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The Alliance for American Quilts raised over $12,000 with their 2011 quilt auction, "Alliances: People, Patterns, Passion, on Ebay recently.

Many members of TQS participated this year and won prizes from the AAQ's fabulous sponsors including our very own The Quilt Show.com.

Next year, the AAQ is trying to raise $15,000 from their auction and you can participate by creating a quilt for the 2012, 6th annual quilt contest, "Home is Where the Quilt Is."

This is a broad theme that celebrates the form and the meaning of Home.  All techniques and materials are encouraged.  Each entry must have 3 layers--top, filling, and back and must conform to their contest guidelines.  The overall house shape is 15" x x 19.5."  You may enter as many times as you like.  All quilts become a donation to the AAQ.

If you'd like to see what was done for their 2006 contest, Put a Roof Over Our Head, click here.

A Grand Prize will be awarded by a panel of 3 professional quilters/designers. Member's Choice, Honorable Mention prizes and several specially awarded prizes will also be given. AAQ members will choose Member's Choice awards.

All contest quilts are auctioned and this income is a key source of fuel for AAQ operations. The contest artists play a very important role in supporting their work. A second, equally valuable outcome is documentation. The contest quilts they receive each year serve as a snapshot of their members at a particular time in their lives-- what they care about, how they spend their time, how and why they make their art.

And did you know they document all contest quilts in the
Quilt Index--their partner project with the Michigan State University Museum and MATRIX. Soon they'll be releasing an impressive collection of essays, galleries and lesson plans on www.QuiltIndex.org, including galleries highlighting the winners of the AAQ quilt contests.

("Our House"
Keti Kasrashvili, Irina Lavrinenko, Nino Chargeishvili
Tbilisi, The Republic of Georgia)