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We are all pretty well obsessed with quilting and the sewing arts. Here's a fun gal that Alex ran into at Quilting in the Garden. We'd say she wears her heart on her sleeve, or would that be her machine on her arm? What do you do to show your love for the craft?
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The Pacific International Quilt Festival is here! Starting today October 11 and running through October 14, 2012 at the Santa Clara, CA Convention Center in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Over 800 quilts and garments will be on display along with a Fashion Show, Workshops, Lectures, and of course, that amazing Merchants Mall.
The faculty this year includes:
Many of these instructors have been guests of TQS. If there is a number next to their name above, that's the episode in which they were featured.
Admission is $15 (includes re-admission) and children under 16 are free. Sunday only is $13. Hours are 10-6 daily, Sunday 10-5.
(Quilt: PIQF Best Hand Workmanship 2011 - Georgia on My Mind - Nancy S. Brown)
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This 1st Place - Quilter's Choice Award-winner, What's Brewing by Cathy Wiggins, from the AQS Grand Rapids show got us thinking. It's almost time for Halloween, what sort of shenanigans will you be brewing? Costumes? Parties? Quilts? The AQS Show in Des Moines, October 3-6?
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Jenny Raymond has a small signature quilt in the October Alzheimer's Quilt Auction. She calls it
Hope for a Cure. The center block has the signatures of quilting celebrities and was signed at the 2011 International Quilt Festival in Houston.
Click here to bid and see other auction quilts. The auction only lasts through the first 10 days of October!
Check below to see all of the names on the quilt.
Fifty-seven quilting luminaries autographed the center block of this quilt.
This is an extraordinary collector's item signed by Charlotte Warr Andersen, Alex Anderson, Wendy Butler Berns, Karen Kay Buckley, Hollis Chatelain, Susan K. Cleveland, Vickie Clontz, Meg Cox, Susan Craig,
Melody Crust, Jodie Davis, Martha DeLeonardis, Carol Doak, Marilyn Doheny, Ginny
Eckley, Robbie Joy Eklow, Maria Elkins, Lisa B. Ellis, Cynthia England, Caryl Bryer
Fallert, Dawn J. Farrier, John Flynn, Helen Frost, Gail Garber, Marlene Glickman,
Lois Hallock, Karin Hellaby, Sara Hochhauser, Pam Holland, Roberta Horton, Marylin
Huskamp, Tracie Lyn Huskamp, Kathy Kansier, Deb Karasik, Lisa Kerpoe, Susan Brubaker
Knapp, Lynn Koolish, Emily March, author, Mary Mashuta, Dierdra A. McElroy, Suzanne
McNeill, Cathy Miller, Nova Montgomery, Paula Nadelstern, Sue Patten, Sharon
Pederson, Carla Peery, Nancy Prince, Diane Ricks, Jean B. Scharf, Ami Simms, Wendy
Strumwasser, David Taylor, Ricky Tims, Barb Vlack, Lisa Walton and Kristal Wick.
It's simple to bid and Jenny encourages her friends to check out all the quilts up for
auction. Hope for a Cure is 16" x 20" and the other quilts are no larger than 9" x 12".
Over $700,000 has been raised and donated to Alzheimer's research in the last six
years. An amazing feat considering the small amount the quilts are sold for.
Thousands of these little quilts have been made and donated to this cause. Jenny has
bought at least 30, each a beautiful piece of art. One of her favorites was made by
Barb Vlack. It makes her heart happy to make and donate as we'll as purchase, knowing
that maybe we are getting closer to finding a cure for this horrible disease.
Did you know that if you live to 85, you have a one in two chance of developing
Alzheimer's?
Bid on one of these little quilts to fund research.
http://www.alzquilt
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Did you watch Episode 1012 with Sonya Lee Barrington? Did you decide you'd like to make a project using wool or silk? Why not start with this cute Scottie Dog Pillow? It measures at 17" x 13," is machine-pieced, and hand embroidered. You can find the pattern on Sonya's website, www.sonyaleebarrington.com.
You can learn more about Sonya's work below.
It's a whole new world as fiber artist Sonya Lee Barrington shares the pleasures of using wool and silk as alternatives to cotton in your quilts and other sewing projects. After whetting your appetite with a number of her fabulous quilts, Sonya "gets down to business," explaining the unique properties of these two versatile fibers, offering a slew of tips for working with them, and showing a variety of inventive project possibilities. You'll love her clever purse made from the pocket of a man's wool jacket!
Want more? Ricky demonstrates an easy "four-patch-within-a-square" block that we'll pattern on the TQS site with a super-cool block challenge.
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Have you entered your name into the Snapware Giveaway from Olfa? The giveaway ends at Midnight PST on 9/30/2012!
Our wonderful friends at Olfa are giving TQS 6 sets of Snapware products to give away. Each winner will receive a 6" x 9" 2-layer rectangle Snap 'N Stack and a 6" x 11" Smart Store.
Are you familiar with Snapware products? They have Snap 'N Stack which is modular and stackable; Smart Store which is more of a tub design and great for larger storage; and Yarn Tainers for those of you who knit as well as quilt.
Snapware will get you organized in no time! To take a look are more of their fabulous products, click here - www.snapware.com
Remember, you can't win if you don't enter.
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Bernina is having a Super SEW Day Event on October 13, 2012. Visit your participating Bernina store and discover why Bernina is a great choice when it when it comes to quality and maximizing artistic expressions. At the event, learn to create a mixed media journal cover that you'll enjoy using many times over. Contact your local BERNINA Dealer for more information, including event participation, dates and times.
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Don't forget C&T Publishing is looking for Amish quilts and the last day to submit your quilt is September 30, 2012!
Join in C&T's 30th anniversary celebration and your quilt just might be published in one of their latest books.
Next year will be the 30th anniversary of C&T Publishing's first published book, An Amish Adventureby Roberta Horton. It all started with an impulsive promise back in 1983. When quilting teacher Roberta Horton told quilt-shop owner Carolie Hensley that she wanted to write a book on Amish quilts, but hadn't found a publisher yet, Carolie quickly said that she and her husband Tom would publish Roberta's book. "We knew nothing at all about publishing," Carolie says now. "I had never even thought about getting into the book business-the words just came out of my mouth!" That spontaneous promise was the start of a 30-year adventure.
Fast forward to today. An Amish Adventure is still in print, now in its second edition, but so much else has changed. Carolie and Tom Hensley have turned the business over to their sons Todd and Tony, who are assisted by a staff of more than 50 employees. C&T Publishing's catalog includes more than 400 books and products for fabric artists of all types.
C&T is honoring their 30th anniversary with a celebration of 30 Amish Quilts and they are looking for submissions of Amish and Amish-inspired quilts to be included in the 30th anniversary book. If you or someone you know is interested in submitting a quilt for this exciting publication, please click here or visit www.ctpubentry.com for all the details.
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It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Arrr you going to be celebratin'?
To help you along here are a few of the basics we pirated from the International Talk Like a Pirate Website:
Ahoy! - "Hello!"
Avast! - Stop and give attention, as in "get a load of that"
Aye! - "Yes!"
Aye aye! - "I'll get right on that captain, as soon as I can."
Arrr! - This can mean all kinds of things, "yes," "I'm enjoying my grog," "The Feed Dogs are going to win it all," just about anything.
Here you can watch, The Pirate Guys, Ol' Chumbucket and Cap'n Slappy teach ye lubbers the basics of talkin' like a pirate.
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Here's another beauty from the AQS Grand Rapids show. It is Licorice & Lace from Birgit Schueller, Riegelsberg, Germany and is the winner of Best Longarm Workmanship.
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