on the newsletter for the next couple of days to get more updates from Ricky.

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Back in Stock - Quilt Builder Card Deck

The Quilt Builder Card Deck by C&T Publishing is Back in Stock!

Alex loves this and they sold FAST when we offered them two weeks ago - get yours now!

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Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game

Can you match all the blocks with their identical counterparts? It's a challenge you'll face every week when you play Jinny Beyer's Memory Match.

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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Taking The Steps

"Stepping Stones" by Kate Cox

Stepping Stones is a quilt that relates to Kate's son. When he was eighteen, Kate's son wanted to go to a place where they used to picnic as a family when he was younger. At this location, there is a stream with rocks in it where he liked to build damns. While visiting there, Kate's husband and her son started building a damn together and it was the first time she'd ever seen them doing anything cooperatively. During the creation of this quilt, Kate thought of this moment while making it and thought that the squares of the quilt looked like stepping stones, both the literal ones from the stream and the metaphorical ones her husband and son took working together that day.

See more of Kate's quilts in How to Use Raw Edge Applique to Create a Landscape Quilt with Kate Cox | Fabric Dyeing with Ricky Tims.

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