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African Mask 2 was the featured quilt of the week in the August 23, 2009 edition of the Start Your Week With a Quilt© newsletter. It was created by Nina Moore. This quilt was recently featured in the Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Show where it was voted third place in the wallhanging category by the [...]
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Seven quilt guilds in the Jacksonville, Florida area will come together to present Quiltfest of Jacksonville 2009, from September 24 -26. The theme of the show is Re-cycling the Past. The show will be held at the Prime F Osborn Convention Center, 1000 Water Street, Jacksonville, Florida. Show hours are Thursday and Friday 9 a.m. [...]
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The Pennsylvania Natonal Quilt Extravaganza opens September 17 and continues through September 20 at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center. According to the web site of Mancuso Show Management, “the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza is the largest and most prominent quilting arts event in the Northeast all under one roof. The quilt competition features wonderful entries from [...]
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Gumbo Ladies 2 was featured in the August16, 2009 of the Start Your Week With a Quilt newsletter. It was created by Aisha Lumumba. This quilt depicts two ladies making gumbo. It is appliquéd and pieced with hand painted fabric and altered fabrics. It is embellished with beads and hand quilted by Aisha. Gumbo [...]
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The East Cobb Quilt Guild will open its bi-annual show September 18, 2009 at the Cobb County Civic Center, 548 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA. The theme of the show is Georgia Celebrates Quilts, and over 400 quilts will be on display. Show hours are Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to [...]
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The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. is currently featuring batik patterned textiles from the collection of Ann Dunham, President Obama’s mother. The exhibit entitled A Lady Found a Culture in its Cloth: Barack Obama’s Mother and Indonesian Batiks will be on view from August 9-23, 2009. This showing is the final stop of a national [...]
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Desert Queen, created by Anita Crosby, was featured in the August 9, 2009 edition of the Start Your Week With a Quilt newsletter. If you attended the Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Show, you saw this quilt up close. It tied for first place in the wall quilt balloting. The queen’s name is Thea, and she is Anita’s [...]
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The Clara Ford Foundation, in collaboration with the Hammonds House Museum, launched the Clara Ford Quilt Lecture series recently. The inaugural lecture was presented August 1 and 2, 2009 by Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi in conjunction with the Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Show. The second lecture was presented by Quilt Appraiser Holly Anderson August 8, 2009. Both [...]
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The Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Show opened to rave reviews Saturday. There were large appreciative crowds for both the quilts and the lecture presented by Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi. The quilts will remain on display through Friday, August 7, 2009 at the South Fulton Arts Center, 4645 Butner Road, College Park, GA. Hours are 10 a.m. [...]
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The exhibit, Jazz! Art Quilts in Performance that showcases the quilts of Marlene O’Bryant Seabrook, has been extended. Formerly scheduled to close July 31st, the exhibit will now remain on display until September 15, 2009 at the Avery Research Center in Charleston, SC. I took a day trip to Charleston last week to see the [...]
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