Quilts and Stories on January 24th

I'll be sharing quilts and stories

during the January 24th meeting

of the Uncommon Threads Quilt Guild.

They meet at Germantown United Methodist Church -

2331 South Germantown Road, Germantown, Tennessee.

Hope to see you there!

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Their website is HERE.

Their Facebook Group page is HERE.

See You at the Show

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to supersize the flyer

for easier reading.

AQS Chattanooga -- Come See The Exhibit!

I'll be carrying this tote bag

AQS Chattanooga

September 14-17, 2016

And while you are at the show,

be sure to see our

SPECIAL EXHIBIT

featuring the SSOBB Gallery Quilts.

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While you are there,

take some photos of yourself with the quilts

and email those photos to me.

(email in profile in sidebar)

The SSOBB would love

to hear your reactions to their quilts

and see your smiling faces.

Pennsylvania 4-H Group and BUILD A BARN

I had a chance to talk with Nancy M.,

(our local quilt appraiser)

after my Author Showcase presentation 

at April AQS show at Paducah.

Nancy had purchased a copy of BUILD A BARN

and sent it to her niece in Pennsylvania.

Her niece lives on a farm with a beautiful barn

that Nancy wants to free piece one day.

Nancy was so excited to share her niece's response to the book.

Her niece is heavily involved with a 4-H group

and plans to share BUILD A BARN with her kids

and have them stitch some free pieced barns.

I think THAT is just awesome.

If photos are shared with me,

I will be sure to share them here.

AQS Paducah 2016

Photo by SSOBB Charter Member Cherie Moore (quiltedjonquil.com)
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This was my first public presentation for BUILD A BARN.

I enjoyed sharing everything about my free pieced barn project:

* the possibilities that come with free piecing,
* the book's cover quilt SEE ROCK CITY,

* the book's SEASONAL SAMPLER that will travel

 with the Showcase for the next year,
* the Secret Society of Barn Builders, and 

* the SSOBB Gallery Quilts.

I also enjoyed hearing stories shared by those in attendance

about barns belonging to family members and

different styles of barns from around the country.

So many told me they have wanted to create a barn quilt

but just hadn't found a way to make that happen.

Their excitement about using the free piecing technique

and process notes/ideas from BUILD A BARN

to create their own long-thought-about barns

gave me goose bumps of joy.

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To those who were there -

Thank you very much for sharing that hour with me.

I can't wait to see what you create!

Quiltdivajulie

p.s.  There are more photos and stories about this event on my personal blog - CLICK HERE.

Book Sighting!

For any of you attending the AQS Paducah events,

I will be speaking in the Author Showcase

on Thursday, April 21 at 11:00 AM.

Hope you'll stop by - I'd love to meet you.

Quiltdivajulie