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~Juncture: 40th Anniversary Members Exhibition~

The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is pleased to announce the First Annual Members Exhibition in their community gallery, FiberSpace. Artists who are current members may apply to exhibit up to three works in the exhibitions Juncture I & II.

Now in its fortieth year, the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is at a juncture in time, where they can both reflect on the past and look forward to the future. A juncture can also be an intersection of place or events, often one laden with symbolic potential: In many folk traditions, junctures as represented by crossroads are a potent metaphor for transition. Though a juncture can be a time for reflection, the word can also describe a critical moment or crisis that demands immediate action. With the concept as their point of departure, artists may take the exhibition’s theme of “juncture” where it leads them.

Click on the Learn More button to find out how to enter and to learn more about the Marianne Lettieri, Juror.

Fee:
This Member Exhibition is a benefit for Artist Benefit members, who may submit up to three entries. There is no fee to enter.

If you are already a member, go to their website and purchase the additional Artist Benefit ($20). www.sjquiltmuseum.org/membership/. In return, they will add your name and website to their Artist Member page.

If you are not a member, join www.sjquiltmuseum.org/membership/ (Individual, Family, Supporter, etc.) and purchase the additional Artist Benefit ($20). You will receive all the benefits of membership and they will add your name and website to our Artist Member page.

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Juncture I

Juncture II

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Ximo won both 1st and 3rd Place in the Merit Quilting - Stationary Machine sponsored by BERNINA at Houston 2016. Don't Tell Me It's Not a Dream is the 1st Place quilt below and it has an exquisite pattern that must have been hard to get on the fabric. WOW!

Ready to see the 3rd Place Quilt by Ximo?         

This is the 1st Place Quilt "Don't Tell Me It's Not a Dream"

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Star Members can watch Nysha in Show 2104: Zentangle Quilting & Totally Tuffets.

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Sue Garman's Block of the Month 2017 for TQS, "The Halo Medallion," is a beautiful quilt. We quickly ran out of our kits and couldn't get the fabric to remake them. Island Batik saw the quilt and said, "That would be great in batiks!!" So they have done a computer layout of the look and have chosen the fabrics. We need to know how many to buy. Let us know if you are a serious purchaser. Voting below does NOT obligate you to buy the kit, it just tells us you probably will and we will know how many to order. Take a look. This heirloom quilt by Sue should be in your collection.

Remember, you must be a Star member to download the patterns. The pattern is worth $99 and membership is just $49, so it's a great deal just for that. The kit costs $287, exactly as much as the original kit, and includes 26+ yards of fabric, including background and binding. Vote below the pictures.

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Remember that best selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey? I know there is a message in there for me and my fellow quilters/stitchers. And so, mixed between my other rambling posts every couple of weeks, I am going to figure out what are the 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Quilter and share them with you. I think from my own learning experience of hard knock quilting, I can come up with a list.

#1 Be proactive and make your binding when you finish your top.

How many times have I torn my Bee Hive apart looking for binding fabric and sometimes never find it because I used it on another project! GRRR... We all love to make tops, and there is a larger percentage of quilters who are working on multiple projects than those who start and finish one project at a time. It may be days, weeks, or months before we actually get around to quilting and binding our tops. After many frustrating searches, I had a V8 moment and started making my binding when I finished the top.

Here is my latest top made for my dear grandson. Although the top is done, I will not be ready to quilt until sometime in October.

My next step before I put away the quilt top and all the mess is to make the binding...of course, I need some help from my Minion buddies :) I chain piece my binding pieces then fold and press.

This is my favorite part of the process...I then roll my binding into my low calorie binding roll!

Once the binding is done and rolled, it gets stored in my binding cabinet. I can't tell you how good it feels when I finish quilting to walk over
and know the binding is all ready to go. I liken it to grocery shopping for all the ingredients needed for dinner, putting them in the fridge, and the
next day coming home and finding out your husband cooked dinner!!!! If you are like me and occasionally make too much binding, save it in that
drawer for future mini projects or scrap binding on a scrappy quilt.

Have a great week, take a break from the news and quilt!

Click here for Anna's YouTube Channel.

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There's still time left to vote for the International Quilt Study Center & Museum as the Best Nebraska Attraction for the USA Today 10 Best Readers' Choice 2017.

Click on Learn More to vote.

(USA Today)