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Isn't technology wonderful? You can still visit museum exhibits that are no longer on display.

Did you know that you can purchase an App for your phone that presents 22 works from the Quilts 1700-2010 exhibition which was on display in Spring of 2010?  Here is a description from the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Weaving audio commentaries, video clips and original interviews with stunning photography of quilts old and new, the App reveals the stories, fabrics and techniques involved in making the quilts on display. Listen to V&A curators, quilting experts and textile artists, including Grayson Perry, who share their insights, while zooming into high-resolution images for a detailed, stitch-by-stitch look at selected works.

The V&A has thrown open its archives to reveal historic textiles rarely or never before seen. Featured works include the ‘Rajah Quilt’, made by women convicts while being transported to present day Tasmania aboard HMS Rajah, ‘Patchwork with Garden of Eden’ by nineteenth-century quilter Ann West, as well as contemporary pieces such as the ‘Right to Life’ by Grayson Perry and ‘To Meet My Past’ by Tracey Emin.

This App also celebrates the work of those whose names have been forgotten, but whose colourful and creative stories now survive through their quilts. It presents the stories – along with patterns and pieces of cotton and silk, and you can discover how experts have pieced together histories from clues hidden in the layers of fabric.

Click here to order from iTunes. (Quilts 1700-2010: A close-up, stitch-by-stich look at British quilting)

And from here in American you can download "Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts" This app guides users through the installation of 650 red and white quilts which were on display at the American Folk Art Museum in New York during March of 2011.

It includes images of 650 quilts as well as statements by collector Joanna S. Rose, guest curator Elizabeth V. Warren, and Maria Ann Conelli and Stacy C. Hollander of the American Folk Art Museum.

Click here to order from iTunes.

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REMINDER - The Contest is coming to an end tomorrow night.  To enter YOU MUST SUBMIT AN E-MAIL, NOT A BLOG COMMENT, to the address shown below.  We'd hate for you to miss out on your chance to win!

Here's your chance to win fabric from P&B Textiles latest collection, What-A-World by Jill McDonald.

Just submit an email to WhatAWorld@thequiltshow.com and type "Community" in the subject line.

TQS Members only please!

Two lucky winners will be chosen at random to win a fat quarter set.

Hurry, contest ends Friday, January 20, 2012 at Midnight PST.

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Two great Mancuso Quilt Festivals are just around the corner, but there is still time to enter your quilts.  For more information regarding either Festival, visit http://www.quiltfest.com.

The deadline for competition entries is January 23, 2012 for the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival XXIII.

Quilt artists who are residents of New Jersey, New York or Pennsylvania are invited to enter the Tri-State Quilt Competition. See the Quilt Competition Entry Form for more details. Postmark deadline for entries is January 30, 2012.

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"Journeys" Art Quilters' Annual Exhibit
January 3 to February 28, 2012

Sisters Art Works
204 W Adams Ave in Sisters, Oregon
(Mon-Fri 9 am to 4 pm, Sat 10 am to 2 pm)

Don't miss this special exhibit featuring work from the "Journeys" Art Quilters. Members were challenged to make a quilt (18" x 45") inspired by this necklace. There are twelve quilts in the exhibit flourishing with color, texture, embellishments and fantastic creativity!

Take a look at the work the "Journeys" Art Quilters did for last year's exhibit, Elements in Cloth. 

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We're sure that getting organized was one of your New Year's resolutions.  Take a trip over to Show & Tell - Getting Organized and get a few ideas from other TQS members.  Or if you have a tip, remember to share it in the Show & Tell area.

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Cheryl Lynch (Episode 811: Quilt a Fiesta with Tile-Inspired Quilts) recently told Alex about a Jewish tradition; when the baby comes home from the hospital, a red ribbon is tied onto the crib or the bassinette.  Reciting 'kein ayin hora' (also kineahora) which roughly translates to "may the evil eye stay away"  is meant to keep away the evil spirits.

Do you and your family have any similar traditions regarding the arrival of a new baby?  We want to keep Alex and John's new grandchild safe and ready to sew!

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It's that time of year when New Year's resolutions begin to form.

What will it be for you this year?  Finish all your UFOs? Donate your extra fabric? Work for Project Linus? Make a Priority quilt? Enter your first contest or show? Start the TQS 2012 BOM?

Submit a comment and let us know, What do you have in store for 2012?

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A message from Ami Simms:

Volunteers from the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) presented a check for $30,000 to Dr. Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova at the Life Sciences Institute of the University of Michigan. Dr. Garneau-Tsodikova and her research team will be using the money raised predominantly through the sale of donated quilts to develop multifunctional drugs for Alzheimer's disease.

Pictured above (from left to right) are: Jacob L. Houghton, Todd J. Eckroat, Wenjing Chen, Keith D. Green, Rebecca A. Reed (kneeling), Joshua J. Bornstein, Dr. Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova, Ami Simms, Pat Holly (kneeling), Sue Nickels, Debbie Chenail, and Ruth Langdon.

It is unusual for researchers and those who fund them to ever meet. AAQI volunteers have had this opportunity three times. It is an extremely rewarding experience.

We bring quilts to explain our mission of raising awareness and funding research through art. Dr Garneau-Tsodikova's grandmother and aunt have Alzheimer's. She is motivated by their struggles with AD to work towards a cure.

We also bring Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts to sell. They become tangible reminders of the hope we all share that some day there will be a cure for this horrible disease.

It was truly amazing how science and art came together as Dr. Garneau-Tsodikova explained the work of her research team to quilters Pat Holly and Sue Nickels using a quilt from the AAQI traveling exhibit ("Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope") made by Mary Andrews. In the background are exhibit quilts by Mona Fallis and Gay Young Ousley.

For everyone who sews for the AAQI, I know you do so because you care deeply about finding a cure for Alzheimer's. Let me assure you that what you do matters.  Every single stitch counts. Your art touches people in a most special way. 

Together we CAN make a difference.

To everyone who supports the AAQI by making quilts, buying quilts, and through financial contributions to our nonprofit, please accept my personal and heartfelt thanks for the work you do to make the AAQI a reality.

Together we have raised more than $679,000 since the AAQI began in 2006. This is the 10th research project we have funded. 

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The Road to California Quilter's Conference and Showcase is coming soon.  "The Best in the West" will be held at the Ontario Convention Center in Ontario, CA from January 19-22, 2012.  Show Hours are Thursday-Saturday 9:30 am - 6 pm and Sunday from 10 am - 3:30 pm.  Ticket prices are $10 per day or $25 for a multi-day pass which includes the Preview Event.  Children 12 and under are free.

This year, All That Jazz, Improvisational Quilts, will be curated by Ricky and will be exhibited at Road.  Here is a description of the exhibit.

A collection of improvised quilts where pre-planned designs are set aside in order that whim and spontaneity may prevail. What is an improvisational quilt? Any quilt that is started without a predetermined pattern or plan and evolves throughout the construction process. Each quilt in this exhibition should have emerged from the seed of an idea without fully knowing what the finished piece would look like.

(Quilt:  Sway Away, by Diane Melms, Anchorage, Alaska)

To learn more about Road to California, here's a short video.

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It's here, the Pantone Color of the Year 2012 and it's Pantone 17-1463 - Tangerine Tango.  According to the Pantone site, "Sophisticated, dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango marries the vivaciousness and adrenalin rush of red with the friendliness and warmth of yellow, to form a high-visibility, magnetic hue that emanates heat and energy."

What do you think?  Will you be making a quilt with Tangerine Tango this year?

See 2011 Color of the Year - Pantone 18-2120