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Crossing borders and cultures with quilts around the globe.

TheQuiltShow.com is excited about the International Miniature Quilt Exchange Project and the partnerships we are creating. We have 265 IMQE Partners – 35 Partners away from our goal of 300 partners. We still have over 9 United States quilters waiting for International partners.    

Internationally, Italy continues to lead with 50 Quilters, but the United Kingdom is close behind at 47 Quilters. Germany continues with 44 Quilters and Canada now has 43. There are 26 Aussies and 4 Kiwis. We also have Lenea from Finland, north of the Arctic Circle, and Ljiljana from Serbia. Ljiljana, a TQS member for many years, tells us TQS has been her main source of inspiration.

TQS has shared stories about Quilts from all over the United States:

• Did you know Queen Liliuokalani made a quilt? Would you believe it was made while she was in prison?
• Last year TQS responded to a demand for Kennel Quilts in West Virginia.
• This year we shared Maria Shell’s wonderful quilts from Alaska, showing how to take basic shapes and create exciting quilts.

What do these stories have in common? IMQE is missing quilters from Hawaii, West Virginia and Alaska! These states have amazing quilting stories to share with our International Quilters. We have 47 of our 50 states represented. So let’s hear from quilters in Hawaii, West Virginia and Alaska.

WHAT WILL YOU DISCOVER WHEN YOU JOIN IMQE? You won’t know until you join! Let’s break records with this exchange!

SallyQuilter wrote: It's amazing how many similarities we have in common and proves that quilters really are all cut from the same cloth no matter the distance between us....

Quilters have until March 2018 to complete their miniature quilts. Get all the details here.

1 International Quilter + 1 United States Quilter + A Passion for Quilting

= A Priceless Experience

Take a look at our gallery of Ricky’s miniature quilts.

You can check out the IMQE Guidelines here.

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Star Members can watch Pat in Show 2103: Easy Mosaic Techniques and Adding Detail & Depth to Your Quilts. The show debuts Sunday, July 30, 2017.

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Join Gina Perkes for her Ruler Mastery Series, a 10-month program in which you will be creating a whole-cloth quilt sampler using a different ruler each month. You will develop ruler skills and learn new designs to add to your quilting arsenal. With Gina’s program you can use your longarm machine or your domestic sewing machine and master your ruler skills. Click on the "Go to Classroom" button to go to Gina's Ruler Mastery Series classroom.

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Beware: After you see the closeup, you are going to want to look at the whole quilt again.

Susan Haslett-Scholfied of Canton, Michigan, USA displayed her quilt, Double Wedding Ring 2016 (88" x 88"), in the Large Quilts - Stationary Machine Quilted category at Paducah 2017. It is a beautiful study in color that is more complicated than we originally noticed. (Her color wheel must still be smoking.)

Take a look at the close up below. We love the quilt, but would also love to see her fabric stash!

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Want to watch Alex and Ricky put together a show? Grab your ticket to the August taping in Denver. Better yet, grab your friends or grab your whole guild. You do not have to be a member of TQS to see how the magic happens...and there are cookies!

CLICK HERE TO LEARN HOW TO GET TICKETS to the August 2017 taping.

Take a look at some of the foolishness that happens at the end of a day of taping.

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Yes, that is spelled correctly. If you are looking for quilt inspiration, just take a look around the Disney parks. You'll see what we mean by "grate."

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Loved watching Mary Kerr turn vintage textiles into Modern quilts in Show 2102: Quilts with Vintage Textiles? Still want to learn more? Did you know that Mary has a number of workshops available including:

• Log Cabin Improv with a Vintage Twist
• A Wonky Star: Improv with a Vintage Twist
• Hankies from Heaven: A Quilt Pillow
• The Art of Appraisals
• The Business of Being in Business: Marketing and Development for Professional Quilters
• American Quilts: 1801-1900 and American Quilts 1901-2000

Click on Learn More to see a complete list of all of Mary's Workshops.

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Would you list this as a log cabin quilt? Keiko Morita of Japan entered her quilt Prominence, 72" x 87", in the Large Quilts - Stationary Machine Quilted category at Paducah 2017. It is an explosive design, but when we looked closer we began to see the log cabin blocks. The quilting techniques used are listed as Free-Motion Emboidery, Free-Motion Quilting, Machine Piecing, and String Piecing.