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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.

Click to play this Smilebox slideshow

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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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How Do the Judges Ever Decide?

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 does it in Show 2502.

QuarterCircleQuiltbyLatifahSaafir - 36 Pieces Non-Rotating

QuarterCircleQuiltbyLatifahSaafir - 100 Pieces Non-Rotating

QuarterCircleQuiltbyLatifahSaafir - 300 Pieces Non-Rotating

QuarterCircleQuiltbyLatifahSaafir - 36 Pieces Rotating

QuarterCircleQuiltbyLatifahSaafir - 100 Pieces Rotating

QuarterCircleQuiltbyLatifahSaafir - 300 Pieces Rotating

Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis

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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"

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If your brain is still in "Summer Relaxation Mode," then a quilt kit is perfect for you! 

You don't have to figure out colors. You don't have to locate fabrics. You don't have to agonize over a pattern - you can just sit back and work with beautiful fabrics that were chosen for you (and you don't have to go to a store and shop for). And, you'll know exactly what it looks like when it's finished.

The Under The Sea quilt kit was designed by our very own Alex Anderson! The pattern was inspired by Kona Cotton Solids' delicious and playful colors. Alex chose to keep Under The Sea fairly simple so you could enjoy the vibrancy of each color as it sparkled against the white fabric.

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The Harriet's Handwork Gather Around Quilt Top Kit includes fabrics from the Harriet's Handwork fabric collection by Moda Fabrics.The lovely colors and reproduction prints of the Harriet’s Handwork fabric collection were inspired by millworker and suffragette Harriet Hanson Robinson (1825-1911), and by an antique quilt dating to 1820-1840 in designer Betsy Chutchian's collection. 

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Beachcomber is easy to put together thanks to the pre-cut and pre-fused appliqué pieces. Every single appliqué piece in the kit has been cut and fused for you, so you can get right to the fun part of putting it together. 

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Our 2019 Block Of The Month Kit, Sizzle, is available in Warm and Cool colorways. Sizzle will compliment any decor, and its design of energizing diamond stars within soothing circles surrounded by a leaf and scroll border is the perfect combination of modern and traditional. 

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Even the best make mistakes. Barbara Black was zipping along on her Warm/Combo Sizzle quilt top, eager to get to the appliqué borders. When all of a sudden she realized there was a huge "oops" which had to be fixed. Can you see the problem?
Click here to get the story from Barbara.