The Brother CS6000i Sewing and Quilting Machine comes with a variety of extras that make quilting convenient, including an oversized table attachment.
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Now the shopping — for tartan, quilting, bucket hats — begins.
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She loved quilting and always kept in touch with friends.
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The festival also includes spinning, quilting, knitting, weaving and more.
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I belong to a quilting group on the Upper West Side.
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I belong to a quilting group on the Upper West Side.
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Quilting is probably the opposite of how youth socialize these days.
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That whole 40s era of black American quilting is interesting to me.
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Quilting is not the only fabric: You are more free than that.
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"I love putting on vinyl and having wine and quilting," she says.
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Threadsteading is a competitive, territory-control game built on a quilting machine.
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Mr. Ruby attended Kennard-Dale High School, in the heart of Amish country and its quilting heritage, which helps explain the quilting imagery that often turned up in the work he did with Mr. Simons at Calvin Klein. 3.
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Think of it as a kind of quilting bee for the modern era.
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To be au courant, wrap yourself in capes, quilting, tartan and big shoulders.
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You won't find quilting needles and thread in the kits of conventional landscape photographers.
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Theirs were families of makers: in pottery, knitting, metalwork, basketry, blacksmithing, quilting, and storytelling.
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Potential materials for tendons include polyester-wrapped quilting thread, pure silk yarn and nylon monofilament.
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"She did a combination of quilting, painting and sewing objects onto canvas," Ms. Lorenzo said.
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Sewing and quilting experts have been cranking out dozens of cotton medical masks for hospitals.
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Storefronts, including an antique coin shop and a quilting store, cater to an older crowd.
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Leon, who died last year, was a voracious collector and champion of African-American quilting.
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Ms. Doan's quilting stardom — her YouTube channel has nearly 500,000 subscribers — drew tourists to Hamilton.
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Loughman is a teacher who found solace in patchwork and quilting after recuperating from chemotherapy.
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She even celebrated her recent birthday with a quilting-themed cake from Big Sugar Bake Shop.
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"Lately I have been trying out hand quilting too, which I have really enjoyed," she says.
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Venom's quilts and fabric art mix punk and metal imagery with traditional quilting—a compelling juxtaposition.
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It's hard to imagine anything more opposed to that, at least in American culture, than quilting.
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I've also used Morgan Lap Stand Combo Hoops for small quilting projects and hand-sewing projects.
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Quilting squares were pieced onto crisp white shirts and reworked as bias-cut chiffon evening gowns.
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Using the studio's supply of prewashed quilting cotton, she has made about 1 masks so far.
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In 2008, two of Jenny Doan's seven children gave her a sewing machine designed for quilting.
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Bart Nye says Mary Jo was engaged to be married and her passions included sewing and quilting.
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Techniques of dyeing, printing, embroidery, needlework, knitting, quilting, and sewing all are a part of textile arts.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Roger Terry and his wife, Grace, have little interest in quilting, fishing or book clubs.
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Indeed, a 1913 Armory Show cartoon titled "The Original Cubist" suggests that quilting was considered unrefined and slapdash.
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Morris, 81, has known the family for more than 30 years after meeting Cynda through a quilting group.
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And I don't ever see quilting, patchwork, or repairs ever not being a part of what I'm doing.
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Per the introductory voiceover, he's been crafting for over a decade and his specialties are macrame and quilting.
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Windland's grandmother taught her to sew, a skill passed down in a region known for its quilting heritage.
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There are many kinds of bees besides honey bees; you can participate in a QUILTING bee as well.
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We aimed to incorporate the textures and fabrics found in a luxurious bedroom: frills, ruching, quilting and carpeting.
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"Quilting is a craft that's predominantly and historically practiced by women," fellow Threadsteading developer Gillian Smith told Gamasutra.
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The subjects included women like Heather Kinion, 39, who lives in Chicago and works for a quilting magazine.
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We are people who create things made out of fibers: yarn, fabric, string, knitting, crochet, sewing, quilting etc.
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This movie reminded me of the Carrie-Aiden saga in Sex and the City, but with more quilting.
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It's also water-resistant, and the innovative quilting construction means fewer stitches and more loft for more consistent warmth.
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As for her favorite hobby, Clarkson says it's quilting — in fact, she made all the coaches blankets earlier this year.
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Anderson played with texture, color, and shape, naturally, using metalwork and quilting with a huge focus (literally) on oversized silhouettes.
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Textile work resembles meditation, though it can also take place in knitting circles and quilting groups, where silence is shared.
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"In the beginning, not everyone was happy we were turning our farm community into a quilting community," Ms. Doan said.
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While Mom gets ready upstairs for her quilting class in town, Dad is downstairs in the playroom with the kids.
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"We all agreed we would love to see it in a quilting museum where the public can see it," she said.
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Ms. Schapiro framed samples of Ms. Morisot's work with decorative patterns that evoke quilting and other crafts historically associated with women.
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The game is played on a hexagonal grid printed on cloth, using the limitations of the quilting machine to define gameplay.
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Ms. Zieman reached a substantial audience of serious sewers and casual ones, delivering tips on stitching, quilting, sewing shortcuts and more.
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And then," he said, pointing at the white background, "you go in and you cannot believe the extent of the quilting.
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Then you get in closer, and you find there's quilting of dozens of other stars that's just in the red background.
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The tradition of quilting in the region is passed from mother to daughter and predates the formation of the community itself.
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A stunning top-handle silhouette with classic Chanel quilting in a beautiful plum hue, Kate's bag is the ultimate fall accessory.
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Her father, Richard, was a builder and architect; her mother, Ella (Henry) Gatliff, was a homemaker who had a quilting business.
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Quilting is a long maligned art form, but cool grandmas everywhere are reclaiming the practice, patch by patch and square by square.
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A hexagon quilting pattern is what keeps the weight spread evenly across the blanket, so no one spot is ever too heavy.
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Others take on coats: a haphazard quilting of rice, dried celery with its whiff of hay, and scrambled egg, a golden mantle.
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Faith Ringgold's 1996 colorful lithograph "The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles" steals the show with its vibrant storytelling reflecting a strong folk culture.
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You get to ride with me and see where I take patchwork, Gee's Bend quilting, or boro, and see how I evolve it.
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Lehman is considered by many to be the great machine embroidery innovator, back when quilting was making its comeback in the early 90s.
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Fortunately, there is a separate kitchen and common room where Ms. Honda studies and Ms. Felstein keeps reams of fabric for her quilting.
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At the brand's core is colorful quilting, as seen in her upcoming collection which consists of quilted dresses, embroidered pants and ruffled kimonos.
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The men listened to Neapolitan tunes on the radio as they worked, sharing stories, singing along — not unlike a quilting bee a l'Italiano.
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Fusing the African-American quilting tradition with European tropes of portraiture, these works grant monumental status to those that have historically been underrepresented.
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One of the hidden gems was a massive quilting project combining 113 embroidered hexagons, half with state motifs and the other half with stars.
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Related: Meet the Artist Quilting Flaccid Pink AK-47s Steampunk Machine Guns Made from Old Typewriters American Gun Show Exhibition Explores a National Obsession
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Almost two years later, Baxter has made over 100 hand-sewn, pastel-colored guns—often quilting them during her hour-long commute to work.
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"They knew too much about it to be innocent," Karen Probst said one afternoon as she chatted with customers inside her family's quilting store.
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The velvet shoulder insets, bishop sleeves with drawstrings and heart-shaped quilting at the waist were inspired by Jeanne Lanvin's fascination with medieval iconography.
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The widely shared painting promoted quilting as occupational therapy, and contributed to the later belief that all military quilts were made by recovering soldiers.
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Related: Meet the Artist Quilting Flaccid Pink AK-47s Quilted Code, A "Modern Heirloom" Lena Dunham's Peanut Butter Waffle Sandwich & Other Celebrity Sandwiches, Illustrated
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As an act of making something beautiful and utilitarian out of trash, quilting has been an American craft that spans cultures, ethnic groups, and centuries.
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Facebook thinks I am interested in the TV show "The Office" (true), but also interested in some bizarre other topics like "Quilting" and "Cotton" (no).
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The Brother HC1850 Computerized Sewing and Quilting Machine only weighs about 10 pounds, which makes it ideal for bringing along to sewing circles and classes.Pros:
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And then, once you've accepted the symmetry or the asymmetry, the colors and the patterns, then you go in to see the minute quilting itself.
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This week, pieces by the Poakalani quilting circle are on display during the Salone del Mobile in Milan as part of a collaboration with Loewe.
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"I appreciate the heritage of them, and the patterning," Ms. Donohue said, pointing to the American tradition of quilting in the 2401th and 28668th centuries.
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In the MOCA show, Katz expands the conversation to include artists of color not generally associated with the movement who incorporated quilting into their abstractions.
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She occupied most of her time by hand quilting, and we thought she would've appreciated having one of her quilts with her at the hospital.
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The painting simultaneously depicted Walker as a military hero and a civilian man, regaining his independence, using the traditionally feminine craft of quilting to convalesce.
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The textures were interesting because the quilting patterns were different, and I had little piece of my bed with me with every meeting I went to.
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Related: Oprah and Jackie O. Lend Their Faces to This Optical Illusion Quilt Quilted Code, A "Modern Heirloom" Meet the Artist Quilting Flaccid Pink AK-47s
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Al Loving, for example, reportedly moved away from hard-edge abstraction toward quilting because it made him feel closer to his Black identity, closer to home.
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Wear This Quilting may be a centuries-old craft (and one well-loved at T), but it hasn't lost its charm, or purpose, over the years.
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The company now owns 26 buildings, including 14 quilt shops, three restaurants and a quilting retreat house for women, where up to 40 visitors can stay.
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With the acquisition, the museum will also receive 11 quilts by the women of Gee's Bend, a remote community in Alabama renowned for its beautiful quilting.
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It all forms his Alpha Series which subverts, through the more delicate act of quilting, the powerful qualities of masculinity and military prowess associated with the jackets.
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This suggests that the felt quilting technique accommodated many different skill sets; makers with limited chops made more abstract, evenly patterned quilts that look especially modern today.
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Unable to vote, Ms. Holmes used her formidable quilting talent to celebrate the North's Civil War victory and the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.
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The Patchwork rug, a fusion of imperfect rectangles, references vintage quilting techniques, while Blok Huis nods to the simple geometry of the farmhouses that dot the Karoo.
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In "SFD 003," on the other hand, Mr. Dunlap replaces this quilting motif with a pattern of straight lines that looks back more explicitly to early abstraction.
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In a career that kept her on the move for many years, Westphal was endlessly curious and creative, working in ceramics, quilting, fiber, Xerox, and wearable art.
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Related: Meet the Artist Quilting Flaccid Pink AK-47s 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' Gets a Queer-Feminine Overhaul Collage Portraits Explore Violence Against Queer Black Males
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"We've got some 38 Chicago quilters lined up to handle the quilting phase of the project once we get all of the hand-stitched pieces back," Downey said.
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Rounding out the arrangement is an included car cover made out of the same color cloth as the soft top, complete with diamond quilting and the Maybach emblem.
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The women I meet speak about their dozens of cousins, the generations that root them here, the gardening, fiddling and quilting that courses through their "mountain woman" veins.
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"The quilting texture added the depth that I felt was necessary for the spiritual aspect I wanted to convey in this series of paintings," Gardner explains via email.
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You couldn't help but draw a parallel between Lagerfeld's constant seasonal reinvention of Chanel's pearls, chains, quilting and tweeds, and the recent four-year renovation of the Ritz.
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There's also a purposeful quilting pattern on this jacket that's meant to keep the insulation in place, prevent any clumping that could happen over time, and block cold spots.
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For me, the Gee's Bend style of quilting fits into a broader mode of inspiration, which I would say pre-1940s/50s fabric made in America, France, and Japan.
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We think of it more as a quilting bee, with everyone having a chance to add a patch, and the finest patches often arising from the least privileged quilters.
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Once relegated to utilitarian outerwear, quilting is getting a high-fashion makeover for fall, popping up on everything: trousers (at Rachel Comey), ball gowns (at Oscar de la Renta).
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Thanks to the diamond pattern quilting and thick rubber base, I find them far more stylish than traditional rain boots — in addition to the fact they function better, too.
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But for Mr. Ruby, whose multidisciplinary, genre-fluid artworks encompass such diverse mediums as autobiographical quilting and male pornography, Calvin Klein is just one more addition to his toolbox.
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AFAM was a leader in museum appreciation for quilting, with the 1972 exhibition The Fabric of the State, and organized about 45 quilt days over two years in the 1980s.
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On other days, she was always busy — shelling peas or snapping beans, crocheting or quilting or sewing — but on Sunday her hands fell still, and her sewing machine sat silent.
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Perhaps the biggest revolution was a distinctively nostalgic print of '60s-era flowers, whose bright colors covered some of the collection's ubiquitous quilting and even a zigzag-shaved fur coat.
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The Times newsroom had not a lot of interest in someone writing about quilting and saying they were a New York Times employee, so the whole thing just didn't work.
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Quilting is a populist art form, requiring no more than fabric, thread, and a vision—but most punk sewers don't take it any further than the odd swag or repair job.
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There is stitching on the instrument panel, diamond quilting on the climate-controlled seats and trim that looks to be from real trees (but that wouldn't be ecologically responsible, would it?).
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In an anecdote written for the auction, co-founder of the International Quilt Association, Karey Bresenhan, says Lehman's work popularized thread painting and changed the public's perception of machine quilting altogether.
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Last year's sleeper trend with its treacly allusions to butter churns, quilting bees and starchily kitted-out sister wives, has given way to something less like a costume, less aggressively maidenly.
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It was the first time Westphal had thought of textile as her principal artistic medium, but soon enough, she found herself at the head of a whole movement of creative quilting.
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Levisay is co-founder and CEO of Craftsy, a website of more than 1,300 well-produced online classes that teach people a variety of crafts, from quilting to cooking, knitting to photography.
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Designed with quilting that echoes its curvy shape, and logo detail to delight Rainbow Brite, the collection proves that the decade of decadence can, despite its garish reputation, be ever so chic.
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In Britain at least, quilting was encouraged by the military and temperance organizations alike; they gave idle hands something to do between military engagements, staving off the temptations of drink and gambling.
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A memorial to those who lost their lives in 2018 He was captivated by Incan textiles after he visited Machu Picchu in Peru, an interest he also traced to his grandmother's quilting.
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Quilting is a typically female craft, and he is using these jerseys to speak about the exploitation of black males within college sports and how these boys are used and spat out.
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She had begun quilting seriously in her 40s and when her work started to attract attention, she used a pseudonym, fought hard to maintain her privacy and rarely parted with her pieces.
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Contributing Opinion Writer NASHVILLE — Like many girls of my generation in the rural South, I learned every form of handwork my grandmother or great-grandmother could teach me: sewing, knitting, crocheting, quilting.
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In keeping with Kelley's intention, it quickly became an unofficial town hall, hosting everything from book drives to A.A. meetings to quilting workshops to a lawyer offering a lecture on obtaining house loans.
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"Pictured above is Sheila, who "has been with her partner for 23-plus years, loves quilting, swims in hopes to work on that bod, and doesn't have or need some big 'coming out' story.
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These days, any pastime worth pursuing — pottery, cooking, gardening, quilting, woodworking and beyond — attracts a constellation of blogs, message boards, Facebook groups, Amazon reviewers, Instagram and Etsy influencers, and many hundreds of YouTube stars.
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Yet patchwork and quilting — homespun, traditionally feminine crafts that in times past transformed worn-out clothes or leftover bits of fabric into things beautiful, useful and warm — are having a moment on the runway.
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While Hawaiian quilting is a relatively unknown craft outside of the state, John Serrao's designs recently caught the eye of Jonathan Anderson, the fashion designer and creative director of the Spanish fashion house Loewe.
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We can explain that it's a log cabin quilt and get into a whole discussion of the history of that type of quilting and be a little in tune with their own family history.
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I imagine that the algorithms saw me joining groups like "Flat Earth Believers" and "Quilting For Beginners," along with lots of pro-Trump and anti-Trump groups, and just gave up on targeting me.
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I've joined Facebook groups that represent my real-life interests (Home Cooks, Pitbull Fans) and groups that have nothing to do with me (Lyme Disease Group, Quilting for Beginners, Cannabis Growers Helping Cannabis Growers).
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In the tired art versus craft debate, many in the elitist contemporary art world might see quilting as strictly craft, or at the very least a folksy and dated tradition — and this bias isn't new.
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The quilts at the convention could be easily commercialized, and yet, these pieced-together phrases still combat the stereotype that quilting is an activity for your polite, but racist, grandmother left behind in flyover country.
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Spiral Play: Loving in the '80s at Art + Practice features 12 three-dimensional collages created from rag paper, some quite large, that draw on diverse influences, from free jazz to the African American quilting tradition.
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"Quilting was the only way to get it done because it's an old tradition; it's a tradition that African Americans have used for many years; it's a way of preserving memory through fabric," he said.
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Three of them were chosen as winners yesterday: Shaw Pong Liu; Georgie Friedman, whose video project focuses on abandoned buildings; and L'Merchie Frazier, who proposed a quilting project to help women with substance abuse problems.
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Each player must pick up where the last player began—a restriction tied to the nature of the quilting machine—and travel until their crew gets tired, when a tile is awarded to the leader.
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Mr. Ruby's collection comes at the end of decade of experimentation with quilting, soft sculpture and studio work wear that the artist produced from fabric saved in fixed percentages from each of his projects. 6.
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Chanel is a formula by now: Take some tweed, some quilting, add a dash of contemporary trend, a pinch of pearls and a sprinkling of double Cs, throw it all in a pot and stir.
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Ms. Burton's tailoring — in gray and black lines meant to mimic a blown-up quilting pattern that slashed across the body in graphic detail, often with a swallowtail hem at the back — is all that.
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Just as quilting was considered a mere housewives' craft before critics began to take note that sewing circles were capable of producing truly significant work, this intrinsically dialogic kind of writing is capable of producing literature.
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The art of quilting is often muddled by a tropes of the grandmotherly persuasion, alongside knitting and needle-poin, but for Australian quilter, Gloria Loughman a featured artist at this year's Invitational, it's something else entirely.
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The emotional resonance of quilting is perhaps best embodied in the life and art of Ora M. Knowell, 70, a guild member and the daughter of sharecroppers, who has lost two sons to gun violence in Oakland.
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Related: Meet the Artist Quilting Flaccid Pink AK-47s These Fonts Shred: A Typographical Survey of Heavy Metal Meet the Heavy Metal Chef Making Slayer Pizzas and the Danzig Burger A Bespoke Occult Glyph for Every Quandary
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The popularity of quilting on the catwalk also falls in line with a broader cultural and industry trend: the rise in sportswear and "normcore," which sees designers taking inspiration from everyday wardrobe items to create high fashion.
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The ultimate in comfort dressing, quilting could be found everywhere on the runways, be it as touches on scarves, patchwork pockets and sleeves or the full body cocoons seen at shows like Maison Margiela and Dries Van Noten.
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Through a technology called "quilting", the system is coded to decide whether a web page, paragraph, or image is kosher, said Zvika Ilan, vice president of business development and marketing officer for Netspark, a filter for computers and smartphones.
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She took classes with the folklorist Wayland Hand, learned to play the guitar, gathered folk songs from quilting bees sponsored by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, and studied folk songs that her grandmother had pasted into a scrapbook.
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The North Face Men's Thermoball Hoodie, $154 (originally $220) [You save $66] A durable and highly packable hoodie, this jacket features a new bottleneck quilting pattern and ultralight ThermoBall insulation for an excellent warmth-to-weight ratio and fewer cold spots.
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There's a group within the VR team that builds two new apps, every single week, just to see if quilting or gardening or drumming is fun in VR. 'We've been hiding behind Cardboard,' Bavor tells me with a mischievous grin.
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While quilts have been documented around the world, including in China, Egypt and Europe, the form blossomed in America as the cotton industry exploded in the mid-1800s (a period that Ms. Peck thinks of as the "heyday" of quilting).
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The 30-year-old graduate of Central Saint Martins has made a name for himself with his quirky takes on wardrobe basics, and his trademark slim quilting has won him a number of celebrity fans, including Drake, Kanye West and Rihanna.
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Related: Meet the Artist Quilting Flaccid Pink AK-47s Watch a CGI 'War of the Worlds' Unfold in Siberia A Modernist Artist Blends Realistic Memories of World War I Onto Canvas England's 'Mind Control Tower' Is a Spiritual Reminder of War History
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Before the internet, people worked harder to find affinity groups, but they still found them — even if it meant placing ads in esoteric trade magazines and becoming pen pals, or showing up for Toastmasters, or quilting club, or genealogy class all by yourself.
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Our favorites this week Get going with some of our most popular good news stories of the week The threads that connect us Dozens of crafters across the country have united to breathe new life into an unfinished labor of quilting love.
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In "Linear Waves" (1989) and "In Search of My Mother's Art II" (1992) — both done on unstretched canvas — Driskell suggests a relationship between painting and quilting, yet his use of layering, collage, and patterning does not become a one-to-one correspondence.
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Patch points and holes are often surrounded by complex hand-work; while quilting as a domestic art remains invisible to some, Harris's extraordinary investment of labor and improvisational detail makes it nearly impossible to ignore the hand of the artist in the fiber plane.
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The guild's robust cultural presence underscores the city's role as "the epicenter of the African-American diaspora," said Amy Kitchener, the executive director of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, which helped finance both the exhibition and a program for guild members to teach quilting to children.
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He discussed bridging his background as a painter with his newer medium of quilting the evening of his BMA opening at a public talk with celebrated abstract painter Mark Bradford, whose 2017 Venice Biennale exhibition Tomorrow Is Another Day will come to the museum in September.
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At Hobby Lobby you can buy a Jesus cross-stitch kit or a poster that reads "This Girl Runs On Cupcakes and Jesus" alongside beads and quilting fabric; it is the store of choice for America's church ladies, and it has, in turn, made its owners billionaires.
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The last study of public participation in the arts carried out by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2012 revealed that 13% of adults have engaged in weaving, crocheting, quilting, needlepoint, knitting, or sewing in that same year — more than any other art form, including music.
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"In terms of traditional Amish crafts, quilts are a huge draw to the area," said the Pennsylvania Dutch County communications manager, Joel Cliff, who says nearly 9 million people come to Lancaster, Pa., annually, in large part because of the crafting traditions; there are around 22 quilting stores.
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Nor is it any help that the production from the director-designer Stewart Laing (a 1997 Tony Award winner for his sets for the Broadway musical "Titanic") backs leading player Fiona Glascott into defiantly strident mode: this is one quilting bee that I was happy, sorry to say, to let be.
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The recently released app, a product of NBC Universal and a new version of an earlier app "Craftsy," offers a wide range of classes including: knitting, cake decorating, cooking, crocheting, drawing, quilting, painting, writing, sewing, photography, woodworking, fitness, jewelry, cake decorating, paper crafts, healthy eating, yoga, entertaining, and more kid-friendly crafts.
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The abstract painter Stanley Whitney — known for his signature grids of bold color inspired by jazz, American craft quilting and the midcentury Color Field artists — has been making art in New York for more than 153 years, but only in the last decade has he attracted widespread attention from curators and collectors.
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It is dubious, to say the least, that some of the biggest names in contemporary art history — like the primarily straight, white, male fraternity of the abstract expressionist movement — made their fame by dealing in the kind of emotive, gestural, and abstracted balances of color and texture that had been the hallmark of quilting for centuries.
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Looking at her works, one feels a sense of indignation that fine art has, historically, felt the need to distance itself from domestic arts like quilting — as though the fiber matrix employed by quilters is more base or somehow deeply materially different than the canvas that has served as the base for paintings throughout the centuries.
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The offerings here — many of which deal with themes of trauma, grief and healing — include Ms. Miguel's Pulling Threads Fabric Workshop, in which storytelling and quilting serve as tools for mending old wounds; and SJ Norman's "Cicatrix 1 (that which is taken/that which remains)," a meditation on the deaths of incarcerated First Nations people in Australia.
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At the last minute, we realized we couldn't have Paul and Fredda there as the only singles among three couples—we didn't want to be that obvious—so we invited our neighbor Arnold, who'd lost his wife six months earlier, and Katie, an energetic divorcée in her late fifties whom Nola knew from a quilting circle she'd joined over the winter.
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Alice in Wonderland birthday parties; Spanish-speaking nannies; healthy children harvesting perfect blue chicken eggs from the back-yard coop; homeschooled wonders who read by age three; flat, tight bellies; happy husbands; cake pops; craft time; quilting projects; breast pumps in the boardroom; tenure; ballet tights; cloth diapers; French braids; homemade lip balm; tremendous flat pans of paella prepared over a beach campfire.
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Going ahead, he added that the plan will be to expand to other kinds of haberdashery such as quilting and other sewing, and possibly into other areas like jewelry making and possibly baking — basically, categories where LoveCrafts can apply its model of creating a community for people to talk about their crafts, show off their finished work, trade patterns and buy supplies to make the objects.
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Towns is cognizant of his position as a man trained as a painter taking up a medium passed down through history by self-taught women, and when talking about his work he points to the black women forebearers of quilting like Harriet Powers, Faith Ringgold, and Elizabeth Talford Scott (mother of fellow Baltimore quilter Joyce J. Scott, better known for her confrontational glass sculptures and beadwork).
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From its opening night program devoted to pioneering Black women directors like Julie Dash and Cheryl Dunye, to the heroines of its closers — Pam Grier, Regina Hall, and Odessa Warren Grey in Jackie Brown, Support the Girls, and Lime Kiln Club Field Day, respectively — It's All in Me departs from Hollywood's historic pigeonholing of Black actresses by quilting together the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that these women have asserted themselves onscreen across a variety of genres.
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