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These lovely tumbled stone coasters feature colorful designs inspired by "barn quilts" - large, hand-painted wooden blocks typically displayed on the front or side of a barn.
"Patchwork Barn" Coasters
"Country Barn" Coasters
"Celestial Barn" Coaster Set
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Information from the Museum:
Know Your Meme and San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles are pleased to present the call for art, Know Your Meme: Stitching Viral Phenomena. The exhibition, which will be on view at SJMQT from October 20, 2019 - January 12, 2020, explores the concept of the meme as a poignant method to summarize, understand, and critique important societal issues and current events. In true meme fashion, the artwork selection will be driven by the power of the people and curated by the online community. All artworks must depict, relate to, or reference a meme through a textile method such as quilting, embroidery, cross- stitching, knitting and crocheting, weaving, basketry, etc.
Online Call For Entries:
May 21, 2019 – July 22, 2019
Voting: July 23, 2019 – August 23, 2019
Notification: August 25, 2019
Artwork Due to SJMQT by:
September 25, 2019
Opening Reception:
October 19, 2019 7 – 9pm
Exhibition Dates:
October 20, 2019 – January 12, 2020
For exhibition questions, please contact exhibitions@sjquiltmuseum.org.
The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is pleased to announce the Second Artist Member’s Exhibition in the museum’s Porcella Gallery. Creatives who are current Artist Members may apply to exhibit one work in the exhibition Form and Function: Fiber Arts for the 21st Century.
In this exhibit, SJMQT seeks works in both traditional and new media that emphasize art over craft with bold use of artistic elements—line, space, shape, form, texture, and color to tell an individual story. The work should focus on fiber as media through unique or novel approaches in technique, material, or subject matter. This is an opportunity to showcase your skills and the unique qualities of thread and textiles, and to communicate meaning through mark-making and structure.
Deadline to Apply:
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Juror Notification: October 1, 2019
1) Work to arrive: October 16, 2019
Exhibition Dates:
October 20, 2019 – November 24, 2019
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 19, 2019 7 – 9 pm
2) Work to arrive: October 16, 2019
Exhibition Dates:
November 27, 2019 – January 12, 2020
Opening Reception:
Sunday, December 1, 2019 3 – 5 pm
For exhibition questions, please contact amy@sjquiltmuseum.org.
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Jan's quilt, Stone Lakes, is one of those quilts you need to step back from to see the "whole picture." Based on a photograph taken near her home, it was inspired by a nature walk and the work of Jean Wells. We love that some of the fabric is from a repurposed hand-dyed blouse.
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Latifah's Callaloo quilt got its name from a Caribbean stew-like dish of the same name. It is made with Callaloo greens and a variety of seafood, sometimes including clams, of course. Like this quilt, though, each pot of Callaloo can be as varied as the maker that creates it. Here's Latifah's version.
Watch Latifah in Show 2502.
Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis
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Because fusible will not stick to it, you can lay the fusible appliqué pieces out fusible-side-up on an appliqué pattern, place the semi-transparent pressing sheet on top and press. The pieces will be fused together into a single easy-to-manage unit that you can then press in place on backing fabric before stitching.
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Teresa Duryea Wong has been a frequent TQS contributor (read more here and here) with articles and books focused on American and Japanese quilting. She recently wrote a guest blog at Okan Arts regarding the Marie Kondo phenomenon of getting rid of anything that doesn't spark joy. She questioned Marie's ideas when it comes to quilts and books.
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We love everything about Selvage Siblings by Mayleen Vinson. She challenged herself to make a Sunflower Sue and Overall Bill quilt from selvages. She topped it off with an amazing scalloped border, embroidery, and big stitch quilting. Did we say how much we love this quilt?
Selvage Siblings was on display at the Houston International Quilt Festival 2018.
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Capt'n John: "Looking at the past winners at Spring Market, I stopped in front of this quilt. My immediate impression was "I like it alot....what the heck is it?". The movement and shapes of the quilt are very engaging. When I read what inspired it, I was reminded that inspiration can come at any moment. Always be ready."
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Clothing made using printed cotton feed sacks. Image courtesy of the Museum Of Texas Tech University.
Cotton and Thrift: Feed Sacks and the Fabric of American Households
June 25-December 15, 2019
The Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
A new exhibit has opened up at the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas featuring a wide sampling of the almost 6,000 objects from the Museum’s printed cotton research collection. “Cotton and Thrift: Feed Sacks and the Fabric of American Households,” a companion exhibit catalog of the same name is also available through the Museum Store, Amazon and TTU Press. In case you can't make the exhibit, Curator and author, Dr. Marian Ann Montgomery, will share fascinating tidbits from the exhibit and book during the Monday, October 28th luncheon at this year’s International Quilt Festival in Houston.
The exhibit, which opens with the earliest white cotton sacks, includes examples of how resourceful women transformed this simplest of materials into embroidered towels, children’s clothing and undergarments. During WW I white cotton sacks filled with flour were part of the American relief efforts for the people of German occupied Belgium. As a thank you for Americans, the women of Belgium decorated these sacks with embroidery. A rare example of this work is on display and not to be missed.
Examples of printed cotton shacks. Image courtesy of the Museum Of Texas Tech University.
The 1920s saw the experimentation of one cotton sack company to offer of a pink gingham bag, of which an example is on exhibit, but this idea never expanded to anything further. Pretty pastel colored cotton sacks, called Tint-Sax, came onto the market in the early 1930s as a way to encourage their reuse as embroidered towels, aprons or children’s garments.
By 1937 companies began offering beautiful fabric prints on cotton sacks as an encouragement for women to buy their brand of flour, sugar, chicken feed, etc. vs. in cotton sacks instead of paper. This was particularly important in Texas where a cotton surplus existed. The Dallas Morning News, among other publications, encouraged women to demand products in cotton sacks as a way of giving back to their fellow Texans in the cotton industry work. Imagine—free quilting fabric that was beautiful and served as a method of giving people jobs!
The imaginative fabric designers—many of which were in New York City, ran free and large numbers of beautiful fabrics were created. Some sacks were printed with borders that worked as pillow cases or café curtains, others were just for children and still others featured aspects of the ideal life in the north or the south. Some manufacturers printed their sacks with toy or doll patterns that could be cut from the fabric and stuffed for children.
Examples of printed cotton feed sack quilts. Image courtesy of the Museum Of Texas Tech University.
Much of this ‘free fabric’ was turned into quilts, with feed sack fabric being used for both the blocks on the front as well as the backing of the quilt. Other uses of creative feed sack use in the exhibition include garments and aprons.
The carefully selected 1930s apple green gallery walls coordinate beautifully with the colors of the quilts and other items on display. The Museum’s collection includes over 3,000 examples of the various prints used for the sacks and as many as possible are part of this special exhibit.
Image courtesy of the Museum Of Texas Tech University.
The bulk of the Museum’s collection of printed cotton sacks came from the California collector, Pat L. Nickols. Also included in this exhibit are pieces from other members of the American Quilt Study Group, Quilters Guild of Dallas and the South Plains Quilt Guild of Lubbock.
The exhibit catalog was generously underwritten by funding from Moda/United Notions and the CH Foundation.
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