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Inspired by her mother's green thumb with begonias, Andrea Brokenshire wanted to create a quilt that showed off her mom's knack for gardening. The appropriately named Orange Crushed It won Best Sewing Machine Workmanship Innovative at PIQF 2019 and features beautiful machine appliqué, machine piecing, and machine quilting. It just makes you want to stop and smell the roses (Oops, wrong flower).

Orange Crushed It by Andrea Brokenshire of Round Rock, Texas won Best Sewing Machine Workmanship Innovative at the Pacific International Quilt Festival (PIQF) 2019.

Learn from Andrea by watching Show 1706: Textural Backgrounds, Appliqué on Silk & Straight-Line Quilting.

Original Photos: Lucas Davis

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Ricky shares some great tips to help you when you are making your Holiday Charm Wreath. He offers up tips on foundation paper piecing and instruction for making perfect outside and inside points on your blanket stitch appliqué.

Get the pattern (print, or instant download) for the Holiday Charm Wreath here.

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Which kind of quilter are you? Vote below.

Previously, we asked how you store your stash, what's on your design wall, how you quilt your quilts, how you baste your quilts, how you hang your quilts, where you get your quilting ideas, how you feel about your scissors, and whether you use a rotary cutter or scissors.

Today we want to know: Are you using a basic sewing machine? OR, have you moved on to the sophisticated, technological marvels of today?

(Picture by Lauren Vlcek)

"Don't See The Poll? Click on the Link Below"

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Sometimes you just get lucky. TQS member mkdquilts was at Quilters Take Manhattan 2015 where she spotted this quilt being "re-donated" to the Quilt Alliance by former Quilt Alliance President, Meg Cox. She was able to purchase the quilt and wants to share the amazing detail with you. For example, the background of the quilt was created using decorative stitches. Pat Holly's Chintz Bird won Second Place in the Quilt Alliance's "My Quilts/Our History" contest in 2008.

Here was the theme for that year:

The competition celebrates The Alliance for American Quilts' fifteen-year mission to document, preserve and share our great quilt heritage. Contest quilts should reflect your personal history as a quiltmaker. Your quilt might celebrate your favorite techniques or patterns, illustrate the ways in which your quilting skills have developed over the years, or serve as a tribute to a quilt teacher or other mentor. Just as long as the quilt's design is tied to your quilt story in some way, and the finished quilt is a 15" by 15" square.

Learn from Pat in Show 608: Mastering Machine Appliqué.

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Created using TAP, or Transfer Artist Paper, Lynn Koolish's Water Lilies (14" x16") is actually three images in one. TAP is an iron-on transfer that allowed Lynn to take three different images and make one singular image, providing a matte look that printing right onto fabric wouldn't provide her. The finished result is an image that looks like it was made with water colors rather than just a couple of pictures.

Learn from Lynn in Show 2711.

Original Photos: Kristin Goedert

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TQS continues its feature of quilts exhibited in 2020 at QuiltCon as part of The Quilts of Victoria Findlay Wolfe exhibit. The exhibit is described as:

"Purposeful play is a deliberate free-form practice with one goal in mind: to ultimately improve the outcome of the finished product while capturing a thought, emotion, or technique. Always fascinated by color, pattern, and quilters who came before us, Victoria Findlay Wolfe found her life's true joy in exploring her grandmother's quiltmaking as a starting point.

Her diverse and exciting body of work stirs quilters worldwide to dig deeper, take risks, and experiment with fabric. This retrospective exhibit features a selection of Findlay Wolfe's inspiring quilts and the stories behind them."

Please enjoy Victoria's tenth quilt from the exhibition.

Title of Quilt: Leona

Quilter's Name: Victoria Findlay Wolfe

Year Made: 2013

Quilt Size: 69" x 78"

Original Photos by Mary Kay Davis

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Pokey Bolton, the creater of Craft Napa, wanted to share this exciting message with you about the Virtual Craft Napa Artist Market - Uncorked At Home. Here's what she had to say:

Our Virtual Artist Market will take place Monday, November 30th at 2:00 PM Pacific/ 5:00 PM Eastern

This upcoming Cyber Monday, we will be hosting our Virtual Artist Market where teachers and companies will be coming on LIVE to showcase limited edition art offerings and specials exclusive to Craft Napans.

Mary Fons from Quiltfolk Magazine will kick things off with some Quiltfolk news and offerings, and a number of artists will be featuring everything from fabrics, art supplies, kits, one-of-a-kind mixed media jewelry, patterns, books...all of the fun things! Pokey will also be doing several door prize drawings for some incredible prizes, including a number of fat quarter stacks courtesy of Windham Fabrics. 

How to participate: This will be a webinar hosted via ZOOM. (Be sure to download the Zoom app if you haven't already.) Please click this link to confirm your spot!

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_v63XztpdQbWJmybx5EMfJA

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

When: Monday, November 30th at 2:00 PM Pacific, 3:00 PM Mountain, 4:00 PM Central, 5:00 PM Eastern

The Artist Market will last about 90 or so minutes, and teachers and companies will be sharing links to their stores where you can purchase goods directly. So be sure to be at your computer and have your credit card ready to do some fun shopping!

Again--don't forget to click the above link and confirm your spot!

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Wanting to create a "portrait of a fun 1960s neighborhood", Catherine Jarett made Flamingos In My Yard from a Carolyn Friedlander pattern with her own appliqué additions in the mix. Winning Best Longarm Machine Workmanship Modern at PIQF 2019, this yard is also covered in machine piecing and machine appliqué. Maybe they should have just stuck with lawn flamingos.

Flamingos In My Yard by Catherine Jarett of Walnut Creek, California won Best Longarm Machine Workmanship Modern at the Pacific International Quilt Festival (PIQF) 2019.

Original Photos: Lucas Davis

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Abandy Faith, known professionally as FaithfulArtng, is a multimedia fabric collage artist who transforms fabric waste into art, with all of the works being 100% fabric. Her fabric of choice is ankara fabrics and we were amazed at the work and detail she puts into piece of art.

Click Here to go to her website to see more of her fabulous art.

(Photo Credit: a BleNd by FaithfulArtng)

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Featuring circular designs created with Applipops, Maybel is the name of both this quilt and Pokey's airstream trailer. Pokey named it after a goat that she saw on Instagram that was pregnant with four kids. To her, the pregnant goat resembled the shape of her airstream and now this quilt adorns the trailer wherever it travels to.

Learn from Pokey in Show 2711.

Original Photos: Kristin Goedert