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Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Will you be wearing green? Do you have any traditions you practice on St. Patrick's Day?  Do you watch a parade, drink green beer, or down a loaf of soda bread? Have you ever made a St. Patrick's quilt? Submit a comment and let us know how you celebrate the day.

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Photo by Gregory Case Photography

We know that you who have watched Episode 806 with Verna Mosquera were charmed by her delightful designs.  Verna graciously sent TQS the templates for the poodle and purse featured in her newest quilt Mon Ami.  Check out the Projects page for the downloadable templates, so that you can make your own charming block into a pillow, purse, or mini wall hanging.  

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How museums lead to great ideas and great quilts.

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A lot of you are excited about the 650 red and white quilts that will be shown in New York City in the Infinite Variety-Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts exhibit in just a few more days.  Along with the exhibit, are some wonderful discussions about how the concept of the exhibition was brought to life and about red and white quilts in general.  For more information about the exhibition, which is free to the public, click here.

Infinite Possibility: The Making of Infinite Variety

Friday, March 25, in the Tiffany Room

6-7 pm

Speakers: Tom Hennes and Steven Shaw

Fee: $30 general; $25 museum members, seniors, and students

The design team that realized the vision of "Infinite Variety" will discuss the genesis of the exhibition concept and the process of bringing it to fruition. Join Tom Hennes and Steven Shaw of Thinc Design for a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at a year-long creative journey. The talk will be followed by a wine reception.

Infinite Variety: A History of Red and White Quilts

Sunday, March 27, in the Tiffany Room

2-3 pm

Speaker: Elizabeth V. Warren

Fee: $20 general; $15 museum members, seniors, and students

Red and white has been a classic color scheme for American quilts since the early nineteenth century. Guest curator Elizabeth V. Warren will discuss the popularity of the color combination and the different kinds of quilts that employ it, including geometric pieced quilts, traditional appliqué and "snowflake" appliqué quilts, "fund-raisers," including Red Cross quilts, and embroidered quilts. The talk will be followed by a book signing.

Programming is sponsored in part by Allan Katz Americana/Penny & Allan Katz.

For a sneak peek of the show, watch the video.

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Photo by Gregory Case Photography

Do you own—or have your ever dreamed of owning—a home-based, quilting-related business? If so, you’ll want to hear what quiltmaker, fabric designer, and successful businesswoman Verna Mosquera has to say about the challenges of balancing business—her pattern company, The Vintage Spool, focuses on romantic and timeless quilt designs——and family life. Then Verna shows some of her beautiful quilts, and gives Ricky a lesson in hand appliqué, focusing on clean, sharp points and deep Vs. The episode concludes with a tour of our location for the day, the home of Trish and Frank Cvetovac, where you’ll enjoy a glimpse of the various rooms devoted to baseball, grandmother, and other “interesting” themes.

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For their 2009 quilt challenge, the Juniper Berries quilt group in Sisters, OR, put together some fabulous quilts following some very simple guidelines. Here are the rules they followed:

1. Each participating member offered a theme, color scheme and some fabric choices for her quilt.
2. She put them in a box with one completed row.
3. Each month the box/quilt would be passed on to another member for them to create a complimentary row.
4. The boxes/quilts were passed each month till every participant had a created a row.
5. Then when the box/quilt was returned to the originator (12+months later) - they had the honor of putting the rows together in whatever way they choose.

Wouldn't this be a great idea for your small quilt group or guild?

Here are just a few of the quilts they created. They are so diverse, doesn't it get your creative juices flowing?

Members who participated were:

• Jeanne Sellgren
• Phyllis Dickenson
• Lori Gailey
• Karen Mansker
• Sally Brown
• Peggy Lindsay
• Ann Richardson
• Candy Woods
• Cathy Moen
• Lynda Murphy