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He has been a dancer and an entrepreneur. He is important to all of TQS, yet Alex and John have worked with him daily for 5 years and have never met in person..... until yesterday.
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Can you believe that Alex and Ricky have so many ideas to share that they don't have room on TQS website alone? The Quilt Life magazine gives them a chance to explore and share even more great information and stories about quilting and the quilting lifestyle...and, right now, you can purchase a one-year subrscription to the award-winning magazine, The Quilt Life, for only $17.50!
At this price, you can buy a one-year subscription for yourself and a one-year subscription for your best quilting friend. Start the year off right, but hurry: this offer ends January 31, 2012!
**To take advantage of this offer, enter code T17 when you place your order.
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Does your thread seem old and listless? Has it lost it's snap? Let Bob Purcell share why this has happened and what you can do to remedy the situation. It has something to do with why Grandma's cotton thread 50 years ago is not the same quality as cotton thread today.
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TQS member ClaraLawrence is issuing a challenge for YOU to help The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI). The AAQI is a national charity that sells small donted quilts to fund Alzheimer's research. We've seen the big guns participate (Alex, Ricky, Libby, Sue, Hollis, Caryl, John), now it's YOUR turn. We can do it too! Let's jump in and do some serious damage...I mean quilting. Make them, buy them, or both. Every quilt donation, every quilt sale counts. Clara says that she knows that the TQS quilt community could really shake things up (when we put our minds to it)!
When does it start?
January 17, 2012 till January 17, 2013!
Contact Clara to share your ideas and questions on the Forum here. Share your Priority Quilts in Show and Tell here.
What are we making?
Priority: Alzheimer’s Quilts are 9" x 12" in size or smaller. Read the rules here: http://www.alzquilts.org/paq.html. This could be a scrappers paradise or a way to use those extra bits from a project you cut too many pieces for, or a way to try out a new technique you learned on TQS. You could easily create a series of little quilts. (Keep in mind they won't be sold as a series, but it sure is fun making them that way. I've got 12 in the works right now.) Make 1 or make 100, it is up to you.
What are we Buying?
Alzheimer's Quilts, of course. Don't buy your own quilts back, silly. Buy somebody else's! Collect art! The AAQI sells quilts 24/7 on their website and the best of the best are auctioned online during the first day days of every month. Check it out: http://www.alzquilts.org/quiltsforsale.html and http://www.alzquilts.org/quiltauction.html
Who the heck is Clara?
I’m Clara Lawrence, the Sorting Queen from the Half-Square Triangle Exchange. (Hey, there's an idea: build your mini-quilts from half-square triangles and strips!)
Why am I interested in AAQI?
My family was affected by Alzheimer’s. Not just one family member, but two. I personally love Ami Simms's idea and its simplicity and want to help. This year I want to make quilts that make a difference. Don't you? Will you join me?
How to get involved?
1. Make a Priority: Alzheimer's Quilt (http://www.alzquilts.org/paq.html)
a. Register the quilt yourself and send me (through TQS) the registration number the AAQI assigns to it.
OR
b. Ship me the quilt and I'll register it and ship it to AAQI for you. (Contact me first so I can have you fill out and sign a special form and give you my mailing address.)
2. Buy a Priority: Alzheimer's Quilt or bid and win one during a monthly auction. Use TQS to send me the registration number of the quilt you purchased.
3. Share your quilts, the ones you make and the ones you buy! TQS has a Priority: Alzheimer’s Quilt Show and Tell section already on their site. Share your completed quilts there and on the forum.
How do we get to 1,000? I'll submit the quilt numbers to the AAQI for quilts you make. They will publish them on our own special page: http://www.alzquilts.org/tqs.html
I'll also keep track of how much the TQS community raises by purchasing quilts. When you buy a quilt, give me the number and the amount you paid for it (less shipping and insurance).
Contact Clara to share your ideas and questions on the Forum here.
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Spool Quilt by Edyta Sitar
If you missed out on the whirlwind of activity with the HST (Half-Square Triangle) exchange, here is your chance to join in on another sharing opportunity. Winding on the Reels of Tangled Threads (Wot RoTT) is another fabric exchange that is being organized by TQS member PosyP.
Instead of HST, this time it is Reels/Spools of color based on Edyta Sitar's lovely example featured in Episode 802. But don't delay, PosyP says that there are only spaces for 80 participants!! Here are basics to the participate, but be sure to visit the discussion on the Forum here to get all the details.
Don't forget to share your quilt in the Show and Tell area titled "Wot RoTT" here.
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Isn't technology wonderful? You can still visit museum exhibits that are no longer on display.
Did you know that you can purchase an App for your phone that presents 22 works from the Quilts 1700-2010 exhibition which was on display in Spring of 2010? Here is a description from the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Weaving audio commentaries, video clips and original interviews with stunning photography of quilts old and new, the App reveals the stories, fabrics and techniques involved in making the quilts on display. Listen to V&A curators, quilting experts and textile artists, including Grayson Perry, who share their insights, while zooming into high-resolution images for a detailed, stitch-by-stitch look at selected works.
The V&A has thrown open its archives to reveal historic textiles rarely or never before seen. Featured works include the ‘Rajah Quilt’, made by women convicts while being transported to present day Tasmania aboard HMS Rajah, ‘Patchwork with Garden of Eden’ by nineteenth-century quilter Ann West, as well as contemporary pieces such as the ‘Right to Life’ by Grayson Perry and ‘To Meet My Past’ by Tracey Emin.
This App also celebrates the work of those whose names have been forgotten, but whose colourful and creative stories now survive through their quilts. It presents the stories – along with patterns and pieces of cotton and silk, and you can discover how experts have pieced together histories from clues hidden in the layers of fabric.
Click here to order from iTunes. (Quilts 1700-2010: A close-up, stitch-by-stich look at British quilting)
And from here in American you can download "Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts" This app guides users through the installation of 650 red and white quilts which were on display at the American Folk Art Museum in New York during March of 2011.
It includes images of 650 quilts as well as statements by collector Joanna S. Rose, guest curator Elizabeth V. Warren, and Maria Ann Conelli and Stacy C. Hollander of the American Folk Art Museum.
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Photo by Gregory Case Photography
Since graduating from FIT, Michelle Jackson has made a successful transition from lingerie designer to wearable art, and ultimately to art quilts. In Episode 1002, the 2010 Niche Award-winning fiber artist demonstrates the relationship - and difference - between color and value, and the important part value plays in determining what one sees when viewing a quilt.
In addition, Alex shows how cutting and constructing the Drunkard's Path block can be a snap with the help of the AccuQuilt Go! fabric cutter and dies. All this, show and tell, and a great location - the home of Bob and Barbara Normoyle in Monument, CO - too.
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Coming this Monday, January 16, is our latest Episode 1002 - The Value of ... Value! with Michelle Jackson. In this episode, the 2010 Niche Award-winning fiber artist demonstrates the relationship - and difference - between color and value, and the important part value plays in determining what one sees when viewing a quilt.
In this quilt, Bucky, Michelle shows you what can happen when you meet a camera-ready friend at the zoo. The quilt is 47.5" x 43." Bucky, himself, is much taller. It is made from 100% cotton fabrics and is fused applique and machine quilted. The quilt was completed in 2010.
Bucky - 35 pieces non-rotating
Bucky - 100 pieces non-rotating
Bucky - 252 pieces non-rotating
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Like a good quilt ambassador Alex is spending her birthday at Meissner's Sewing in Sacramento, California. Happy Birthday Alex. It is so great to get a trophy wife on the first try (although it does point out the unfairness of the aging process). We will be travelling to the Road to California show very soon so fresh flowers didn't make any sense.
So here are flowers for our birthday girl from the Quilt Gallery.
The music is Pink Flower Prelude by Ricky Tims.
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