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Crossing borders and cultures with quilts around the globe.

TheQuiltShow.com is excited about the International Miniature Quilt Exchange Project and the partnerships we are creating. We have 265 IMQE Partners – 35 Partners away from our goal of 300 partners. We still have over 9 United States quilters waiting for International partners.    

Internationally, Italy continues to lead with 50 Quilters, but the United Kingdom is close behind at 47 Quilters. Germany continues with 44 Quilters and Canada now has 43. There are 26 Aussies and 4 Kiwis. We also have Lenea from Finland, north of the Arctic Circle, and Ljiljana from Serbia. Ljiljana, a TQS member for many years, tells us TQS has been her main source of inspiration.

TQS has shared stories about Quilts from all over the United States:

• Did you know Queen Liliuokalani made a quilt? Would you believe it was made while she was in prison?
• Last year TQS responded to a demand for Kennel Quilts in West Virginia.
• This year we shared Maria Shell’s wonderful quilts from Alaska, showing how to take basic shapes and create exciting quilts.

What do these stories have in common? IMQE is missing quilters from Hawaii, West Virginia and Alaska! These states have amazing quilting stories to share with our International Quilters. We have 47 of our 50 states represented. So let’s hear from quilters in Hawaii, West Virginia and Alaska.

WHAT WILL YOU DISCOVER WHEN YOU JOIN IMQE? You won’t know until you join! Let’s break records with this exchange!

SallyQuilter wrote: It's amazing how many similarities we have in common and proves that quilters really are all cut from the same cloth no matter the distance between us....

Quilters have until March 2018 to complete their miniature quilts. Get all the details here.

1 International Quilter + 1 United States Quilter + A Passion for Quilting

= A Priceless Experience

Take a look at our gallery of Ricky’s miniature quilts.

You can check out the IMQE Guidelines here.