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It was amazing what Heidi Farmer showed us about Hoop-Free Longarm Embroidery. Want to learn more? Maybe it's time for you to see an Innova up close and live.
 
It's easy to do, Innova provides a complete calendar of events where their machines are available for demonstration. Click on Learn More for the calendar of events.
 
 

 

 

 

 Star Members can watch Heidi Farmer (Innova) and Judy Fredenburgh (RNK Distributing) in Show 2211: Hoop-Free Longarm Embroidery.

 
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Qurrat Thakur of Cedar Park, Texas, won 2nd Place in the "1st Entry in an AQS Paducah Contest." Her quilt, Zaina's Starburst (83"x83"), is an excellent, colorful quilt based on a pattern by Elsie Campbell. We stepped back and then went closer. Yes, we love the colors, but take a look at the quilting! Look at the close ups, and then come back and see how the entire design of circles works around the quilt. And we love the look of the hearts in the corners of the light blue. Great job.

 
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To commemorate #AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth, the DAR Museum is featuring a newly acquired sampler made by a Hawaiian student at a missionary school in 1841.
 
The Museum writes,
"Maka stitched the Hawaiian alphabet (as transcribed by the Americans), her name, the date (April 1841), and an inscription in Hawaiian that translates roughly as praising her school, the Wailuku Female Seminary, as a "place of refuge."

Maka's sampler combines Hawaiian grown cotton spun and woven on site with the colored silks and designs of an American style sampler, a tradition not found in Hawaii before the arrival of missionary groups. As such, the sampler speaks to the meeting of the two cultures, Hawaiian Pacific Islander and the Americans who settled in Hawaii in the 1820s. You can view Maka's sampler in our upcoming exhibit, "Lately Arrived: Recent Additions to the Collection."
 

 

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Bill Volckening has 500 quilts in his possession. This video is like a survey of quilt history seen through the highlights of his collection.

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Ricky celebrates 20 years of hand-dyeing fabrics with this video that shows you how he does it.

 

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With 5500 half-square triangles in the center, "cheddar" fabric, and a fun border, this antique quilt really caught our attention at Houston 2016 in an exhibit by Moda.

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Poca a Poco - Little by Little was based on a photo of posters stacked on a wall in Spain. Katie used "wonky" and perpendicular grids with various sized strips to create the quilt.

Star Members can watch Katie Pasquini Masopust in Show 2210: Reimagining the Log Cabin Block.

Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis

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Patricia Belyea at Okan Arts held a Yukata Cotton & Curves Workshop where the plan was to play with simple component compositions. You make one element. Then you make another element. Then you make another element. Then you connect them all together. Take a look at the results along with their creators.
 
 
If exploring curved piecing in your quilt compositions appeals to you, join Patricia this July or September for a Yukata Quilting Workshop in La Conner. For info on the upcoming sessions, just click here.
 
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Caryl's work is always colorful with movement that feels like motion. The quilt "Jacuzzi Jazz"  (60"x60") is a great example. There are curves everywhere and you can feel the movement in the "Jacuzzi". She used Applipiecing, Digital Fabric Printing, Hand Dyeing, Fabric Painting, Machine Piecing, and Free-Motion Quilting.

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Ricky thought this quilt might be based on the sun "exploding" over a cityscape. Turns out it's based on a Croton, a houseplant. Would you have guessed?

Star Members can watch Katie Pasquini Masopust in Show 2210: Reimagining the Log Cabin Block.

Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis

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