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Sunday Smiles - October 12, 2025 |
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Featured Quilt - The Grace Company Master Award for Traditional Artistry at Houston 2025
Today is the last day of Houston International Quilt Festival 2025, but don't fret if you can't make it to the show as we have plenty of great photos of the quilts that we will sharing with you. For now, while the show is still going, we bring another of the top-tier award winners direct from the floor. Poco A Poco by Keiko Morihiro is a quilt you may have seen and admired before. It won First Place - Hand Quilted Quilts (Sponsored by Arrow Sewing) at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2024, and this year won The Grace Company Master Award for Traditional Artistry at Houston 2025. Seeing the quilt is one thing, but knowing more about it brings a deeper appreciation for the hard work put into it. For example, did you know it features over 30,000 PIECES!
Keiko says of the time and effort she put into the quilt, "About ten years ago, I started working on a hexagonal quilt, but stopped halfway through because it had too many pieces. Four years ago, I started working on this quilt again and was finally able to complete it. The number of hexagonal pieces used to complete this quilt was 30,833. All the hexagonal pieces were quilted in rocking stitch, and each side of the hexagonal paper liner is 8mm long."
The 2025 Houston International Quilt Festival runs through today, October 12, 2025, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. |
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Jamie Kalvestran Makes Her Debut with Alex By Her Side in Our Brand New Show! |
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Create Faces Two Ways and Use Hand Embroidery to Reinvent Your Work
Jamie Kalvestran always knew she wanted to be an artist. After a successful career in banking, she shifted to product design, leading to work with toy companies, 3M, and fabric collections before moving into art quilting. Learn how to turn a rough sketch into a foundation paper pieced figurative-portrait and create your own improvisational abstract portrait using paper piecing. Then, Alex shares a inspired way to break free from your creative rut by reimagining a painted fabric piece as the foundation for further embellishment using hand embroidery to transform into a renewed work of art.
Watch Jamie and Alex in Making Foundation Paper Pieced and Improv Faces - Jamie Kalvestran | Hand Embroidery On Painted Fabric - Alex Anderson, which debuts today! |
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"The Visitation" by Ricky Tims - Quilt Mural Project |
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Learn More About The Murals and Become Part of Something Special
As you may have heard, Ricky Tims' Houston International Quilt Festival 2025 Best of Show winning quilt, The Visitation, has been has been nominated for inclusion in the Quilt City USA® Mural Project in Paducah, Kentucky to become one of the larger-than-life murals on the city’s iconic floodwall.
These extraordinary quilt murals are typically funded by a single benefactor or corporate sponsor. But this time, the honor has been given to all of us—the worldwide quilting community!
Don't know about the Quilt City USA® Mural Project? Find out more about it by watching an interview with one of the mural artists, Char Downs, and reading an article about the project. Then find out even more about his amazing project, and how you can contribute today! |
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Academy Award Winner Sandy Powell On Costume Design |
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Exploring Her Career as a Costume Designer on Over 50 films
Sandy Powell is an Academy Award winning costume designer with three Oscars and fifteen nominations to her name. Her almost forty-year career has had her creating costumes for films such as Cinderella, The Aviator, and Mary Poppins Returns. Listen in as she takes us through her career and shares stories of the films she's worked on and more. |
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Design Your Dream Quilt with Design N Quilt™ Software from Quilters Select |
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From block designs to fabric choices to appliqué shapes to quilting, Design N Quilt™ has you covered. It can even generate fabric requirements, rotary cutting instructions, and actual size templates and foundations! |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: An Artistic Tribute |
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"My Granny" by Lynn Czaban
My Granny is the first portrait quilt that Lynn made. It was constructed during a portrait class given by Bonnie Keller and inspired by Lynn's grandmother, who was an artist in her family and encouraged everyone to find a creative outlet and be artists too. This dedication to art made Lynn feel that she would be the perfect subject for her first portrait quilt.
See more of Lynn's quilts in Self Portrait Design and Contour Quilting with Lynn Czaban | Machine Quilted Mandalas with Dorie Hruska. |
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Your Cover Shoot Is On the Horizon
Alex and Ricky used to have a magazine called The Quilt Life, and it featured great articles and quilts, sometimes from guests who have been on the show like this week's featured guest Lynn Czaban. While the magazine may no longer be in print, there are still plenty of great quilting magazines out there looking to discover the next big thing in quilting, and The Quilt Show could help you get there. Just hone and practice the skills you learn from watching the shows, submit what you've got, and pretty soon you too could be on a cover just like Alex and Ricky! |
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