DiAnna Dekle, left, learns how to use a long arm quilting machine from instructor Margo Clabo, right, while at the Bernina Sew N Quilt Studio off of Shallowford Road early Tuesday afternoon. The American Quilting Society , a large quilting organization, is expected to be coming to Chattanooga for their yearly convention.VIDEO
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IF YOU GOTickets, registration, and hotel reservations will be available well in advance of the event. Online registration for tickets, classes and special events at AQS QuiltWeek™-Chattanooga is expected to open June 9, 2014.ABOUT THE AMERICAN QUILTER’S SOCIETYThe American Quilter’s Society is the largest quilting membership organization in the world. For almost 30 years, AQS has been the leading voice in quilting inspiration and advice, through a broad suite of products–magazines, books, live events, contests, workshops, online networks, patterns, fabric, and catalogs. At AQS, we believe that with inspiration and advice, the creatively minded can take their quilting projects beyond what even they had imagined. That is why inspiration is central to everything we do. The leading authors in quilting choose to publish with AQS; the best in quilt artistry select AQS events to display their work; the newest quilters learn from the knowledge and inspiration of AQS members. www.americanquilter.comChattanooga’s biggest convention* Who: American Quilter’s Society* Event: AQS QuiltWeek show* When: Sept. 10-13, 2014, similar shows in 2015 and 2016* Expected attendance: 20,000* Economic impact: $30 million over three years* Where: Chattanooga Convention Center
Her grandmother did not teach her to quilt. Neither did her mother.
The moment Jody Burch decided to start patching and stitching and topping was when she turned off the lights at the end of a quilting show last year, put on by her chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star.
For a moment she was the only person in the room, and looking at the walls she felt emotional. She thought of the years the quilts took to make, the changes the families went through as the patterns took form.