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AQS Patchwork Quilting Summer Show
The American Quilt Society no sooner has closed their doors on their annual Paducah, KY, show and they are announcing their Summer Patchwork Quilting Show!
AQS Quilt Show & Contest- Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville Convention Center
July 14-17, 2010
The AQS Quilt Show & Contest will be held July 14 – 17, 2010 (Wednesday – Saturday), at the Knoxville Convention Center, Knoxville, Tennessee. Read the rest of this entry »
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Patchwork Quilting with Lucille Ball!
While Lucy was made to do many things in her “I Love Lucy” career as far as I know Lucille Ball did not do patchwork quilting.
BUT she has been memorialized in many ways, INCLUDING patchwork quilting! I know because I made this quilt! She is made of entirely raw edged applique and done entirely by machine. Even her “binding”, which we will be discussing shortly, because I promised and forgot, is entirely raw edged!
Lucy brought me lots of compliments over the years as she presided over the game room in our last home… Lisa, eat your heart our, maybe one day she will belong to YOU! <wink, wink>
I brought this out to share with all of you on the anniversary of Lucille Ball’s death, April 26th, 1989. Gone, but certainly NOT forgotten!
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Patchwork Quilting Trail on the Road Again
Indulge me today… my kitchen is decorated using primitive chickens as an accessory… not cutesy chickens, not just any chickens… so I just loved it when I saw a barn that featured an apparently appliquéd chicken quilt! You do NOT see many of these! You can simply CLICK on the PICTURE to see the entire barn…
Hope you are having a absolutely lovely Sunday! It was supposed to be dreary & thunderstorm all day today here in Virginia, and we lucked out and the sun is even out now! YAY!
See you tomorrow for some “electrifying” NEWS!
Patchwork Quilting is BIG Business in Paducah!
You don’t think patchwork quilting is a BIG deal in Paducah, KY? Well it takes a video just to let you know how and where to get around for the AQS show! LOL! BUT its worth it! It’s one of the BEST shows of the YEAR & the WHOLE town of Paducah opens its doors to the quilters!
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Paducah Patchwork QUILTING!
Well its cold and ugly here this morning… raining… just not a pretty day. BUT, grab a nice warm cup of steaming freshly brewed coffee and enjoy this tour of Paducah through its patchwork quilting! It’s supposed to be raining there today too… so enjoy this quilt show without getting WET! Thanks to Bob for a wonderful show!
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Patchwork Quilting in Paducah!
Since I cannot be in Paducah this year I am going to live vicariously through the following video & share it with YOU! I WAS in Paducah the year Caryl (who is an absolutely WONDERUL person and FABULOUS patchwork quilting artist) won Best of Show. I will never forget walking through the center doors into the Executive Inn Exhibit Hall and seeing her quilt… MAGNIFICENT! So spend a couple minutes… in Paducah, and with Caryl, this morning!
p.s. its really not hard to quilt your handwriting into your quilts… it became one of my signature touches in my art quilts, I journal onto the quilt, dropping the feeddogs, and freehand quilting as I go…. you can do it too! It just takes practice!
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Pathwork Quilting; the ULTIMATE Green Hobby!
Patchwork Quilting has LONG been known as a hobby that attracts the frugal amongst us. Today is Earth Day, and today we CELEBRATE the fact that WE have ALWAYS been GREEN! Quilters are notorious for using up each and EVERY scrap of fabric they can! Scrap quilts, which have been around forever, are a testament to YOUR thriftiness!
Not using YOUR scraps? Be sure to check out all our posts on English Paper Piecing! It not only helps you use up all those scraps, but its a GREAT excuse to SWAP them with friends! I have even done it with friends online! So not using YOUR scraps but might feel more inspired by someone elses? If it works, DO it! Start a charm quilt today!
Recommended Viewing: (the site is in French but that doesn’t hinder us from enjoying her “Green” Baby Block quilt! You can print off the pattern right here on Patchwork Quilt!
- Quilt d’automne – les cubes ou Baby Blocks « Chambre des couleurs – Récemment, je l’ai repris et en lui jetant un regard neuf, j’ai décidé de le terminer, je lui ai donc ajouté une bordure et je viens de finir de le quilter. Il est composé de beaucoup de tissus sombres, mais avec des jaunes et orangés pour tenter de mettre un peu d’éclats de lumière dans une gamme de couleur faisant la part belle aux marrons foncés. Il mesure 1,75 x 2,25, comporte 219 cubes, chacun composé des 3 losanges, soit au total 657 tissus différents de ma collection dans les bruns, beiges, gris, bordeaux et jaunes.
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The Patchwork Quilting Trail goes to PADUCAH!
This particular barn made me think of patchwork quilting in the SPRING! For many years that meant gathering up all my friends and heading off to Paducah Kentucky for the big AQS Quilt SHOW! Well it opens TOMORROW! No, I won’t be there this year, and neither, I understand, will it be held in the Executive Inn, which has been closed awaiting renovating into some other life.
Some other life… and lifetime… I absolutely loved going to the Paducah show! We stayed right in the Executive Inn, having worked our way through what was then a lottery system and stayed there year after year. It was fun to be right amongst the action! They used to hold the Fairfield Fashion show in the courtyard where we always had rooms and we would watch from our two room “suite” hosting a cocktail party while enjoying the show! During those years I went from watching in awe, to modeling, to actually designing garments for the Fairfield Fashion Show for five (5) years! I also loved exhibiting my work in the show as well as helping friends in the vendor’s mall… we did it all, and miss it all! So we will ALL watch with baited breath to see what quilt wins Best of Show tomorrow!
If YOU attend we would LOVE to see pics and hear all about it firsthand!
- April 21-24 – AQS Paducah Quilt Show And Contest | Hello Kentucky – The next Paducah quilt show will be held April 21 – 24, 2010, from 7:00 am – 5:00 pm, at the Paducah Expo Center, Julian Carroll Convention Center, and the.
Hitting the Patchwork Quilting Trail
Patchwork Quilting Barns, and whole patchwork quilting trails, continue to pop up around America!
I just learned of one that was JUST launched in South Carolina! Be SURE to read all about it BELOW!
- Carolina Arts Unleashed » Blog Archive » Launch of National Quilt … – The public is invited to the dedication of the Oconee Heritage Quilt Trail (OHQT) on Tuesday, February 16, 2010. The dedication will begin at 4 p.m. at Keowee Elementary School located on Keowee School Road. …
Patchwork Quilting Trail
Patchwork quilting strikes again!
8 Pointed Stars adorn this magnificent red barn in the heartland of America!
Recommended Reading for MORE patchwork quilting trail barns:
- The Clothesline of Quilts – Ok, I’m finally making time to talk a little about the barn quilt project I’ve mentioned a couple of times. I’d really hoped to find a single website that had all sorts of information on the entire nation-wide projected gathered in one …
