Saving your place in quilt history! eBurst/March 20, 2014
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Founders &
Board
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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
Nancy Bavor
Jodie Davis
Brenda Groelz
Marin Hanson
Luke Haynes
Amy Henderson
Leslie Tucker Jenison
Mark Kornbluh
Mark Lipinski
Pauline Macaulay
Michele Muska
Steve Nabity
Dean Rehberger
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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 Upcoming Events & Opportunities
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Deadline: June 1, 2014
2014 Quilt Contest
September 19-21, 2014
Quilters Take Manhattan
F.I.T. in New York City
 July 18, 2015
Our second educational conference Herndon, Virginia
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Blog Break
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Perfect reading for your next coffee break.
On This Day in History Quilt Series
Amy Milne matches a historical event with a quilt from The Quilt Index--weekdays. 
Q.S.O.S. Spotlight
Emma Parker shines a light on her favs from the Q.S.O.S. oral history collection--weekends.
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Spring is here!!
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The daffodils are finally blooming in the Blue Ridge Mountains! It's been a long winter for most of us Northern Hemisphere folks, and while I'm sure a *lot* of quilts were born while the wind whistled outside, it's time to peek out of our cozy cabins and come together. The party planning crew has been hard at work since the fall to create the best Quilters Take Manhattan event ever. Read below to see how feedback from last year's attendees shaped the exciting offerings we've put together for the 2014 event.  My colleague Debby Josephs has no sooner cleared a spot in our office for this year's contest quilts, before they started to arrive. Jodi Scaltreto of Hillsboro, New Hampshire sent in the first entry for the 2014 "Inspired By" contest. Jodi was our first entrant in the 2011 contest too (see her "Flower Fairies" above) I am in awe of her motivation (and creativity)! Watch a video by Mark Lipinski, below, to jump start your own entry. Here's to spring and to inspiration--let the defrost begin!
Sincerely,   Amy Milne, executive director
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Quilters Take Manhattan 2014 Ticket Sales Now Open to the Public
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Is this is your year to celebrate with quilting friends in the Big Apple? Ticket sales for the Quilt Alliance's biggest annual fundraising event in the heart of New York City are now on sale! Our main event at the Fashion Institute of Technology will be longer this year, from 10 am until 5 pm on Saturday, September 20. We are thrilled to have Amy Butler as our keynote speaker and MODA/United Notions CEO Mark Dunn will share a trunk show of special quilts from his private collection. The hall will be jam-packed with quilts, vendors, make and take activities, refreshments (including an optional boxed lunch) and moving to the FIT this year, our Quilt Match Manhattan quilt design competition. 2014 contenders are: Allie Aller, Lisa Sipes and John Kubiniec. Come cheer for your favorite as they vie for the title of Quilting Weight Champion of the Worrrrrrrld and the coveted Quilt Match Manhattan Championship Belt (custom made by artist Frances Holliday Alford, embellisher extraordinaire)! 
QTM 2014 Keynote Speaker: Amy Butler
"Amy believes that through who we are and what we do, we can inspire great change in ourselves, each other, and in the world. That we can inspire those around us to become happier & more confident through discovering our own creativity. And with love, passion, and excitement, we can find true joy in every aspect of our lives."Everyone who buys a ticket to the FIT also has the option to register for these QTM Add-On Events: After Dark Networking Cocktail Party at the studio and home of Victoria Findlay Wolfe .
Workshops* at The City Quilter with Jodie Davis, Allie Aller, Michele Muska and Jamie Fingal. Garment District Tour* with Paula Nadelstern. High Line Park Tour with Meg Cox. Broadway outing led by Mark Lipinski to see Avenue Q. Behind the scenes tour of the Met. Museum's Renowned Textile Center with curator Amanda Peck. Q.S.O.S. Interviews with Lizzie B Cre8ive conducted by Mark Lipinski at The City Quilter. (free, but you must register)
*Early registrants have already nabbed all the tickets to Victoria Findlay Wolfe's in-studio workshop and Mark Lipinski's Garment District Tour. A few other Add-On Events are in the works. Stay tuned next week for an announcement on an additional Garment District tour and a workshop with Melanie Testa! Click here for full information about Quilters Take Manhattan events.  Can't make it to New York this year? Our Home Ticket is for you! Click here to purchase your Moda Home Ticket online or contact us. For $25 you'll receive first access to event video footage online, a packed event goody bag with samples and treats from all of our sponsors, and a chance to win select door prizes. | |
Joining or renewing in March is Just Duckie!
| If you've been planning to renew your membership or thinking of becoming a new member, March is your month.
Top Five Reasons to Renew/Join:
1. You care deeply about the documentation and preservation of the rich history of quilts and their makers.
2. You will receive Story Quarters, a new members-only e-journal.For sneak peaks into past and upcoming issues, see below.
3. You will receive discounts on ticketed events like Quilters Take Manhattan, and our Quilts & Oral history Conference in Herndon, VA (July 17-18, 2015).
4. You can enter our annual contest for only $5/entry. See below for more information.
5. You'll receive our new membership lapel pin, and if you join or renew your membership during March you'll receive a Quilting Duckie and books by Jodie Davis from Martingale press.
And all current members are entered in our Bi-Monthly Member Thank You Drawing. You could win an Aurifil thread collection!
Click here to join or renew online or via mail-in form today.
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Story Quarters--Are YOU subscribed?
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Our new members-only eJournal, Story Quarters, is set to go out to members at the end of this month. This electronic quarterly was created to invite our members to learn more about and get closer to our projects, initiatives and events. We're excited about featuring the work and words of our members, our volunteers and our partners and we hope you will regularly share your feedback on Story Quarters and contact us if you have an idea for a story or a series.
If you're not yet an Alliance member or you missed reading our 2013 issue, here's a recap: Volume 1, Issue 1 featured Alliance staff member, Emma Parker, shared her trip to the first QuiltCon, where she was interviewing quilters for the new Go Tell It! project. Alliance member Helen Kamphuis from the Netherlands told about her experiences as a Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories (Q.S.O.S.) interviewer during the 2011 International Quilt Festival. In a follow up to an On This Day in History Quilt blog post, we invited quilter Robin Berson to tell about her involvement with a quilt honoring the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911. Volume 1, Issue 2 broke the news of the first recipients of the Ardis James Q.S.O.S. Scholars Program: Barbara Brackman, Christine Humphrey and Merikay Waldvogel. Alliance charter member Virginia Vis, curatorial assistant at the DAR Museum in Washington, DC, contributed an article about her work at the DAR researching and entering data on the museum's quilts in the Quilt Index. We also asked members to help us select quilts for an Inspiration Gallery to introduce our 2014 quilt contest, Inspired By. Coming up in Volume 2, Issue 1: We are thrilled to have another article from Virginia Vis this quarter. "How to Make an Heirloom Quilt-a Textile Conservator's View" will show you how to make quilts that stand the test of time. Virginia also gives us a peak at a recent restoration project at the DAR Museum with impressive before and after photos (teaser photos below). We'll share the results of a two-year grant from the Ardis and Robert James Foundation, as well as our vision for upcoming work on the Q.S.O.S. and Go Tell It projects.  
Members who are up to date as of March 26 will receive the next Story Quarters via email. Join or renew today to be sure you don't miss this issue! Not sure of your membership renewal date? Just contact Debby at admin@quiltalliance.org or 828-251-7073.
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