by Amy Milne | Dec 15, 2018 | QSOS, Quilt Jigsaw Puzzles
Your Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle Tip: for best results, solve puzzle on this page on a desktop computer or laptop. If you are solving on a mobile device, click on the puzzle piece icon in the lower righthand corner to solve on the Jigsaw Planet website. Welcome to another quilt jigsaw puzzle from Quilt Alliance! This month, we’ve got a new challenge for you! See below for clues. Be sure to sign up for our blog notifications, so that you don’t miss any of the upcoming puzzles. Name That QSOS Interviewee! This week’s puzzle spotlights a quiltmaker who was interviewed for our Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories oral history project on November 11, 2011. That interview is one of the first 20 interviews added to the new QSOS website to launch our QSOS 20th anniversary year. The Quilt Alliance is in the process of a major update for the project that will include searchable audio recordings and transcript, interview summaries and keywords and photos. The entire collection is still viewable on the QA website here, but this new site, when completed (hopefully by early 2020), will make the collection of more than 1,200 QSOS interviews with quiltmakers far more accessible online. Visit the new QSOS site with sample interviews here and consider making a $25 donation to sponsor an interview! Clues: Excerpts from the Interview Excerpt 1 Interviewer: Can you tell me about your process in creating this particular piece that you brought today? Interviewee: Yes I can. I work from photographs. I took the photograph and enlarged the image using a large format photocopier. On the photocopy, I traced out the majordesign elements with a black sharpie marker. The Sharpie marker bleeds thru the 2:00paper so when completed, the mirror image of the image is created on the back side of the photocopy. This becomes the master template pattern used to create the design. Each template piece was numbered then transferred to paper backed fusible web and then individually cut out. Fabrics were auditioned for each template unit, fused then cut out. Using a applique pressing sheet, the template pieces were reassembled into larger units (petals of the flower). I would work one unit (petal) at a time around the circumference of the flower I worked on entire, then I completed the center. The bee is a needle felted, and the wings are made with Angelina fiber and organza that I stitched , then attached. Excerpt 2 Interviewer: Do you currently belong to any quilt guilds or groups or both? Interviewee: I do. I belong to a number of groups. I am member of International Quilt Association (IQA), Studio Art Quilting Association (SAQA), IQF),Austin [Texas.] Fiber Artists (AFA) and it’s like an art quilt group. I’m also a member ofSurface Design Association (S.D.A.), and the Austin Area Quilt Guild. Excerpt 3 Interviewer: I’m going to ask you some questions about just your general feelings about quilting in general, like what do you think makes a great quilt? Interviewee [seven second pause.] I’d have to think about that for a second. What I think that makes a good quilt really is the fact that it’s been made. We live in such a society where people don’t know how to do anything. They go somewhere else to have things done. I think it’s important to be able to make something and to go through that process so all quilts to me have value and meaning because somebody made them and they weren’t mass produced. I guess I’m not one for kits and that type of thing or preprocessed type stuff. Every quilt has a story, there’s a meaning that every single quilt artist has and they’re trying to convey. So, just the fact that they’re made from a beginning quilt that, the first attempt that somebody trying to do something to most intricate and elaborate style quilts, just the fact that they were even thought of and made in the first place I think means something to me. Think you know who the mystery QSOS Interviewee is? Now solve the puzzle to see if you’re right! About Quilt Alliance We rely on the generous support of donors and members like you to sustain our projects. If you support our mission of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of quilts and quiltmakers, join us by becoming a member or renewing your membership, making a donation, or learning how your business or corporation can become a supporter of the Quilt…
by Amy Milne | Mar 17, 2018 | Quilt Jigsaw Puzzles
A Special Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle to Celebrate National Quilting Day Welcome to this week’s quilt jigsaw puzzle from Quilt Alliance! The beautiful quilts in our puzzles were all entered in and donated to current or past Quilt Alliance contests and auctions. Be sure to sign up for our blog notifications, so that you don’t miss any of the upcoming puzzles. Twenty Blocks for Twenty Years by Alison Ruggiero This week’s puzzle features a quilt entitled Twenty Blocks for Twenty Years made by artist Alison Ruggiero of Brooklyn, New York for the 2013 Quilt Alliance “TWENTY” contest and auction, celebrating our 20th anniversary. Materials used include: Kona cotton solids, Quilters Dream cotton batting, top sewn using Mettler silk finish 100% cotton. Quilting done using Harriet Hargrave’s Invisible Nylon Thread and clover silk thread. Paper piecing, applique, free motion and walking foot quilting ARTIST’S STATEMENT “Twenty Blocks for Twenty Years” by Alison Ruggiero To celebrate the anniversary, I designed a quilt using 20 blocks, each block representing one year the Quilt Alliance has been in operation. All the blocks are different – some were easy, some were challenging as I am sure the twenty years have been. 5 of the 20 blocks consist of words which express my quilting experience, thus continuing the cycle and mission of storytelling since the start of QA in 1993. ABOUT QUILT ALLIANCE We rely on the generous support of donors and members like you to sustain our projects. If you support our mission of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of quilts and quiltmakers, join us by becoming a member or renewing your membership, making a donation, or learning how your business or corporation can become a supporter of the Quilt…
by Amy Milne | Oct 14, 2017 | Quilt Jigsaw Puzzles
New Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle Welcome to this week’s quilt jigsaw puzzle from Quilt Alliance! We are creating new quilt jigsaw puzzles for you that are both fun to solve and inspirational, too! The beautiful quilts in the puzzles have all been contestants or quilt donations in current or past Quilt Alliance contests and auctions. Be sure to sign up for our blog notifications, so that you don’t miss any of the upcoming puzzles. The Quilt Alliance presents a contest, exhibition and auction of small wall quilts every year. This key fundraiser supports our mission of documenting, preserving and sharing the history of quilts and their makers, and is an important opportunity to showcase and record the work of quilters in the U.S. and all over the world. You can browse the 2017 contest quilts here www.QuiltAllanceAuction.org to start picking out your favorites for our annual online auction that begins on Nov. 13, 2017. Fight Like a Girl by Anne Garretson This week’s puzzle quilt is entitled Fight Like a Girl and was made by Anne Garretson of Newfield, New York for the 2017 Quilt Alliance “Voices” contest and auction. The piece is made from cotton commercial fabrics, cotton batting, and fabric paint. Artist’s Statement This piece was inspired by the sight of two teenage girls standing on top of a concrete pedestal at the Women’s March on Washington. Of the thousands of signs I saw that day I was struck by the power of theirs. A scrap of cardboard that read ‘fight like a girl’ became a message of our strength and their young confidence gave me hope. About Quilt Alliance We rely on the generous support of donors and members like you to sustain our projects. If you support our mission of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of quilts and quiltmakers, join us by becoming a member or renewing your membership, making a donation, or learning how your business or corporation can become a supporter of the Quilt…
by Amy Milne | Sep 30, 2017 | Quilt Jigsaw Puzzles
New Quilt Jigsaw Puzzle Welcome to this week’s quilt jigsaw puzzle from Quilt Alliance! We are creating new quilt jigsaw puzzles for you that are both fun to solve and inspirational, too! The beautiful quilts in the puzzles have all been contestants or quilt donations in current or past Quilt Alliance contests and auctions. Be sure to sign up for our blog notifications, so that you don’t miss any of the upcoming puzzles. The Quilt Alliance presents a contest, exhibition and auction of small wall quilts every year. This key fundraiser supports our mission of documenting, preserving and sharing the history of quilts and their makers, and is an important opportunity to showcase and record the work of quilters in the U.S. and all over the world. You can browse the 2017 contest quilts here www.QuiltAllanceAuction.org to start picking out your favorites for our annual online auction that begins on Nov. 13, 2017. Endangered by Nancy S. Brown This week’s puzzle quilt is entitled Endangered and was made by Nancy S. Brown of Oakland, California for the 2017 Quilt Alliance “Voices” contest and auction. Nancy hand appliquéd and quilted her piece using 100% cotton fabric,. It was machine pieced with embroidered whiskers. She used Tsukineko ink in the eye. Artist’s Statement The quilt was made for all of the endangered species who have no voice. This is an Amur Leopard which is critically endangered. This leopard lives in southeast Russia and northeast China and it is estimated that there are only about 60 of these leopards remaining in the world. Judge’s Choice Judge Marlene Ingraham, founder of Original Sewing & Quilt Expo selected Brown’s quilt as her Judge’s Choice Award, saying: I fall for any quilt that truly captures “cat-itude”, and this one does exactly that. Spectacularly. Always quietly observing, this cat and so many of us remain silent in the face of great fear or tragedy. Someone has to speak for them (us). I also truly enjoy seeing so many techniques used so artfully by this maker. The dark colors in the background set the tone …. and we seek out that single, hauntingly beautiful eye, speaking volumes. Wonderful!! About Quilt Alliance We rely on the generous support of donors and members like you to sustain our projects. If you support our mission of documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories of quilts and quiltmakers, join us by becoming a member or renewing your membership, making a donation, or learning how your business or corporation can become a supporter of the Quilt…
