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Featured Quilt - Best of Show at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2026
AQS QuiltWeek 2026 is in full swing in Paducah, Kentucky right now, and continues through tomorrow. While you may or may not have heard who's won, we're here to formally announce that former TQS guest, and creator of both amazing quilts (AND scissors), Karen Kay Buckley has received the BERNINA of America Best of Show award for her quilt, Color My World.
Karen's quilt already took home The Innova Master Award for Contemporary Artistry at the Houston International Quilt Festival last year, and her beautiful quilt features all of the perfection and color she's known for.
She says of how her work came to be, "This quilt started with the Bluebird block as a teaching project, and then I wondered if I could create a larger quilt with this concept. Each block contains a critter (insect, animal, bird). Some are hidden and others are obvious. After finishing the blocks, I designed the center and planned to include all the critters, but I could not find the right place for one of them. Can you figure out which one is missing from the center?"
Even months after featuring the quilt from her Houston win, we're still not sure which figure is missing. So if you can figure it out, let us know!
Learn from Karen right here at The Quilt Show by watching her in Applique Tips from Karen Kay Buckley | Meet Textile Conservator Lynn Gorges.
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Victoria and Albert Museum: How Was It Made? - Ari Embroidery |
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Slow Things Down and See How They're Done
From the Victoria and Albert Museum: "The embroiderers at the Sankalan embroidery design and production house in Jaipur, Rajasthan, practise a variety of stitch techniques to embellish fabrics by hand. The V&A followed their work on a lehnga, a wedding skirt, from traced outline to finished product. Only by slowing the footage could the incredibly fast stitching of ari embroidery be captured, as professionals perform it so rapidly it is nearly impossible to see with the naked eye." |
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Quilt Stories from the Museum of Texas Tech University: Documenting an Inscribed Quilt |
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From Texas Tech: "Album quilts with the names of participants inscribed on it have been popular since the beginning of the 19th century, in part because of the development of permanent ink that would not eat through the fabric. This quilt was made in West Texas in the Crosbyton area by a group known as the Big Four Quilt Club and is dated 1959. It is being shared to outline how research to document a quilt is done in a museum and because this is one of the few in the collection on which almost every woman has been found in digital references." |
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Dee LIVE: Park Place Quilt - Class 02 |
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Making the Small Trees
Join Dee Christopher for a FREE 8-part Saturday Sampler series featuring the stunning Park Place Quilt by Sew Kind of Wonderful! In this online class, you’ll learn how to master curved piecing, use the Wonder Curve Ruler, and create a bold, modern quilt using the Park Place quilt pattern.
This week, Dee demonstrates how to make the Small Trees.
Dee is LIVE TOMORROW, April 25, 2026 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later. |
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In The Store - "All the Ways" Quilt Kit |
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Use All The Ways You Know How to Quilt to Make the "All The Ways" Quilt
Create a stunning, starry masterpiece with the All The Ways Quilt Kit, featuring Charisma Horton’s traditionally pieced pattern that showcases bold stars and playful movement. Paired with vibrant Chromatics fabrics from FreeSpirit Fabrics, this kit makes it easy to achieve a colorful, modern quilt with timeless appeal. |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: A Rippling Quilt |
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"Radiant Ripples" by Nina Clotfelter
Radiant Ripples was a quilt that was a little bit out of Nina's norm. It is improv, and she had a lot of fun making it. When it came time to quilt it, she went with the same improv style that she utilized when putting it together, just going with whatever felt right to quilt in the moment. Filling in the spaces with a variety of thread types, including metallic, Nina was able to bring all kinds of different motifs to life with her quilting.
See more of Nina's quilts in Beginning Free Motion Quilting & Thread Weights - Nina Clotfelter | Fabric Collage - Pat Sturtzel. |
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