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To increase their success this year, the Quilt Alliance has decided to extend their TWENTY contest deadline to June 1, 2013. This annual contest supports:
- Project coordination of Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories and Go Tell It at the Quilt Show including staff time to communicate with volunteers, to collect, upload and archive the interviews, and to create training materials for volunteers.
- Participation in quilts shows and events focused on educating quilters about all the ways we are documenting, preserving and sharing the history of quilts and quiltmakers.
- Quilt Alliance staff contributions to the Quilt Index, a free online database that includes more than 54,000 quilts (a partnership with Michigan State University).
The best part is that you only have to make a 20" x 20" quilt and anyone can do that!
Here are the important details for this year's contest:
- The theme is TWENTY: a broad theme that celebrates "twenty": the numeral, the concept, the quantity, the word. All techniques and materials are encouraged. Entries must be a 20"x 20" quilt (3 layers--top, filling and backing) and must conform to our contest guidelines, available here: http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/projects/galleries/TWENTY/guidelines/
- The Handi Quilter Grand Prize for 2013 is an HQ Sweet Sixteen machine quilting system. The Grand Prize winning quilt will be chosen by a panel of 3 professional quilters/designers; previous Grand Prize winners are ineligible for consideration for Grand Prize.
- Alliance members will vote to determine 1st-3rd place as well as Honorable Mention awards.
- Recording services for our audio artist's statements will again be provided by VoiceQuilt
- Entry fees are $5/quilt for members and $25/quilt for non members.
- Contest quilts become a donation to Quilt Alliance. All entries will be auctioned with 100% of the proceeds supporting the Alliance and its projects.
Detail photos are posted on their Flickr page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/quiltalliance/sets/72157633060363319/) as they come in. The full size shots will be only be revealed when all the quilts are posted to the TWENTY gallery on their website.
(Quilt is a sneak peek of an entry made by Patricia Hobbs)
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