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Jacksonville, FL, September 20-22, 2007 - One of the largest quilt shows in the Southeast returns to Jacksonville in September with more space than ever and even more events.

This year's show will be held at the Prime Osborn Convention Center and will feature a gallery of over 400 quilts, seminars, quilt appraisals, vendors and a children's area. In addition, featured speakers include renowned artists Linda Jenkins and Melody Johnson. There will also be a preview party and fashion show.

"Our theme this year is 'It's Not Your Grandmother's Flower Garden' and rings true, as quilting is an art form enjoyed by all ages, and by both men and women," comments Carolyn Allen, one of the event's organizers.

For quilters, QuiltFest is an open judged show. Prize money will be awarded for 1st,2nd and 3rd place in each of 12 categories, Best of Show, Viewers Choice, Artistic Merit, Best Hand Quilting and Best Machine Quilting. Quilts may be submitted through July 25. For quilt submission rules and registration form, visit www.quiltfestjax.com

QuiltFest guests will also receive a special reduced rate of $71.00 at the Wyndham Jacksonville Riverfront Hotel. You may contact them directly for reservations at (904) 396-5100 and mention QuiltFest.

For more information, visit www.quiltfestjax.com

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If you would like tickets to a taping of The Quilt Show, here is your last chance until next year. Two days have been added to the taping coming up in August. Tickets are avaialble for two shows on Thursday, August 2nd and two shows on Monday, August 6th. Tickets holders are expected to attend both shows on the day of taping. Also, it is imperative that if you ask for tickets that you use the tickets. We do not overbook seating and therefore every seat must be filled.

Tickets are given on a first come, first served basis. You may email service@thequiltshow.com or call 719-742-3031 and speak with Brian Orr. Please be advised, there is air conditioning in the studio, but warm August temperatures and studio lighting can make for a warm room.

Additional information regarding check in, guidelines, lodging, etc, are provided with your ticket confirmation.

Come join the fun!

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While recently viewing the quilt gallery I came across a member (screenname "Pippa"), who is an avid collector of antique Welsh quilts. She has posted a number of beautiful quilts including this beauty on her profile. The problem is that there was no place to connect with others who enjoy antique quilts. Well, no longer. Our web guy Bob has added this selection to the genre listing in the quilt profile area. He also added a new Forum category so those of you interested in Antique quilts, restoration ,etc, have a place to share ideas. Visit the Forum, locate Traditionally Speaking and you'll find Collecting Antique Quilts: Comments on collection, preserving, and restoring.

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You saw her wonderful work on Episode 106 just last week, now meet her in "Featured Guest" chat room tonight at 6:00pm Pacific/9:00pm Eastern.  Denise will discuss all aspects of her current work, so get your questions ready.  To learn more about her visit her website here.

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Join us to in the "Featured Guest" chat room tonight at 6:00pm Pacific/9:00pm Eastern.  Ami Simms of the "Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative" will be there to discuss what is going on with this project and how you can help.  Be sure to check out her website here and let's find out how we can do more to fight this disease.

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I was glancing through quilt gallery the other day when I saw Cathy Boerio’s quilt “Triple Treat”. I read the commentary and thought we as a quilting community could definitely help out. Mary was attending a Quilt Lover’s Hang Out click here lock- in when she heard from the owners (Debbie and Gayle) that many troops in Iraq were needing more blankets to keep warm at night. Keep in mind that the average daily temperature can go as high as 107 during the day and drop to 85 at night. While this does not seem drastic, it is when you are sleeping in a tent in the desert.

Everyone was excited and wanted to help make one that night. Debbie and Gayle even offered free fabric for the ladies to use from their stock in the store. Talk about a great team effort.

I know that we all have enough fabric in our stash to make 1 quilt for a soldier. Cathy used a simple 3 piece pattern from the book “The Happy Hour” and batiks from her stash. She said the quilt took no time to complete. So, before you get started here are the details:

Contact shop directly by e-mail quiltlovershangout@yahoo.com or phone 239-995-0045 to get more information on this project and where to send your quilt.

They would prefer finished quilts, but will gladly take tops.

TWIN size (only)

The quilt needs to have light weight (poly) batting. In the desert cotton and wool do not dry quickly.

Quilts made of polar fleece or Minky Chenille are both light weight and cuddly.

No Red , White, and Blue quilts please

Regardless of your stance on the war, our troops need our support and what better way to let them know we are thinking of them than when they lie down under YOUR quilt at night.

Lilo

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Gregory Case, The Quilt Show's official photographer (Photo Man) knocked himself out this round! We have decided to split the photos into four sets - with no particular order. For those who want a sneek peek at what we did and who we highlghted this past tapimg round in La Veta - here you go. Grab a cup of Java and enjoy! Stay tuned - more to come................

http://thequiltshow.com/one

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Episode 106, A Touch of Ireland posted today. To watch this show, go to Watch a Show and scroll down to Episode 106 and click Watch Now. Choose from an environment and enjoy the show. Below the enviornments you'll find the Segment List. The Segment List is there to help you find anything associated with that particular show. Enjoy!

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I recently had the extreme pleasure of attending the taping of The Quilt Show series. What a treat! Everything was professional and what you would expect to see in a New York studio - but in La Veta, Colorado! This is amazing because La Veta is a really, really small (but beautiful) town southwest of Pueblo. As we watched the first segment of filming (careful to do our "hummingbird claps" just as Justin the Terrible, aka "Bad Bart", instructed us to) I was delighted to see Ricky and Alex doing their thing in the best way possible. Their dialogue was so smooth I commented to Alex during the break that I bet she was happy there was a teleprompter. "No teleprompter," she told me. All they work with is a small index card with some cryptic notes. WOW! I was blown away! Read more aout the trip with photos on my blog at www.stitchinheaven.com/blog

Deb Luttrell, Stichin' Heaven

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You may remember past blogs about Ami Simms' Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative. You saw the piece we did together on the Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts portion of that Initiative in episode # 103, and you've probably been to www.AlzQuilts.org to see all the other creative ways Ami is raising awareness and funding research. Now that her new book, Alzheimer's: Forgetting Piece by Piece (featuring the magnificent quilts of the traveling Alzheimer's quilt exhibit of the same name) is flying off the shelves, with all the profit being donated to Alzheimer's research, she thinks it's time to get some national media attention for all the quilters participating in the project. She wants to get on Oprah. Let's help her do it!

Ami has made a difference one quilt at a time. Now it's time for us to help her get Oprah's attention one email at a time. I've written my email, will you write one, too?