"Home Is Where the Quilt Is"

Enter our 2012 quilt contest!

The 2011 contest quilt auction raised over $12,000. AAQ members and quiltmakers everywhere, will you resolve to help us raise $15,000 in the 2012 auction? This year’s contest theme is “Home Is Where the Quilt Is,” a celebration of the form and the meaning of Home. Use any medium, any technique and any approach--traditional or non--to create a house-shaped quilt. You could win the Grand Prize, a Handi Quilter machine quilting system! Click here for full details.

Your Support in Action-Thank You!

2011 Annual Report Video

This year we present our accomplishments and outcomes as a video. Members, donors, partners and volunteers, this is your support in action. Events in Dallas, New York, and Houston allowed us to meet many of you for the first time and our contest was the most successful one ever. Our membership has never been larger and more active because of you! Thank you for wrapping your arms around the AAQ in 2011. May 2012 bring an even wider circle for this Alliance. Click here to watch our video annual report and let us know what you think.

Sixty-two Quiltmakers Interviewed in Four Days!

Last week at the International Quilt Festival Team Q.S.O.S., an alliance of 68 volunteers from all over the U.S. and abroad, interviewed 61 quiltmakers included in the book “Lone Stars III: A Legacy of Texas Quilts, 1986-2011” for the Quilters’ S.O.S.- Save Our Stories oral history project. A big thank you to all of our volunteers, interviewees and sponsors! At left Meg Cox conducting a public Q.S.O.S. interview with Alex Anderson for Festival attendees. Peruse the International Quilt Festival Q.S.O.S. project to read past interviews conducted at Festival.

Love quilts and quiltmakers? Like the AAQ on Facebook.

If you’re a Facebook user and you haven’t “liked” the AAQ and the Quilt Index pages then you are missing daily doses of fun and interesting quilt connections. Recent Quilt Index posts: on Anne Rice’s birthday--a quiltmaker accused of being a vampire, for Vegetarian Awareness Week--a week of fruit and vegetable inspired quilts. The AAQ page brings you the news on contests, Q.S.O.S. interviews and events. the Quilt Index page here. and Like the AAQ page here Let us know what you think!

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It's Free!

More than 100 16”x16” treasures were donated by their makers for the “Alliances” quilt contest. Weeks one and two of the auction brought in more than $7,000 total. Help us top our goal of $10,000 by adding a new 16”x16” beauty to your collection or purchase the perfect holiday gift for a special quilt friend or mentor. Each quilt starts at $50 and there are two remaining auction weeks, November 28-December 12. Visit the “Alliances” gallery to pick out your favorites now! At left: "Kusadama" by Michael Michalski.