Reading, listening, viewing

Here we are at the NSW Labour Day weekend again - can it really be October tomorrow? Some reading and viewing suggestions in case you are all caught up on quilting …

2023 Quilt NSW Exhibition: Award Winners

Award winners from the 2023 show at Rosehill, 15 - 17 September 2023

International Quilt Festival 2023, Houston, 2 November 2023: Award Winners

The Quilt Festival Judged Show honors the best of the best quilt work from around the world! More than 442 entries were received and then juried down to 218 finalists. Judges this year were Charlotte Angotti, Deborah Boschert, and Karen K. Stone. All winners receive cash, non-purchase prizes.

Astronaut-artist Karen Nyberg unveils quilt portraits of first women to fly in space

Each of the portraits is a quilted collage made out of pieces of cloth.

The 50th woman to fly into space has paid tribute to the first woman and first American woman to do so with a pair of original works celebrating the first 60 years of women in space.

Former NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg was at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida on Thursday (Aug. 17) to unveil her portraits of Soviet-era cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and American astronaut Sally Ride. The public reveal was held under the retired space shuttle Atlantis … Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 18 August 2023

This is Women’s Work

How this small home-based non-profit has helped to receive and distribute nearly $13 million worth of supplies and time donated from the quilting community in under a year.

Join us for our first interview episode as we hear about how Gina and Hal Halladay (along with Beth Hawkins) have helped to quickly organize the members of our generous quilting community to gather 24 Tons of Quilts, 10 Acres, or $6.5 Million of Donated Fabrics to benefit Ukrainian refugees on the other side of the world… The Grateful Thread Podcast, Episode 4, 20 February 2023