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Watch for the amazing hexagon quilts!  All these quilts are just fantastic.

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These quilts are amazing.  We wanted to get you up close, so there will be another slideshow tomorrow with the rest of the quilts.

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Jinny Beyer and Alex meet at Market.

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We didn't notice until we put the slideshow together, some of the quilts are from our own members. Watch for these great quilts.  These Innovative Applique quilts just jumped off the walls.

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Beginning Monday, November 14. 2011 and running through December 12, 2011, the entries in The Alliance for American Quilts "2011: Alliances: People, Patterns, Passion" contest will be auctioned off on Ebay. The contest winners have been selected and the quilts are ready to go.

All proceeds support the AAQ and its projects.  The bidding for each quilt will start at $50 and each auction will run for 7-days.

Here are photos of some of the over 100 entries they received.  You'll recognize some TQS guests and some TQS members, to view the rest of the quilts, and to listen to the stories recorded by their makers, click here. 

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The lucky winners of the adorable flower purses from Alden Lane Nursery are:

Nichola S. from Des Moines, Iowa and sewing4ever from Virgina Beach, VA.

If you didn't win, there are still limited quantities of these purses and colors available.  Unfortunately, Alden Lane currently can only ship in the USA (we are working on this!). To get yours right away go to www.aldenlane.com (price reflected on their site includes shipping)

Congratulations and Thank You Alden Lane!

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Photo by Gregory Case Photography

The work of quilt artist and author Gyleen Fitzgerald may be rooted in tradition, but she never fails to add her own contemporary spin. In this episode, Gyleen shares her method for stitching the "Grandmother's Flower Garden" block by machine using the "butterfly seam," shows how the same technique can be used for sewing a typical Y-seam; and demonstrates how to make a colorful "trash to treasure" Pineapple block using her pineapple ruler and lots of fabric scraps.

Then, Brett Maddox (Executive Director of Red Crags Estate) introduces the "permanent residents" (aka ghosts) of our location: the picturesque, circa-1912 Onaledge B&B, in Manitou Springs, CO.

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Linda Woodard of Marion, Illinois, raised $805 for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) with her donated 8.75 inches by 10 inches quilt which sold during the charity's October auction. The AAQI holds online auctions during the first ten days of every month. Woodard's quilt, Making Waves in the Fight Against Alzheimer's, sets a new AAQI record for Priority: Alzheimer's Quilt sales, surpassing Sue Nickels' quilt, This Bud's For You, which sold for $350 in 2006.

"I am in shock-a good shock. How exciting!" said Woodard after the auction closed." She continued, "I loved making the quilt and grew very attached to it. I know the person who purchased it will love it too. I am so pleased that my quilt raised so much for Alzheimer's research."

Woodard's quilt was created as part of a challenge issued by the Shawnee Quilters of Southern Illinois. The group has supported the AAQI for several years through the AAQI's Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts project. More than 8,500 quilts (none larger than 9" x 12") have been donated by quilt guilds and individual quilters since 2006 as quilters make finding a cure for Alzheimer's a priority in their lives.

The AAQI's November auction (November 1-10) in honor of National Alzheimer's Awareness Month features quilts by Alex Anderson, Hollis Chatelain, John Flynn, Becky Goldsmith, Renae Haddadin, Sue Nickels, Caryl Bryer Fallert, Pat Holly, Libby Lehman, Judy Mathieson, Mary Sorensen, and Ricky Tims as they compete in the "Stanley Cup Quilt-Off."

To learn more about the Stanley Cup Quilt-Off, click here.  Currently in the lead is our own Ricky Tims!

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Hot off the press!.  Best of Show Winner at PIQF is TQS Member Sherry Reynolds', America, Let It Shine! Congratulations to Sherry, it is a truly amazing quilt.  Look for more PIQF winners in the Weekend Fun.  To learn more about PIQF (the Pacific International Quilt Festival) click here.