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"Quilting in the Garden" at Alden Lane Nursery in Livermore, CA, is right around the corner. Mark your calendar now for a truly spectacular quilt show to be held this year on Saturday and  Sunday, September 24 and 25, from 9AM to 4PM. Along with quilts displayed among the towering oaks, there are classes, beginning on Thursday, September 22, as well as lectures and garden-design ideas sure to stir your creative juices. (Admission to the show is free; there is a fee for classes and lectures.) This year's two featured artist's are Verna Mosquera, whose work you saw and admired in Episode 402 as well as Rob Appell from Episode 812. 

Come join the folks at Alden Lane for a great fall-weekend event.

9/ 22 Winter Comes Early Embroidery with Tracy Souza

9/22 Landscape Applique with Sandra Mollon

9/22 Cherry Delight with Alex Anderson 

9/23 Endangered Species Series with Rob Appell

9/23 Tea Time Applique with Verna Mosquera

9/23  It's a Mystery with Dee Christopher

9/24 + 9/25 Budding Beginners:  First time quilting lessons 

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In Lesson 16 of Alex Anderson - Hand Quilting, Alex talks to you about marking your quilt top.

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Rob's quilts are amazing and Quilting in the Garden needs them all.  How is he going to safely ship them?

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So you think you have a large stash of fabric? How about over 100 boxes? Have you thought about what you might do with it, now or in the future? Click here to read this article, from the AlamedaPatch.com about a wonderful lady, Nancy Crosby, and how her stash helped so many others.

(photo credit: Charles Reynolds)

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Photo by Gregory Case Photography

Join us (Episode 905) for this "tip-top" technique episode, as New York City quiltmaker, author, and teacher Anita Grossman Solomon brings to the set an abundance of inventive and time-saving methods for cutting and piecing. Discover how to cut two blocks at once and how to use striped fabric to create dramatic effects. Pick up a bucket-load of rotary-cutting tips, as well as ideas for storage, sorting, and working in a small space. Even Ricky gets into the act, demonstrating three quick, alternative techniques for finishing: faux binding, facing, and framing.

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Here's a quick peek at Episode 905: Rotary-Cutting Revolution: It Couldn't Be Simpler! with Anita Grossman Solomon.

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The Alliance for American Quilts has announced their theme for the 2012 AAQ Quilt Contest and it's a fan favorite. 

This year's theme is "Home is Where the Quilt Is." Details to be posted on the AAQ site no later than Oct. 1.

This quilt "Our House" by Keti Kasrashvili, Irini Lavrinenko, Nino Chargeishvili Tbilisi from the Republic of Georgia, was the winning quilt from 2007 contest. To learn more about the quilt, click here.

This year's contest entrants and winners from "Alliances - People ~ Patterns~ Passions" will be going up on Ebay in November as a fundraiser for the AAQ. To see the winners for the 2010 contest, click here. 

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The top 100 puzzle quilt this week, Ray of Light, by TQS favorite Jinny Beyer, may be one of the most recongizable on the planet. Jinny's quilt was chosen as the winner of The Great American Quilt contest sponsored by Good Housekeeping, the U.S. Historical Society, and the Museum of American Folk Art to celebrate the US Bicentennial. Almost 10,000 quilts were entered into the contest. The quilt is made from Indonesian batiks and American cottons. It is hand-pieced and hand quilted and is part of Jinny's personal collection. It was completed in 1977 and measures 80" x 91". The Hindi translation of "Ray of Light" is Kiran, which is also the name of Jinny's daughter.

To learn more about the quilt, visit Jinny's site at www.jinnybeyer.com.

You can also watch Jinny on The Quilt Show in Show 601: Perfect Your Hand Piecing and Show 313: TQS Quilting Legend 2008.

Ray of Light - 35 Pieces Non-Rotating

Ray of Light - 100 Pieces Non-Rotating

Ray of Light - 100 Pieces Rotating

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Ann Hill is currently the Quilter in Residence at Alzheimer Scotland. During the past two years she has been working in partnership with Alzheimer Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway), Dumfries Hospitals, and the Hampden Park Football Group. Her project involves Ann working with people with dementia, their families and staff at the various care homes, hospitals and groups. 65 quilts, depicting their memories are now on display at Hampden Park Football Stadium Museum in Glasgow. The quilts tell the wonderful stories of those with Alzheimers and their foremost memories.

And now Ann has something else up her sleeve, The Hampden Park Quilt Project 2013. This project involves covering Scotland's international football pitch at Hampden Park in Glasgow.

Here's the info from Ann:

5,000 quilts of 40” square (or close) are needed to cover Scotland’s international football pitch at Hampden Park in Glasgow. Aerial photographs will be taken and sold. The quilts will be auctioned off and those left will be adopted by care homes throughout Scotland. The aim of the project is to raise awareness of dementia and how it affects not only the person affected but their families and friends.

Any design of quilt will do but if you are having trouble deciding, FREE downloadable quilt patterns will appear regularly on the following websites:

www.annhillquilter.co.uk
www.alzscot.org
www.hampdenpark.co.uk

Quilts can be sent to the following:

• Ann Hill Quilter, Mouswald House, Mouswald, Dumfries, DG1 4LT, Scotland
• UK Alzheimer Scotland, 22 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, EH3 7RN
• Scottish Football Museum, Hampden Park, Glasgow, G42 9BA

Your quilts will be greatly appreciated.

(Quilt: Forgetting Piece By Piece by Ann Hill)