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The Quilt Show Newsletter - October 12, 2022

Winner Two Person Category - 2022 Birmingham Festival of Quilts, Basket Rendezvous Pattern Update Available, Marty Ornish Fixes Damaged Quilts, See 2021 PIQF Winner, FriXion Heat-Erasable Highlighters in Pretty Pastels, Memory Match, A Quilt of Valor Puzzle
Welcome to Wednesday - October 12, 2022
Featured Quilt - Winner Two Person Category at 2022 Birmingham Festival of Quilts

Golden Days by Mandy Johnson and Sandy Chandler was the winner of the Two Person Category at the 2022 Birmingham Festival of Quilts. The judges at the show felt the quilt was an "Expressive design piece - well done! Dramatic colour impact with fabulous perspective and depth, created with clever shading."

On how the quilt came about, the designers had this to say, "My first quilt started with a Jo Colwill kit which I personalised to celebrate life in Cornwall. I replaced some fabrics before creating a floral design along with butterflies. I hand painted the animals and designed the flora and fauna around the border to reflect the wildlife in our garden."
See The Quilt
Basket Rendezvous Pattern Update Available

Did you purchase a Basket Rendezvous Pattern or Kit? We have an update for you!
We recently realized that the Basket Handle Placement Template in the Basket Rendezvous pattern is not the one shown in Alex's original Basket Rendezvous quilt, and is a little shorter than she prefers. Alex made a second, taller template available, and you can download it by clicking on the button below.

The shorter template included in the pattern will also work, but Alex prefers the updated taller template as it will result in a look more true to her original quilt.
Get The New Template
Marty Ornish Does Damage Control With Antique Quilts
Spruce Up and Enliven Your Old Quilts

Our brand new show has Marty Ornish showing us how to stabilize and camouflage damage on antique quilts using doilies, bits of lace, tulle, buttons, beads, and other vintage textiles. Learn how you too can fix your old and damaged quilts with a little help from Marty.

Learn from Marty, and Blair Stocker, by watching Upcycling Vintage Textiles and Zipper Work with Marty Ornish | Chicken Scratch Embroidery with Blair Stocker.
Watch The Show
Alex is Out Today
No Alex LIVE Today

She'll be at the Pacific International Quilt Festival XXXI  (PIQF) taking photos which will be shared with all of The Quilt Show members. PIQF runs October 13-16, 2022 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. If you are in the neighborhood, you'll want to stop by this wonderful show now in its 31st year.

Click on See The Quilt to see the PIQF Best of Show 2021 created by Mariya Water and Gina Perkes-Tidwell called A Summer Christmas.
See The Quilt
New In The Store - FriXion Heat-Erasable Highlighters in Pretty Pastels!
Erase With Your Highlighter

The heat-erasable ink in Pilot FriXion Erasable Highlighters allows you to mark fabric, patterns, and instructions as needed, and then simply iron over markings to remove them.
See The Highlighters
Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game
How impressive is your time to finish Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game? Why not play again today and get an even better one?
Play Memory Match
The Quilt Show Puzzle: Stars and Stripes Are Forever
"Stars and Stripes" by Mark Lipinski

Mark's quilt, Stars and Stripes, was made for the Quilts of Valor (QOV) project that he participated in with Alex Anderson and Eleanor Burns for Iowa Public Television. The quilt was meant to be made in six hours by a beginning quilter, and the inspiration was Mark's Prisoner of War (POW) bracelet that he bought during the Vietnam War. The bracelet bore the name of the POW, J. Quincy Collins, and this quilt was eventually gifted to him as part of the Quilts of Valor program.

See more of Mark's quilts in Learn About Quilts of Valor and Quilt Labels with Mark Lipinski.
Go To Puzzle
See The Quilt
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