Show-n-Tell

Mississippi Quilt Association Online
Connecting Mississippi Quilters to the World!

About MQA

MQA is one of the most well-organized state quilting associations in the country. We have 3 gatherings a year, plus an educational seminar with a nationally-known teacher. Fall and Spring gatherings include demos and programs you can take back to your guild, and in June we have day-long workshops in Pearl where our own teachers lead classes to improve our skill repertoire.

Quilted MQA Logo from Martha Ginn's album quilt, This is My Story, This is My Song, 1994, 84" x 100". Used by permission

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Recent Outstanding MQA Achievements!
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	Spiers wins with two at Houston! "Mississippi Backroad Treasures" won 1st place in the Innovative Appliqué category and miniature "Carnivale' " won 3rd place in the Miniature Category.
	Norma Grissom, of Corinth, and the Needle Chasers and Crossroads Piecemakers guilds has won Best Hand Workmanship for her quilt, Hearts and Flowers (more about quilt below). She won $5,000 and a big blue ribbon that she wore to guild meeting in September! Way to go Norma!
	Judy Spiers' recent wins include: Mississippi Backroad Treasures and Pineapple Surprise Again were in the Quilt Odyssey quilt show in Hershey, PA, July 26 – 29. Miss. Backroad Treasures won 2^nd place in the Large Applique category and Pineapple Surprise Again won 1^st place in the Miniature category. She also has two quilts accepted in the IQA show in Houston this year. They are Mississippi Backroad Treasures in the Large Innovative Appliqué category and Carnivale’ in the Miniature category
	"Let there Be Luminaries" by Dorinda Evans of Madison was accepted in the Nashville AQS Show. Pieced by Dorinda Evans, and quilted by Gayle Wallace, LA. 10 kaleidoscope blocks with 156 pieces each floating in a constructed background of deep purples,blues, greens
	"When Worlds Collide", by Martha Ginn, Hattiesburg was1st place winner in Mixed Media category of South Mississippi Art Association Focused Art Show April 20-21, 2007, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Only three categories were accepted into this focused show--Drawing, Photography, and Mixed Medium. There were 185 overall entries, and 45 in Mixed Media. See www.marthaginn.com for more on Martha's innovative work.
	Judy Spiers' "Carnivale" won first place in Miniatures the 2007 AQS show in Paducah! This is the fourth year in a row Judy has had a quilt juried into AQS. This one is 18" x 18" and has 4,645 pieces!
	Corinth Quilter Wins Best of Show at Mountain Quiltfest! Norma Grissom, a member of the Needle Chasers Quilt Guild that meets in Iuka, won the prestigious Best of Show award at the recent “A Mountain Quiltfest” quilt show in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Grissom’s quilt won over 375 other quilts in judged competition at the March 14-18^th show. The quilt also earned the most votes for favorite by visitors to the show, giving it the distinction of Viewers’ Choice, too. Norma won $4,000 and a Brother NX450Q sewing machine for the judged prize, and $250 more for the Viewers’ Choice award. The quilt, “Hearts and Flowers,” is hand-appliquéd, and hand-quilted in the Baltimore album style, and took Norma about 2 years to complete. It was made for her daughter Peggy Winters, of Rienzi, but she won’t actually get it until it makes an appearance in other regional and national shows, said Grissom. Norma was inspired by the book Red and Green by Jeana Kimball, and added additional elements from other patterns to make the design her own.
	Judy Spiers' Quilt Pineapple Surprise Again makes cover of Oh Wow! Miniatures book! Here she is busy signing books at the recent AQS show. Thanks to Judy and David Spiers for the photos
	Julia Graber's quilt "Pineapple Rose & Buds" has been selected as a finalist for the New Quilts from an Old Favorite 2007: Rose of Sharon contest. To say the least, ... I'm excited again!!!!!
	Judy Spiers Wins Again! Our own Judy Spiers has won first place at Houston's International Quilt Festival for her miniature quilt Pineapple Surprise Again.
	Nine Patch Stars Wins Online AQS Contest Thanks to lots of MQA votes, Judy Spiers' Nine Patch Stars won 2nd place in the AQS Online Quilt Contest The prizes for second place are: my little quilt will hang in a special display of online quilt winners at the AQS quilt show in April 2007, as well as, $750 in cash (yeah, Hancock’s here I come!), AQS library of books, EQ software, 40x70 Quilter’s Rule cutting mat, and a Brooklyn Revolver (a turntable, not a gun). The total prize package for 2^nd place is estimated at $1321!!!!!
Pinapple Surprise 20" x 20" by Judy Spiers	Congratulations from all of us at MQA to Judy Spiers! Her miniature quilt, Pineapple Surprise won Best in Show Miniature quilt at the American Quilt Society Show 2006 in Paducah! It was also recently photographed by Quilters Newsletter Magazine, hopefully, for an upcoming article about miniature quilts. It measures 20”x20” and has 88 blocks, with 8 of the blocks being half blocks and 80 whole blocks. All of the blocks are totally pieced, including the black blocks and the border. Each of the whole blocks have 77 pieces with about half of the pieces measuring 1/16^th inch wide and the rest measuring about 1/8^th inch wide. The quilt is made using only one block, which is a Pineapple block and only the color placement, the size and the shape of each block have been changed to create the design. The quilt has a total of 6,580 pieces.

Random Access by Jackie Watkins	Congratulations to Jackie Watkins from all us at MQA! Her quilt Random Access was selected for exhibit at the American Quilt Society Show 2006 in Paducah! Random Access is a computer term, as Kathryn is getting her masters in computer security at Johns Hopkins. Random Access also refers to the way I would go to my material stash and access a piece of material randomly that sort of looked like the picture I was using as a pattern.

Show & Tell Time for YOU!

We all know our favorite time of the meetings is show and tell, so here is an online version for you. To submit quilts, please send a digital photo, maker (name, county, guild memberships) and quilt information (size, techniques, awards, date of completion, additional quilters) to webmaster. Submissions are subject to editing by the webmaster.