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Lori Hartman
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beach bound
Keera Job
to inspire
a gallery
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Diane Banks website
Rebecca Cottongim
Keera Job @livelovesew
Alyce Blyth @blossomheartquilts
@mara.creates
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Melissa Gottliebsen
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Lori Hartman
@msmidge
@lorihartmandesigns
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Jane Kelly @wherejanecreates
Kristy Lea @quietplay blog
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Mara Capron
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Tricia Mathis @quiltbugcreations
Lori Miller @lorimillerdesigns
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Shannon Mower
Stacey O’Malley @slostudio blog
Vicki Reubel
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Heather Seminelli
Lara Motta @luellabella
Stephanie Palmer @latenightquilter blog
Jessica Vetor
@orchidowlquilts
@qacreations
@jessicaquilter
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in the bag
lightning bolt
pouch
by Stacey O’Malley
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dorableness abounds in this paper pieced pouch, which makes great use of basic fabrics and ombre effects. It’s perfect for girls in this colourway but switch it to more masculine tones and this design would please boys too.
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make it mini
mini
teardrops
by Vicki Reubel
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his stunning mini makes the most of a striking applique shape and a favourite fabric collection to create a simple, but very effective, quilt.
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round the quilty world
the international
quilt study centre and museum by Kristy Lea n a recent trip to the United States, I managed to schedule a trip to the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska. Long name, but really they had me at quilt. The idea of an entire museum dedicated to quilts – that’s pretty much my idea of heaven right there.
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Upon visiting the centre I most certainly wasn’t disappointed. The Museum itself is a beautiful building easily found with an intricate sculpture out the front. Just between us, I wouldn’t mind a sculpture like that gracing my front lawn. So before we move onto discussing all the good stuff and ogling quilt photos, perhaps a little history first. The International Quilt Study Center was established in 1997 when local Nebraskans donated nearly 1000 quilts to the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. These quilts were used in exhibitions displayed on campus and around the world. It was in 2008 that the present location was opened – featuring exhibition galleries plus textiles storage. The beautiful part about the design of the building is that it was designed as a metaphor for a quilt. “The glass windows represent the front of the quilt, the galleries as the batting and the offices make up the back of the quilt. The Reception Hall is shaped like the eye of a needle” is how it is explained on the Center’s website (you can read more about the history of it here). There have since been recent expansions made to the building, making for a beautiful centre to wander through and admire quilts of all styles. The International Quilt Study Center and Museum's mission, as outlined on the website is “to inspire an understanding of the cultural and artistic significance of quilts by collecting, preserving, studying, exhibiting and promoting discovery of quilts and quiltmaking traditions from many cultures, countries and times.” What more could a quilter ask for?!
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piece and love
fly away by Keera Job
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lying geese blocks never go out of style, and this fabulous design pairs prints with white, set on point to create a great secondary star block from the traditional geese block.
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meet the maker
keera
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eera Job, of the LIVE.LOVE.SEW pattern company, loves to share her fresh, beautiful design aesthetic, pairing her love of modern fabrics with her spin on traditional designs. She shares her journey as a quilter and businesswoman.
Keera’s quilting journey began at an early age, as a teenager hanging out at her grandma’s house. “I fell in love with quilting on the floor of my Grandma’s house. She had taken some quilting classes through a local quilt shop in Dubbo, NSW with a dear friend of hers. She was quilting madly, putting all those new skills to practice when I really took an interest and started my own project. Grandma helped me make a Crazy Patchwork lap quilt and I was hooked from the first stitch to the last. We pulled fabric from a huge wicker basket that sat near her sewing table; there were pieces of fabric from my Grandfather’s shirts, my brother’s pyjama pants and her latest curtain and upholstery project. Bordered by blue and white gingham it is far from perfect, but is all mine. I still have it today and it’s something I am so proud of,” she shares. Since then, life and other creative pursuits saw quilting take a back seat for a while, but when Keera came back to it, she did so with a vengeance. “I consider myself having really become serious about quilting, my designing and our business since I had my first daughter three years ago.”
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a good foundation
star
drop cushion by Kristy Lea
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nce again, our Kristy has created a fabulous foundation paper piecing design to make a complex looking star pattern that is actually not that difficult. The beauty of paper piecing is that it brings perfect points and abstract angles together perfectly.
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we just think it’s cool
patchwork
threads
by Jane Kelly The whole world seems to be advertising their passions via their t-shirts these days, and quilters are no exceptions. We caught up with Lindsay and Greg Széchényi, the husband and wife team behind Patchwork Threads, who are giving quilters worldwide fashion assistance that is far more classy than our usual threads-all-over-your-jeans look. Lindsay has always been a creative type, trying many crafts before discovering quilting. “I’ve always dabbled in different types of creative outlets – sewing, drawing, jewellery, cross stitch and embroidery, etc. I got into quilting when I was pregnant with my oldest daughter and my mom forced me to go to a quilt show with her. Before that, the word ‘quilt’ would just make me think of some dull, ugly thing you’d see at a grandma’s house. I couldn’t believe all of the beautiful works of art hanging at that show. I was immediately hooked, and made my first quilt start to finish over the next two days. I joined our local Modern Quilt Guild (of which I’m now the president) and started a longarm quilting business about a year after that.” But for Lindsay, her foray into the quilting business world didn’t stop with her longarming business. Her husband, Greg, is also a creative type with a screen printing business, and once Lindsay saw the potential to marry her passion with Greg’s existing business, Patchwork Threads was born. “My husband Greg owns a screen printing company, Press Press Merch. He started printing about fourteen years ago in his parents’ shed, printing shirts for his band and his friends’ bands. He’s grown it steadily over the years and now employs thirteen people. Anyway, he was working late at the shop one evening so I took the girls by for a visit. Looking around his showroom I started to wonder what type of shirts I would design if I had my own clothing line. We started tossing ideas around and then I thought ‘hey, it could be cool to put quilt blocks on t-shirts’. I spent a few weeks coming up with a name and logo, creating some t-shirt designs, mocking things up and designing the website. Greg and his guys printed up a few shirts and Patchwork Threads was launched in March of 2014.”
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gifts to go
A+ journal
cover
by Lori J Miller
quilted journal cover with pieced plus signs adds up to a delightful gift idea or cherished notebook. Made from scraps or carefully arranged with your color palette, this cover fits over a standard 7 ½” x 9 ¾” composition book. Inside are two pockets for pens and pencils and the journal cover closes with an elastic band and decorative button.
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