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Derick Melander creates enormous textile sculptures out of secondhand clothes. 
 
"I create large geometric configurations from carefully folded and stacked secondhand clothing.  These structures take the form of wedges, columns and walls, typically weighing between five hundred pounds and two tons. Larger works are often site-responsive, creating discrete environments."
 
See more of Derick's work here.
 

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Diana is a ninth-grade Girl Scout who lives in North Carolina.  She is currently working on the highest award in Scouting:  the Gold Award, which requires the creation of a community service project that she plans and oversees.  Diana was adopted from Russia in 2001, and now she is working to help children in the North Carolina foster program.  She will be making a twin-size quilt for every  year that she has been in the United States; they will be given to those who leave the foster program at the age of eighteen.  She will also make ten baby quilts that will be donated to her orphanage in Russia.  Follow her progress on Facebook here.

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Margaret Miller (Episode 401) shows you how to create many variations throughout a quilt, using just one four-patch block.

Jan Krentz (Episode 1103) demonstrates how to work with and create usual designs using fabric with stripes.

Join the Strip Club...for quilters! Daniela Stout (Episode 1110) shares how fast and easy it is to go from a strip-sewn tube to quilt blocks.

Enjoy additional shows with over 200 teachers.

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Lynette has created a video for Month 4 for the TQS BOM 2015 - My Country House, in which she shows you how to make hexagon flowers.

Click the button below to get the pattern for Month 4.

The products Lynette uses are available on her website:

Star Members can watch Lynette in Epsiode 1601.

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Enjoy some of the lucscious french braid quilts, and many others, of Jane Hardy Miller.

Star Members can watch Jane in Episode 1607: The Art of Color Braiding.

Click here to visit Jane's website.

Click to play this Smilebox slideshow
 

 

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We found this little beauty, One Third Street Neighborhood by Amy Stevenson, at QuiltCon 2015.  

Artist Statement:

I used the pattern by my friend and fellow A2MQG member Debbie Grifka and decided I wanted to see it in a saturated palette and rather than using just a light and dark, I also wanted to see a mid-tone.  I scaled down the block and paper pieced the houses to make it a wall hanging.

Design Source:  The pattern is Third Street Neighborhood by Debbie Grifka, with the following alterations: I scaled down from an 8.5" block to a 3" paper pieced block, and added an extra 10 houses.

Click here for the original pattern on Etsy.

OneThirdStreetNeighborhoodbyAmyStevenson - 36 pieces non-rotating

OneThirdStreetNeighborhoodbyAmyStevenson - 100 pieces non-rotating

OneThirdStreetNeighborhoodbyAmyStevenson - 300 pieces non-rotating

OneThirdStreetNeighborhoodbyAmyStevenson - 100 pieces rotating

OneThirdStreetNeighborhoodbyAmyStevenson - 300 pieces rotating

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Need something quick for the weekend?  How about these adorable Easter cushions from Peppermint Patch Quilts?

 

 

 

 

 

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Read Angela's story of Julie Herman's quilted huppah, which was created by over 150 quilters.  Angela discusses how she designed the quilting for this amazing work, which features 222 blocks from 5 countries, using 24 fabrics.  Click here to read the story.

Star Members can Watch Angela in Episode 1306: No-Pin Curves and Quilting "Modern."

Click here to visit Angela's site.

(Photo: Julie Herman)

 

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Apple has a watch for every passion, even quilting!  Will you be buying one?

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TQS grabbed Vanessa Christenson off the floor at QuiltCon 2015 for a quick chat about what she is doing and what's in her future. Click here to visit Vanessa's Blog.