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Alex loves her new Olfa Precision Scissors and you can own a pair too!

6 Lucky Winners will have a pair of scissors added to their sewing rooms.  It's easy.  Just email to Olfa@thequiltshow.com  (copy and paste into your address bar if it's not automatic) and put "Precision Scissors" in the subject line.  One entry per person.  The contest ends Monday, Sept. 5, at  midnight Pacific Time.

If you are not one of the lucky winners, these beauties are available at your local Quilt Store or Michael's store.

Thank you Olfa!

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The Alliance for American Quilts has announced their theme for the 2012 AAQ Quilt Contest and it's a fan favorite. 

This year's theme is "Home is Where the Quilt Is." Details to be posted on the AAQ site no later than Oct. 1.

This quilt "Our House" by Keti Kasrashvili, Irini Lavrinenko, Nino Chargeishvili Tbilisi from the Republic of Georgia, was the winning quilt from 2007 contest. To learn more about the quilt, click here.

This year's contest entrants and winners from "Alliances - People ~ Patterns~ Passions" will be going up on Ebay in November as a fundraiser for the AAQ. To see the winners for the 2010 contest, click here. 

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Ann Hill is currently the Quilter in Residence at Alzheimer Scotland. During the past two years she has been working in partnership with Alzheimer Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway), Dumfries Hospitals, and the Hampden Park Football Group. Her project involves Ann working with people with dementia, their families and staff at the various care homes, hospitals and groups. 65 quilts, depicting their memories are now on display at Hampden Park Football Stadium Museum in Glasgow. The quilts tell the wonderful stories of those with Alzheimers and their foremost memories.

And now Ann has something else up her sleeve, The Hampden Park Quilt Project 2013. This project involves covering Scotland's international football pitch at Hampden Park in Glasgow.

Here's the info from Ann:

5,000 quilts of 40” square (or close) are needed to cover Scotland’s international football pitch at Hampden Park in Glasgow. Aerial photographs will be taken and sold. The quilts will be auctioned off and those left will be adopted by care homes throughout Scotland. The aim of the project is to raise awareness of dementia and how it affects not only the person affected but their families and friends.

Any design of quilt will do but if you are having trouble deciding, FREE downloadable quilt patterns will appear regularly on the following websites:

www.annhillquilter.co.uk
www.alzscot.org
www.hampdenpark.co.uk

Quilts can be sent to the following:

• Ann Hill Quilter, Mouswald House, Mouswald, Dumfries, DG1 4LT, Scotland
• UK Alzheimer Scotland, 22 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, EH3 7RN
• Scottish Football Museum, Hampden Park, Glasgow, G42 9BA

Your quilts will be greatly appreciated.

(Quilt: Forgetting Piece By Piece by Ann Hill)

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Photo by Jim Burt

Every year, the smallest region in France plays host to one of Europe's largest quilt exhibitions. For four days in September, the European Patchwork Meeting is held in Ste Marie aux Mines, France. This year, the event takes place September 15-18.

Included in year's special exhibits are works from Israel, India and Pakistan, Dutch quilts from 1700s-2010, quilts by Edyta Sitar (Episode 802), and many many more. 

Not able to go to the show?  Join us for our tour from last year with hosts Jim and Melinda Burt.  It's a great way to see the region and the show without leaving your easy chair. 

Watch Part 1 here.

Watch Part 2 here.

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Parc de Wesserling, France

The term "creative dwelling" takes on a whole new meaning with this most unusual of outdoor exhibits, currently on display and continuing through October 2, at Parc de Wesserling, France. Honoring the theme of "Garden Huts," various artists have built fantasy dwellings using a variety of materials, including textiles (see above). These incredible dwellings allow visitors to play and imagine life in an out-of-the-ordinary home.  For more info click here.

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Do you know your African Nations?  Which is the largest country based on land mass?  Here is your chance to learn or show off.

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Beauty Secrets: 150 Years of History in One Quilt Pattern is currently on exhibit at the Benton County Historical Society and Museum in Philomath Oregon. It is part of the collection of Bill Volckening of Portland Oregon. This is a little gem of an exhibit that shouldn't be missed and is part of Quilt County 2011. Admission is free. (Click here for more about Quilt County 2011.)

Bill collected quilts for 22 years, but during 20 of those he was not involved in the quilt community at all and didn't have a lot of outside influences. He really didn't understand what he'd collected until he decided to share the quilts.  The reaction of quilt enthusiasts made him decide to share more with the rest of the world.

To read more about Bill and his collection, click here.

To order a catalog of the exhibit, click here.

Thank you Bill for sharing with TQS and our international quilt community!

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Every two years an amazing event is organized by the Marys River Quilt Guild in Oregon, which is supported by the Benton County Historical Society and Museum.  Begun in 1991, Quilt County is held during the fall and was created to celebrate quilting.  At various locations throughout Corvallis and Philomath, Oregon there will be quilts aplenty. There will be over 31 events as part of Quilt County.  To see a full list, click here.

To whet your appetite, here are just a few of the single day events.

Quilt in the Garden - August 22 - from 10am to 4pm - $5 - Participants can tour seven different locations which have quilts showcasing different themes such as plants and ecology.  You can start the tour at any location.  One of these locations is the Oregon State University Horticulture Center's experimental garden.

Quilt Documentation Day - September 10 - 10am to 4pm - At the Benton County Historical Society and Museum. Representatives from the Oregon Quilt Project, a nonprofit that documents, collects, and preserves information about quilts and their makers will be on hand to discuss their work.

New York Beauty Quilt Pattern Workshop - October 1 - 9:30am to 4pm - At the Benton County Historical Society and Museum.  Eileen Cross will teach the New York Beauty quilt pattern to all comers.

Many of the events are on-going exhibits running now through October at various sites sprinkled throughout the county.

To see some of the amazing New York Beauty quilts currently on display at the Benton County Historical Society and Museum, click here.