"Put a Roof Over Our Head" Quilt Contest

January 4, 2006

Louisville, Kentucky, January 4, 2006 - The Alliance for American Quilts announces its first quilt contest to help celebrate its move to Asheville, North Carolina and to support the mission of documenting, preserving and sharing our great quilt heritage. The contest is sponsored by Bernina of America and The Electric Quilt Company. Let your imagination run wild while using The Alliance's house pattern and you have met the general theme for this competition. The house pattern and more details on the contest can be found at www.centerforthequilt.org/contest.php Anyone can enter. Entry deadline is May 15, 2006.

The quilts will travel and be exhibited in a variety of places including The Alliance's website and throughout downtown Asheville in August. After viewing the quilts online, the members of The Alliance for American Quilts will each have one vote for their favorite quilt. First prize will be a Bernina Aurora 440QE sewing machine and second prize will be a complete Electric Quilt Company software CD package. Winners will be announced in August in Asheville. A full color catalog will be published on CD and will also be available for sale.

Quilts will not be returned and are considered a donation to The Alliance for American Quilts. The quilts will be auctioned when the quilts are finished traveling and the proceeds will go to the organization.

The Alliance for American Quilts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, uniquely joins people who love, study, collect, and make quilts to ensure that our nation's great quilt heritage is documented, preserved and shared at the Center for the Quilt Online. For information The Alliance for American Quilts, visit the Center for the Quilt Online,or contact The Alliance (502/897-3819 Mon- Fri 9-6 Eastern).

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