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Paranoid Tom was the featured quilt of the week in the November 22, 2009 edition of the Start Your Week With a Quilt newsletter. It was created by Aleathia Chisolm whose web site is www.eclecticquilts.com. With Thanksgiving coming up, this colorful guy has a right to be paranoid. Let’s hope that he will be spared. [...]
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The Georgia Quilt Show has announced a new contest for 2010! The entry deadline is September 1, 2010. The show will be held October 14-16, 2010 at the Gwinnett Center near Atlanta. According to the web site, “Seeking Color Harmony is a contest designed to let you discover your inner quilter. Be it traditional or contemporary, [...]
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Traditional quilters will tell you that the best way to baste a quilt is to hold the sandwich together with safety pins spaced two inches apart. That definitely works, but the modern quilter is slight stretched for time. An amazing new invention is basting spray. There are several manufactures, but the idea is the same. [...]
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Wind Dance Butterflies was the featured quilt of the week in the November 15, 2009 edition of the Start Your Week With a Quilt newsletter. It was created by Inez Wilkerson. Saturday, the Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Guild will gather at the Carrie Steele Pitts Home to present quilts to the children who reside [...]
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Lark Books has announced an online Quilt It! Contest running from October 15 to January 5. The contest is open to the public and invites crafters to create and submit a photo of a quilt. The quilt has to be made with 3 of 5 elements — birds, mountains, silver, recycled materials, and paper. There [...]
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Gone are the days when quilters used whatever was on hand to stuff inside their quilts. The type of batting used can greatly affect the quilting process as well as the finished look of your quilt. Many quilters are purists and will only use 100 per cent cotton batting in their quilts. However, there are [...]
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Pray for Peace, by Evelyn Holmes, Atlanta, GA This beautiful quilt was created by Evelyn Holmes of Atlanta, GA. It is a moving tribute to the men and women who serve in the armed services.
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Early quilters had little more than needle, thread and scraps when they set about making a quilt. My, how things have changed. Take thread for instance. The choices are astounding! Most quilters use cotton thread in a neutral color such as tan or gray for piecing, but that is only the beginning. Choices for quilting [...]
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When Autumn Leaves Start to Fall was featured in the November 1, 2009 edition of the Start Your Week With a Quilt newsletter. It was created by Jeanette Walton. Jeanette says this quilt remained unfinished for over five years. She had taken a class to learn to make the quilt only to discover that her [...]
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Cash awards totaling $44,250 will be presented at the 2010 American Quilter’s Society Show and Contest to be held in Lancaster, PA, March 24-27, 2010. Entry deadline is December 1, 2009. For more details, visit www.AmericanQuilter.com.
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The World Quilt Show will be held at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida November 13 -15, 2009. There will be over 400 quilts from 10 countries on display. Show hours are 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday. Admisssion is $12.00 [...]
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