International Quilt Festival 2024 Recap
This blog post shares some of the amazing quilts seen at the International Quilt Festival 2024. International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX for 2024 is in the books. Festival, as it is affectionately known, is the big show each year in Houston. It is held at the end of October / beginning of November. (Just […]
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My Australia is in Houston!
There is an amazing, fabulous, HUGE quilt hanging at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX this weekend. My Australia was created by our Handi Quilter Ambassador, Helen Godden. She drew the design in 2018 but with her busy life of teaching, lecturing and traveling, she wondered when she would ever have time to actually […]
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Signature Quilt – the story
Back on Dec 20, 2022 we aired a HQ Watch and Learn Quilting Show about Signature Quilts. You can watch it here. In the show Kim and Kristina share several kinds of signature quilts. One of them was a quilt that was gifted to Handi Quilter by my guild, The Southern Wake Quilters’ Guild, here […]
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The Finish – Christmas Countdown Quilt-A-Long with Helen Godden
At the start of December 2022 our friend, Helen Godden, started her annual Christmas Countdown Quilt-a-long. Helen is our Handi Quilter Ambassador who lives in Australia. She’s an accomplished artist and a superb stationary machine quilter. I decided to join in the quilt-a-long and take you all along with me. So today I will share […]
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Christmas Countdown Quilt-a-long with Helen Godden
Have you seen the Christmas Countdown Quilt-a-long for 2022 from our friend, Helen Godden? This is the 7th year that Helen is doing her quilt-a-long. It’s tons of fun and you just might learn a few new quilting techniques along the way. Helen is our Handi Quilter Ambassador who lives in Australia. She’s an accomplished […]
Read MoreMy Australia, Helen Godden’s Masterpiece
There is an amazing, fabulous, HUGE quilt hanging at the Australasian Quilt Convention in Brisbane, Australia this weekend. My Australia was created by our Handi Quilter Ambassador, Helen Godden. She drew the design in 2018 but with her busy life of teaching, lecturing and traveling, she wondered when she would ever have time to actually […]
Read MoreIntroducing New HQ Ambassador, Jane Hauprich
I’d like you to meet our newest HQ ambassador, Jane Hauprich. That name just might sound familiar to you since Jane was a Handi Quilter National Educator for five years. To get to know Jane just a bit better, (we’ve been friends and co-workers for the last 5 years), I thought I’d do an interview […]
Read MoreWhen to Frog Machine Quilting – and When to Resist
My friend, HQ Stitch Ambassador, Diane Harris is quilting her scrappy Gypsy Wife on her HQ Capri stationary longarm machine. She’s fairly new to machine quilting. And she is chronicling her adventures with her new machine over on the HQ Stitch blog. This week she asks the question, “when to frog machine quilting – and […]
Read MoreQuilt Stories
At Handi Quilter we love to hear quilt stories. How a quilt came to be, what techniques were used, how the maker came to quilting. This curiosity is the inspiration for our And I Quilt campaign. Getting to know quilters is fun and fascinating! Lisa Walton is a textile artist living in Sydney, Australia […]
Read MoreGetting to know Telene Jeffrey, Handi Quilter’s newest International Ambassador
by Mary Beth Krapil We would like to welcome our newest International Ambassador, Telene (Hester Helena) Jeffrey! Telene lives in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa. She is an amazing quilter, teacher and artist. She is an SAQG (South African Quilters Guild) Accredited Quilt Teacher after successfully completing the Teachers Accreditation Course. Telene has won numerous prizes […]
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