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 May 7 - 9, 2015 - Salt Lake City, UT |
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Special Displays
Urban Graffiti
Presented by Quilts on the Wall Fiber Artists
Graffiti has evolved over the past generation from gangs, hostility and violence to its own unique art form seen in m any venues in many cities. It might be on b ridges, underpasses, walls in center city as murals, paintings on trucks traveling our highways, even as tattoos.
QOTW will have a juried exhibition depicting the varied ways graffiti is part of our everyday lives in the 21st century.
Inspired by the Beatles
In celebration of The Beatles 50th anniversary of performing in the United States, 150 artists from Germany to Canada to Utah have Come Together to produce 150 original art quilts. Each quilt depicts a different Beatles song, and a wide variety of materials, techniques, interpretations and artist abilities are showcased.
Take a walk down memory lane and see how many songs you can guess the names of!
This exhibit premiered at the Houston International Quilt Festival and it is featured in a book published by Schiffer Publishing: Inspired by the Beatles: An Art Quilt Challenge.
Join in the fun and see how the timeless music of the Beatles continues to entertain and inspire us!
Chinese Whispers Challenge 2016
Remember the childhood circle game where someone whispered a message to another person, who then whispered the message to the next person in the circle, and so on until the message got back to the person with the original message? The last message was nothing like the original message. That’s our quilt game, and it’s called Chinese Whispers.
There are 10 quilters in the Chinese Whispers Challenge. The original “message” is given to the first quilter as an inspiration photo from a person of the quilt group. The inspiration photo will only be seen by the first quilter. (Ricky Tims selected the inspiration photo.) The first quilter had 6 weeks to create their quilt. Then the first quilt will be passed to the second quilter for inspiration. When the quilt was sent to the next person, not even a title was sent, as this might be a hint about the first quilter’s inspiration for her design.
2015 NQA SewBatik Challenge Quilts “Down by the Riverside”
The SewBatik Challenge was made possible through the generous support of SewBatik. People interested in participating in the SewBatik Challenge were provided with the opportunity to purchase a fat quarter of a fabric specifically chosen to complement the 2015 NQA Show Theme “Down by the Riverside”.
Challenge rules specify that a recognizable amount of the SewBatik Challenge fabric must be used on the front of the quilt.
25 of the finished quilts will be on display during the Home Machine Quilting Show.
Woolies Four Pound Challenge
Presented by The Woolie Nuts
The Woolie Nuts is a group of professional and non- professional quilters, sewers, and fiber artist friends, who meet informally for fun and inspiration. Founding member Pat Sloan received 85 pounds of fabric scraps, remnants from two of her Moda lines.
Rather than discarding the scraps which are left over from making sales sample books, etc., Moda returns the scraps to their designers. Woolie member Stevii Graves said, "Let's do a challenge!" We implemented a few rules, and divided up the scraps (approximately 4 pounds each) among members and a few friends who joined this fun challenge.
A Modern Experience with Orphan Blocks
Quilts by Pam Clarke - Designs with Lines
I love working with leftover or Orphan blocks from previous projects or one's that I've collected through the years; whether using current fabrics or vintage.
As you will notice in this display, I will take and use the whole block or cut them up into small sections. I add current fabrics, usually solids colors around the blocks to make into table runners, wall-quilts or bed size quilts; as you'll notice almost anything goes.
What makes these quilts is the machine quilting through the quilt top. I've been Longarm quilting since 1988 and have finished over 8,000 quilt tops professionally. All of my work is hand-guided using my Gammill Vision 26. I will sometimes use a ruler for diagonal quilting and my Designs with Lines stencils to help keep my background designs evenly spaced. I usually use a cotton batting with a polyester batting on top of the cotton batting to give the quilt more loft. I do use chalk to mark and a washable marker. After the quilt is finished with binding. I then wash my quilt and block it dry.
“Celebrate the Day With Quilts - an Art Quilt Challenge
Fifty-three artists from seven states made 72 amazing quilts celebrating some of the random, less well known holidays that occur throughout the year.
The artists had a great time creating quilts for National Bird Day, Learn More about Butterflies Day, Bubba Day and many others. Some chose serious days while others chose to be silly, many of them had personal connections to the particular day they chose. They used a wide variety of techniques and created some amazing quilts.
5th Annual Quilter's Rule Tool Challenge Exhibit
Quilter's Rule is proud to support our men and women in uniform. We created our challenge to:
A. Increase awareness of the Quilts of Valor program
B. Encourage and aid the making of quilts to be presented to our military service men and women
The challenge is structured so the quilts will travel for a year with Quilter's Rule before being donated to our brave Service Members.
The 2015 tool challenge ask that entrants to use the Square in a Square Ruler. Entrants could also use the Americana pattern, but not required. They could also create their own pattern
STAY TUNED...more to come...
Presented by Quilts on the Wall Fiber Artists
Graffiti has evolved over the past generation from gangs, hostility and violence to its own unique art form seen in m any venues in many cities. It might be on b ridges, underpasses, walls in center city as murals, paintings on trucks traveling our highways, even as tattoos.
QOTW will have a juried exhibition depicting the varied ways graffiti is part of our everyday lives in the 21st century.
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| “Leaving Town” by Linda Anderson |
“Urban Renewal” by Linda Friedman |
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| “Talk” by Karen Markley |
“Hope” by Beth Shibley |
Inspired by the Beatles
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Take a walk down memory lane and see how many songs you can guess the names of!
This exhibit premiered at the Houston International Quilt Festival and it is featured in a book published by Schiffer Publishing: Inspired by the Beatles: An Art Quilt Challenge.
Join in the fun and see how the timeless music of the Beatles continues to entertain and inspire us!
Chinese Whispers Challenge 2016
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There are 10 quilters in the Chinese Whispers Challenge. The original “message” is given to the first quilter as an inspiration photo from a person of the quilt group. The inspiration photo will only be seen by the first quilter. (Ricky Tims selected the inspiration photo.) The first quilter had 6 weeks to create their quilt. Then the first quilt will be passed to the second quilter for inspiration. When the quilt was sent to the next person, not even a title was sent, as this might be a hint about the first quilter’s inspiration for her design.
2015 NQA SewBatik Challenge Quilts “Down by the Riverside”
The SewBatik Challenge was made possible through the generous support of SewBatik. People interested in participating in the SewBatik Challenge were provided with the opportunity to purchase a fat quarter of a fabric specifically chosen to complement the 2015 NQA Show Theme “Down by the Riverside”.
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25 of the finished quilts will be on display during the Home Machine Quilting Show.
Woolies Four Pound Challenge
Presented by The Woolie Nuts
The Woolie Nuts is a group of professional and non- professional quilters, sewers, and fiber artist friends, who meet informally for fun and inspiration. Founding member Pat Sloan received 85 pounds of fabric scraps, remnants from two of her Moda lines.
Rather than discarding the scraps which are left over from making sales sample books, etc., Moda returns the scraps to their designers. Woolie member Stevii Graves said, "Let's do a challenge!" We implemented a few rules, and divided up the scraps (approximately 4 pounds each) among members and a few friends who joined this fun challenge.
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| Made by Stevii Graves Quilted by Laurie Tigner |
Made by Stevii Graves Quilted by Laurie Tigner |
Made by Nan-Marie Graham Quilted by Jeanie Gage |
A Modern Experience with Orphan Blocks
Quilts by Pam Clarke - Designs with Lines
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As you will notice in this display, I will take and use the whole block or cut them up into small sections. I add current fabrics, usually solids colors around the blocks to make into table runners, wall-quilts or bed size quilts; as you'll notice almost anything goes.
What makes these quilts is the machine quilting through the quilt top. I've been Longarm quilting since 1988 and have finished over 8,000 quilt tops professionally. All of my work is hand-guided using my Gammill Vision 26. I will sometimes use a ruler for diagonal quilting and my Designs with Lines stencils to help keep my background designs evenly spaced. I usually use a cotton batting with a polyester batting on top of the cotton batting to give the quilt more loft. I do use chalk to mark and a washable marker. After the quilt is finished with binding. I then wash my quilt and block it dry.
“Celebrate the Day With Quilts - an Art Quilt Challenge
Fifty-three artists from seven states made 72 amazing quilts celebrating some of the random, less well known holidays that occur throughout the year.
The artists had a great time creating quilts for National Bird Day, Learn More about Butterflies Day, Bubba Day and many others. Some chose serious days while others chose to be silly, many of them had personal connections to the particular day they chose. They used a wide variety of techniques and created some amazing quilts.
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Quilter's Rule is proud to support our men and women in uniform. We created our challenge to:
A. Increase awareness of the Quilts of Valor program
B. Encourage and aid the making of quilts to be presented to our military service men and women
The challenge is structured so the quilts will travel for a year with Quilter's Rule before being donated to our brave Service Members.
| SPONSORED BY |
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The 2015 tool challenge ask that entrants to use the Square in a Square Ruler. Entrants could also use the Americana pattern, but not required. They could also create their own pattern
STAY TUNED...more to come...