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AQS Quilt Show & Contest Des Moines IO

More than 1,000 quilts will be on display at this year’s AQS Quilt Show & Contest in Des Moines, Iowa, October 6 – 9, 2010. Registration and other general information is now available online.

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• "It's not about patience, or the patterns she's learned| It's not for the ribbons or the money she's earned| Her heart is so full, it spills out through her fingers| Right into each quilt that she sews| In the heart of a quilt, she's home. - from 'In the Heart of a Quilt' song by Cathy Miller, The Singing Quilter
• Art needlework (a type of surface embroidery popular in the later nineteenth century) was introduced to America at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
• The most expensive quilt ever sold at auction is a Civil War-era quilt known as the Reconciliation Quilt, bought for $264,000 at Sotheby's in 1991.