Celebrating our 20th Anniversary Year eBurst/ March 23, 2013
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Founders &
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Karey Bresenhan
Nancy O'Bryant Puentes
Eunice Ray
Shelly Zegart
Meg Cox, President Mark Dunn, Vice-President Janneken Smucker, Secretary
Lisa Ellis, Treasurer
Kate Adams
Frances Holiday Alford Allie Aller Jodie Davis Brenda Groelz Marin Hanson Luke Haynes Amy Henderson Leslie Tucker Jenison Mark Kornbluh Mark Lipinski Carolyn L. Mazloomi Michele Muska Steve Nabity Dean Rehberger Marie Bostwick Alex Veronelli Victoria Findlay Wolfe Mary Worrall StaffAmy Milne, executive director Debby Josephs, office manager Emma Parker, project manager for Q.S.O.S. Contact us! |
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Renewing Members Katherine Adams Sheri Barnett Mary Chester Christine Clausen* Janet Coggins Marion Coleman Carol Drew Jane C. Dunham Sandi Goldman Jane Hall Karen Jordan Franki Kohler Fran Kordek* Christine Martinez Therese May* Crystal Peplinski Jessica Pigza Martha Sielman Dorothy Stish* *Charter Members
New Members
Susan Henyon Kisha Petticolas Rhonda Denney Rene Martinez |
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 Sneak a Peek at early TWENTY contest entries
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More Texas quiltmakers interviewed for Q.S.O.S.
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Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories (Q.S.O.S.), a Quilt Alliance project to document, preserve and share the oral histories of quiltmakers, has just released eight new interviews on its website, www.QuiltAlliance.org. The interviews were conducted in November 2011 during the International Quilt Festival (IQF) in Houston, Texas. All 63 of the artists interviewed for this Q.S.O.S. sub-project are featured in the book Lone Stars III: A Legacy of Texas Quilts, 1986-2011 by Karoline Patterson Bresenhan and Nancy O'Bryant Puentes two of the co-founders of the Quilt Alliance. Bresenhan and Patterson founded Quilts, Inc., producer of three consumer shows and two trade shows each year. Their book, the third in a series, includes two hundred traditional and art quilts that represent "the best of the best" quilts created in Texas since 1986. A companion exhibition of quilts featured in Lone Stars III was on display at IQF in 2011. The first eight IQF 2011 interviewees are Caryl Gaubatz, Janet Hartnell-Williams, Nancy Dickey, Michelle Settle, Maryann Littlejohn, Kay Marburger, EuJane Taylor and Jo Ann Hannah. More than fifty volunteers from across the United States and several other countries, served as interviewers, scribes, photographers and technical assistants during the interview process. Q.S.O.S. was launched in 1999 at IQF with the support of Quilt Alliance board members, including Bresenhan and Puentes. That first year, 51 interviews were collected at IQF by volunteers and since then the Q.S.O.S. project has grown to a collection of over 1,100 oral history interviews with quiltmakers, from hobbyists to professionals. The 2011 interviews were sponsored by Quilts, Inc., Moda Fabrics, ArtCall, Leslie Tucker Jenison and the Dinner at Eight Artists. Read the full press release here. |
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Labeling Kits Debut at QuiltCon
|  We were so proud to attend the very first QuiltCon last month in Austin, Texas. We met longtime members for the first time in person and signed up new members. Quilt shows are a great venue to test new products and this year, after many years of planning, the Quilt Alliance debuted it's first labeling kit. Labeling a quilt is possibly the most important step any quiltmaker or owner can take in documenting and preserving the history of a quilt.
Here's a clever label (below) made by Patricia Hobbs, who just sent in two quilts for our TWENTY contest (details on how you can enter here).
Many of today's quilters don't consider their work finished until the label is attached, others never label. Quilt Alliance board member Leslie Tucker Jenison did a great post on the Quilt Alliance blog recently about quilt labeling. She writes: "Labeling certainly does not have to be labor-intensive. I've come to the conclusion that creating a unique label is the equivalent to an "artist signature" on a painting: an opportunity to express my own creative mark on a finished creation."
The Quilt Alliance labeling kit (includes 12 all-cotton printed labels, a permanent fabric pen and our Quilt Labeling Instructions & Inspiration card) is only available as a benefit to our $125 level new and renewing members at this time. New and renewing $25 level members will receive a card containing one label.
In May, the kits will also be available from the Alliance website for $12, and soon, in local quilt shops. Proceeds will fund continuing product development, and eventually, other key Alliance efforts, such as Q.S.O.S.
Read more about it!
Etsy.com guest blog post by yours truly, Amy Milne about quilt labeling from.
Generation Q's blog post about our new labeling kits. Comment on this post on GenQ's blog by Monday and you might win one of our kits!
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February Membership Drawing
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We are very proud to partner with AURIfil to offer bi-monthly giveaways to our members.
Our February winner is Callie Lavoie of Wells, Maine. Congratulations, Callie and thank you for supporting the Alliance as a member and by donating a quilt to our contest last year!
All current (new and renewing) members qualify for bi-monthly Membership Drawings of AURifil thread collections (next drawing will be April 30).
And coming next month: our first ever, Members-Only newsletter. This special report, delivered electronically, will give our members more details on our experience at QuiltCon and a volunteer's perspective on recently posted Q.S.O.S. interviews done at the International Quilt Festival.
Join or renew now to take advantage of all of these benefits. Thank you! We couldn't do this work without your support and participation.
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Coming Soon:
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Next week, keep your eyes pealed for the first release of Go Tell It at the Quilt Show videos taken at QuiltCon! Best of Show winner (and Quilt Alliance board member) Victoria Findlay Wolfe, Jacquie Gering and Thomas Knauer were all interviewed for our new "one person, one quilt, one camera--three minutes" documentary project.
Happy Weekend, everyone!  Amy Milne Quilt Alliance Executive Director | |
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Not Fade Away: Sharing Quilt Stories in the Digital Age, in partnership with 
Quilters Take Manhattan
