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Here's a great tip from Laura on cleaning your dirty iron, using items you probably already have on hand.

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The International Quilt Association is looking for Modern Quilts from the Midwest. 

Here's what you need to know:

Mod Squad Quilts

You are invited to participate in this exciting exhibit focusing on the Modern Quilt! To enter, please submit a Modern Quilt, created in the last three years, that demonstrates the beauty of a non-traditional, but functional quilt. The modern twist may be pieced or appliquéd. This exhibit is open to anyone who lives in the Midwest area and the provinces of Manitoba and Ontario in Canada; no guild membership is required. Quilters must be from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Manitoba or Ontario.

Click on the Quilt for a closer look.

You may submit a total of two quilts for our consideration. Quilts must be a minimum of 36" x 36", and made between January 2013 and March 2016. Please do not submit a quilt that was included in a previous edition of Modern Quilt Guild Showcase.

Online entries are being accepted until February 12, 2016.

Click here for more information.

Click here as Amy tells about the creation of this quilt.

Quilt: Deconstructed Lonestar by Amy Struckmeyer

Oak Park, Illinois

Chicago MQG

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The Modern Quilt Guild (MQG) will exhibit 25 modern quilts in a new show at the Texas Quilt Museum, on display from Jan. 7–March 27, 2016, including this amazing quilt by Sherri Lynn Wood.

Take a close up look at Sherri's quilt by clicking here or on the quilt picture.

The exhibit, “Modern Quilt Guild at the Texas Quilt Museum,” will feature 25 quilts made by MQG members from around the country. Modern quilts began making their way into the mainstream in 2009, and the Guild now has 10,000 members worldwide. This is also the MQG’s first-ever juried exhibit in a museum venue. It is sponsored exclusively by EZ Quilting.

MQG members from around the world were invited to submit a design to the juried show. Quilts were selected by the co-founders of the Texas Quilt Museum with recommendations from the MQG staff and board.

“I am excited about the collaboration between the Modern Quilt Guild and the Texas Quilt Museum,” says Jacquie Gering, chair of the MQG Board of Directors. “It has been a pleasure to work together to create an exhibit to showcase quilts from the members of the Modern Quilt Guild. I’m sure it’ll be a great show and definitely worth a road trip to the Lone Star State!”

For exhibitors, this is a unique and exciting chance to show their work in a world-renowned quilt museum.

“It's been an honor and a great opportunity to be embraced by the Modern Quilt Guild movement,” says exhibitor Sherri Lynn Wood. “I'm thrilled to have a piece included in this exhibition representing the many facets of the movement and its aesthetics, including improvisation and flexible patterning, which I've been practicing for 25 years. I'm glad to see improv catch on in the modern quilt community. It's a branch that promises to evolve the movement even as it attracts more of the mainstream public to the delights and expressive potential of quilt making.”

Visit the exhibit at the Texas Quilt Museum from Jan. 7–March 27, 2016, and see more information at texasquiltmuseum.org. General admission to the museum is $8 for adults and $6 for seniors and students.

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Want to keep better track of your fabric?  Sewweekly.com has a pdf just for you, to help you organize your stash and keep track of your fabric.  It also comes in handy if you need to buy more of that fabric later.  You know, when you cut that border just a little bit too short...

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Roderick Kiracofe talks about one of his favorite quilts at Quilters Take Manhattan.  Does he know why this quilt has one blue block?  Maybe yes, maybe no?

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McCall’s Quilting and its sister magazines, Quilters Newsletter and Quiltmaker, sponsored the Be Creative! Quilt Challenge and the winners have been chosen.

For the Be Creative! Quilt Challenge, each contestant purchased a Be Creative! bundle of Windham Fabrics by noted designer Lotta Jansdotter.  They were allowed to add up to 3 fabrics of their own choosing.  Then it was up to them to create a quilt showcasing their creative talents.

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We knew it all along.  There are many health benefits to quilting.  It reduces stress and brings about a state of well-being.  Now there is scientific research to back this up.

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CLICK ON THE SLIDESHOW BELOW TO SEE SOME OF THE QUILTS AND ARTIST STATEMENTS. YOU CAN HIT THE PAUSE BUTTON AND STEP THROUGH ONE AT A TIME WITH TIME TO READ THE DESCRIPTIONS.

Currently on exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is "Earth, Water, Fire, and Air: Fiber and Poetry." Four fiber artists, the ARTful Women, have created a series of quilts which are personal interpretations of the classical ideas of four elements: Earth, Water, Fire and Air.  Their works are the inspiration for "ekphrastic" poems created specifically for the exhibition.

The museum was kind enough to allow us to photograph the quilts.

(ekphrastic  - a literary description of or commentary on a visual work of art—)

From the Museum:

January 3 – February 28, 2016
EARTH, WATER, AIR, FIRE

Since ancient times, the four classical elements of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire have been used as a way to organize and understand the miraculous mystery of life's essence--the most basic, unchangeable fabrics of existence. The ARTful Women, Sandra Poteet, Gail Sims, Lin Schiffner and Ann Sanderson, have interpreted the classical elements in fiber art. Utilizing texture, color, cloth and thread each artist explored all four elements as a series, resulting in four distinct, artful interpretations.

Poetry Reading/Artists Reception: Sunday, February 7, 2 -4 pm.

Don't miss the chance to meet the four accomplished fiber artists in this exhibition and four exceptionally talented poets—Sally Ashton, Jennifer Swanton Brown, Pathenia M. Hicks, and Persis Karim. The artists have created sixteen works that are the roots of inspiration for sixteen ekphrastic poems created specially for this exhibition. The public is invited to meet these eight women, view the fiber pieces and hear the poets read their beautiful words.

"All featured poems ©2015.  All Rights Reserved:
Sally Ashton, Jennifer Swanton Brown, Parthenia
Hicks, Persis Karim"

A catalog of the show with all images and poetry is available directly from ARTful Women, through Lin Schiffner at lin.schiffner@yahoo.com and at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles.