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September 08, 2010 07:14 pm
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 | Linda French - Quilter Extraordinaire
August 20, 2010 | | | Linda French, is a Gammill longarm quilter extraordinaire. Linda's quilts have taken Best of Show in Knoxville, the Midatlantic Quilt Festival, and the Machine Quilters Showcase as well as many other awards. For TQS she is sharing the story of how she became a quilter and also gives ... (Click to Read) |
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 | Member Spotlight: Lorna Westfall (Lorna1021)
August 18, 2010 | | | Meet TQS Member Lorna Westfall (Lorna1021)currently living in Schertz, TX, USA.A video of Lorna’s quilts is available here:http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/blog.php/blog_id/2992When did you start quilting?I grew up in Lakeside, California, which is just east of San Diego. Mom taught me to ... (Click to Read) |
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 | For the Love of Turkey Red
July 13, 2010 | | | Feathered Star by TQS member Denise-nh For the Love of Turkey RedBy Lilo Bowman Can you imagine spending 25 days working at the most tedious and foul-smelling process just to obtain the color red for a piece of fabric? What is it about this particular color that captured the imagination, admiratio ... (Click to Read) |
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 | Master of Thread Artistry: Ted Storm
May 10, 2010 | | | Master of Thread Artistry: Ted Storm by Lilo Bowman Ted Storm, winner of the 2007 Robert S. Cohan Master Award for Thread Artistry at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, took a few minutes out of her busy schedule to chat with The Quilt Show about her early introduction into the wor ... (Click to Read) |
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 | Ferret Interview
May 01, 2010 | | | We asked Ferret, a fabulous quilter from the UK, a few questions when we were designing her video. Here, basically unedited, are her answers. To view the video and see photos of her quilts, just click here. Enjoy! What is your background in sewing/design? My backgroun ... (Click to Read) |
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 | The Textiles of Sadu House
April 19, 2010 | | | The Textiles of Sadu House by Lilo Bowman Quilters hold meetings in all sorts of places: churches, member homes, schools. I even have heard of a group of quilters in Alaska who meet in a local bar/diner! Generally, as long as there is enough light and space, most of us don’t give t ... (Click to Read) |
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 | The Subtle Elegance of Whitework
March 29, 2010 | | | 1818 Bedspread by Ann Vanderveer. 1998.0501 Courtesy of Winterthur Museum The Subtle Elegance of Whiteworkby Lilo Bowman Candlewicking, or whitework, has been around for as long as women have taken thread to woven fabric. It seems, like most styles of threadwork, to come and go with the ... (Click to Read) |
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 | Mary Anne Jordan: Magnifying Everyday Life with Fabric and Color
March 01, 2010 | | | Old Meets New with Fabric, Color, and Paintby Maureen Ose This is the first article in a series entitled “Perspectives on Quilts and Quiltmaking” from the International Quilt Study Center & Museum. It takes “the long view” of quilts and quiltmaking expression. Explo ... (Click to Read) |
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 | The Art Of Sashiko
December 28, 2009 | | | The Art of Sashiko by Lilo Bowman "Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without". This phrase is very familiar to those who grew up during the 1930s and 40s, when every useful item was saved, re-used or refashioned until it literally wore out. A child visiting a grandparent's home mi ... (Click to Read) |
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 | Ukrainian Folk Arts Come Alive--Again
December 07, 2009 | | | Ukrainian Folk Arts Come Alive--Again by Lilo Bowman It isn't often that a person walking by the TQS booth at Quilt Fesitval will make us stop dead in our tracks. Usually we are preoccupied with the work at hand. But, when we saw the elegantly dressed Svitlana Dolesko, we just had to l ... (Click to Read) |
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 | One Woman's Mission
November 17, 2009 | | | Photo courtesy of Baba Blankets One Woman's mission to help the Women of Africaby Lilo Bowman The greatest change often comes when one person decides to follow their dream. Names such as Ghandi or Martin Luther King represent the epitomy of this idealism. Often it only takes that individual ... (Click to Read) |
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 | For the Love of Toile
November 06, 2009 | | | For the Love of Toile by Lilo Bowman Toile, or "cloth" in French, has been embraced by interior decorators and clothing designers (and--more recently--quilters) since the 1700s. Inspired by the demand for the exorbitantly priced printed cotton fabrics of India, Irishman Francis ... (Click to Read) |
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 | Grandmother's Legacy Part I, II, III, IV
July 01, 2009 | | | Every quilt artist approaches a new piece in a method that best suits them personally. Some map out the entire design before ever cutting into fabric. Others have an idea, but just dive in letting the quilt speak to them as they go along. No matter what the technique, being abl ... (Click to Read) |
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 | An Exerpt from The Quilt: A History and Celebration of an American Art Form
June 01, 2009 | | | Quilts are an excellent medium for telling a story that is nearly too grand for words. Quilt blocks can act as chapters in a book facilitating the maker's story, and encouraging the viewers to investigate further. One such quilt, the Oklahoma History Quilt, was donated to the Oklahoma H ... (Click to Read) |
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 | The Use of Needle Crafts in Occupational Therapy
April 06, 2009 | | | The Use of Needle Crafts in Occupational TherapyBy Stephanie Bergmann, OTR Occupational Therapy began around the "Time of Enlightenment"(18th century) with the treatment of mentally ill patients. Having an individual there to engage patients in purposeful activities that were of value to ... (Click to Read) |
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 | The Brushstrokes of a Quilter: Gail Thomas
January 26, 2009 | | | Alex practicing her sewing skills. Alex, stubborn as always, has her back to Grandmother. When Alex gave her speech and slide show at The Silver Star Awards event at the Houston Quilt Show last fall, and I saw the childhood images of her with her sister, Sidney, and their Grand ... (Click to Read) |
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 | Quilting in Haiti
December 02, 2008 | | | Quilting in Haitiby Jo Van Loo When was the last time you walked into your studio to work and had to remember to fire up the charcoal stove in order to have the iron ready to press fabric for your project? Many of us may remember our mother or grandmother working in this time consuming and da ... (Click to Read) |
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 | Aussie Rhapsody by Helen Godden Cont.
October 21, 2008 | | | I have added the same embroidery stitch on to the snake as the edges of the original shapes, the dotted line stitch. I used a variegated thread that changed only every 12". It had colours grading from yellow to orange to red, hot pink and bright purple. Although I am a fan of brigh ... (Click to Read) |
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 | Project Linus Finds Solution for Bulk Cutting and Accuracy
October 14, 2008 | | | Mary Balagna is vice president of Project Linus, an organization that makes quilts and handmade blankets for children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need throughout the nation. In her work from Bloomington, Illinois, along with president Carol Babbitt, she serves more than 60,00 ... (Click to Read) |
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 | Aussie Rhapsody by Helen Godden Cont.
October 07, 2008 | | | Around the last ribbon of my quilt, on the red, I have stitched my spirit people who appear regularly in my quilts as spirits of the land or reminders of people or civilizations past. They are much like a continuous chain of paper dolls like the ones we cut from paper as kids. Here I hav ... (Click to Read) |
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 | Melinda Bula
October 03, 2008 | | | Melinda Bula At 19 years old, Melinda was studying art in college and had her first job in a fabric store. It seemed a lot of customers were coming in for fabric for quilts. Why not make a quilt? Her great-grandmother was a quilter and she had been designing and working with fabric ... (Click to Read) |
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 | Joen Wolfrom
October 03, 2008 | | | Joen Wolfrom Joen is a great quilting teacher because she started as a teacher. Joen has been in the elementary classroom, worked with learning-disabled students and as a teacher/consultant for gifted students. But how did quilting get into the picture? The same way as for many ... (Click to Read) |
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 | Aussie Rhapsody by Helen Godden
September 29, 2008 | | | "Whilst in La Veta in March 2008 with my 3 Sisters, in amongst our work and laughter creating our 2nd collaborative quilt, we had permission to dig through Ricky's scrap box and fossick (rummage) through the studio shelves amongst the odds and sods in case there was something we could use. We ... (Click to Read) |
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 | Virginia Tech Quilts Completed
September 29, 2008 | | | Virginia Tech Quilt for the Cueva Family Over three hundred quilters from around the world generously gave of their time and materials by sewing blocks for the Virginia Tech Project founded by Agelina Kendra. Sixty five quilts have been completed and delivered to Blacksburg, VA where they wil ... (Click to Read) |
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 | "Comfort Quilts from the Heart" - Newspaper covers this true labor of love
September 08, 2008 | | | A profile in the Ventura County Star tells the bittersweet story behind Jake Finch's new book, Comfort Quilts from the Heart. Jake wanted to make a quilt for her niece, who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer at age 18. The difficulty of finding appropriate projects to make for some ... (Click to Read) |
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 | Baltic Cruise Block Challenge
August 09, 2008 | | | The Winner is #6. The finalists are in the picture below. Under the picture are quick links to all the blocks. They all did a great job. Enjoy the creativity. Challenge Blocks 1-6, 7-12, 13-18, 19-24, 25-30, 31-36, 37-42, ... (Click to Read) |
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 | A Few Minutes with Cindy Needham
June 30, 2008 | | | We recently had the opportunity to catch up with Cindy Needham, show 202, to see what's going on in her life - as usual she amazed us with her incredible stamina. TQS: What are you doing these days? Cindy: I've been teaching more than ever now, which is absolutely the best! Traveling and teaching ... (Click to Read) |
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 | The Three Sisters Collaborate on their New Quilt
June 29, 2008 | | | Here is a summary of the blogs on The Three Sisters as they create their new quilt. Scroll down and the 7 video blogs are set up with links for you to get to easily. When you finish a video, just close the screen and you will be brought back here to pick the next video. I hope this makes it an easie ... (Click to Read) |
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