Quilters in the Spotlight

Home & Garden Quilt Show by Pam White

This year's Home & Garden Quilt Show came to a close March 9th. Thanks to all of you that volunteered your many hours of labor to the show. Also thanks to those that put their quilts in the show. Without the volunteers and the loan of all of your beautiful quilts the show would not have taken place. We figured from counting all of the ballots that we had well over a thousand people walk through the show. We had a lot of good comments and the men and children seemed to enjoy the show just as much as the women. We also had so many people want to buy the quilts. One man said to me “Just name your price”.

Congratulations go out to the top three winners of the show.
 
1st Place Helen Butler
2nd Place Cheryl Barlow
3rd Place Dianne Gardner

Everyone of you deserved a prize because every quilt that was put in the show was beautiful and unique. I told my husband this is one of those times that I wished that I was rich and I would have awarded each and everyone of you a prize.

Coming up we have the Home Machine Quilting Show taking place May 8th & 9th at the South Town Expo Center. We will be having a booth and need some volunteers to sit at the booth. There are lots of benefits of being a volunteer at the Home Machine Quilting Show. You could make some new friends that probably have the same interest as you, get into the show free and promote your favorite hobby and lost art QUILTING just to name a few.

I can be contacted at the following: redclassicgal@hotmail.com 
801 205-7032 (cell)
801 973-4040 (work)

Journal Quilt Project by Kendra Hall

Our own Lisa Brothman has had a picture of a quilt published in the Feb/March issue of Quilting Arts magazine, on p. 80. It is a journal quilt that she had submitted to the 2007 Journal Quilt Project, which was showcased at the 2007 Houston International Quilt Festival. Lisa's quilt is entitled "Spiral Bound." The picture appears in an article entitled, "A Page From My Book: the 2007 Journal Quilt Project." and is one of nine that was chosen to be published in the magazine.

All of the quilts from the 2007 Journal Quilt Project will be on display at the International Quilt Festival in Chicago, April 11-13, 2008, and the International Quilt festival in Long Beach (new this year) to be held July 25-27, 2008.

Past years' journal quilts can be seen in the book, "Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project". This large book is fascinating reading as it tells the stories behind the quilts. It is available from quiltingarts.com/

Congratulations, Lisa!