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So how was this quilt made? Linda Anderson won a $5000 prize at Houston 2018 for her quilt "Velvet Flowers". Linda explains how it was made, how long it took, and how she became a quilter.
Click here to see quilt close-ups.
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Linda Anderson's quilt, Velvet Flowers, recreates a lovely scene of women in the village of Santa Rosa, Oaxaca, Mexico, as they work on embroidering hand-stitched flowers on velvet. They chat back and forth as they create the style of dress worn by Frida Kahlo. Linda writes, "Flowers continue today to dance across the rich clothing on the solid women on this land." A beautiful sentiment for an extraordinary quilt.
Linda's quilt won the Gammill Master Award for Contemporary Artistry at the Houston International Quilt Festival 2018.
Click Here to See How This Quilt Was Made. "It's Not a Whole Cloth Quilt..."
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It's no wonder that this Top 8 Award-Winner from the Houston International Quilt Festival 2018 won the award for Innovative Artistry. Silent Canary is a tribute to America's coal miners. Patricia Kennedy-Zafred took an image from the Library of Congress and used multiple techniques and materials to create her work, including hand-dyed fabrics, photo transfers, silkscreen images, Procion dyes and more.
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Whether it's Your Fabric or One of the Kits, There's a Lot to Learn
(and at the end you have an heirloom quilt)!
Alex asked Sizzle designer Becky Goldsmith what she feels are the easiest and hardest parts of the quilt, what extra supplies you really need, and what learning and support resources will be available if you need a helping hand as you make the quilt (there are quite a few!).
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Want to join the fun? Here's how! You can purchase a quilt top kit, an accessory kit that has all of the extra goodies you will need, and backing fabric at the link below, or download the fabric requirements and use your own fabric! Check out the BOM 2019 forum here and see what other BOM quilters are doing. Follow Barbara Black's blog. TQS Friend and expert quilter Barbara Black will be making her quilt along with us blogging about it, offering tips, advice, and support throughout the year. The Exclusive Sizzle BOM pattern is FREE to Star Members of The Quilt Show, so if you need to purchase a Star Membership you can do that here. |
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New access to Quilt Alliance oral history collection underway.
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In 2019, the nonprofit Quilt Alliance will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories (QSOS), its largest and most successful project. Over 1,200 oral history interviews with quiltmakers have been recorded by the project since its founding in 1999, and this year marks an important milestone in the accessibility of this collection.
Since the first interviews were conducted at the International Quilt Festival in Houston,Texas, the recordings, photographs and transcripts have been archived at the American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress. Anyone interested in listening to the recordings or reviewing the photos and transcript of any interview, could visit the AFC in Washington, D.C. to do so.
Earlier this month, the Alliance made available a sample set of 20 QSOS interviews to demonstrate the collection's new features, such as original interview audio recordings and enhanced descriptions. These additions will provide new access to the world's largest oral history project about quiltmakers.
QSOS was co-created by a dedicated group of Quilt Alliance board members and volunteers who identified an extraordinary gap in the quilt world: no one had ever created an oral-history project to capture the history, craft tradition, and personal experiences of America's quiltmakers. They envisioned QSOS as a grassroots effort and designed the interview process in ways that would make it accessible to interviewers and quiltmakers at all skill levels and backgrounds, allowing them to explore the central question: "if this quilt could talk," what would it say?
When volunteers began recording QSOS interviews in 1999, they used cassette recorders and created transcripts manually. By 2004, some interviewers began using digital audio recorders and audio files were saved on CDs. The collection, archived at the AFC, now includes about 70% cassette recordings and 30% digital recordings.
Quilt Alliance executive director Amy Milne says, "As we approach the 20th anniversary of the project we are thrilled to commence the long overdue task of digitizing the more than 750 cassette recordings, adding summaries, key words and weblinks to all interviews, and sharing this complete presentation online."
The Quilt Alliance seeks support from all corners of the quilting community to help make the entire QSOS collection accessible online with enhanced features and searching capacity. Individuals, groups and businesses can sponsor one QSOS interview with a $25 donation. Each donor will be paired with an interview and listed as a sponsor when that interview is posted. Milne says, "There are many interviewees, and families of now deceased interviewees, who have never been able to hear their own recordings. Restoring these voices will have a profound affect not only on this primary audience, but it will give a whole new generation access to a historical collection."
View the first 20 QSOS interviews on the Quilt Alliance QSOS website here:
Tax-deductible donations can be made securely on the Quilt Alliance's QSOS website here: http://qsos.quiltalliance.org/donate
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About the Quilt Alliance
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The Quilt Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports and develops projects with institutional and grassroots partners to document, preserve, and share the history of quilts and quiltmakers.
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This beautiful Guzmania quilt is from a pattern by Kara Schorstein Peterson of Seams & Dreams. We had to look up what type of plant a Guzmania is and discovered it is an exotic flower (a Bromeliad) that can be found in many colors. This one, by Sue, is quite striking.
Watch Sue Heinz in Show 2312: Sizzling Sashing, Circles, and Finishes.
Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis
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Here are the quilts for the fourth team from the over 320 teams that participated in the International Miniature Quilt Exchange (IMQE). 201 teams submitted their quilts to be a part of the Exhibition in Houston 2018 and we are featuring the 24 teams selected for the first IMQE Exhibition.
Click here to learn more about the International Miniature Quilt Exchange (IMQE).
Enjoy the quilts from Team 125 created by Silvia Herman and Cheryl Quesnell.
Title of Quilt: La Cruz Del Sur
Quilter's Name: Silvia Herman
Location: Caba, BS.AS Argentina
My participation in the IMQE has been a wonderful and amazing experience, because I live in a country like Argentina, in which there we have no culture and less history about patchwork and quilting, to be able to participate and have the possibility that a work done by an Argentinian, and may be hanging at the Houston festival, it is touching the sky with her hands. Nothing has been easy, without materials or tools and difficult situations in our country to import them, but thanks to teachers as Eleanor Burns (Quilt in a day), my first teacher at the distance (I remember the first book that I brought by mail, what a thrill!), also to The Quilt Show, thanks to all who have been through their show, what I've learned and to work, selfless and patient of my spouse, that everything what you could not bring me, he tried to replace any tool and rules that he used to make for me. That added to the huge computer’s world, which I had to learn but was very useful. Thanks to all of them today I am who I am and I know what I know. I am also grateful to have met Cheryl, with whom through our exchange a beautiful friendship is born, and I feel somehow united to the wonderful world of patchwork and quilting art, and I feel totally identified. (SILVIA HERMAN)
Title of Quilt: Opening Doors to Friendship
Quilter's Name: Cheryl Quesnell
Location: Lake Forest Park, Washington, USA
The International Miniature Quilt Exchange has provided a wonderful opportunity to meet someone from another country. It’s been fun getting to know my partner Silvia in Buenos Aires through Google translate. I’m excited when I see an email from her in my inbox. We’re looking forward to meeting each other this fall in Houston and to finally seeing each other’s quilts. The inspiration for my quilt is the friendship that has sprung from this quilt exchange. This is portrayed through the quilter from Seattle looking through a door onto a street scene in Buenos Aires. I’m hopeful that the image conveys the message that quilting lessens the miles and countries between us. Quilting is an international language and even though we are far apart, we’re developing a friendship and learning about each other’s lives and quilting styles. The design is built on a background of over 100 friendship stars. I’m hopeful that the friendships that develop through this international quilting exchange continue long after we have our partner’s quilts hanging on our walls.
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Its small size makes it infinitely packable, and the lack of a cord means that it can be used anywhere. The bendy neck lets you aim the light right where you need it, and one charge lasts for a looong time! And did we mention that you can plug it into your sewing machine USB port to charge?
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