Gee's Bend Quilt Exhibit
Simply Quilts travels to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas to see the Quilts of Gee’s Bend, a collection of quilts made by quilt makers from an isolated rural community in Alabama. The collection features the ... [... more]
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Photo Re-Creation Quilts
After years of traditional quilting, Jutta Halpin's passion for photography inspired her extraordinary pictorial quilts. By means of her photo quilts she is able to revisit sites she's traveled to, thus reliving a ... [... more]
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Ask Alex: Hand Quilting With A Thimble
Longtime hand quilter Amy Belue recently started stitching with a thimble which she finds challenging. Expert Alex Anderson explains that many hand quilters are accustomed to quilting with the thimble on their middle ... [... more]
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Ask Alex: Prairie Point Borders
To determine the initial size of your points, consider the proportion of your quilt. Anderson suggests auditioning various size points to determine what looks best. In this case she chose to measure one block in the ... [... more]
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Quilt Contests
Quilts=Art=Quilts judge Genie Barnes says first impressions can be critical and visual elements are key here. Are the curves as curved as they should be? Are the points as pointed as they should be, etc.? These ... [... more]
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Fractal Quilts
Quilter Rose Rushbrooke opens her studio to Simply Quilts and shows us how she designs her quilts. She uses a computer-generated design with hand dyed textiles for breathtaking quilts. ... [... more]
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Quilts From Down Under
Simply Quilts visits the Houston International Quilt Market to see a collection of historic Australian quilts from the collection of quilt historian Annette Gero. These quilts reflect the history of this intriguing ... [... more]
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Quilted Needle Or Earring Holder
Deana shows us that necessity is the mother of all invention as she makes a beaded and quilted spiral needle book. After needing a last minute hostess gift for a fellow quilter, Deana used her fabric scraps to create ... [... more]
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Restore America Quilt: Block 12 Hakone Gardens
Inspired by HGTV's Restore America: A Salute to Preservation campaign, this quilt represents 12 sites across the United States in need of restoration. This block represents Hakone Gardens in Saratoga, Calif.,—the ... [... more]
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Cosmic Spirals
3. Plot the inner spiral (graduation colors) by counting back five sections from where the first spiral intersects the first circle in the center, place a dot. The counting sequence for this spiral is over three ... [... more]
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Alex Tip: In A Rut? Try A Fresh Perspective
When your internal critic is preventing you from moving forward on a quilt, quilting expert Alex Anderson suggests you walk away for a while. ... [... more]
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Wave Topography
Olfe creates his designs using PhotoShop 7 and sends them to Men of the Cloth as TIFF files. His designs are printed on polyester poplin by a digital dye sublimation process. Polyester poplin has the weight and feel ... [... more]
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