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Wonderful Things - 100 Years of King Tutankhamun

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Wonderful Things - 100 Years of King Tutankhamun by Sally White Pelikan with Bits Art Quilters
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Quilt Summary:

"Wonderful Things - 100 Years of King Tutankhamun" by Sally White Pelikan won Viewer's Choice at Houston 2023

Category:
Featured Quilts

Style:
Pictorial Quilts

Owned By:
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Name of Maker:
Sally White Pelikan with Bits Art Quilters

Name of Quilter:
Sally White Pelikan with Bits Art Quilters

Year Made:
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Awards:
Viewer's Choice (Sponsored by Quilter's Rule) - Houston International Quilt Festival 2023

Design Source:
Interpreted from Shutterstock vector drawing by Kaiwut Niponkaew

Techniques:
  • - Fusible Applique
  • - Hand Applique
  • - Machine Applique
  • - Embellishments
  • - Hand Embroidery
  • - Machine Embroidery
  • - Hand Piecing
  • - Piecing
  • Quilting
  • - Domestic Machine
  • - Painting

Show or Museums:
Houston International Quilt Festival 2023

Description:

Artist Statement: "In November of 1922, in The Valley of the Kings, Egypt, archeologist Howard Carter, thrust a candle into a small hole in the doorway of a newly discovered tomb. This quilt is a collaborative effort by 23 members of Bits Art Quilters of St. Louis, MO. It was envisioned and guided by Sally White Pelikan. We aren't concerned about a curse!"

 

Techniques: Hand Pieced, Appliquéd, Painted, Embellished, and Embroidered; Fused Appliqué; Machine Pieced, Embellished, Appliquéd, Embroidered, and Quilted

 

Design Source: Interpreted from Shutterstock vector drawing by Kaiwut Niponkaew

Josephine Niemann
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Sally, I love this! It6's wonderful!

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Dawn Carson
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How particularly fabulous it is that this superb work is collaborative!

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Sally Pelikan
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Thank you for featuring Wonderful Things in the newsletter. This quilt turned out to be as spectacular as it is because it was a group effort - we started with a pattern and a set of guidelines and magic happened.
(Be sure to check out the...

Thank you for featuring Wonderful Things in the newsletter. This quilt turned out to be as spectacular as it is because it was a group effort - we started with a pattern and a set of guidelines and magic happened.
(Be sure to check out the quilted background hieroglyphs for some surprises.)

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