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While Infinite Variety Red & White: Three Centuries of Red & White Quilts was on exhibition at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC, another quilt show was also in progress at the Fashion Institute of Technology. The Empire Quilters Guild was putting on their Urban Inspirations quilt show.  

The Empire Quilters Guild was created 29 years ago by small group of people showing each other the ins and outs of quilting.  The guild has now grown to over 300 members who meet once a month from September through June. Through their meetings they enjoy focus groups, show and tell, presentations from quilt professionals and shopping with vendors.

One of their top priorities as a charitable institution is supporting their community with their art.  They routinely collect projects for charity to be distributed through the organizations they support, including abused or at-risk women, hospitals, and shelters.  They even make cage quilts for abandoned kittens!

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You never think you are going to run across a full-blown quilt exhibit inside of the shop, but that's what happened recently during a visit to QuiltWorks in Bend, Oregon, owned by Marilyn Ulrich.  Upstairs in the shop, there was a wonderful exhibit of quilts by Tonye Belinda Phillips, author of Hand-Appliqued Quilts, Whimsical Designs & Simple Techniques.

Tonye is a quilt designer who lives in Camp Sherman, Oregon.  She also maintains a studio in Sisters just a few blocks away from the Stitchin' Post quilt shop.  Her greatest love is needle-turn applique and hand quilting which you'll find in most of her quilts.  Tonye often collaborates with the painter Kathy Deggendorfer and their artwork can be found in the High Desert Gallery in Bend.

Take a few minutes to enjoy the folk-art quilts full of applique flowers and eclectic array of fabrics.  And remember, always have your camera with you.  You never know what you might find.

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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

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John Flynn, a good friend to TQS and fishing buddy to Alex, was the featured quilter at this year's Road to California quilt show. John had his own exhibit and spent some time hanging out there, hand quilting, while his fans watched. These quilts are from different periods in John's career. You can learn more about John in Show 410: Feathers, Pickles, and Gifts.