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Quilts: A World of Beauty 2011 Winners Show

My miniature Amish quilt Square in Square I won 3rd Place in its category of Miniature Quilts at the 2011 Houston International Quilt Festival.  Last year was the first time I entered a quilt in Houston and I was thrilled when it was accepted as a finalist into the show.  It was even more exciting to place in its category!!

Square in Square I is part of the traveling exhibit IQA created in honor of the winners of the 2011Houston International Quilt Festival.  The exhibit is called Quilts: A World of Beauty 2011, and will travel to these IQA shows this spring and summer:

• International Spring Quilt Festival / Cincinnati, April 13-15, 2012
• International Quilt Market / Kansas City, May 18-20, 2012
• International Quilt Festival / Long Beach, July 27-29, 2012

If you are attending any of these shows, be sure to look for the Amish miniature Square in Square I in the exhibit (hint: it is 14" square!)

Machine Quilting Workshops at A Quilters' Sampler™ - May 2012

I am thrilled to be teaching four mini-workshops on machine quilting at A Quilters'

Sampler™ in Nashua, NH on May 10 and 11. This show is presented by the Eastcoast Quilters' Alliance 3, LLC, who bring the Quilters' Gathering™ to New England every November. 

A Quilters' Sampler™ offers three hour mini-classes, luncheon lectures, May Market for shopping, and a ticket to one of the local quilt guild shows or Museum exhibits.  There will be something for every quilter to enjoy!

I am offering four different workshops at A Quilters' Sampler™.  Each of the workshops provides an introduction to a different set of free motion quilting techniques (for your home sewing machine, of course!) including trapunto by machine, free-motion background fills, and a new workshop on celtic spirals and circles!   See my new workshop schedule, and check out the Quilters' Sampler™ brochure to read about the workshops and see the class samples.

2012 Workshop Schedule Posted

My 2012 schedule of workshops and lectures is posted.

I'm still posting more quilt photos in the Quilt Gallery, so visit and check out the new quilts!  Or visit Diane's Quilt Index where you can see thumbnails that link to all the quilts.

Notable Pages and Posts: Red and White Quilts, and Diane's Quilts at the NEQM

From March 25 through March 30, 2011, a remarkable exhibit of 650 antique red and white quilts was displayed at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.  This was one of the ‘Year of the Quilt’ exhibits sponsored by the American Folk Art Museum, and was free to the public for 6 days in March.  I was in the right place at the right time and spent most of a full day overwhelmed and exhilarated by this show. I took over 400 photographs, and wish I'd taken more!

If you weren't able to see the exhibit, check out the slide show on my site under the Favorites / Photos link at the top, or click on the red and white photographs below!

For more information about this exhibit, visit the American Folk Art museum website

If you have an iDevice (iPad recommended) there is an App for the Infiinite Variety quilt show

(Like machine quilting, this App requires patience and persistence - it is very large, slow to download and update, and not always intuitive to use.  It is worth the effort, though - it includes good photos of all 650 quilts, and be sure to check out the 'extras' as well!)

In the spring of 2009, the New England Quilt Museum featured a selection of my quilts in the Museum Shop.  If you were unable to visit the museum in Lowell, Massachusetts to see my work while I was the Featured Artist at the Museum, please visit my first blog entry where I have posted a few photos of the exhibit.