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We stopped for awhile in front of Hiroko Nakayama's quilt "Mariage" (French for "Wedding"). First we admired all the points in the quilt. Then we realized how many triangles that took. Then we realized that there was hand work in the black triangles. Then we realized how she angled the straight line quilting. Then we realized how she worked the spikes in the corners. Then we realized we weren't getting enough pictures of other quilts and moved on. You, however, can linger here as long as you need.

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Christina Williams of JustCallMeChris has a really cute and easy project. Let's just call them "button top bobby pins." You might see them online for $2.50 each. Christina shows you how to make them for about $.25.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Stephen Towns: Rumination and a Reckoning is currently at the Baltimore Museum of Art through September 2, 2018. While trained as a painter, Towns also became a self-taught quilter. At the center of the exhibition is the monumental installation of Birth of a Nation, which represents a black woman nursing a white infant against the backdrop of the first official flag of the United States. This quilt is over 7-1/2 feet tall.
Click on Learn More for information and photos from the exhibit. Click on the little dots on the bottom of the Museum page to scroll through the photos.
 

The Baltimore Museum of Art

10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218-3898

Telephone: (443) 573-1700 TDD: (410) 396-4930

For more, click here to read:

Artist’s Quilts Pay Tribute to African-American Women
~Artist Stephen Towns’ first museum exhibition showcases his painterly skill through traditional textile art~
By
smithsonian.com
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This is a quilt that succeeds by leaving you with the question, "What is fabric and what is painted?". We wish we had more time to see "Lakeside Reverie" (44" x 63") by Hallie O'Kelley up close. The techniques list are "Hand Quilted, Hand Dyeing, Fabric Painting, and Machine Piecing". Appliqué did not appear on the list. So what is painted and what is the fabric?

We love the movement, the use of squares and the modern feel of the border. Now it's time for you to see if you can tell...

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Katie's quilt was inspired by fall leaves and strawberry plants. Would you have guessed that?

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

Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis

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It's Mother's Day today in the US - and we think every woman deserves a gift.  We found an artist in the USA who designs and makes these wonderful and functional "quilting tools". 

We recommend this lively, cheerful, and funky oversized mug because it holds plenty of whatever beverage you choose to drink while you work (we don't judge!) and is covered with colorful hashtags with quilty phrases to keep your quilting & social media juices flowing. Designed and printed in the USA, it is also dishwasher and microwave safe.

It's just fun. Because it is artisanal we have a limited quantity.

Big Quilters Mug

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Karey Patterson Bresenhan and Nancy O’Bryant Puentes tell their Quilt Alliance Mother's Day StoryShare.

Left to right: Karey Patterson Bresenhan, Nancy O'Bryant Puentes, Jewel Pearce Patterson, Helen Pearce O'Bryant

The Quilt Alliance Founders: Nancy and I are two of the founders of the Alliance, but we probably would never have gotten involved with quilts or helped to build the quilting industry or helped to found any non-profit quilt organization—much less four!—if it were not for the two ladies pictured here with us. Our mothers were sisters and wonderful quilters in their own right. My mama, Jewel Pearce Patterson, is on Nancy’s left and Nancy’s mother, Helen Pearce O’Bryant, is on Jewel’s left. Together the four of us founded the International Quilt Association (IQA). The mothers were there at the family quilting bee when we learned to quilt from their mother, our Granny, Ella Glaeser Pearce. The quilt was my wedding quilt, the top of which was pieced by Granny’s mother, our Great Grandmother Karoline Uttech Glaeser, and four of her daughters came together that weekend. It was a wonderful introduction to quilting. The mothers (and much of the time that, collectively, was exactly the way we thought of them) taught us that when “the ox was in the ditch,” everybody in the family was expected to pitch in and get him out! So we learned to pitch in, and pitch in we did, every time it seemed that quilts and quilting needed help. With the mothers’ encouragement, we even took quilts to Congress and testified when American-made quilts seemed in danger. When we did the Texas Quilt Search, the mothers often flew with us to the next city where we were holding a Quilt Day and were wonderful help. The mothers were often surprised at the projects we undertook, but they never once failed to support us with unfailing love and appreciation. We were lucky girls who knew the joy of growing into friends with their mothers.

Karey Patterson Bresenhan
Nancy O’Bryant Puentes

Find out how you can participate in the Quilt Alliance Mother's Day StoryShare here: http://www.QuiltAlliance.org/support.

— with Karey Bresenhan and International Quilt Association (IQA).

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Faith Jones at WeAllSew.com loves to take traditional quilt blocks and re-imagine them in new and fresh ways. She might "over simplify" the design, play with the colors, or change the scale of the block. In this tutorial, she "supersizes" her quilt block. She starts with a 12" block and ends up with a 48" x 48" quilt.
 
 
 
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We finished cutting and packaging all of the Patchwork Barn - Blue Sky Block of the Month Kits, and we had a small quantity of extra fabric. We have packaged it up into fat quarter bundles of 12 different fabrics - 11 from the kit, and one bonus fabric from the Blue Sky fabric line that was not included in the BOM kit. We tied them with special ribbon too!

 

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A Rose is a Rose measures only 28" x 22". It was created using Katie's log cabin technique.

Star Members can watch how Katie does it in Show 2210: Reimagining the Log Cabin Block.

Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis

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