Alex and Ricky need your help to pick a cover for The Quilt Life and you can help them by casting your vote. They will use the cover that receives the most votes. And just for participating, one lucky TQS member will receive a one-year subscription to the magazine. The cover on the left is Cover 1 and on the right is Cover 2. Click on the VOTE HERE button to make your choice!
Please vote before Thursday, May 31, 2012.
The Quilt Life is having a special offer for TQS members, 6 issues for $20.00. Don't forget to use the offer code, TQ1.
While Captain John was in Paducah he stopped at the Hoffman Challenge 2011 exhibit and took photos to share with you.
The Hoffmann Challenge started at the National Quilting Association's summer 1987 show in Easton, PA. It all began with a single bolt of fabric that wasn't selling and two friends across the aisle from each other at a quilt show. To learn the whole history behind the challenge, watch the slideshow.
Here's the challenge fabric for 2012. This will mark the 25th Anniversary of the contest. The deadline for entry is July 20th, 2012.
This summer, TQS will whisk you away on an amazing armchair tour with stops all around the globe. Imagine: no long lines at the airport, no bags to pack. Just sit back and enjoy as we take you around the world to destinations filled with inspiration and beauty. Join us every week, beginning June 1 and running through September 3, for a visit to a new country.
Want to see if you can guess where we'll be taking you? See how many you can recognize from the preview photos.
The Associated Quilt Guilds of the Central Coast recently held their annual Seven Sisters Quilt Show at the the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, CA. The show included a Member Guild Quilt Exhibit, vendors, opportunity quilts, challenge quilts, wearable art, and food. Here is just a taste of the show. You also might notice a TQS classroom instructor!
Sixteen new interviews have arrived at the Alliance for American Quilts website as part of their Quilters' S.O.S. - Save our Stories (Q.S.O.S.) oral history collection. These interviews are from traditional quilters, art quilters, male and female quilters, internationally famous quilters and those whose remarkable works are known only to a small circle of family and friends. As always, the stories behind the "touchstone" quilt they brought to the interview are surprising, amusing, enlightening and moving by turns.
Part of the fun at the AQS Paducah show is to take the shuttle to Hancocks. Join us in this amazing store and check out these remnants. You're going to be sorry you weren't there.
Right outside the AQS Quilt Show in Paducah, in the parking lot, are food vendors that would make a State Fair smile. There are old favorites, but see the new dish that Alex tried and where Ricky always visits.
By the way, the music is not added by us, it is part of the atmosphere in the parking lot.
Pam's unique eye for color, design and quilt stitches comes through in her latest video of the Australasian Quilt Convention. Pam said about this video,
"The AQC was held in the Royal Exhibition Building. The surrounding gardens and the building was built in 1880 for Melbourne's first international exhibition, a product of the optimism, enthusiasm and energy of the people of Melbourne in the late-19th century."
There’s still time to enter the 2nd Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show - Small Wonders Challenge.“Small Wonders” is one of their community partnerships to benefit the kids of Sisters, Oregon. It’s a ‘little’ contest with six $100 prizes. All the quilts they receive will be considered for their six prize categories. They'll sell all the quilts and donate a portion of the proceeds to their Parks & Recreation program to help kids attend summer programs.
To enter the challenge, make and donate a small quilt – you can find all the rules here.
The contest is sponsored by Michael Miller Fabrics and one of the judging categories is the super fun Michael Miller Challenge Fabric you’ll find on the link above.
The deadline is now May 18! Maybe you even have something in your stash you can enter!
Gammill artist, Judy Woodworth talks about her award winning quilt, Avatar Revisted, at Paducah 2012. Judy won the APQS Longarm Machine Quilting Award.
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There’s still time to enter the 2nd Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show - Small Wonders Challenge. 
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