Butterflies, Bees & AlphabeTrees
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Janet Stone Wins Best Stationary Machine Workmanship Award at AQS QuiltWeek
Bonnie Browning talks with Janet Stone, who won the Best Stationary Machine Workmanship award with her quilt, "Butterflies, Bees & AlphabeTrees" at AQS QuiltWeek 2023 in Branson, MO. See how Janet uses a variety of trims, covered buttons, and even free-motion embroidered letters. Double prairie points finish the edges of the quilt. This is quilt #24 in her series of alphabet quilts.
Quilt Summary:
Butterflies, Bees & AlphabeTrees by Janet Stone won The eQuilter.com Master Award for Machine Artistry at Houston 2024.
- Applique
- - Buttons
- - Decorative Stitches
- - Machine Embroidery
- - Ribbons & Trims
- Quilting
- - Domestic Machine
- - Free Motion Quilting
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Artist Statement: “I have had the word ‘AlphabeTrees’ in my head for a while and always wanted to make a quilt featuring trees to use that word. The gold letters were free-motion embroidered, and the cream-colored backgrounds were appliquéd using a decorative stitch.”
If you can count on two things happening in the world, it's that the sun is going to rise each day and Janet Stone is probably going to win another award for one of her fabulous and fun alphabet quilts. And guess what? She's just done that yet again. This time her quilt, Butterflies, Bees & AlphabeTrees, won Best Stationary Machine Workmanship at AQS QuiltWeek 2023 in Branson, MO. Her quilt was also awarded Viewer's Choice at the 2022 QuiltFest in New England. Take a look and see where all those butterflies and bees fly amongst the AlphabeTrees in Janet's quilted world.
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