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Midnight Stars by Renae Haddadin and Karen Kay Buckley is the duo's 4th collaboration. They blended their skills into one design featuring phenomenal appliqué and outstanding quilting. We love the final touch of an itty bitty crocheted and beaded border.

Midnight Stars by Renae Haddadin and Karen Kay Buckley won 2nd Place Appliqué, Large at the Houston International Quilt Festival 2019.

Learn about longarm quilting from Renae in Show 1613: A Quilter's Journey. Then get tips for masterful appliqué from Karen Kay in Show 2007: From Perfection to Preservation.

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You spend a lot of time there...shouldn't it be an enjoyable, fun environment? Of course, and at these prices you can do it without guilt. Make your ironing board a piece of art (and save $16). Store fabrics in cute ways, and have your pins in a cushion that you crafted and makes you smile. OR.....just get some of the remaining fabric at great prices. Your choice:

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Nothing but top quality products that we have tested and love. Here are some great products that need a good home. We can only offer these prices because there are only 3 or so left.... make it fast. (Selected Fabrics at 40% off too.)

                               Only 2 left now                                                                                  $6.87! Really?

         This Yazzi is $38 Off! Only 3 left.

         The Clammy Quilts are fantastic                                                                               Missy's Mat really works!

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Ricky loves Alethea's quilt for its traditional appearance that "fades" into the non-traditional by the use of fabric-collaged "Fiesta Beauties".

Learn about fabric collage with Alethea in Show 2602.

Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis

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Today we continue our selection of quilts recently displayed at the Spring Paducah 2019 show featured as part of The 14th Quilt Nihon Exhibition. The exhibit is described as:

"Organized by the Japan Handicraft Instructors' Association, the Quilt Nihon Exhibition is one of the most prestigious international quilt contests in Japan. The exhibit features 42 quilts from the "Innovative Traditional" category, which will later be exhibited at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art."

Please enjoy the thirty-third quilt from the exhibition by Yuko Akimoto.

Title of Quilt: Untitled

Quilter's Name: Yuko Akimoto

Dimensions: 75" x 66"

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Lisa Walton, the current President of SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates), invites you to join her "tribe". (Learn more about Lisa in Show 2503.)

Here's more about Layered & Stitched: 50 Years of Innovative Art:

Layered & Stitched: 50 Years of Innovative Art is a gorgeous showcase of 50 art quilts by renowned master artists. Seminal works show the evolution of the art quilt from the earliest pioneers creating during the 1960s through to today’s artists experimenting with new forms, new materials, and new digital technologies.

Trace the development of this exciting art form as it developed from isolated makers, primarily in Ohio and California, into an international movement involving thousands of artists spanning the globe.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE: 

Texas Quilt Museum: January 9, 2020 - March 15, 2020  
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles: April 19, 2020 - July 12, 2020
Ross Art Museum, Delaware, Ohio: May 14, 2021 - July 2, 2021  

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Alethea Ballard, the Maverick Quilter, has good reasons for clocks, frogs, and birdhouses in her quilts, but watch this short clip to see how she quickly gives the broiderie perse girl a little "kick".

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Alethea decided to make a bit of a statement by taking "super sexy" fabric and creating a woman who is doing it all...taking care of kids, making the meals, cleaning the house, all the while looking great doing it. Domestic Goddess will make you wish you had 10 arms as well.

Watch Alethea use both her arms in Show 2602.

Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis

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Quilters Take Manhattan is back! This will be the 8th QTM at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City and their plans are better and bigger than ever with an exhibition planned for the Great Hall at FIT September 25-27, 2020. There will be guest speakers, outside activities, and vendors along with the Main Event at the Haft Auditorium at FIT on Saturday, September 26, 2020.  

Want to go with your friends, your guild, or your family?

For the QTM Main Event, they offer discounts for groups of 10 or more at the Quilt Alliance member rate of $65/person rather than the non-member rate of $100/person. All guests receive a goody bag filled with great sponsor donations and there will be a silent auction, raffle table and refreshments. Online registration for groups will begin very soon. Tickets to QA members will begin March 2, 2020 and to non-members on March 16, 2020. 

The quilt exhibition is titled Known and Unknown, featuring visually and historically exceptional quilts loaned by private collectors and artists.

Their Main Event program will include keynote speaker Anna Maria Horner and lectures by Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, Julie Silber, and John M. (Jack) Walsh III, as well as a panel discussion with quiltmakers, curators, and collectors moderated by Janneken Smucker.

To make it a complete three-day event, on Friday, September 25, 2020 there will be several garment district tours, a costume tour at the Museum at FIT, other outings and a Broadway show that night. Each of these add-on events will be on our website with descriptions and prices. The exhibition will be available all three days to ticket purchasers for the Main Event.

Please contact Debby Josephs – admin@quiltalliance.org or 828-251-7073 – with any questions.

Click here for more information regarding QTM.

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You'll need to take a step back to get a "closer" look at Carol Morrissey's quilt, Six Roses. It's another in her series of quilts created using circles. The further away you get, the more in focus the quilt becomes.

Carol's quilt, Six Roses, won 3rd Place Abstract, Large at the Houston International Quilt Festival 2019.

Click here to see another of Carol's fabulous "circler" quilts, Keith and Mick.

Watch Carol in Show 1908: Postcards and Photorealism.