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Featured Quilt - Best of Show at AQS QuiltWeek Daytona Beach 2026
The Sample Book Quilt by Pat Holly received the Best of Show award at this weekend's AQS QuiltWeek Daytona Beach 2026, which concluded yesterday. With this honor, Pat's quilt has now won TWO Best of Show awards at different AQS shows in the last year, this one, and Best of Show at AQS QuiltWeek - Lancaster 2025.
Not to diminish those two awards under its belt, The Sample Book Quilt also took home the Best Stationary Machine Workmanship Award at AQS QuiltWeek - Grand Rapids 2025. Pat says of the inspiration and creation for the quilt, "Made of silk fabric, this quilt was inspired by 19th century textile sample books in the Museum of Printed Fabrics, Mulhouse, France.”
Want to know more about this extraordinary quilt? After viewing the quilt in the gallery, be sure to click the Quilt Video tab to watch an interview Pat did with Michelle Renee Hiatt on the floor of AQS QuiltWeek - Grand Rapids 2025 after winning her Best Stationary Machine Workmanship Award. Pat talks in depth about her inspiration for the quilt, the work that went into it, and so much more.
Learn from Pat right here at The Quilt Show by watching her in How to Machine Appliqué and Create Decorative Stitches with Pat Holly. |
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Unboxing Historic Ballet Costumes |
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"Margot Fonteyn, Anna Pavlova & Sleeping Beauty Treasures"
From the Victoria and Albert Museum: "Step inside ballet history with this unboxing video of rare ballet costumes and ballet shoes worn by some of the most legendary dancers of the 20th century. Join curator of dance Jane Pritchard as she carefully unboxes and explores these historic ballet objects – from Margot Fonteyn’s costume from The Sleeping Beauty, designed by Oliver Messel in 1946, to a ballet shoe thought to have been worn by Anna Pavlova in the 1920s." |
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The Crafty Quilter Tutorial: Lazy Heart Quilt Block |
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It's Time For a Heart to Heart
Just because Valentine's Day is over doesn't mean you can't show your love and affection for that special person in your life by making them something lovely. Julie Cefalu, The Crafty Quilter, has a fun and scrappy Lazy Heart Quilt Block for you to create that'll help you seal that connection you and your person share. |
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Textile Talks: Boro - The Hidden and the Visible in Japanese Mended Textiles |
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Learning About a Cycle of Recyclability
Presented by the International Quilt Museum: ""Boro" is a Japanese term associated with the cycle of use and reuse — of wearing something out and mending it, over and over. In rural communities across Japan, mainly before World War II, boro was a way of life. Everyday textiles such as bed covers and clothing were repeatedly repaired using scraps of fabric and simple running stitches. Join the International Quilt Museum’s Marin Hanson for a Textile Talk with boro expert Dr. Yoshiko Wada, in which they will look at and discuss the IQM’s current exhibition, “Boro: The Hidden and the Visible in Japanese Mended Textiles.”"
Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, February 25, 2026, at 2 PM EDT. |
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In The Store - Apliquick Appliqué Rods |
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Tools To Make Appliqué a Breeze
Appliquick Appliqué Rods are precision stainless-steel tools designed to make appliqué faster, cleaner, and more accurate—even on the tiniest pieces! With specialized ends to hold, fold, and smooth fabric edges without hot irons or sticky hands, these durable surgical-steel rods deliver flat, polished results every time from Appliquick.
Click below to watch a demonstration from Lynette Anderson on how to use the Appliquick Appliqué Rods. |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: Putting Templates to Use |
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"Chelsea" by Tara Miller
When creating patterns, Tara tends to make acrylic templates to go along with them. Her quilt Legacy Wheel has such a set of templates, and Tara didn't want those templates to be used just for that quilt and intended them to be versatile. So she has made other patterns that use those Legacy Wheel templates in a different format, which includes this quilt entitled Chelsea.
See more of Tara's quilts in Mixing Prints and Crazy Quilt Fan Blocks - Tara Miller | Diagonal Improv Blocks - Vickie Wheatley. |
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What Are You a "Fan" Of?
For Tara Miller, our featured guest on this week's show, she became fascinated with the crazy quilt craze of 1880–1920, and decided to reinterpret those fan blocks into her modern Fan Girl quilt pattern. Maybe you will be inspired to do something similar by watching any one of our almost 500 shows and will discover something that you will become of fan of too! |
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