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Gretchen Crozier writes,

"I struggled in school until I got my hands on fabric, then magic happened for me. I made clothing and theatrical costumes. The quilting bug hit me hard in the early 1990s. The quilts I am showing in this exhibit were all made in response to various challenges. I enjoy the thrill of a new challenge! My guild, Amador Valley Quilters, has stimulating projects requiring the use of a variety of media and techniques."

See Gretchen's "Life's a Challenge" exhibit at the Pacific International Quilt Festival coming this October to the Santa Clara Convention Center.

We enjoy quilt challenges here at TQS as well. Watch:

Show 2106: TQS Challenge with Meg Cox, Alex Anderson, and Ricky Tims

Show 2013: Art and Abstract Design with Lyric Kinard and Tonye Belinda Phillips

For more information on PIQF see below:

Show Hours and General Admission

Quilt Show & Merchants Mall
Santa Clara Convention Center
5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054

Pacific International Quilt Festival features an exciting Merchants Mall offering the best in fabrics, notions, machines, contemporary and antique quilts, textiles, quilting supplies, books, sewing related craft items, kits, clothing and much, much more.

The Merchants Mall and Quilt Show daily hours will be:
Wednesday, October 11  7:30 pm to 9:00 pm (Open Only to Pre-registered Participants)
Thursday, October 12   10:00 am to 6:00 pm 
Friday, October 13         10:00 am to 6:00 pm 
Saturday, October 14    10:00 am to 6:00 pm 
Sunday, October 15       10:00 am to 4:00 pm

General Admission Tickets
Admission for non-registered participants is $15.00 ($13.00 Sunday only), includes re-admission and can be purchased on-site only during show hours. Accompanied children under the age of 16 are admitted free. Credit cards are not accepted for general admission. Admission for all days is included with event pre-registration. Discounts for groups of 20 or more can be arranged by calling (215) 862-5828.
 

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Follow along with Jen from Shabby Fabrics in this video to see how this cute and useful picnic tote comes together! She also gives you a bonus pattern for the "take-along" quilt.

Click here for patterns.

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Going to be in NYC this Weekend? There are still tickets available for Quilters Take Manhattan. The main fundraising event for the Quilt Alliance is Saturday, September 16. You can purchase tickets online or buy them at the door. This is QTM's final year. You won't want to miss this exciting event featuring:

• Pokey Bolton as your emcee
• Sherri Lynn Wood, “Patchwork as Restorative Social Practice”
• Merikay Waldvogel, “Making Do: Southern Style”
• Michael A. Cummings, interviewed by Dr. Carolyn L. Mazloomi for Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories project

  Shop with vendors, get some great deals in our silent auction and raffle, and watch the first QTM Fashion Challenge.

Can’t make it to New York this year?

Enjoy the event from your home by purchasing a “Moda Home Ticket.” For $30 Quilt Alliance members/ $40 nonmembers, Home Ticket holders will receive the QTM Goody Bag, packed with samples and treats from all of our sponsors, and a chance to win select door prizes. Home Ticket holders will also receive priority access to online video of our Sunday with Sponsors event (sent via email link 2 weeks after event). Please note: this year’s Home Ticket will not include footage of QTM lectures and interviews due to prohibitive cost.

Click here to purchase a home ticket.

Home Ticket holders play an important role in supporting the work of the Alliance–thank you!

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As we bumped along through Wyoming I had been pondering what the fifth habit of the Highly Effective Quilter would be, when we stumbled upon the Geographical Center of the Nation in Belle Fourche, South Dakota.


In the park was a lovely museum and a preserved historical log cabin. Although you couldn't go in the log cabin, you could look through it's windows and see the contents. Lo and behold...hanging on the wall was a friendship quilt.



Back in the day, women worked tending the home and sewing clothing for the family. Social time with family and friends was a highlight which might include quilting. These signature quilts served as precious memories, not only for those who moved west, but for those who stayed in one place all their lives. Homesteads that were spread apart created an isolated existence, and those times when they could get together were precious.

This brought me to #5 of the 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Quilter...quilt in a group. Being part of a quilt group provides you with support, encouragement, inspiration, and friendship to keep on stitching. I know some of you are not able, either by location, availability, weather or health, to get out and gather with a quilt group...but, if you are reading this then I know you have access to the internet. One of my most precious quilts, a gargantuan king size 120 x 120 quilt with 2000 different fabrics commemorating Y2K was done with an online quilt group...there are MANY groups on line! Or as in the case of 2 friends, Ginger who lives in Cheyenne and my friend Donna who lives in Vancouver, Washington, they decided to make a quilt together by mail. There were rules decided jointly...bright colors, certain blocks...they each made 8 blocks and gave 4 to each other. Border treatments were the individual quilter's choice. The result...Ginger's quilt is a testament to the support and encouragement of quilting with a friend!



Quilt Guilds also provide a place to be inspired not only to quilt, but to embrace those early ideals of quilting...quilting for someone else or as fundraisers.

It was a no brain-er that when G and I sat down to lunch at the Bay Leaf cafe in Spearfish, South Dakota, and on the table was a packet of quilt raffle tickets from a local guild fundraiser that I was going to take my chances!

Yes, I do believe in quilting with a group, whether it be physically or virtually, is maybe not technically a Habit, but it is a choice that will increase the effectiveness of your own quilting! If you need further encouragement check out my previous blog.  Wish me luck in the raffle!

Click here for Anna's YouTube Channel.

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Learn about Meg's quilt that is her homage to her work at The Wall Street Journal. This interview was done as part of the Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories Program created by the Quilt Alliance. Click on Learn More for the interview.

Star Members can watch Meg in Show 2106: TQS Challenge with Meg Cox, Alex Anderson, and Ricky Tims.