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This January, I’m all about soup. You see, I ate a little too much of this kind of thing while on vacation in Mexico: (the best chicken and mole I’ve ever had in my life) I received a glorious Le Creuset ® French oven for Christmas (basically, a big cast iron sauce pan)... a nd it’s...
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The August/September issue is on the newsstands! Another beautiful cover! It's so colorful...so summery. Check out the cover quilt, made by Frances Holliday Alford, on page 15 and see how she created it. It makes me smile just looking at it. And have you looked inside? We have Ethically Ethnic Cuffs...
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We were thrilled to receive our office copies of the 2010 calendars! Not only is the gorgeous Quilting Arts 2010 Calendar now available, but you will also want to check out the first-ever Cloth Paper Scissors calendar ! Both calendars look beautiful, so we must thank all of you who participated in the...
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Winners of the Sidewinders To recap, last week I asked you which fruit or vegetable was the most popular entry depicted in thread and fabric for our "Fresh Picked" 2010 Quilting Arts Calendar contest. The five choices I gave were: Apples Pears Tomatoes Oranges Pumpkins If you answered pears...
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Out of all of the reader challenges we have hosted over the years, our "Fresh Picked" 2010 Quilting Arts Calendar contest produced the most fantastic results we have seen to date. They were outstanding. It bears repeating: They were oustanding! We received 314 entries, a record for our calendar...
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Thanks to everyone who participated in our first-ever calendar contest for Cloth Paper Scissors. Interpretations for the theme, “Life is a box of______”, ran the gamut but the most popular responses illustrated with thread, glue, paper, and ephemera were: 1. Life is a box of crayons 2. Life...
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I want to send a heartfelt thanks to everyone who stepped up and answered my burning question. I am blown away by the sheer number of responses and in awe of all the diverse gadgetry you have in your stashes! And now what I really want to know is… when are you going to invite me over to play? If you...
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Okay, dear blog readers, it’s that time of year again to announce our Quilting Arts Calendar finalists. (I know it seems a little early to be thinking about 2009, but welcome to my world!) With this year’s theme, “Celebrating Home,” we received 243 entries from around the globe, and many of these entries...
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Above: Debbi Crane, Patricia (Pokey) Bolton, Cheryl Prater Thanks to everyone who came by MIU in Chicago last week! Between a flooded basement (came home to two feet of water) and a head cold, I'm just a tad beat, but I'm still laughing as I think about all the shenanigans that happened in Chicago...
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If you submitted ATCs for the blog swap in May, I’ll be sending mine to you in mid-July. So sorry it’s taken me a couple of months, but we’ve had a rather intense publishing schedule for both May and June. I also might have missed some people for the Grant of Rights forms, and I’ll send those along in...
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Today's the day we posted the finalists on the Quilting Arts website , and we do it with mixed emotions. With more than 130 submissions, we were simply blown away this year, and the decision to narrow them down to the following was extremely difficult. We're genuinely thrilled for those who finaled...
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We returned from Chicago late Sunday night/ Monday morning, and three days later we’ve finally chiseled our tired, groggy selves off the floor. Thanks so much to everybody who joined us in Chicago last week. We were stunned by the sheer number of people interested in taking the workshops, and we’re eager...
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More than 2000 pounds and 80 boxes later, we’re on our way to Chicago for the International Quilt Festival/Spring. I don't know who's more shocked by this record-setting shipment––the dog or the UPS guy. I will try (key word being "try") to upload pictures of Chicago while we're...