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Article: Annual quilting show focuses on color and charity
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- May 5, 2009
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Quilts come in all shapes and sizes, all colors and styles. Some
are pieced; some are appliqueed; some are tied.
And while beautiful quilts are still being made the old-
fashioned way -- by hand -- in recent years, the fastest growing
niche in the quilting world has been machine quilting. Spurred by
the introduction of long-arm and other quilting machines for home
use, the genre has grown rapidly, says Jennifer Pond, spokeswoman
for the Sixth Annual Home Machine Quilting Show, which will be held
this week at the South Towne Exposition Center.
The event features classes, demonstrations, the latest
technologies, a judged quilt competition (with more than $23,000 in
cash awards and prizes), ...