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| News from The Alliance Volume 47, February 9, 2011 |
Dear Alliance Members & Supporters,
Four weeks is plenty of time to make a 16" x 16" quilt! The postmark deadline for our 2011 contest "Alliances: People, Patterns, Passion" is coming up on March 7. We've received 5 entries in hand and have received some very intriguing and luscious photos of contest entries in progress. Last year's grand prize winner Jamie Fingal has posted her 2011 entry on her blog, "Twisted Sister: Art by Jamie Fingal"; Sandra Starley has also posted her 2011 entry on her blog " Textile Time Travel." I've posted a number of in-progress and finished photos from "Alliances" entrants Tracey Snyder-Stone, Gerry Krueger and Brenda Lopez on the AAQ Facebook page and on my personal FB page (Yvonne Porcella, Mary Kay Davis and Michael Michalski)."Like" the AAQ page and Friend me (Amy Milne) to see these gorgeous quilts. Here's a sneak peak from another winner from last year, Dana Lynch. Her "Heavenly Swirls" won 2nd prize in our "New from Old" contest and it was the very first quilt she's ever finished! Her "Alliances" entry is well underway and from the look of this detail it will not disappoint!   This year's theme, "Alliances: People, Patterns, Passion," is open-ended and celebrates cooperative relationships that work towards a common goal--you interpret this theme any way you choose. If you need some ideas see the Inspiration heading on the "Alliances" contest page on our website.
Important: This year's deadline is much earlier: March 7, 2011. The reason: all entries will be exhibited at the American Quilter's Society show in Paducah, April 27-30. Our grand prize winner this year will have their choice of any Handi Quilter quilting machine!! Visit the for full details and the downloadable entry form. Our generous sponsors: Handi Quilter, Moda Fabrics, EZ Quilting, Simplicity Creative Group, Quilting Arts, AURIfil, AccuQuilt, Attached Inc./Mistyfuse, The Electric Quilt Company, The Quilt Show.com, Fons & Porter, Quilters Club of America, Dharma Trading Company, Riversilks, C&T Publishing, Spoonflower, Quilters Newsletter, Quilt Album Darlene Zimmerman, Westminster Fibers, FreeSpirit, Rowan, American Quilter's Society Original Sewing & Quilt Expo, and VoiceQuilt.Will you help us promote the "Alliances" contest?If you have a blog, a website or a Facebook page, please help us spread the news. You can download the contest logo above (PC users, right click and choose "Save Image As", Mac users, drag image to desktop), and feel free to use any of the text here. Send your readers to this link: http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/projects/galleries/Alliances/guidelines/. Thanks for your help!
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 | Please Save the Date for our special events in New York City Saturday, August 6, 2011. Presenters include Marianne Fons, Mark Lipinski and Jodie Davis.
Full details to be announced soon!
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Quilt Index To Go is Here!
Get or gift your copy now for only $.99 and support the Quilt Index | |
 Whether you're an avid Quilt Index user, a newbie or even a total stranger to www.quiltindex.org, now you can enjoy this incredible, easy-to-use resource on the road. The app is now available for iPhone, iTouch and iPad users for $.99 a copy, and all funds raised by the app will go towards sustaining and improving the project.
When you launch Quilt Index To Go you will see the Quilt of the Day, chosen from more than 50,000 quilt images in the QI repository. Below the image you will see the title, maker, date range and the contributor and you will have the option to select "More Info" to see the basic display on this quilt record. Click on More Quilts and you can browse through as many quilts as you want one by one, taking you on a virtual tour of collections from contributors like the DAR Museum, the Hawaiian Quilt Research Project and the National Quilt Museum. (Then you can hop over to your GPS app to make plans to visit our museum partners in person!).
If you're not an Apple user, but want to treat a friend, just search for Quilt Index To Go in the iTunes store and select "Gift This App." Quilt Index To Go was programmed at MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University, a research and outreach center. The Quilt Index is a partnership project of MATRIX, the AAQ and the Michigan State University Museum. For information on how you or your organization can become a contributor to the Quilt Index visit www.quiltindex.org/docs/letter_Feb2008.pdf. |
New Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories Interviews Online
Don't miss these new interviews with quiltmakers in Washington, D.C., Maine, Colorado and Michigan
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| New Q.S.O.S. interviews posted this month
 | | Mary Jo Dolphin, 2010 Daughters of Dorcas Q.S.O.S. interviewee |
include four from the Daughters of Dorcas Q.S.O.S., a sub-project started by volunteer Evelyn Salinger in 2002. Evelyn has conducted 47 Q.S.O.S. interviews--25 of them with the Daughters of Dorcas, a quilting group founded by the late Viola Williams Canady that meets at the Calvary Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.
Alice Dove
Shirley T. Hodge
Camille Carter Gorham
Mary Jo Dolphin
 | | David White, 2010 Colorado Q.S.O.S. interviewee |
Q.S.O.S. volunteer Jeanne Wright from Windham Maine has three new interviews posted:
Khristine LaChance
David White
Joanne (Jody) Bingham
 | | Linda Uldriks, 2010 South Central Michigan Q.S.O.S. interviewee |
Eleanor Wilkinson, Q.S.O.S. Volunteer from the South Central Michigan project contributed two new interviews:
Linda Uldriks
Barbara Miller |
Membership Update (December 10 - February 9, 2010)
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| We'd like to welcome these new members--thank you for your support!
Business members: AccuQuilt, Indygo Junction, Brookshier Design Studio. New individual members:
Catherine Fennell, Cathy Kizerian, Judith Hill, Bonnie Connor, Dee Motto, Norma Bradley, Lisa Quintana, Sheila Kramer, Felisa Lyons, Carole Lyles Shaw, Suzanne Hardebeck, Jeanne Schulte, Wen Redmond, Jillian Holston, Trina Weller, Rose Szabo, AnnLouise Pugh, Linda Conway, Clairellen McLaughlin, Lisa Shepard Stewart, Maralyn Claycomb, Carol Williams, Brenda Lopez, Donna Riffell, Nita Markos, Karin Peirce, John Kubiniec, Karen Loprete, Jan Sturtevant, Catherine Labath, Hollis Schlacter Lowe
And send a big thank you also to these renewing members:
Meg Cox, Laura Lewis Mandeles, Olga McLaren, Elaine Zinn, Linda Gass, Marilyn Woodin, Wendye Ware, Billie McLean, Shelley Bazinet, Lynda Chenoweth, Paula Nadelstern, Evie Naranjo, B. J. Adams, Pansy Lovelace, Shari Pierce, Diana Ramsay
 AAQ Members ensure that the stories of today's quilts and their makers are documented, preserved and shared for generations to come. Join today--individual memberships start at $25--with our secure online payment form or by mailing in your membership form. Business memberships start at $125. Visit http://www.allianceforamericanquilts.org/support. . |
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