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It's almost time for "Quilting in the Garden" at Alden Lane Nursery in Livermore. Alex will be there; will you? This year's featured artist is Freddy Moran and guest artist is Sally Collins. The quilt show takes place the weekend of September 26th and 27th and is free!
To whet your appetite, here's a video from last year's show.
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"Floaters" by Louisa Smith is a colorful quilt, highlighted by thread embellishment and an interesting border.
Star Members can watch Louisa in Show 1705: Louisa Smith's Double Vision when it debuts on Monday, August 31, 2015.
Louisa also has a new book, One-Patch Plus. Click here to order and see Louisa's other books.
FloatersbyLouisaSmith - 36 pieces non-rotating
FloatersbyLouisaSmith - 100 pieces non-rotating
FloatersbyLouisaSmith - 289 pieces non-rotating
FloatersbyLouisaSmith - 100 pieces rotating
FloatersbyLouisaSmith - 289 pieces rotating
(original photo by Gregory Case)
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Learn how to make a trendy and useful fat quarter fabric folder for your back-to-schoolers.
Click here for your FREE Pattern Download.
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Learn how to make these "Easy Peasy" pincushions with adorable little pom poms from Caroline at SewCanShe.com. Grab your zipper foot and get going!
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TQS was lucky enough to have one of our favorite guests and instructors, Lea McComas, share with us some of her photos from the Birmingham Festival of Quilts 2015.
Click here to see more from the Festival.
Lea herself was a winner this year. Star Members can watch Lea in Show1609: Transforming Quilts from Real Life.
Click here to visit Lea's Contemporary Batik Classroom.
Click here to visit Lea's Portrait Quilt Classroom.
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Last week we showed you a quilt that was to be auctioned off for $150,000. Today we are presenting a $45 million dollar tapestry. It was purchased by Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian at a Christie's auction in 2014, it broke the record for the most expensive Chinese work of art sold.
“I am proud to bring back to China this significant and historic 15th century thangka which will be preserved in the Long Museum for years to come,” he said by phone according to a Christie’s press release.
The tapestry is a 15th century embroidered silk thangka, a tapestry depicting Buddhist deities. It is 132" x 84." Liu intends to show the work in his private Shanghai museum.
So what about it? Going to keep making quilts? Someday yours might just set an auction record.
If you'd like to learn more about the emergence of textile art, click here for an interesting article from the Wall Street Journal.
Click here to see the full tapestry, (mature themes).
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Have you been learning from Lynn in her Easy Patchwork Math classroom? Well now you can win with Lynn! She is giving away a custom made strip organizer.
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Any Woman...Every Woman by Debbie Langsam
Sometimes random coincidences collide when one least expects them. Last week, while attending a business women's lunch hosted by The Women's Center in Fort Worth, TX, Lilo saw this quilt hanging in the lobby. She immediately recognized it as the work of quilt artist Debbie Langsam. Only two weeks prior, TQS had taped a show with Debbie in North Carolina.
The black and white mosaic quilt features thousands of one-inch-square images of happy and upbeat women.
"Any Woman...Every Woman began as a call for artists to participate in a joint venture between two nonprofit organizations in North Carolina, whose goal is to assist in raising public awareness about victims of family violence, and to support shelters for these victims."
It is Debbie's hope that her quilt reflects the sadness and vulnerability of female domestic violence victims, and that you will be moved to participate in some way to support them.
Debbie Langsam's work is coming your way soon! Join today, so you can learn how she creates these amazing mosaic works.
While you wait check out these artists whose work you might enjoy.
See Hollis Chatelain's dream inspired (Episode 1207) work began with photography and moved to textile art.
Valerie C. White (Episode 1508) shares that passion for your art can lead to amazing results.
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Here's your latest memory match game from Jinny Beyer. Do you know the name of this block?
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