The Salt Creek Quilt Guild will have its biannual quilt show next weekend at the Community House in Hinsdale. A fabulous show with over 350 quilts. Don’t miss it!!! Salt Creek Quilt Guild Quilt Show 2006 March 4 and 5, 2006 9 am to 5 pm The Community House in Hinsdale 415 W. Eighth Street [...]
I think that most people don’t realize that a cadre of volunteers make most of what The Alliance does happen. At this time, I would like to single out one volunteer from Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories project. Evelyn Salinger has personally conducted and transcribed over 30 interviews and 21 of those interviews have [...]
This is a quilt from the Tusheti region (northeast) of Georgia in the village Dartlo. It was made by Sido Chabukaidze to hang on the wall of her home. It is now in the care of her son Tengiz Miszashvili in Tbilisi. It was an amazing find of Nino Kipshidze’s in response to my plea [...]
I will be at the Pride of the Prairie Quilt Show at Plainfield Central High High, 611 Fort Begg’s Drive, Plainfield, Illinois on March 11 (9-5) and 12 (11-4) if you are in the area please stop by. I will have a small display of Georgian quilts including their newest group quilt. POP has generously [...]
From Alliance member Del Thomas- A special exhibit of quilts from the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection will be shown at the East Bay Heritage Quilters quilt show, March 11 – 12, at the Oakland Convention Center, Oakland, California. This is part of the EBHQ QShow and they have four quilts from the Collection shown on [...]
The Eiteljorg Museum is one of my favorite places to visit when I am in Indianapolis. I highly recommend visiting if you ever get the chance. I’m certainly going to try to make it to the quilt exhibit! Hope to see you there too. Karen February 24, 2006 – April 23, 2006 Great Lakes Native [...]
The Tri-Cities Quilters’ Guild (www.tcquilter.ourwest.com/frame/html) will hold a quilt show on Friday, March 24 and Saturday March 25, 2006 at the TRAC facility in Pasco, Washington. The hours will be Friday from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Additional information can be found on the guild’s website. Enjoy! [...]
“Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers, ” public lecture by Dr. Patricia Cox Crews, February 16, 2006, 12:00 noon at the Museum of Nebraska History, 15th and P Streets, Lincoln, Nebraska. Please check it out if you’re in the area. Karen