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Do you have orphan blocks hanging around your house? Well now there's a place you can send them.
Quiltsforchemo is looking for orphan blocks to make into quilts for chemo patients. Any size will do. Contact fromzstore@northstate.net
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To increase their success this year, the Quilt Alliance has decided to extend their TWENTY contest deadline to June 1, 2013. This annual contest supports:
Here are the important details for this year's contest:
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Here's another fun tutorial. This time for a bright and colorful, Herringbone Block from Rachel Hauser at Stitched in Color.
Rachel was inspired by Bijou Lovely's Herringbone Quilt shown below.
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Slowly Succumbing to the Elements by Judy Leslie of Coquitlam, BC, Canada, was the winner for Best Painted Surface at Road To California 2013. The quilt measures 43" x 33" and was completed in 2012.
Artist statement: Slowly Succumbing to the Elements is a hand painted, free-motion embroidered and heavily quilted portrayal of a West Coast trawler's last days moored to an old dock on our swampy Alouette River in early spring.
(photo: Courtesy of Road to California)
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Now showing at the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, NY is Beyond the Bed, The American Quilt Evolution. This exhibit traces the dynamic evolution of the North American quilt - in form, fashion, and function - from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day.
Guest Curator, Jean Burks, has assembled some of the finest quilts intended as bed coverings, articles of clothing, furniture accessories, wall decoration, and three-dimensional sculptures. The quilts on display represent many different techniques and six of the quilts were included in the book and exhibit of "The Twentieth Century's Best 100 American Quilts."
The exhibit is in the Beitzel and Righter Galleries from February 24 - June 16, 2013.
Quilt: Nancy Crow - Double Mexican Wedding Rings IV
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Captain John as at the AQS Lancaster show and took pictures of this wonderful exhibit, Beneath the Southern Sky. The Lancaster show was the North American debut of this exhibit showcasing the journey through the minds of quilters as they explore what happens beneath the southern sky. The exhibit was curated by Brenda Gael Smith of Australia.
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Eleanor Burns gives a quick tutorial on how to create her Blazing Star block using her AccuQuilt GO!
After watching this video, you'll see how she finishes a Quilt in a Day! Don't we wish our lives used time-lapsed photography?
Eleanor was our TQS Quilt Legend 2011. You can learn all about amazing quilting journey in Episode 913.
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TQS Member, heartnsoulquilts, was also a winner at the New England Quilt Festival. Her quilt, Stars Around the World, won 3rd Place in the Computerized Category. Stars Around the World was made from HST's from the SOTTT Exchange here at TQS. Congratulations Michelle!
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Congratulations to TQS Member MaryQuilts2 for winning 2nd place in the Custom Heirloom quilt category at the New England Quilt Festival (formerly MQX East) with her quilt Enchanting Roses. This quilt has been a winner in every contest she has entered. Mary gives grateful thanks to Sue Garman for an award-winning pattern.
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Star Members - Don't miss your opportunity to watch three great instructional videos from the Queen of Quilting - Sharon Schamber! Sharon has a talent for finding fun, easy, and useful ways to help mortal quilters make heavenly quilts. Don't miss these valuable lessons; we only have them for three months. They'll be whisked away June 30, 2013. Just click on the Sharon Schamber Videos button on the right of your screen.
If you haven't joined us, this is the time to jump on board. We have a Free Past Series of your choice, a $5 discount, a free digital issue of The Quilt Life Magazine and, of course, Sharon Schamber as your teacher for the next 3 months.
Domestic Machine Quilting: Filling in the Spaces
In this class, Sharon covers the basic shapes of quilting and how they can be used to fill in the spaces on your quilt. You'll learn how to proprotionally fit designs in different shaped area and how to tie off the ends of your threads. Sharon also goes over the basics of free motion feathers, spirals, scrolls, ditchwork, paisleys, and many other motifs. She also demonstrates the tools she uses such as a bobbin genie and a quilting halo.
Domestic Machine Quilting: Beginning Stippling
In this class, Sharon teaches you how to create free motion stipples using her simple and efficient stipple techniques with the Quilt Halo, which gives you more support and control while you are quilting. Featured Stipples include: Serpentine (aka: puzzle, meander); Pebble (aka: circle); Echoed Teardrop; Wavy Grid; Bubble in a Bubble; and Wood Grain.
"Wow-has anyone else seen this video? I just watched Sharon Schamber design a whole cloth quilt. I was enthralled and will probably watch this over and over." - ipquilter
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