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The featured quilt of the week in the October 25, 2009 edition of the Start Your Week With a Quilt newsletter was Mischievous Pumpkin and it was created by Vickie Clark. It was featured as a friendly reminder that Halloween is Saturday. Vickie designed the pattern for this 32 x 32 inch quilt which is [...]
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The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, located in Augusta, GA, is currently exhibiting a group of quilts from its permanent collection and from quilters in the area. The exhibit opened October 1, 2009 and will continue through November 30, 2009. Visit the web site at www.lucycraftlaneymuseum.com for museum hours.
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Hammonds House Museum has been a true partner to the African-American quilting community in Atlanta. It co-sponsors the Clara Ford Quilt Lecture series with the Clara Ford Foundation, and it has featured quilts in its gallery. The museum will hold its annual fundraiser at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, October 31, 2009 at the Southwest Arts Center, 915 [...]
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Pink is everywhere these days because October is breast cancer awareness month. I dare say quilters were probably leaders in the breast cancer awareness movement, so the Start Your Week With a Quilt newsletter could not let the month go by without showcasing a breast cancer quilt. The October 18, 2009 featured quilt was [...]
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A new book entitled 500 Art Quilts is scheduled for release in March, 2010. It is published by Lark Books. Several African American quilters will be featured in the book. One of them is Renee Allen of Atlanta, GA. Her quilt call Hallelujah! is shown below. You will definitely want to add this book to [...]
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One of the first lessons a future master quilter must learn is how to sew a quarter inch seam. Garment patterns are based on a one-half inch seam, but quilt patterns are not. If you want your points to be pointy and your seams to match, practice, practice, practice to sew an accurate quarter inch seam [...]
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The International Quilt Festival, the mother of all quilt shows, opens in Houston, Texas October 15 and continues through October 18, 2009. The festival will be held in Houston, Texas at the George R. Brown Convention Center. For more information, visit www.quilts.com.
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