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Cheryl Lynch is sharing some of her fabulous quilts with TQS.  When talking about her creative process Cheryl says, "I find that I "build" my quilts one section at a time. Putting together the pieces of the puzzle is both challenging and energizing. This process sometimes necessitates the development of a new technique or use of a non-traditional fabric."  Discover what she means!

Cheryl is featured in Episode 811: Quilt a Fiesta with Tile-Inspired Quilts, click here to watch. 

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Sharon talks with Lee Nakamoto from AccuQuilt about new products that will help you create 36 different 8" blocks.

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The San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles has two new exhibits which will run from May 17 - August 7, 2011.

Primary Structures and Southwestern Banded Blankets: Three Cultures, One Horizon.  Here's how the museum describes the exhibits:

Primary Structures  - "explores how innovative artists using simple linear elements in combination with unconventional materials can broaden our understanding of the familiar by transforming the stitch structures of knit and crochet into large scale and compelling art."

Included in this exhibition are works by: Xenobia Bailey, Arline Fisch, Susie Freeman, Lori Goldman, Yvette Kaiser Smith, Sheila Klein, Tracy Krumm, Valerie Molnar, Adrienne Sloane, Mary Walker Phillips, and Tatyana Yanishevsky.

Southwestern Banded Blankets: Three Cultures, One Horizon - "This is a unique exhibit and the first of its type to focus exclusively on banded blankets. These utilitarian and simply striped blankets showcase the rich cultural tradition of the Pueblo, the Navajo, and the Spanish Colonial Rio Grande blankets of the “Four Corners” area of the American Southwest. United by common elements of stripes and indigo coloration these blankets are elegant in their design composition, sophisticated balance and amazing variety."

This blankets are from the collection of Jean and Roger Moss.  Curator Deborah Corsini states, "The understated simplicity of the stripes is a powerful contrast to the visual graphic intensity that resonates with kinetic movement.”

For more information about the museum, click here.

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You've had a bit of time, have you made something with your HSTs from the Sisterhood of the Traveling Triangles Exchange?  To give you some inspiration, take a look at Margo's creation. It's fabulous and I love the name of her quilt.  Don't forget, if you've been working on something from the exchange, post it in Show & Tell so everyone can see it!  You can find Show & Tell under the QUILT GALLERY tab on the navigation bar, or click here.

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LibraryJournal.com has selected The Quilt Life as one of its Top 10 Magazines of 2010. Here's what they had to say,

Here is this year’s fine crop of new magazines worth considering for your library...

"Here’s a magazine from the American Quilter’s Society for those with the “disease” (the editor’s words, not mine!). Creative and executive directors Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson lead readers through all aspects of creating, enjoying, and collecting quilts. Quilt Life has some how-to, e.g., a recent article that describes how to tile printed photos to create a template for a large art quilt. But the focus is more on individual quilters’ and collectors’ passion for the hobby. Quilt Life has a diversity of well-illustrated content that’s sure to interest both beginning and expert quilters and quilt lovers."

Way to go, Alex, Ricky, Jan, and Joyce!

If you'd like to learn about the other nine magazines, click here.

If you'd like to learn more about The Quilt Life, click here.

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Sharon visits with Benartex designer, Shelley Detton.  They talk about her new fabric line, Garden Club, which is a wonderful mix of colors and graphics for kids of any age.  They also discuss a charity close to Shelley's heart, One-Heart Bulgaria.  Shelley has a project for you make to help orphans in Bulgaria see that they are loved.  To learn about this project and visit Shelley's site, click here.

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The ArtQuilt Gallery•NYC opened April 5th, becoming the only commercial gallery for quilts in New York City. It will showcase the best quilts from around the world.  The gallery is located next to The City Quilter quilt shop in Manhattan's Chelsea district, and while Alex and John were in New York, they stopped by to see Cathy Izzo and Dale Riehl, co-owners of The City Quilter as they were preparing for the opening of the gallery.   

Photos of the Grand Opening can be found by clicking here.

The current exhibit, Quilt Drawing, features quilts of Daphne Taylor, who was born into a Quaker Philadelphia family and trained as a painter before gravitating into quilting.  In her quilts, lines reminiscent of landscape and figure are embroidered, pieced and composed within frameworks ranging from open white spaces to complex color fields.  “The results tempt the viewer into a world of light and fragmented reminisces,” critic Mimi Sherman wrote of Taylor’s quilts, which have been displayed at the Museum of Art and Design in New York. 

This exhibit runs through May 28. 

The following exhibit will be Impressionist Quilts with quilts from Noriko Endo. “As an artist, Noriko Endo never takes a false step,” said renowned American quilter Paula Nadelstern.  “Each composition, seamed from an abundance of detail and nuance, reveals new complexities, seducing the viewer to stay a long time and witness her miraculous, sleight of hand dexterity which turns minute slivers of fabric into masterful color compositions.”

This exhibit will run from June 16 to August 6.

For more information, contact:

Dale Riehl                                                                                                                           
The ArtQuilt Gallery•NYC
133 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
212-807-9451
dale@artquiltgallerynyc.com

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Sharon has a chat with Megan Scott of C&T Publishing who gives you a peek at the latest books coming out from C&T.  There are applique books, quilts for modern quilters, quilt cubes, quilt post cards and so much more. You'll want to get them all!

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This is an amazing video. Free-motion at it's free-ist.  Just don't try it at home, protect your fingers!  Take a look at the machine he uses and then watch the video.  It's amazing. If you'd like to visit P. Nosa's website, click here.

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Sharon interviews Alex Veronelli from Aurifil thread.  Alex shows Sharon his cotton thread card with 252 colors and 4 different weights of thread.  He also talks about his latest collection of thread made for folk art applique, (Sue Spargo fans you might want to listen) and last, but not least, he mentions Sharon's line of thread for Sashiko.