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Showing your quilts - Getting the best picture

Friday, November 9, 2007

Part three of a four part series about entering quilt shows, the jurying and judging process. This series is based on my experiences at quilt shows and classes I’ve taken about the quilt judging process. Next to good workmanship and striking design, it’s a great picture that will help your work get noticed and accepted [...]

Showing your quilts - Where to enter

Thursday, October 18, 2007

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Part two of a four part series about entering quilt shows, the jurying and judging process. This series is based on my experiences at quilt shows and classes I’ve taken about the quilt judging process. Once you’ve decided to take the plunge and show your quilts, how do you know where to enter your work? [...]

Showing your quilts - Why do it?

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

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Part one of a four part series about entering quilt shows, the jurying and judging process. This series is based on my experiences at quilt shows and classes I’ve taken about the quilt judging process. I like the challenge of doing my best work on my show quilts I recently gave a lecture at a guild [...]

$100,000 Quilting Challenge

Sunday, September 23, 2007

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I’ve been following the $100,000 Quilting Challenge with interest since I heard about it earlier this year. A bit of background: Quilters enter their quilts in one of ten categories; 40 semi-finalist quilts are published in the $100,000 Quilting Challenge magazine, ten in each of four issues per year. From these 40 [...]

Symbolism and statements in quiltmaking

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

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The latest issue of American Quilter magazine was in my mailbox a couple of days ago. In it are lovely close-up pictures of the top prize winning quilts from the American Quilter’s Society Quilt Show in April. It’s definitely a page turner, and though I’ve seen other pictures of all of these quilts, [...]

Stars in My Hand

Sunday, June 24, 2007

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Stars in My Hand was awarded Best Machine Quilting at the Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta in May. The quilt has now gone into “retirement” to live with my Aunt and Uncle.