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Have you ever thought about giving this as a baby gift?

There are many other wonderful items at the DAR Museum in Washington D.C.. Click here for more information.

From the Museum:

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Eleanor Burns came to the set to teach and to celebrate 40 years in the quilt industry. It was quite an event from beginning to end.

Keep an eye out for her show. You won't want to miss it.

In the beginning...

and wrapping up...

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We just liked the name of of Patty's Quilt, Yes Ma'am Damn!, and the story behind it.

Patty Murphy writes in her blog:

Yes Ma’am Damn! won three blue ribbons at the 2006 Georgia State Fair:  one for best piecing, one for best machine quilting, and a blue ribbon because it’s awesome (my words, not those of the judges)!

The quilt was named for my friend. She tells me I was “raised right” because I always say ma’am when responding to her. My friend is in her early sixties, so it seems to me that it’s a polite reply. She is a quilter and got me onto a batik strip piecing kick.  I took all my odds and ends of batik strips and stitched them together, cut the pieces into squares, then triangles, then assembled the parts.

Watch Patty in in Show 2305: Solving Piecing Problems & Deciphering Antique Crib Quilts.

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Happy Labor Day! In honor of all of the work you do, we are offering

FREE SHIPPING in the US with the code

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or

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Acorn Easy Precision Piecing Starter Kit The #1 seller of the summer!  A new and easy way to piece and press your quilt blocks more accurately, resulting in flatter seams, matched points, and square corners.

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Just a little peek at the Mosaic Quilt, which is currently on display at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum in Nebraska as part of the War and Pieced: The Annette Gero Collection of Quilts from Military Fabrics exhibit. Click on See the Zoom Quilt to see the entire quilt.

Detail. Mosaic Quilt, artist unidentified, made in England circa 1855. International Quilt Study Center & Museum. Collection, 2005.044.0001. Photo by Lilo Bowman.

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I love it when G, Enzo and I are on the road and we stumble across quilting in places that have nothing to do with quilting...it is like I am always 6 degrees away from a quilt!! And so it was when we decided to camp out at the Long Beach Washington Kite Festival.
 

What an extraordinary event, and one I would recommend as a bucket list item. The first day my cheeks hurt because I could not stop smiling. Some of the kites were so huge they took five teammates to launch! The events include kite ballet, kite dancing to music, and kite fighting, to name a few. One of the highlights was lighted night kite flying! It seemed there were quilt blocks everywhere...



As we walked down the boardwalk through the various vendors, I stumbled upon a quilt guild selling raffle tickets for their fundraiser. The Peninsula Quilt Guild is 85 members strong and meets at the Peninsula Church Center in Seaview, Washington. Twenty of the members worked on "Beach Garden" which I have to say is absolutely beautiful and reminds me of beach glass. As an added perk for the guild, a new quilter moved to town and after joining the guild offered to quilt the raffle quilt.

Toni Healey is the quilter, and just so you quilters out there who are saying, "...Oh, I could never do that...," she quilted this on a sewing machine! She marks her motifs with the blue pen that disappears and her machine has a larger throat than the standard machine. I do not know the brand. Her quilting really enhances the quilt and you can be sure that I bought a raffle ticket!! I do have to wait till March 16-18, 2019 for the 24th Annual Quilt Show. "Quilting at the Beach" is held at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco, WA. But, if you put this on your calendar, you can get a ticket before the drawing!!!

I hope you enjoy the close up of Toni's wonderful quilting. Stay tuned for more adventures of Anna & G On The Road here, and on the Quilt Roadie and Woolie Blog!

Click here for Anna's YouTube Channel.

Click here for Anna's blog.

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Marin F. Hanson is the IQSCM's Curator of International Collections and is responsible for building and interpreting the museum's non-Western collection.

In this video, she shares with TQS the development of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum's international collection and talks about the wishlist of textiles she would like to acquire. She also discusses the acquisition process and the steps required for a textile to reside in the museum's collection.

Marin also talks about the Indian textile behind her in the video, which was donated to the museum by Helen Blumen. Marin's interview ends with a description of the purpose of the new Community Gallery.

Did you know that you can search their online database? Marin gives you the key to deciperhing the number's associated with the textiles.

See a detail of the Indian quilt below the video.

Artist unidentified. Embroidered and beaded textile. Made in India circa 1975-2000.
Image courtesy of the International Quilt Study Center and Museum. Collection 2016.024.0001.

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Did you guess Marianne Fons and Liz Porter?

(shopmartingale.com)

From the Quilter's Hall of Fame:

The world of quilting has been brought into the homes of thousands in the United States and abroad because of two prominent teachers, Marianne Fons and Liz Porter. These two ladies met in a quilt class and formed a lasting business partnership. Being teachers themselves, it was natural for them to turn their newly acquired quilting skills into a curriculum of choice to share with the quilt world. Their mission statement, “Our goal is for you to enjoy making quilts as much as we do,” drove their business endeavors in their teaching, their mail order business, their magazine, “Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting," numerous books, publications, entertaining television programs, dvds, and internet club. This duo shared their methods of breaking down blocks into manageable parts so that difficult quilts could become more doable to millions via public television. They created and redesigned tools to make the quilting process faster and simpler, so quilters could experience success and satisfaction.