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Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for the encouraging insights from last weeks post on Creativeness Takes Courage. Renee, I have the book suggestion on my library request list!

Since the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show I have been on an inspiration high, LOL. Not only from the beautiful quilts, but also from the quilters themselves. A couple of days during the Quilters Affair I run Sit 'n Stitch, which basically is a quilt retreat on campus! Everyone brings their own projects to work on and I try to be of assistance either in solving a piecing issue or giving advice/opinions when asked. This event is held in the school library. The participants are spread out, but I make sure that everyone gets up and visits so that ooohhhs and ahhhhs for the various works can happen. The wide variety of projects, techniques, and designs really spark the creative juices.

This year there was one participant who's quilt won the "Courage in Creativity" award. She was on a flight and sat next to a woman who was hand piecing hexies. Her curiosity sparked a conversation, and by the time the flight was over she was dreaming of her own hexie quilt. Yes, creativeness takes courage...but a courageous mind enjoys being challenged. And...oh was this quilt challenging...because it was her FIRST quilt ever!!! YES, I did say 1st quilt ever!

I was so inspired by the courage of this Quilters Affair student to grab that brass ring or next quilt project!!! There is inspiration all around us, we just have to open our hearts to it...

Stay tuned and travel along with us on Quilt Roadies.

Click here for Anna's blog.

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Laura at SewVeryEasy has some great tips for an item you can find at the dollar store.

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Ricky recently sat down and had a quick chat with Christa Watson. Find out what she's been up to lately, including her latest quilt along.

You can learn from Christa here at TQS in Show 2409.

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We love Listen to Your Mother by Jean Ray Laury. The comic book style is certainly one way of drawing a child's attention, even if they don't listen to the advice.

Listen to Your Mother was part of The California Art Quilt Revolution: From the Summer of Love to the New Millennium exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles in 2017. To see more of the exhibit, scroll passed the pictures.

Here's what the museum wrote about the exhibit:

The studio art quilt was the result of a complex intersection of art, craft, universities, and the traditional American quilt. Three national cultural developments resulted in the re-evaluation of quilts as a suitable art medium and increased artists’ awareness of quilts: the art museum’s legitimization of the quilt as art, the junction of art and craft at the university level and social political and fashion trends that brought quilts to national prominence. 

California artists were among the first to embrace the quilt medium as their primary means of expression and charted new territory in art and quilt making, leading the nation in creativity and innovation. The art quilt pioneers transformed a functional domestic object into an art form and inspired subsequent generations of quilt artists.  Their legacy continues in the work of today’s artists, who are reinterpreting the quilt medium with non-traditional materials and pushing the boundaries of what can be called a quilt.

Here are a few more tidbits from the exhibit.

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443 Pieces of Beautiful 12" x 12" artwork!

The annual Benefit Auction is SAQA's premiere fundraising event! The 2019 auction will take place online from September 13, 2019 through October 6, 2019. All proceeds support SAQA's exhibition programs and other outreach.

As part of SAQA's 30th Anniversary celebration, 30 auction pieces are on display in the community gallery at the International Quilt Museum from April - August 2019.   

Click on See the Quilts to see the pieces in the auction.

  

 

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Alex had a great chat with current SAQA President Lisa Walton. They talked about Lisa's upcoming schedule, her tour of Japan, the International SAQA conference in Toronto, and the annual SAQA Benfit Auction. They also enjoyed a few laughs. Take a look.

To learn more about the SAQA Annual Benefit Auction and to see the quilts, click here.

Learn from Lisa in Show 2503.

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These designers did. We found this exhibit from the Chandler Trashion Fashion Show in a shopping mall in Chandler, AZ. The designers of these fashions range in age from 10 to adult and turned everything from coffee pods and newspapers, hula hoops and palm bark, into fashionable garments. Scroll down after the photos for a video about the fashion show.

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It must be almost impossible to judge a quilt show. We know we couldn't do it. When we saw this stunning quilt, Bouquet of Moon by Toyoko Nakajima, in Houston, we couldn't figure out how it didn't win a ribbon. It is meticulously appliquéd and beautifully hand quilted. It's a winner in our book.

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The Quarter Circle quilt block used in this quilt is the cornerstone of many classic quilt patterns. Latifah figured out a way to put those quarter circles together without pins in her own Quarter Circle Quilt.

Learn how she puts those curves together in Show 2502.

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 eighth quilt from the exhibition by Kikuyo Tominaga.

Title of Quilt: Karma

Quilter's Name: Kikuyo Tominaga

Dimensions: 87" x 87"