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When Tara Faughnan saw that Julie Silber was selling an antique Double Wedding Ring quilt, she knew that she wanted it. At the time though she just couldn't bring herself to purchase it. So to honor the quilt, she made her own. Tara's Double Wedding Ring quilt is hand quilted, and it was her first foray into harmony and discordance. The idea that you can have two things at the same time being both chaotic and in order. We think Tara did an excellent job merging the two conflicting concepts into one harmonious quilt.

Learn from Tara in Show 2709.

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 sixth quilt from the exhibition.

Title of Quilt: Modern Views

Quilter's Name: Victoria Findlay Wolfe

Year Made: 2013

Quilt Size: 49" x 60"

Original Photos by Mary Kay Davis

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In Noriko Endo's Spring Delight, it's almost like you have a time machine to that next green Spring. Based on an image that Noriko saw of trees through a screen in Houston, she was inspired "and got the idea of the image of trees in white threads." With machine appliqué, painting, and a confetti technique, Noriko has brought abot the beauty of the season in the colder months.

Spring Delight by Noriko Endo of Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan was featured in the Art-Naturescapes category at Houston 2017.

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It's Block of the Month time! What will our BOM quilt for 2021 be?

Here is hint #5, which is about the designer!

The designer of our 2021 Block Of The Month is from a land down under. Below are some of her photos from social media. Do you know who it is?

Tune in to The Quilt Show on Facebook & YouTube Sunday Nov. 1, 2020 at 1:00 PM PST to see Alex and Ricky reveal it LIVE. Stay tuned for more details! And in the meantime, keep an eye on this spot for more BOM hints.

Mark your calendars!!

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Alex is excited by all the creativity that has been shown with this quilt project...BUT all good things must come to an end. Alex is going to talk about simple quilting on a busy quilt and completing the quilt with a sleeve.

Alex will be LIVE Friday October 30, 2020 @ 10am PDT, 1pm EDT, & 6pm London time.

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When creating her Color Collective BOM, Tara Faughnan had to choose to twelve colors for her design. When it came time to implement those colors in her quilt she chose a hourglass block, but the color palette fell apart. So she decided to create a new log cabin type block that allowed the proportions of the colors to be better represented. Using this design, Tara truly made her Galactic Quilt look out of this world!

Learn from Tara in Show 2709.

Original Photos: Kristin Goedert

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Just when you thought the TQS BOM Halo Medallion Quilt couldn't get any better, TQS Member VintageLady went ahead and made it out of Halloween fabrics.

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We continue our selection of quilts exhibited in 2019 at the Houston International Quilt Festival as part of their 45th Anniversary, the Sapphire Anniversary. The Sapphire Celebration exhibit is described as:

"Quilters have long used the color blue to symbolize trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven. Sapphire is also the chosen gem to celebrate 45th anniversaries—which International Quilt Festival is doing this year (2019)! These new and antique blue and white quilts will be suspended from the ceiling in a spectacular and unforgettable display."

To be a part of the exhibit, quilts had to fit the following criteria:

• Entries may be Traditional, Modern or Art.
• Entries must have been made between 1974 and 2019.
• The minimum size is 50” x 50”

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Boo Buddies "is a delightfully boo-tiful quilt that features twelve trick-or-treat characters appliquéd on a Puss in the Corner pieced block, surrounding the haunted house block in the center of the quilt." With hand appliqué, embroidery, and 3D features "such as ears that flap and bow ties that are actually tied," it sure scares up all the fun of the holiday.

Boo Buddies by Sue Garman of Friendswood, Texas was featured in the Sue Garman Exhibit at Houston 2017.

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When the trick-or-treaters go out, the monsters arrive. But the ones in Monsters! by Sue Garman aren't too scary, they're actually quite fun! "It has nine not-too-scary monsters on the face, and a poem is hand stitched in the border." What does the poem say?

"The poem says that monsters love to eat fabric... and unless you want to be their dinner... keep buying more fabric!" - Sue Garman

Monsters! by Sue Garman of Friendswood, Texas was featured in the Sue Garman Exhibit at Houston 2017.