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In Step 5 of Making a Portrait Quilt with Rob Appell, Rob lays the fused faces onto the background.

 

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It’s not a surprise, or at least it shouldn’t be: this month you will be making four more baskets and three more pieced swag border units.

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This week's puzzle is from TQS guest, Susan Brubaker Knapp of Blue Moon River.  This lovely quilt while bold in design, is small in dimension.  It is only 12" x 12" and can be found in Susan's latest book, Point, Click, Quilt! Turn Your Photos into Fabulous Fabric Art.  Susan created this quilt using cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint, cotton threads and cotton batting.  It is thread sketched and free-motion machine quilted.

Susan's Episode 901 will post on Monday, July 4, 2011.

African Beads - 100 pieces non-rotating

African Beads 1 - 100 pieces rotating

African Beads 2 - 35 pieces non-rotating - Great for beginners!

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Take a peek at the fooling around that went on behind the scenes while filming Episode 901 with Susan B. Knapp in the home of Dee Dee & Hugh Eaton in Monument. Co.  Pay attention and you might see another famous quilter just hanging around watching the fun. 

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Sharon visits with Pat Sloan in the P&B Textiles booth.  Pat has a new fabric line coming out from P&B called Simple Stitches.

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In 2010, the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles launched the International TECHstyle Art Biennial (ITAB). Returning in 2012, ITAB is a juried exhibition of work by artists merging fiber media with new information and communication technologies in their artistic processes, as a medium of artistic expression, and/or in the content of their work.  

Here's what the museum has to say:

"As fibers, textiles, and the language of textile patterning have achieved wide attention in contemporary art practice--often as a means of evoking an experience that is both historical and contemporary--ITAB seeks to expose and explore the tensions between and among works by artists using fiber media whose work employs diverse artistic disciplines."

The museum welcomes submissions from artists in the fields of architecture, fashion, fiber art, installation art, interior design, new media, painting, sculpture, etc. Artwork demonstrating a keen understanding and mastery of the aesthetic, structural/technical, and semiotic possibilities of fiber and of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies are the hallmark of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles‚ International TECHstyle Art Biennial.

The deadline for Submissions to the biennial exhibition is April 2, 2012. If you work with fiber and deal with technology in your artistic process or in the content of your work, this exhibition is for you. For more information and an entry form, click here.

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In Step 4 of Making a Portrait Quilt with Rob Appell, Rob shows you how to lay out the fused pieces using a Teflon pressing sheet.

 

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Today, Lesson 1A of Alex Anderson - Hand Quilting is available to enjoy.  In this lesson, Alex answers a few questions and talks to you about hand care.

 

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Sharon talks with Helen Stubbings who publishes the work of Australian quilt designers.  You can find Helen at Hugs' n Kisses Feelgood Stitcheries.

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