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 Madison, WI – Sept. 13-15, 2007 – Enter your quilts NOW in this show to be held at the Exhibition Hall of the Alliant Energy Center. This three-day event is presented by Wisconsin Public Television and Sewing With Nancy®.  There are 10 categories with 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd place cash prizes in each category.  First place wins $500, 2^nd wins $300 and 3^rd place earns $200.  The Best of Show winner will be awarded $1,500. The 2007 Quilt Expo quilt contest entry forms and 2006 winners are available at www.wiquiltexpo.com

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The dates for this year's International Quilt Festival in Chicago are April 13-15, 2007. The festival will be held at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois. For more information and advance ticket purchase or information on vendors, classes and exhibiits, visit www.quilts.com

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Without teachers whose innovative ideas and passion for sharing their knowledge, there would not be machine quilting shows like Machine Quilters Exposition (MQX). These women and men have revolutionized machine quilting, turning the general quilting industry on its ear and brought machine quilting from being shunned to an accepted art form. MQX would like to acknowledge and honor one of these teachers with the First Annual Machine Quilting Teacher-of-the-Year Award.

Nominations for this award will be accepted from December 1, 2006 through February 1, 2007. Instead of this contest being exclusively by popular vote (although popularity will certainly be considered), the winner will be chosen from nomination essays received and reviewed by a panel of impartial members of the machine quilting community. In 300 words or less, please help our panel understand how this teacher has not only impacted you as a machine quilter, but how you feel this teacher may have impacted the machine quilting community as a whole.

This award is open to all machine quilting teachers throughout the industry, not just teachers at MQX. Please submit your nomination essay by email to MQXShow@comcast.net, in a Word document if at all possible, with "Machine Quilting Teacher-of-the-Year" in the subject line.

The winner of the 2007 Machine Quilting Teacher-of-the-Year Award will be notified by phone by April 2nd, and publicly announced at the MQX Banquet and Awards Celebration on Friday, April 13th, 2007.

For additional information, call 866-675-4355, email MQX@comcast.net or visit the website www.MQXShow.com

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The sixth biennial Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta will be held May 24-26, 2007. The 2005 Fiesta drew almost 3000 people, in excess of 500 entries and more than 50 vendors. The Fiesta is co-hosted by 15 fiber art guilds in New Mexico and the Albuquerque Fiber Arts Council, Inc. Daily admission is $5. For more information, please go to www.fiberartsfiesta.org.

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It has been announced that Walmart will soon be phasing out its fabric/notions section in all of its stores. The fabric section at WalMart has always been a hot topic for quilters. The decision is sure to spark a debate among quilters. For more information call 1-800-walmart.

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At Tims Art Quilt Studio and Gallery in La Veta, CO

MicroCosmos II is a show that features sets of three small 5 x 7 inch quilts - in other words, triptychs. The theme is Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. The deadline for entering this show is Februayr 23. All entries must be for sale and the asking price for the entire set may not exceed $250. The first show was a HUGE success. For complete details and entry forms visit Ricky's site, under his photo above - then > TAQS Gallery.

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Check back tomorrow for a better look!

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Quilter Ami Simms has a wonderful ongoing fund-raiser for Alzheimer’s research. Periodic auctions help raise the funds. For the current auction. You’ve got just a few hours left to bid on 24 exceptional little quilts at www.AlzQuilts.org . And they are little. None are over 9 inches by 12 inches. They’re called Priority: Alzheimer’s Quilts for the urgent need of research funding and because if you’re the lucky winner your quilt will be mailed to you in a USPS cardboard priority mailer. Get your bid in by noon on Wednesday, January 10th.