Wednesday - 1950s Fun Night

Woweee - what an evening is planned for Wednesday evening at the Carson Four Rivers Center, 7 - 9 p.m. it's the 1950s Fun Night!


Charlotte Angotti


Do you remember the 1950s – the era of the Pop Rebellion with its Doo Wop music, Elvis Presley, and Chuck Berry? Funny lady Charlotte Angotti and show director Bonnie Browning will co-host the event. It will be a crazy evening with games - we'll refresh your memory with some trivia, dances, and also featuring the APQS Rebels (Jim Langland on the keyboard and Mark Caraher on vocals). You haven’t lived until you have seen Jim and Mark in action live on the stage. Yes, we bet Elvis will be in the building!


Bonnie Browning


Will you win the prize for the quilter in the best 1950s dress? Come dressed in 1950s’ style and vie for some prizes – think bobby socks, poodle skirts, blue jeans and white tucked-in T-shirts, pedal pushers, petticoats, saddle oxfords, and let’s not forget the pompadour and duck-tail hairdos.




Don’t miss this evening of fun, games, audience participation, and more. AccuQuilt has donated a "GO" machine to be given away, plus lots of other great prizes have been donated by sponsors and vendors. Be there or be square!
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Bus transportation will leave the AQS Bus Stop starting at 6:15pm and will return you to the bus stop at the conclusion of the presentation.
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Advance registration will be open until 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13... so there is still time to order your tickets... just click here to go to online registration or call 270-898-7903 and ask for the Registration Desk. Order #2204 Quilters’ 1950s Fun Night, $15.

Eve's Diary at the Paducah Quilt Show

Attend the AQS Awards Presentation on Tuesday, April 27, at 5:30 p.m. to enjoy Eve's Diary, adapted and performed by Gayle Stahlhuth, based on several of Mark Twain's stories and essays, including Eve's Diary, Extract from Eve's Diary, and Papers of the Adams Family. Life IS difficult to figure out without a dictionary!

Gayle Stahlhuth (performer/playwright) has performed off-Broadway, in national tours, regional theater, and radio. Her plays have been produced in NYC and regionally, including her own one-woman plays based on Louisa May Alcott, Catherine Beecher, Edna Ferber, and her own life, and many were written due to commissions. Since becoming Artistic Director of the East Lynn Theater Company (ELTC) in 1999, she has produced 57 different plays/musicals (some returned for another season), including 14 world premieres and 8 NJ premieres, and directed 31 of them.

She is a member of Actors' Equity Association, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Screen Actors build, and the Dramatists Guild.

Eve's Diary is one of East Lynne Theater Company's touring productions. This Equity professional company, founded in 1980, celebrates the American Spirit on Stage through timeless classics and provocative new works. ELTC operates all year long with the following programs: Mainstage Production Season in Cape May, NJ; touring Shows throughout the country; and Educational Outreach for all ages. The name "East Lynne" derives from an enduringly popular 19th-century American play.

To order tickets online to the Awards Presentation, click here; or call 270-898-7903 and ask for the Registration Desk.

Hidden Gems in the AQS Paducah Teacher Line-Up

Lucky you, if you haven’t yet chosen which classes to attend on your trip to the AQS Quilt Show and Contest – Paducah, April 27 – 30. Two amazing instructors still have openings in their classes, and their techniques will truly expand upon and improve your quiltmaking.

Called “Dilys the Quilt” per the custom of her Welsh homeland,  
Dilys Fronks has taught innovative quilt designs and techniques across the US and Europe for more than 20 years. Appearing in Paducah for the first time in several years, she will teach a positive/negative appliqué technique that she calls 2-4-1. That is, when you cut your appliqué shape 1 time, you get 2 possible blocks. “2 quilts for 1 effort” is another way to phrase it, as is the title of her very successful book, Dual Image Applique, (AQS, 2010). Dilys has an unusual way with color, too, so if spicing up your quilts and getting the most out of the time you spend quilting—2-4-1 style—then Dilys’s classes are not to be missed. Be happy you caught up with her while she’s in the US!

Sign up for these classes with Dilys:

3501: Hand Reverse Applique Using a Cast Iron Design

3503: Positive and Negative Hand Applique

3102: 2-4-1 Applique

3505: Template-free Hand Applique

Marianne Hatton hails from the Boston area now, but this native South African, a newly-minted U.S. citizen, brings an unmistakable continental flair to sampler quilts. Forget boring 6, 9, or 12 set quilts incarcerated by sashing and weighed down with cornerstones.

Marianne shows you how to make a dynamic sampler quilt quite simply by using a super simple grid. Mix and match blocks and go to town. Create themed quilts that look like landscapes—but the blocks are just as easy as any beginner sampler class! Create a memory quilt of a trip to Europe or bring your garden indoors. The sheer versatility of the process she explains in Simply Dynamic Sampler Quilts (AQS, 2010) will blow your mind in her very popular classes. Marianne doesn’t come South very often, so if you can snag a class with her this year, count yourself fortunate.

Spend a day learning these great techniques from Marianne:

5102: A Simply Dynamic Sampler Quilt!

7107: A Simply Dynamic Kaleidoscope!








Call 270-898-7903 or click here to register online.

Don't delay, advance registration closes at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13.

Winners - AQS It's In the Bag Contest

Thank you to all of the contestants who entered the AQS It's In the Bag Contest. All of the bags are donated to the National Quilt Museum and will be auctioned during the Paducah Quilt Show.

Here are the winners:

Best Bag in the Contest – Marilyn Fromherz, Calimesa, CA













Category #1 Purse - 1st Place Winner – Janet M Scovic, Paisley, Orlando, FL

Category #2 Tote Bag - 1st Place Winner – Maxine Parker, Strawberry Shortcake, Las Vegas, NV

Category #3 Bag Full of Pockets - 1st Place Winner – June Schwierjohn, Posies Full of Pockets, Alton, IL

Category #4 Functional Bag - 1st Place Winner – Jean Dodson, Melon Bag, Arlington, TX

Category #5 Embellished Bag - 1st Place Winner – Marilyn Fromherz, Marilyn Fromherz, Calimesa, CA

Category #6 Green Bag - 1st Place Winner – Irma Dempsey, Quilted Flour Sack Patchwork, Indianapolis, IN

Category #7 Specialty Bag - 1st Place Winner – LynDee Lombardo, Look Whooze Back in Town, Olympia, WA

No entries for Category #8

Bucket List of Rituals for Paducah

Attending the AQS Quilt Show in Paducah should be memorable. Here is a bucket list of the rituals every quilter should perform in Paducah…

• Attend the Awards Presentation on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.
• Be at the Annual Quilt Auction, either live at the Food Tent in front of the Convention Center or by attending the free live webcast
• Cast your vote for Viewer’s Choice in the Expo Center for large quilts, and on the 2nd floor of the Convention Center for the wall quilts
• Donate items to the Museum’s Annual Quilt Auction

• Eat southern barbeque, strawberry shortcake and other good eats in the Food Tent at the Convention Center
• Find the Hurt Book Sale and vendors at the Finkel Building
• Go see Klaudeen Hansen and collect autographs of quiltmakers at the Quilt Art Autograph Party
• Have a seat and enjoy the free demonstrations at the AQS Grandstand
• Increase your stash at the AQS Merchant Malls
• Join or renew your AQS membership at the show
• Keep your packages safe at the Package checks in the Atrium of the Convention Center and at the entrance of the Pavilion (hint: remember where you left them)
• Learn something new in a workshop or lecture in the AQS School of Quiltmaking
• Mail your postcards and letters with the AQS Show Cancellation Stamp and packages from the U.S. Post Office booth in the Convention Center
• Note all of the familiar faces you see at the show year after year
• Offer to be a white-gloved hostess/host and you’ll receive the collectible AQS volunteer pin
• Park yourself at the Quilter’s Park in the Expo Center or find a chair in the hallways of the Convention Center to give your feet a rest
• Quilt on charity quilts at the Build Quilts for Love booth #1124
• Ride the free shuttles to the AQS-sanctioned events: The National Quilt Museum and the 23rd Annual Rotary Antique Quilt Show and Vendor Mall

• Spend Friday evening at An Evening of Inspiration and Entertainment with Ricky Tims, sponsored by Ken’s Sewing Center
• Try out a new sewing machine – all of the manufacturers will have booths with models to test drive
• Update your calendar for entry deadlines for all of the AQS Quilt Contests – pick up the rules at the Workshop Desk
• View the movie, Stitched
• Watch the live AQS Webcasts online, sponsored by Pfaff
• Xerox your itinerary so you don’t miss a thing
• Y’all come back now, y’hear
• Zzzzz… don’t forget to get some rest

You can still register until April 13 at 3:00 p.m. (central time); your registration will be held for pickup at the Workshop Desk in the Paducah Expo Center – open on Tuesday from 12 to 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on show days.

Let us know how you do in completing the Paducah Bucket List!

Decorah Eaglets #1 and #2 Have Hatched

Two of the eaglets a the Decorah nest have hatched, one on 4/2 and one on 4/3.

April 2: 1st eagle has barely hatched in this photo. Notice the cracked shell still in the nest. 

Later in the day, the eaglet was fed some rabbit. I think the eaglets look like little aliens at this point. Wait until you see how fast they grow. Two more eggs to hatch.

Bob Anderson of the Raptor Resource Group that is responsible for putting the camera on this nest periodically zooms so we can get some great closeups of the eagles. Good camera work, Bob!

April 3: This morning both eagles were on the nest - there were lots of birds around making a lot of noise.

April 3: We get our first peak at the second eaglet - it's right behind #1 here. See what I mean about looking like little aliens? The eyes are black and so is the beak.

Mom eagle is ready for a nap this morning - must have had a busy night with the hatching of #2.

Click here if you would like to watch the Decorah eagles. More than 145,000 people from all over the world have logged on at one time to watch the Decorah eagles. There have been nearly 7 million page views of this site so far. This is watching nature at its very best! The arrival of the second eaglet even made Good Morning America this morning.

Stitched - See the Paducah Premier of the Movie About Quilters

During the 2010 AQS Quilt Show, Houston-based Picturesmith Productions taped part of the movie, Stitched, in Paducah. This year the movie is finished and ready for viewing!

Stitched follows three art quilters, Caryl Bryer Fallert, Hollis Chatelain and Randall Cook, for one year as they compete for some of the quilting world’s top prizes and attend the biggest quilt shows. Along the way, these artists juggle busy careers and challenges as they race to finish their quilts to enter in the these shows.

Watch a trailer about the movie.

Purchase your tickets online or call 270-898-7903 and ask for the Registration Desk.
Tickets are $12 and the movie will be shown in the Eisenhower Room at the Carroll Convention Center.
The movie will be show four times during the show. The movie runs 72 minutes so it will go slightly beyond the times listed.
#2851 Tues., 4–5pm
#2852 Wed., 6–7pm
#2853 Fri., 6–7pm
#2854 Sat., 4–5pm

Don't Miss these Events at the National Quilt Museum

National Quilt Museum's 
2011 Special Hours and Events
During the AQS Quilt Show

The Museum will begin opening 7 days a week, starting in April. The Museum is open the Sunday prior to, and after the Quilt Show. Due to the timing of this year’s show, the Museum is open Easter Sunday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Regular Admission Sunday – Tuesday: $10 Adult; $8 Senior

Sunday, April 24: Museum is open 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Monday: Museum is open 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Tuesday: Museum is open 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

More events on Tuesday:

10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.: George and Virginia Siciliano Demonstrations – Starting Tuesday, the Sicilianos will be in the lobby demonstrating their techniques most days throughout the week.

10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.: Bill Ford. – Demonstrating and promoting his painted aprons.

5:30 – 7:00 p.m: AQS Awards Presentation – (Carson Four Rivers Center, 100 Kentucky Ave.)

7:30 – 9:30 p.m.: AQS Sneak Preview – Be the first to see the prizewinning quilts in this year's AQS Quilt Contest; the merchant malls will be open too. Remember the Museum benefits from the proceeds of this event! (All Exhibit Areas)

Discounted Admission During AQS Show, Wednesday – Sunday: $8

Wednesday: Museum is open 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.

• 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.: NQM’s Silent Auction – (Convention Center 1st Floor Hallway) 
• 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 2 – 4 p.m.: Jim Shore Signing – (National Quilt Museum (NQM) Lobby) &am
• 7 p.m.: Jim Shore Lecture – (NQM Classroom) You can purchase tickets for this event by calling (270) 442-8856 x205 or online at www.quiltmuseum.org/JimShore. Tickets are $15. 
• Gift Shop Open 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m.

Thursday: Museum is open 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.

• 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.: NQM’s Live Auction Preview (Convention Center 1st Floor Hallway)
• 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.: Bill Ford Museum is open 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Demonstrating and promoting his painted aprons.
• 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.: Book Signing – Mary Tatem, author of numerous books including: Quilt of Joy, Quilt of Faith and Quilt of Life. (NQM Lobby) 
• 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.: Live Quilt Auction (Convention Center Food Tent) – NEW this year is the ability to participate in the live auction online through the AQS Webcasts. Click here to subscribe for webcasts at this year's AQS Quilt Show. 
• 7:00 p.m.: Evening Upstairs at Your Library Lecture Series “More than Preaching to the Choir: The Role of the Museum in the Current Quilt World” presented by The National Quilt Museum Curator of Collections and Registrar, Judy Schwender. 7 p.m. at McCracken County Public Library in the upstairs community room. For additional information contact Bobbie Wrinkle 270-442-2510 X 119 bwrinkle@mclib.net – Free

Friday: Museum is open 8 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Samples of Fabric for Fabulous Fabric Flurry

• 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.: New this year, the Museum will hold its first Fabulous Fabric Flurry on Friday during Quilt Week (April 29th) from 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.  or until the fabric is gone. Just $10 gets you all the fabric you can fit into your “Flurry Bag.” Look for the tent on the Museum lawn. Come early for the best selection. Event ends when supply runs out. Have fabric you would like to donate for the Fabulous Fabric Flurry? We are looking for clean, 100% cotton fabric in fat quarter and 1 yard lengths or more. Just bring them to the Museum and drop off for the Flurry! Or contact Susan Edwards, Director of Marketing at (270) 442-8856 x214 or sedwards@quiltmuseum.org.
• 10 am – 12 p.m.: New Quilts from an Old Favorite: Orange Peel Book Signing – See these exciting quilts and meet some of the quiltmakers. Admission to Gallery required. (NQM Gallery) 
• 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.: NQM’s Silent Auction – (Convention Center lst floor Hallway)

Saturday: Museum is open 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Sunday: Museum is open 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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Eagle Hatch Watch is ON

Have you been watching the Decorah eagles online? They have three eggs in their nest and today is the date for the first egg to hatch.

Click here to go to the eagle website to watch the live camera that runs 24/7.

This is watching nature at its best!


Here is a link to a PBS documentary about this eagle nest that gives a lot of information about these Decorah, Iowa eagles. The photography and information is very good.

Soon there will be a lot of action in the eagle nest as both parents work to keep the eaglets fed. If you have school-age children, I highly recommend this site. If you click on the UStream words in the upper right corner, you can gain access to the chat room where the discussion is only about eagles. (Right now there are more than 100,000 people logged into the site so it is very hard to get into the chat room.)

Bonnie Browning
Executive Show Director

National Quilt Museum Celebrates 20 Years

The National Quilt Museum celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. 

Do you have the museum on your schedule while you are attending the AQS Quilt Show, April 27–30?

Here are some of the special activities going on at the Museum during Quilt Show week:

20th Anniversary Fabric: MODA Fabrics has designed a beautiful line of fabrics especially for the Museum. "Dogwood Trail, Sentimental Studios" will be available in four colorways and matching blender designs - you will be able to get this fabric exclusively at the Museum's Gift Shop during the show (it will be in fabric stores in late summer). MODA is donating a portion of the proceeds from the Dogwood Trail Collection to the Museum.

 

Exhibits at the Museum to View during the Quilt Show:

• 20 Quilts for 20 Years: The museum’s quilt collection, which began with 85 quilts in 1991, has expanded to more than 300 quilts. Twenty additional quilts will be unveiled during this year's 20th Anniversary Celebration.

• Celebration!: The Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) made these quilts to celebrate the Museum's 20th anniversary

• New Quilts from an Old Favorite 2011: Orange Peel: The 18 semi-finalists in the Museum's annual New Quilts from an Old Favorite Contest

• The Color Orange: Antique Quilts from the Pilgrim Roy Collection

• The National Quilt Museum Collection Quilts: The main gallery features a selection of quilts from the Museum's Collection

• “Oh, Wow!” Miniature Quilt Collection

 Watch for the next blog about all of the fun events that will be happening at the Quilt Museum during the AQS Quilt Show.

AQS and Alex Anderson invites you back to Knoxville in 2011!

Who won the Janome Sewing Machines in Lancaster

These three lucky winners each won a 3160QDC Janome sewing machine at the AQS Quilt Show in Lancaster, PA.

 

• Hillary Bounds, 

 Baltimore, MD

 
• Lorraine Markowski, 

Mays Landing, NJ

 
• Beth Corey-Smith, 

West Gardiner, ME

Congratulations! Enjoy your new machines.

List Your Quilting Event at My Quilt Place - The Place for Everything Related to Quilts and Quilters

Does your quilt guild hold a show? Are you looking for ways to advertise your event?

You can list your event at MyQuiltPlace.com at no charge? The only requirement is that you need to register for My Quilt Place (click here to register) and you will have complete access to the site. It's the place for everything related to quilts and quilters.

On My Quilt Place, click on Events in the burgundy navigation bar, and then click the "+Add" button at the top of the Events page to add your event. Don't forget to include some contact information in case someone has questions about your event.

And while you are there, you can set up your own page, add photos of your quilts, join groups on topics of interest to you, join a forum, and read the blogs. That's a lot to do on MyQuiltPlace.com. Invite your friends to join too! See you there.

Lancaster Winners and Live Webcasts of Lectures and Special Events

 Good morning... the AQS Quilt Show in Lancaster is in full swing now. Quilters from across the U.S. and around the world are viewing the beautiful quilts on display, shopping the merchant mall (their bags look very heavy already) and classes are underway for the day.

If you aren't able to attend the show, you can still view some of the lectures and special events through our live webcasting. Click here to register for the live webcasts... you will see the entire list of events being offered via the webcasts. Remember, once you have subscribed, you can view the lectures and events any number of times "on demand" for up to 90 days following the event.

Congratulations to all of the winners in the AQS Quilt Contest - the competition was very stiff, so you all should be very pleased to be chosen as the top quilts in the contest.

The show runs through Saturday at 5:00 p.m. Come see the beautiful quilts!

Award Winners

2011 AQS Quilt Show & Contest- Lancaster
March 16 – 19, 2011

Best of Show Award
#124 SIMPLY SANTE FE, Cindy Seitz-Krug, Bakersfield, CA

Best Hand Workmanship Award
#209 MARY SIMON REDISCOVERED, Nancy Kerns, Skillman, NJ

Best Machine Workmanship Award
#120 CHRISTMAS ALL AROUND, Sherry Reynolds, Laramie, WY

Best Longarm Workmanship Award
#203 EMILY, Kathi Carter, Lanett, AL
Best Wall Quilt Award
#501 GYPSY ROSALIE, Ronda K. Beyer, Tualatin, OR

Bed Quilts, Pieced
First #123 SHOOTING STARS, Birgit Schueller, Riegelsberg, Germany
Second #111 SOUL SHINE, Karen Kielmeyer, Bella Vista, AR
Third #127 MA-TSU-RI (JAPANESE FESTIVAL), Mitsuyo Takasaki, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
Hon. Mention #133 DOUBLE WEDDING RING, Beverly J. Willis, Mansfield, OH

Bed Quilts, Appliquéd
First #210 SEW IS LIFE, Barbara Korengold, Chevy Chase, MD
Second #212 RYLIE’S GARDEN, Mary Martin, Clive, IA
Third #211 MY BEAUTIFUL MEMORY, Masako Kumagawa, Agatsuma-gun, Gunma, Japan
Hon. Mention #217 THE GRAPES OF BATH, Wendy Caton Reed, Bath, ME

Wall Quilts, Hand Quilted
First #314 MIDNIGHT GARDEN, Deborah Kemball, Santiago, Chile
Second #312 WINDY, Janeene Herchold, Redding, CA
Third #301 BIRDS IN THE FOREST, Jenny Bacon, Maryborough, Victoria, Australia
Hon. Mention #303 RED BIRD WINTER, Betty Lu Brydges, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Wall Quilts, Home Sewing Machine Quilted
First #413 JUDY IN THE SKY WITH STITCHES, Judy Robinson Ehrnst, Springville, AL
Second #430 TOUCHES OF THE ORIENT, Jaynette Huff, Conway, AR
Third #437 ZIPPER HOUSE, Cheryl Kerestes, Wyoming, PA
Hon. Mention #453 A LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH PAISLEYS, Ann L. Petersen, Surprise, AZ

Wall Quilts, Longarm/Midarm Machine Quilted
First #508 MY GEMS, Diane Johnston, Pahrump, NV
Second #518 MAYNARD, David M. Taylor, Steamboat Springs, CO
Third #504 HISTORY AND TRADITION, Judy Eselius, Lake Oswego, OR
Hon. Mention #509 AUTUMN FLOWER, Linda McGibbon and Carol Rose, Beaverton, MI

Don't Miss These Events in Lancaster

The AQS staff is already in Lancaster and setting up the show at the Lancaster County Convention Center.

Put these things on your "must do" list to make your experience at the AQS Quilt Show in Lancaster a memorable one:

Don't forget to pick up your copy of the AQS Showbook - it's your guide to everything at the show. $1.00 at the Admissions Desk


1. There will be quilts and vendors on three floors of the convention center. Contests quilts and two special exhibits are in Freedom Hall; A Perfect Journey exhibit by Karen Kay Buckley is on Level 2 in the Commonwealth Ballroom, and the Botswana Collection - Fiber Revolution & Kalahari Quilts and the AQS Authors' Exhibit are on Level 3 in the Heritage Ballroom. Be sure you visit all three floors at the convention center!

2. There will be a special quilting bee with artisans from the Mennonite Information Center and Lancaster textile artisans at the Lancaster Quilt and Textile Museum, 37 N. Market Street - a short walk from the convention center. There is also a special exhibition coordinated by the museum and Franklin and Marshall College exploring the connection between the quilts collected by Doug Tompkins, founder of the Esprit Corporation, and the fashions produced by Esprit in the 1980s. Special hours during the quilt show are: Monday - Friday, 9am to 7pm, and Saturday, 9am to 5pm. Admission is $6.00.

3. The Quilt Museum at The Old Country Store, 3510 Old Philadelphia Pike in Intercourse, will have special hours during the quilt show: Monday/Tuesday, 9am to 5pm; Wednesday/Thursday, 9am to 8pm; Friday, 9am to MIDNIGHT; and Saturday, 9am to 8pm; closed Sunday. See A Showcase of Quilts: Dazzling Contemporary Creations exhibit, plus Innovative Scrap Quilts by Elsie M. Campbell, who will also have a special book signing from 6 to 8pm on Wednesday with guided museum tours. Midnight Madness is on Friday until midnight, with special drawings between 9 and 11pm.

4. The Ricky Tims Concert is from 7 - 8:30pm on Friday evening in the Chapel at the Lancaster Bible College, 901 Eden Road. This will be a fun evening with humor, quilt stories, and music. Tickets are $15. There is free parking near the Chapel.