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Spotlight: Karen Maple, Quilt Artist
Converting ideas into two-dimensional images drives the work of quilt artist Karen Maple. She starts with a story, often about social injustice, and creates compelling contemporary images using the traditional…
Spotlight Jane Hauprich, Quilter and Designer
Quilting her own early quilts with an eye toward helping the family budget, award winning quilter and designer Jane Hauprich loved the process so much she started quilting for others,…
How to Make the Air Castle Quilt Block: Free Tutorial
The Air Castle Quilt block uses half square triangles, three-quarter square triangles, and the center is a square in a square block. It is a nine-patch layout. The different angles…
How to Make the Split Quarter Square Triangle Quilt Block
The Split Quarter Square Triangle Quilt Block is a variation of the Quarter Square Triangle block, which is also referred to as the Hour Glass quilt block. What makes it…
Spotlight: Michelle Wilkie, Textile Artist
Michelle Wilkie sets apart from the crowd with her clean and simple lines along with colors that engage the viewer in her textile art. Achieving the seeming simplicity of minimalist…
Spotlight: Ann Feitelson, Quilt Artist
With formal training as a painter, quilt artist Ann Feitelson dedicated the first years of her art career to using a paintbrush, creating landscapes and still lifes with vivid, expressive…
Spotlight: Jen Hewett, Designer and Textile Artist
Jen Hewett is a successful print maker, surface designer and textile artist. She is also an advocate for women of color who enjoy expressing themselves with craft. Knowing that there…
How to Make the Ribbon Star Quilt Block Tutorial
The Ribbon Star Quilt Block is a quick and easy quilt block using half square triangles and squares. It is generally made with three fabrics, two for the ribbons and…
Variable Star Quilt Block Pattern: Free Tutorial
The Variable Star Quilt Block is a variation of the Ohio Star quilt block, using four (4) fabrics instead of just two (2) fabrics. It is a nine-patch layout quilt…
How to Make an Hourglass Quilt Block: Free Tutorial
Hourglass quilt blocks are also referred to as quarter square triangles. They are a basic quilt block you can use alone or combine with other blocks to form more intricate…
How to Make the Ohio Star Quilt Block: Free Tutorial
The Ohio Star Quilt Block is a basic nine patch quilt block made from quarter square triangles and squares. This classic block is popular in both traditional and modern quilts.…
Spotlight: Annabel Wrigley, Textile Artist
A common thread in textile artist, designer and author Annabel Wrigley quilt designs is joyful, playful color. This busy mom designs quilts, writes books, publishes patterns, designs fabric and teaches…
Spotlight: David Hastings, Multidisciplinary Designer
With a drive to create, Multidisciplinary Designer and Art Director David Hastings found encouragement from a young age to pursue art and design. Depending on the project, he may sharpen…
Spotlight: Kate McCully, Amigurumi Pattern Designer
From sock monsters to crocheted dolls, Amigurumi Pattern Designer Kate McCully's imagination has always been filled with creative ideas that she then simply had to make with her own hands.…
Spotlight Yvonne Fuchs, Modern Quilter and Designer
Most people fear rejection. Instead, Modern Quilter and Designer Yvonne Fuchs actively pursues it, pushing her skills to discover her strengths and the processes that best express her vision. The…
Spotlight: Karoline Dahrling Hughes, Sustainable Sewist
Rules? What rules? For sustainable sewist and crafter Karoline Dahrling Hughes, the joy is in the making. Creating is above all a happy pursuit filled with embraceable imperfections that we…
Spotlight: Claire Passmore, Textile Artist
Taking the art quilt to new dimensions - 3 dimensions, textile artist Claire Passmore pushes herself to explore experimental materials and processes to achieve her vision. Claire works spontaneously, but…
Spotlight: Tighe Flanagan, Quilter and Designer
Life takes interesting turns, and a stint teaching in Jordan for the Peace Corps ignited a passion for the geometric grids and patterns of Islamic art, transforming Tighe Flanagan from…