{"id":11079,"date":"2025-02-05T13:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T20:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/?p=11079"},"modified":"2025-02-05T13:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T20:03:18","slug":"start-your-semi-quins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/start-your-semi-quins\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Your Semi-Quins!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Here’s an important deadline for one of your quilt projects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 4th, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the upcoming 250th anniversary of our Independence Day. It is known as the Semiquincentennial, but I call it the Semi-Quin because I am finishing my 3rd quilt for this huge event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After attending the AQSG event last year, I realized that 50 and 100 years from now, there will be people studying and admiring the Semi-Quin quilts we make today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would you like to join me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In honor of Black History Month, I’d like to share with you one of the 2 quilts I’ve made for a Semi-Quin exhibit at the Virginia Quilt Museum next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was inspired by a visit to Mount Vernon last year. Because my brother works as an architect in Washington DC, and because I love to visit the museums and historic sites in our nation’s capital, I go to Wash DC about once a year. This was my 4th visit to Mt Vernon over several decades. I have focused on different topics each time I visit, by signing up for a guided tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time I signed up for a relatively new tour – The Enslaved People of Mount Vernon. Honestly I had no idea that over 500 slaves lived and worked at Mt Vernon during George Washington’s lifetime. So I decided to make a quilt about this, because I figured others would appreciate learning this important piece of American history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have also made a quilt about the Wild Ponies of Assateague Island for this exhibit, and I am finishing a larger quilt now to celebrate the 250 years of precious American Wilderness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details:
I used Golden Fluid Acrylics on an Evolon<\/a> background. Then I freemotion stitched the architectural details, the red calligraphy is a freemotion satin stitch, then created the figures and trees with fused applique, and did more freemotion stitching to finish. It is 20″ x 20″ – stitched on Bernina 790 and Q20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you think is important to put in a quilt, for our 250th Anniversary?
Please join me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharing our passion for fabric…..
Luana and Paul<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travel\/Lecture Dates:
Feb 25 – Mar 5 – Solo Gallery @ Kyoto Quilt Festival Feb 28 – Mar 2
Apr 3-6 – SAQA Conference – St Pete, Florida
April 23-25 – Washington DC
April 27- May 3 – Alegre Retreat<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit eQuilter’s Instagram<\/a>, Pinterest<\/a> or TikTok pages<\/a> for Color and Design ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See Luana’s Flickr Photo Pages<\/a> for travel images, comment on our blog<\/a>, or follow us on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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