June 2016
Quilt Alliance eBurst
We're saving your place in quilt history!
Playing Favorites Contest Winners Announced
The 2016 Quilt Alliance quilt contest winners have been announced. Margaret Cibulsky of Port Washington, New York, is the winner of this year's Handi Quilter Grand Prize. Her quilt "My Garden," pictured at left, was made with improvisational piecing and machine detail. "The whole style of this quilt was an experiment," says Cibulsky in her artist's statement. "While my favorite way to make a quilt is improvisational piecing, I had never used this technique with the intention of using my work as the background for a natural scene. Another first was the free-cut blooms which I attached with raw-edge appliqu� and then using some fancy stitches on my machine to create greenery. All in all, this little quilt is one of my favorites!" Read more.
Go Tell It at the Quilt Guild!
Have you ever watched a Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! video and thought "Hey! I have a quilt with a great story to tell"? Or thought of a friend's incredible work of art, or a family heirloom whose history you want to preserve? 

Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! with Carol Beck
With help from a generous grant from the International Quilt Association, we're taking Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! to the streets! Starting this summer, the Quilt Alliance is piloting a new outreach project--Go Tell It at the Quilt Guild! It's open to guilds, community groups, museums, or anyone with a quilt story to share.

Groups interested in documenting their stories can receive free Go Tell It! training materials, rent an equipment kit with everything needed to document quilt stories, or, for a fee, bring Quilt Alliance staff on site to capture Go Tell It interviews with a group. The program makes it easy to document quilts and quiltmakers, producing video interviews that can be shared and preserved for generations to come. Here's a video from a recent visit to the African American Quilt Circle of Durham, NC of member Carol Beck sharing her haunting quilt 'Strange Fruit'.

And here is an interview collected on National Quilting Day at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with Judy Irvin and a family quilt she brought to the museum.

If your guild or community is interested in capturing and sharing the stories of your quilts, whether they're old or new, 3D art quilts or well-worn bed quilts, hand-sewn or long-armed, get in touch! We'd love to hear from you--just send us an email at qsos@quiltalliance.org.


Don't Miss the 2016 Quilters Dream Weekend in NYC
Tickets are still available for these 2016 QTM Add-On Events:
- After Dark Pizza Party
- Garment district tours with RaNae Merrill or Diane Rode Schneck
- The City Quilter Scavenger Hunt
- Museum Tours:
-The Musuem at FIT 
- American Folks Art Museum Center in Long Island City, Queens
-Whitney Museum of American Art - 9/11 Memorial Museum
- Brooklyn Museum of Art 
-Sunday with Sponsors!
Full details and ticket sales here.

Not able to make it to the Big Apple this year? 
Did you know for only $30 (Quilt Alliance members/ $35 nonmembers), Home Ticket holders will receive the QTM Goody Bag, packed with samples and treats from all of our sponsors, and a chance to win select door prizes. Home Ticket holders will also receive priority access to online video of our Quilt Match Manhattan challenge and our Sunday with Sponsors event (sent via email link 2 weeks after event). Order your Moda Home Ticket today.
 
QTM goody bag
Goody bag for QTM 2012.
Who will be the Feather Weight Champion of the Worrrrrld?
One of the funnest segments of the QTM Main Event at the Fashion Institute of Technology is Quilt Match ManhattanThree daring quilters: Aleeda Crawley, Chris Dodsley and Mary Fons, will battle for the title "Feather-Weight Champion of the Worrrld!" Each contestant will have one hour to design a Manhattan MasterPiece. The Champion will win a custom-made title belt made by Frances Holliday Alford and the ultimate bragging rights. Moda Home Ticket video footage will include coverage of Quilt Match Manhattan!



Join and renew today to help us save the stories.

Vacation time is upon us and we hope you are getting in lots of quilting time! 

If you are not already a Quilt Alliance member, make the plunge this summer! Membership rates are very affordable (way less than you probably spend on fabric, my friends!). Please join or renew today securely via our website or mail-in form. 

Thank you to all members who joined or renewed since April 7, 2016. See this list of new and renewing members!

Thank you to these Business Members!
for recently renewing or beginning 
their support!
 

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