March 2007

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Blanket Statements is an AQSG quarterly publication. Each issue has at least one research article, AQSG news, research notes and queries, quilt world news, and exhibit information. All members receive Blanket Statements.

The Winner of "Aunt Martha's" 1931 Quilt Block Contest, Rose Marie Lowery and the Modernistic Star Pattern by Susan Price Miller

In This Issue
10 Here and There
12 A Princess in the New England Quilt Museum
16 Strippy Quilts
18 I Remember Mama

Call for Papers

Support for AQSG

Renewals and Directory Information

focus on AQSG
From the AQSG President by Xenia Cord

Calendar

Research Fund Applications for 2008

New England AQSG Area Representatives' Third Annual Quilt Day by Bonnie Dwyer

Gift the Gift of AQSG

In Praise of Mentoring

News Flash! Uncoverings Database Now Available Online by Jean Carlton

Regional Quilt Study Days: by Lorie Chase, New Hampshire Area Representative and Xenia Cord, Midwest Fabric Study Group

Membership Directory, Additions and Corrections

Seminar news
Scholarships for Seminar 2008 Available

Here and There: A Persoanl Expression Quilt in the Seminar Live Auction by Xenia Cord

Set Your Sights for Lowell, Massachusetts, and Seminar 2007 by Judy Brott Buss

2007 Keynote Address, Diane Fagan Affleck: "Just New from the Mills Revisted"

Important! Proposals for 2008 Study Center Presentations

A Princess in the New England Quilt Museum by Anita B. Loscalzo

Unique and Diverse, Strippy Quilts in the United States by Hazel Carter, edited by Karen Alexander

Places to go
I Remember Mama, New England Quilt Museum
Stars Over Pennsylvania, Heritage Center Museum, Lancaster, PA

Quilt Odyssey, Hershey Lodge, Hershey, PA

More Places to go

Quilt Camp in the Pines, Flagstaff, AZ
Quilting in the Desert, Phoenix, AZ
Winterthur Exhibits and Lectures: Quilts in the Material World: Martha Ann Ricks: From Tennessee to Liberia and Windsor Castle, lecture by Kyra E. Hicks; From Feather Ticks to Fiber Analysis: Amish Quiltmaking Traditions and Revivals lecture by Janneken Smucker; Bernard Herman speaks on Gee's Bend; Quilt Documentation Day for the Delaware Quilt Documentation Project

Textile Society of America's Eleventh Biennial Symposium, Textiles as Cultural Expressions, Honolulu, HI

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Seminar 2007 Study Centers: Putting the Quilt Back on the Bed with Lorie Chase; To Frame or Not to Frame wity Judy Grow; Pennsylvania Quilts with Lucinda Cawley; Sample Collections at the AMerican Textile History Museum with Diane Fagan Affleck; Quilts and Quiltmakers Associated with the Anti-Slavery and Abolition Movements, 1840-1965 with Marjorie Childers; Research New England Signature Quilts with Pam Weeks; Seeing Red: The Eternal Desire for the Perfect Color with Dawn Heefner and Deb Roberts
Printed Textiles from New England Mills with Margaret Ordonez, Linda Welters, and Karen Herbaugh; French Lessons: Survey and Study of French Quilts and Related Fabric with Deb Roberts; New England Quilts Contrasts and Similarities with their Southern Sisters with Deb Cooney and Polly Mellow; Edge Finished: A Sampling of Techniques with Diane Shink; Anonymous and Me: A Study in Multigenerational Quilts with Mary Kerr