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Ricky talks to Janet Stone about her obsession with letters and her love of sheep in her quilts. They also discuss what part of quilting Janet struggles with and she shares a great tip for auditioning the quilting on your quilt.
Star Members can watch Janet in Show 1401: From ABC to BOM: Tips and Techniques Just for "Ewe."
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The "Art-Pictorial" category is always a big hit at the Houston International Quilt Festival. This year the quilts featured everything from tractors to butterflies and toads to gondolas. The creativity and imagination of these quiltmakers is astounding.
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Are you dressed and ready for Holiday Savings? TheQuiltShow.com Shop is feeling the excitement. We have 3 ways to save right now through Monday midnight (Pacific Time).
FIRST: Everything in the shop that is not on a special price is 30% Off (EverSewn products not included). How do you get the discount??
Just enter BF30 in the coupon box at checkout.
SECOND: DOOR BUSTER PRICES ON A FEW SELECT ITEMS IN LIMITED QUANTITIES. We have set aside just a few of our favorite items at amazing prices. These will come online at 12 Noon Wednesday 11/23/2016. They won't last so please hurry. AT NOON, Go to the Shop and click on DOOR BUSTERS!
THIRD: 2 Very Special blowout prices.
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Looking to make something a bit different this holiday season? Follow along with Faith Jones, of Fresh Lemons Quilts and WeAllSew, as she makes a table runner using four modern-traditional holiday block designs. Click on the button for Week 2 Tutorial.
In week two you'll be making (2) Modern Pine Trees quilt blocks and (2) Poinsettia Flowers quilt blocks.
(photo: WeAllSew)
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"Go Tell It at the Quilt Show!" is a Quilt Alliance project designed to capture the stories of quilts where quiltmakers gather. This interview was filmed at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas, in November 2016 and features Victoria Findlay Wolfe discussing her award-winning quilt, "Mr. Swirl E. Bones."
"Mr. Swirl E. Bones" won First Place in Machine Quilting the Modern Way at MQX New England, Judge's Choice at 2016 QuiltCon, and Third Place Innovative Pieced at the International Quilt Festival Houston 2016.
Victoria writes,
"Mr. Swirl E. Bones took several lives to become what he is now. Inspired by the Halloween panel, and a conversation about carnivals and dart throwing...By playing with negative space, both in design, quilting and the binding. I wanted to visually change the space and scale through design on the traditional lemoyne star."
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Can you believe it! Tomorrow we in the US celebrate a day of Thanksgiving and there is so much to reflect on and be grateful for. For quilters it is the official count down to Christmas for those hand made gifts!! I for one have the pedal of my machine on light speed, LOL. Is Thanksgiving the official start of your shopping season or do you have a homemade gifts on your list. I have worked on place-mats, pillowcases, soup bowl cozies and wall hangings...and, I still have more to finish.
December 1st starts the 12 days of Christmas Give Away on Wooliemammoth.blogspot.com. Every year I save up patterns I have made and quilter friends who are purging their bookshelves pass on to me books/patterns for the give away. Come check it out. The only requirement is that you be a registered follower of the Woolie Blog.
Looking for inspiration from fellow quilters, I checked out the November Gallery Exhibit at QuiltWorks in Bend, Oregon. This month's exhibit was small or miniature quilts. Which lately I have been motivated to stitch...more immediate satisfaction, LOL. Enjoy the slide show and I hope you also are inspired. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving if it is on your celebration list.
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Ricky Tims talks with Cecile Whatman from Australia about her latest work. Cecile is a textile artist, teacher, and designer who works with dyes, paints, and fibers to create art quilts and fabric through felt, mixed media, and surface design.
Click here to visit Cecile's website.
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As we near the end of our year of Organizing your quilting lifestyle, we too have learned a tremendous amount when it comes to organizing. Here is a Bucket List of twelve must have items for the quilting studio of our dreams.
To avoid the frustration of cords falling behind our desk, we love this non-stick Cord Catcher. It's small and comes in a variety of fun colors. Cord Catchers by Dotz.
Vanishing Design walls look like decorative shelving and can be painted to match the trim in your studio. VanishingDesignWall
Table with open storage on one side with drawers on other. Alittlebitbiased
The Alex Ikea cabinet (thin white drawers to the left) sits on a table for easy access, which leaves lots of room under the table for other items. This particular cabinet does not take up a great deal of space, but the drawers are nice and long. They would make great storage for our WIP. Heartandhand
We also like the taller 7-drawer Winsome Halifafax. We could use it to hold all of our ribbons, trims and small art supplies. With the same look as the Alex Ikea cabinet, it would continue the streamlined look in our studio.
Plastic multi-drawer unit to hold various hand work needles. Feeddog
Up-cycle old CD cases for machine needles. PiecefulLiving
A wafer thin Lightpad 940 for design work that doesn't take up a great deal of space and produces no heat. Artograph
In our book, you can never have too much light when it comes to working at your machine. A large span of light is created by a flexible. Luminos work lamp. Daylight
When we want to do a bit of handwork in the evening while watching TV, the Slimline LED Floor lamp provides excellent light. We love the double flexible arm. The lamp's clean and sleek lines also don't scream 'task light' when visitors see it. Daylight
All-in-one Travel Iron Caddy and pressing mat comes in very handy for classes and retreats. Thepaintedquilt
No one likes making numerous trips from the car to haul class supplies. The Stanley rolling tool cart's two container system keeps things together and saves you time. Happyzombie
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Have you been reading all of the "Get Organized" blogs? Do you know where TQS mentioned Snapware® products? If you do, you have a chance to win some of your own to keep your studio organized. Just enter the week number of the Organization blog in which you found the reference.
The contest ends November 28, 2016.
Click here for a list of links to all the organization blogs.
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We caught Cheryl on the set with her daughter and asked her how she makes time for quilting when she has three young children with very busy lives.
Star Members can watch Cheryl create quick and easy quilts in Show 1911: Slabs, Curves, and Shrinking Ahead.
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