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Textile Talks: Quilt Story Road Trip, presented by Quilt Alliance

Presented by the Quilt Alliance​: "Join us for an hour of diverse quilt stories from across the country! Dive into bite-size videos from the Quilt Alliance’s Go Tell It! project, featuring one person sharing one quilt for three minutes. We’ll hear from quilters throughout the United States, and learn about documenting and sharing your own quilt story in a Go Tell It! video.​" Register today and watch when this episode airs TODAY, October 9, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.

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Quilters Take a Moment 2024: Sustainable Routines for Quilt Documentation with Jenni Grover

Quilters Take a Moment (QTM), the annual fundraiser for the Quilt Alliance is less than one week away. Taking place on on Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21, 2024, there will be six different workshops that you can take part in across the weekend. The sixth one from the Quilt Alliance is Sustainable Routines for Quilt Documentation with Jenni Grover.

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Quilters Take a Moment 2024: Documentation as Creative Practice with Hannah Parks

Quilters Take a Moment (QTM), the annual fundraiser for the Quilt Alliance is one week away. Taking place on on Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21, 2024, there will be six different workshops that you can take part in across the weekend. The fifth workshop featured by the Quilt Alliance is Documentation as Creative Practice with Hannah Parks.

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Quilters Take a Moment 2024: Video As A Tool For Documenting Your Quilts with Lyric Montgomery Kinard​

Quilters Take a Moment (QTM), the annual fundraiser for the Quilt Alliance is less than two weeks away. Taking place on on Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21, 2024, there will be six different workshops that you can take part in across the weekend. The fourth one featured by the Quilt Alliance is Video As A Tool For Documenting Your Quilts with Lyric Montgomery Kinard.

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Quilters Take a Moment 2024: Documenting Your Guild or Group with A’donna Richardson​

Quilters Take a Moment (QTM), the annual fundraiser for the Quilt Alliance is two weeks away. Taking place on on Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21, 2024, there will be six different workshops that you can take part in across the weekend. The third being highlighted by the Quilt Alliance is Documenting Your Guild or Group with A’donna Richardson​.

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Quilters Take a Moment 2024: An Archive of Your Own - Using Spreadsheets to Describe and Catalog Your Quilts Taught by Rachel Ivy Clarke​

Quilters Take a Moment (QTM), the annual fundraiser for the Quilt Alliance is less than three weeks away. Taking place on on Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21, 2024, there will be six different workshops that you can take part in across the weekend. The second being highlighted by the Quilt Alliance is Using Spreadsheets to Describe and Catalog Your Quilts, taught by Rachel Ivy Clarke​.

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Quilters Take a Moment 2024: Telling the Story of Your Quilt Through Photography with Kitty Wilkin

Quilters Take a Moment (QTM), the annual fundraiser for the Quilt Alliance will be here before you know it. Taking place on on Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21, 2024, there will be six different workshops that you can take part in across the weekend. TQS will be highlighting these to give you a better idea of what to expect. The first is Telling the Story of Your Quilt Through Photography with Kitty Wilkin.

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Go Tell It! Interview with Kathy York​

This week we return to the Go Tell It at the Quilt Show series from the Quilt Alliance and are introduced to Kathy York's quilt, i Quilt, which took home Best in Show at QuiltCon 2015. It is a two-sided quilt, and both sides have a story of why they were constructed the way they were.

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Quilters Take a Moment 2024 Registration is Open​

Quilters Take a Moment (QTM), the annual fundraiser and "virtual educational series created to help you document, track, and organize your quilts," is coming back. Register for your tickets now and come back and watch all the events when QTM takes place on Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21, 2024. Click through to find out all that is going on at this annual event put on by the Quilt Alliance.

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Go Tell It! Interview with Michele Muska​

Find out why Quilters Hall of Fame member Merikay Waldvogel found this quilt so interesting as Michele Muska talks about the quilt her Aunt Sadie made in the 1930s in another "Go Tell It" interview from the Quilt Alliance.

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Go Tell It! Interview with Linda M. Roy

It's always interesting when a quilter talks about her quilt, and in this "Go Tell It" interview from the Quilt Alliance, Linda M. Roy talks about Redbud Ramble, a very "decorated quilt", including a NACQJ award in 2019, Best of Show AQS Knoxville 2011, and more.

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Go Tell It! Interview with Frances O'Roark Dowell

Learn how bestselling and critically acclaimed author Frances O'Roark Dowell was inspired by another artist to make her quilt, Sit-In. See how her work changed as she began to explore different design options in this "Go Tell It" video from the Quilt Alliance.

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Textile Talks: Go Tell It! at QuiltCon - Quilt Stories from the Show Floor 2013-2024​, presented by the Quilt Alliance

Presented by the Quilt Alliance"The first QuiltCon was presented by the Modern Quilt Guild in 2013 and the Quilt Alliance was there documenting quilts and makers with a brand new video documentation project called Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! The annual show has provided a great opportunity to document the changes in both modern quilting and the show itself. Join QA Project Manager Emma Parker for a guided tour of the QuiltCon Go Tell It! collection including brand new videos from the 2024 show in Raleigh. Modern Quilt Guild Executive Director Karen Cooper will join Emma for a Q&A after the screening.​" Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.

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Announcing the 2024 Ardis James QSOS Scholars

From the Quilt Alliance"The Ardis James QSOS Scholars program funds educational and creative work that makes use of the Quilters’ Save Our Stories archive of more than 1,200 recorded oral histories with quiltmakers. This year, we had a tremendous response from artists, researchers, writers and scholars proposing a range of projects. We are excited to announce that this year’s Ardis James QSOS Scholars are..." Was it you or someone you know? Click through to find out who was awarded.

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Things to Do Over International Quilting Weekend 2024

National Quilting Day is this Saturday, March 16, 2024, but here at The Quilt Show, we like to celebrate all weekend long.

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Document Your Quilt Over International Quilting Weekend

Celebrate at the National Quilt Musuem by documenting your Quilt on March 15 & 16, 2024! Choose a time slot, bring 1 or 2 quilts to be assessed and documented to the Kentucky Quilt Registry and record a 3-minute video for the “Go Tell It!” project.

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Textile Talks: QSOS Interview with Annie Ruth Ware Brown conducted by A’donna Richardson, presented by Quilt Alliance

Presented by the Quilt Alliance"Join the Quilt Alliance for the third interview in our yearlong QSOS 25th Anniversary Impact series on Textile Talks. Episode 3 features an interview with artist Annie Ruth Ware Brown conducted by fellow quiltmaker and historian A’donna Richardson for the Quilters’ Save Our Stories project (QSOS).​" Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, February 28, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.

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The Running Stitch Podcast: The Rotary Cutter with Kristin Barrus

The Running Stitch Podcast is back and on the move again. Now in Season 4, we wanted to highlight the most recent episode because it got a ringing endorsement from two-time TQS guest Victoria Findlay Wolfe (who herself was the very first guest in Season One of the podcast). She says of the episode, all about the rotary cutter, "I enjoyed this “Running Stitch” podcast episode on the history of rotary cutters… have a listen! It’s good info to know (and) understand, I’m pretty happy to not be hand drafting and cutting templates from Cheerio boxes anymore…" Click through to learn more about the episode, and the podcast as a whole.

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The Quilter On Fire Podcast with Guest Amy Milne

From The Quilter on Fire, "My guest today is Amy Milne. She is the Executive Director of the Quilt Alliance. This organization cares so much about quilts. I don't even know where to start. They have documented tens of thousands of quilts, recorded 1500 stories, and made millions of quilters happy by saving and sharing this information. So let's explore the story of the Quilt Alliance with Amy Milne."

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The 30th Anniversary Quilt Alliance BOM - Month 9 Designed by Georgia Bonesteel

From the Quilt Alliance"Our final block of the 30th Anniversary Block of the Month is out today! This stunner of a block from the legendary Georgia Bonesteel will build on your skills from the first months and is a fun challenge for the end of the year." Click through to take a look at the Month 9 block and how you can join in on the fun!

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