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Claudia Clark Myers used Fused Appliqué, Embellishments, Free-Motion Embroidery, Machine Embroidery, Free-Motion Quilting, and Machine Piecing to create The Goose Factory. It is a 41" x 56" quilt and won 2nd Place Small Wall Quilts-Stationary Machine Quilted at Paducah 2017.
Did you miss the 3rd Place quilt from Brazil?
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Trio is another fun, modern scrappy quilt by Gyleen Fitzgerald.
Star Members can learn how Gyleen makes her quilts in Show 2012: Modern Scrappy Quilts.
Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis
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Rob invented a new tool that is the hot ticket in quilting. This smaller rotary cutter handles curves like a...... "shark."
The retail is $14.95 and we are selling it for $12.95.
Here is Rob talking to Alex about his invention.
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Rosani Ganc is from Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She created Amazonia, a 42" x 32" quilt that took 3rd Place in the Small Wall Quilts-Stationary Machine Quilted category at Paducah 2017. She free-motion quilted this quilt and used several thread colors. Congratulations to Rosani.
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Quiltmania has sent us more fabulous photos from Pour l'Amour du Fil 2017, held this past April in Nantes, France. The quilts are exquisite and on display in enchanting vignettes. Here in Part 2, you'll still be seeing those beautiful red walls.
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Gyleen Fitzgerald talks about the other love in her life, besides quilting. Make sure you watch to the end to see two of Gyleen's loves.
Star Members can watch Gyleen in Show 2012: Modern Scrappy Quilts.
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Laura at SewVeryEasy shows you how to make a quick drawstring bag with just 12 squares of fabric. No one will figure out how you made them...but they are sew very easy!
Get the Quilters Select gluestick here.
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After all the planning that goes into a quilt, the fabric choices, cutting, piecing, stitching, layering, quilting and binding...why wouldn't you put a label on it? Who knows where your quilt will end up years from now, and don't you want everyone to know who took the time to make such a wonderful quilt? It is sad and frustrating when you have a much loved old quilt that was passed down in the family and no one has a clue who the quilter was.
So when the last stitch in the binding is done, there is no resting on your laurels until you "put a ring on it"...I mean a label on it! The simplest way to label a quilt (depending on the backing you used) is to just take a permanent fine point marker and write directly on the backing fabric. If you want to provide extra security for your label, you can put it on before it is quilted and then quilt right over it...or sew one edge tucked under the binding. When entering your quilt in a show, generally the label should be on the back right lower corner when facing the quilt, otherwise you can stitch the label wherever you want...just be sure to do it!!
I love collecting label fabric which I store in one of my favorite lunch pails. I like to chose the perfect label that fits the quilt and the receiver of the quilt. I iron a piece of freezer paper to the back of the label which makes writing on the fabric easier. The basic information that every label should have is:
You can add a full date if it is significant and also a personal note.
The label does provide an opportunity to continue your creativity during this final step by creating a label that reflects the front of quilt. My friend Linda puts that extra effort in her labels carrying the creativity from the front to the back!!! Such a clever and wonderful finish!
For her Buttermilk Basin BOM, Let It Snow, she created a one of a kind label design!
...and for her Yoko Saito Floral Bouquet Quilt she created a mini Wool label with embroidery!
I am very inspired by her effort and creativity...we put so much effort into the quilt...why not the label!! Have a great stitching week!!
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