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Here's a fun, quick, and easy-to-make project. It's a clever storage solution and also quite an elegant pincushion from Sadie Seasongoods. Must be time to head to your thrift shop!
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Star Members can watch LUKE in Episode 1102: Super Quilts from Salvaged Duds.
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Janeen Herchold created Carnival by using a variety of surface embellishments to enhance the basic design shapes. She used beads, threads, ribbons, fabric paints and more to add dimensions and volume. The design is raw edge fused to the background and the shapes are couched around the edges for definition. Some shapes are filled with beads, pompoms, etc. for added volume. Everything was completed by hand with the machine used only to add the binding.
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It's late spring and romance is in the air.
"As you can plainly see, these two bunnies are in love. I think everyone loves a rabbit - except maybe some farmers! When I was a child, the large, sweet-natured dog we named Butch liked nothing better than to please everyone. One day he decided that bringing home a whole litter of baby rabbits would be a fun way to amuse his people! I’ll never forget the look on my mother’s face when she realized that there were a dozen or more tiny weeny rabbits in the middle of the sitting room. Butch had carefully carried each and every baby bunny home in his mouth! We laughed so much as we raced around the house trying to catch the bunnies and return them to the field behind the house where they had come from.
Our pieced blocks this month are called Night Vision, which I chose in memory of Butch. Although dogs don’t have such good night vision as cats, they can see a lot better that we humans can in the dark. Maybe that’s how Butch got to catch all those baby bunnies!"
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Photo by Gregory Case Photography
Series 1700 is just around the corner. Are you still not sure if you want to join? With the coming stellar line-up of artists, you will be learning techniques and tips from the quilt world's most renowned teachers and artists. Check out who you don't want to miss:
Sandra Leichner/Lynn Kough
Out-of-this-world hand appliqué/Quilts using only one shape
Jamie Fingal/Gina Perkes
Rebel quilter/Bobbin appliqué on a domestic machine
Lisa Calle/Youngmin Lee
Filling in quilt spaces/Korean Bojagi quilts
Becky Goldsmith
Overcoming color challenges
Louisa Smith
Double-vision quilts
Andrea Brokenshire/Melody Crust
Confetti art quilts/Straight-line quilting
Deb Tucker/Carrie Bloomston
Tricks and tools of the trade/ Cooling color with paint and fabric
Jamie Wallen
Drawing pictures with your longarm
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The annual QUILTMANIA Pour l'Amour du Fil show in Nantes, France, dedicated to all things having to do with threaded art, was again a spectacle to behold. With this year's theme of Flower Power, floral designs in all manner of thread mediums were evident throughout the spectacular show.
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Next year's show will be April 20-23, 2016.
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This week Julie shares tips for project storage and organization.
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Lynette has created a video for Month 6 for the TQS BOM 2015 - My Country House, in which she shows you how to make yo-yos for the rabbit tails.
Click the button below to get the pattern for Month 6.
The products Lynette uses are available on her website:
Star Members can watch Lynette in Epsiode 1601.
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Sandra Leichner is going to kick off Series 1700 (Episode 1701: The Appliqué Doctor is In) in July and she has quite a reputation: every quilt she has ever entered into a show has won Best of Show. Join us for a little bit of fun with Sandra on the set between tapings.
Click here for Sandra's Website.
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Coming to the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles:
Spend a fun afternoon with artist Margaret Fabrizio.
Join Margaret Fabrizio as she traces her adventures in quilt making, her discovery of kawandi, and participate in the unveiling of her most recent work, "In Fuller Bloom." Using her entertaining self-directed videos of previous quilt unveilings and travel adventures, Margaret will reveal how a concert harpsichordist became an award-winning quilt maker and artist. (Quilt: Blue Bicycle by Margaret Fabrizio 2012) Also, Don't Miss! Kawandi Adventure: Quilts by Margaret Fabrizio March 7, 2015 - July 5, 2015 Here's what the museum says about the exhibit: Inspired by a 2011 exhibition of kawandi at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, Fabrizio was compelled to learn more about the Siddi women of Karnataka, India, who had created the dazzlingly colorful quilts (kawandi). In 2012, the artist spent two weeks in India, learning from the Siddi women their kawandi style of hand sewing quilts. After returning to her home to San Francisco, Fabrizio created twenty kawandi style quilts from scraps and recycled clothing she collected in India. She then returned to Karnataka, taking some of her work to show the women at their monthly meeting. They were impressed and delighted. Many of the kawandi on display were created especially for this exhibition. Now for Margaret's other claim to fame. She is a well known harpsichord player. |
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