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LibraryJournal.com has selected The Quilt Life as one of its Top 10 Magazines of 2010. Here's what they had to say,

Here is this year’s fine crop of new magazines worth considering for your library...

"Here’s a magazine from the American Quilter’s Society for those with the “disease” (the editor’s words, not mine!). Creative and executive directors Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson lead readers through all aspects of creating, enjoying, and collecting quilts. Quilt Life has some how-to, e.g., a recent article that describes how to tile printed photos to create a template for a large art quilt. But the focus is more on individual quilters’ and collectors’ passion for the hobby. Quilt Life has a diversity of well-illustrated content that’s sure to interest both beginning and expert quilters and quilt lovers."

Way to go, Alex, Ricky, Jan, and Joyce!

If you'd like to learn about the other nine magazines, click here.

If you'd like to learn more about The Quilt Life, click here.

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The ArtQuilt Gallery•NYC opened April 5th, becoming the only commercial gallery for quilts in New York City. It will showcase the best quilts from around the world.  The gallery is located next to The City Quilter quilt shop in Manhattan's Chelsea district, and while Alex and John were in New York, they stopped by to see Cathy Izzo and Dale Riehl, co-owners of The City Quilter as they were preparing for the opening of the gallery.   

Photos of the Grand Opening can be found by clicking here.

The current exhibit, Quilt Drawing, features quilts of Daphne Taylor, who was born into a Quaker Philadelphia family and trained as a painter before gravitating into quilting.  In her quilts, lines reminiscent of landscape and figure are embroidered, pieced and composed within frameworks ranging from open white spaces to complex color fields.  “The results tempt the viewer into a world of light and fragmented reminisces,” critic Mimi Sherman wrote of Taylor’s quilts, which have been displayed at the Museum of Art and Design in New York. 

This exhibit runs through May 28. 

The following exhibit will be Impressionist Quilts with quilts from Noriko Endo. “As an artist, Noriko Endo never takes a false step,” said renowned American quilter Paula Nadelstern.  “Each composition, seamed from an abundance of detail and nuance, reveals new complexities, seducing the viewer to stay a long time and witness her miraculous, sleight of hand dexterity which turns minute slivers of fabric into masterful color compositions.”

This exhibit will run from June 16 to August 6.

For more information, contact:

Dale Riehl                                                                                                                           
The ArtQuilt Gallery•NYC
133 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
212-807-9451
dale@artquiltgallerynyc.com

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AccuQuilt is going to unveil its 17' x 17' barn quilt block on their headquarters and they want you to be there! Here are the details followed by the winning blocks as chosen by your votes and celebrity judges, Alex Anderson, Ricky Tims and Eleanor Burns.

If you are able to attend, please RSVP to barnquilt@accuquilt.com by June 1.

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Take a quick peek at Episode 811 with Cheryl Lynch.

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Follow the renowned staff at New York City's  Metropolitan Museum of Art through a new series of online interviews called "Connections."  Each interview centers around a theme, and each interviewee shares his or her personal perspective of favorite works within the museum. 

Join Robin Schwalb, archivist, media tech, and quilter, as she discusses "grids."  Click here to see Robin's interview as well as others from the Met.

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Lick your fingers before sewing.  Take a look at what we found in Eau Claire, Wisconsin while we are at the Ricky Tims Super Seminar. Want some?

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CNN's Maggie Lake went to three businesses whose job it is to make "cuts."  The owners of three iconic businesses, The Carnegie Deli, the famed barbershop - Paul Molé, and The City Quilter in NYC all offered their insights on how to trim the federal budget.  Warning, you may be hungry after viewing this video for both food and fabric!

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Sue Spargo is sharing her whimsical and wonderful quilts with TQS.  Her folk art creations are truly inspirational. To learn more about Sue watch Episode 810: Folk Art in Fabric: Inspirations and Techniques.  For further information on Sue, click here to visit her website.

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Here's a heads up about what you'll find in Episode 810: Folk Art in Fabric: Inspirations and Techniques with Sue Spargo.