AMERICAN QUILTER Goes International
No, no, no….no trips for me…I’m happy to be in sunny, Minnesota this week. It’s 75 and sunny (for now) and perfect gardening weather!
American Quilter’s July issue —including a free motion quilt tutorial by Yours Truly-— is on newsstands everywhere in the US…
…but what about all our friends, followers and readers abroad… It’s time to get them in on the fun! 
THE GIVEAWAY
Just tell me the city and country where you live (I’d love to hear something special about your city as well)…
Entries must be submitted by Friday, June 20, 2014. Winners will be announced Monday, June 23, 2014.
Leave a note in the comments section or on the “Contact Form” below this post. (If those two features don’t work for you….send me an e-mail…lckennedy@hotmail.com. )
FOUR WINNERS
There will be four winners chosen: one from the US and three from anywhere in the world!
SUBSCRIBING TO AMERICAN QUILTER–INTERNATIONALLY
Did you know you can subscribe to American Quilter Magazine….HERE….
The subscription is just $25/year and international subscribers pay just $20 more for shipping. (or you can opt for the digital version of the magazine for no additional fee.)
LOTS MORE QUILTING THIS WEEK
Following the Line,
Lori
PS…All images, tutorials and information are the property of Lori Kennedy at The Inbox Jaunt and are intended for personal use only. Feel free to re-blog, Pin, or share with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt. For all other uses, please contact me at lckennedy@hotmail.com.
61 comments
Jayne Jx
Hi, I’m from Locks Heath just outside Southampton in sunny
England! Unusual I know but we’re enjoying it while we can. Locks Heath and surrounding area used to be a major strawberry growing area in the early days of train travel. Fields and fields of the lovely berries used to get sent up to London!
I’m a recent visitor to your lovely blog and I love your tutorials. So interesting and informative. Thanks for including people outside of USA in your giveaway. You have some great bloggers over there but we don’t get included in giveaways which is such a shame. Thanks again!!!
Jayne
Giovanna
Hi Lori,I live in Tarvisio in Italy, which is a mountain town of 4,500 inhabitants, bordering with Austria and Slovenia. During the winter we have the slopes for skiing, while in summer we can make beautiful walks or go to the lakes, also on Mount Lussari there is a small sanctuary much frequented by the people of the three neighboring states. A greeting and a “good luck” to all the participants! Giovanna
Claire
Hi Lori. I live in beautiful Mount Desert, ME. We are on an island off the coast of ME that is home to Acadia National Park and well known Bar Harbor. The island is home to much, much more than the well known attractions like, Thuya and Asticou gardens in Northeast Harbor, Rockefeller gardens in Seal Harbor, Gilley Museum in Southwest Harbor, and so much more. I love your site and visit several times each week. I’ve told all my quilting buddies about your site!
Kezzamac
Hello Lori, I’m yet another Aussie who couldn’t miss the chance to let you know that, while we might be from ‘down under’, we are a bustling hive of crafters over here. I am a beginner quilter but my fascination is with fmq which I seem to have a good feel for. Retirement looms in the next year, so for now I am arming myself with all the books, ideas, resources, tutorials, internet sites etc that I can. I am using my mother’s 50 year old Bernina 730 which I love – both my (Sydney) city slicker daughter and my (Tamworth) country bumpkin daughter are in awe of what I am able to do on it, thanks to your tutorials. I am a dedicated viewer of your site and in awe of what can be produced with a continuous line of stitching. Your teaching is very appreciated.
kattail...Kathy Upton
I live in the little village of Marie, Monroe County (all farmland), West Virginia, USA. Marie is tiny….population about 90….and we lost our post office many years ago. My mailing address is Ballard even though that’s about 15 miles away.
Lin
I live in Seattle, Washington, more specifically one of the culturally diverse neighborhoods of West Seattle. I grew up on a farm in Iowa. I currently belong to a W. Seattle quilt group, a traditional quilt guild (about 30 miles away), and a well-known Contemporary Art quilt group. Seattle is a beautiful city, with its many salt and freshwater parks, and panoramic views. From my hillside home, I can see from Mt. Baker (to the North, near the Canadian border) to Mt. Rainier (to the SE), with the Cascade foothills in between. The view to the West is the Olympic Mountains. You may not realize that mid-summer here is very dry, and often we don’t get any rain in July/August for multiple weeks. Of course, our NW coastal climate of mild and wet winters is no secret. Thank you, Angela, for your wonderful designs! I integrated your star design into the border of a baby quilt that I finished earlier this year, and the new parents are thrilled with it!
Holly Ann W.
Our family ranch is in northwestern South Dakota, about 34 miles sw of the town of Lemmon, situated on the border between North Dakota and South Dakota. Lemmon is famous for the world’s largest Petrified Wood Park (and pioneer museum). Also, our new Grand River Museum features ranch, cowboy, native, and prehistoric local dinosaur exhibits. The Dakotas are celebrating 125 years of statehood this year … articles were signed by the President the same day in one ceremony … State names were hidden so neither state could declare entering the Union before the other. We are forever conjoined twins in statehood.
Paula Coleman
I live in Topeka, KS in the good old USA! Our city is special because it is the capitol of Kansas, with the most beautiful capitol building you would ever see. Lots of wonderful people live here and we have a wonderful quilt shop called Stitching Traditions!
Mary Duhon
Ok- looks like we need some representation from the Deep South – Louisiana. Yes, Cajuns quilt too! I live near Lafayette, LA, am of Acadian heritage – meaning my ancestors were origionally from France- migrated to Nova Scotia in the early 1600’s to escape religious persecution, famine and plague and then were deported “en masse” in the mid 1700’s to various eastern and southern ports with most of them resettling in south Louisiana. (We have some beautiful quilts to depict the deportation in our local museums) I love this site and just finished a baby quilt with Lori’s turtles sewn into the background. Enjoying today’s topic thoroughly- how interesting to see where we all come from.
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Can you send a picture of your turtle quilt? I’d love to see it!
Rhonda
I live in Correll, MN but I was born and raised in a little town in Idaho called Homedale. We are currently in Idaho seeing my mother and I brought her a quilt for her birthday. I am just starting out with FMQ and love how easy you break down your patterns!
Rosemary
I live in Pie Town, New Mexico. What is special about Pie Town is that nobody knows where it is! Some people stopped and asked a man if he could tell them where Pie Town was and he said, “You are in it!” Every year during Pie Town Festival, there is plenty of pie to eat and a rodeo. So if you want a fabulous piece of pie, stop by the Pie-o-neer but only on Thurs.- Sunday because that is when they are open.
Chantal
Hi from a suburb of Montréal, Québec, Canada. French speaking. Learn the metric system when I was in school, hopefully the other side of the ruler was still in inches. So I was prepared for quilting.
Irene Hunter
And yet another Aussie – well, a Canadian/Aussie that is. I grew up near Niagara Falls ON, but after marrying a fabulous gentle Aussie giant, now live in Australia near the little town of Tuncurry NSW. I belong to a wonderful quilt group that meets at Black Head Beach Surf LifeSaving Club; overlooking the beach. It’s tough, but someone has to be there 🙂 Several of us follow your blog and discuss your wonderful FMQ ideas.
Joy F
Hi Lori, It’s so interesting to see where everyone is from. I’m sure you noticed that very few of the “big” cities are mentioned. There are people outside of the capitals! I’m from Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada. Our city of 25,000 people is situated in the Rocky Mountain trench. We have skiing, boating, swimming, heritage sites and the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel. Lots of reasons to visit us. Thanks for the giveaway.
sunshinetas
I live in the most amazing place in the world, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia! Google Launceston Cataract Gorge and you will see just how special this place is!!
Angela
I live in Coolum Beach, on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia – it’s not really a city and is about 1 hour’s drive north of the city of Brisbane. It’s pretty warm here all year round – in fact we are supposedly having a “cold snap” temperatures of “only” 23 degees – that’s around 75 degrees in your part of the world! I live your blog – became a follower after finding it recently – your FMQ is so inspirational – thank you!
Cornelia
Hi, oh well, I think, Switzerland isn’t represented till yet. I live in Wileroltigen, Switzerland, a small village about 20 km away from the maincity Berne. We are on the beautiful countryside, near three lakes, that’s why it’s also called the lakeland.
By the way I love your tutorials and take a lot of ideas from them for quilting.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Annie L
Hi Lori,
Thank you so much for your daily updates. I love your Tuesday tutorials.
I live in a beautiful village in the North East of England, not far from Alnwick Castle (where parts of Harry Potter were filmed)
We are also close to Howick Hall, home to the former prime minister Earl Grey. His wife so loved a cup of tea that she had her own blended to enjoy with friends when entertaining in London. The birth of Earl grey tea! I am so grateful to Lady Grey as I enjoy the tea also. Unfortunately, the Family were not businessmen and failed to register a trade mark for the tea, so never made a penny for the product.
We are a short drive to the coast where we love to go walking, a great way to relax listening to the sea.
Sue Faithfull
Hi I live in the beautiful hills around Perth Australia. I can see other Aussie posts but have to make sure Western Australia is represented here as well. We are the most isolated City in the World and in my humble opinion the greatest!
Tammy
I live in Van Buren Arkansas. We have a lot of different interesting things here like we have had movies made here downtown area. There is a great train ride that goes thru the Boston Mountain on the Arkansas and Missouri Railroad route of the 1920’s. It goes thru a tunnel and goes over the Arkansas river on old fashioned rail trusses above the water. The ride is great!!
Verna
I’ve lived in the Duluth, MN, area my whole life. Duluth just won the Best Place to Live contest by Outside Magazine!
Emma
I live in the town of Girgarre in Australia. With a population of 180, it can’t really be classified as a city!! It does however have an annual music festival, and hosts monthly farmers markets that attract thousands of people from around the state.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Deborah DeBerry
I sent a message somewhere. Here is the answer to your request. I live in Florence, Mississippi. It used to be a four way stop. It is growing daily.
Laura
I live in South Bend, Indiana, USA which is in the Northern part of the state, within a few miles of the Michigan border. South Bend is well known for the University of Notre Dame, however I am not far from Amish country to the east and the beauty of Lake Michigan to the west! I live in an urban area, however within 5 minutes I can enjoy the rolling fields and farmland.
Ness
Hi Lori! I live at Sundance, Wyoming a small cowboy town in the NE corner of the Cowboy state. 🙂 Mostly cattle ranches around here and we are in the west edge of the Black Hills. My husband grew up here on his family’s ranch and I grew up just across the border in South Dakota also on a ranch. We are used to wide open spaces. 🙂 My husbands job took us to FL for ten years. We came home to Wy for a visit one summer and I was driving down the interstate, my girls in the back seat pretty quiet and then one of them piped up and said “Mom, where is everyone?” LOL! I said look there comes a pickup on on the horizen and you watch, they will wave. Sure enough they waved and the girls happily waved back. We got to move back here about 8-9 years ago and so happy to be home. And the best part is my girls both live with their husbands within a half hour from me. :)!
Our winters are long…it’s been a cold wet spring and my garden froze twice this last week…today it hit 87!…guess summer showed up!
Leslie
I live in the tiny mountain town of Clipper Mills, California. It is about two hours northeast of Sacramento in the lower part of the Sierra Nevada mountains. We are smack dab in the Plumas National Forest, and I feel very blessed to be able to live in such a beautiful area. I am part of a quilt group in another tiny town – Brownsville – where we meet weekly to work on service quilts along with our personal projects. Last year the guild donated over 300 quilts to local charitable groups. Another blessing!
PT in SC
Like Barbara, I live just outside Greenville, SC on a century farm surrounded by pine trees. I have enjoyed reading about everyone’s home town.
lmenslow
I currently live in Glen Gardner, NJ. Today I am in Bigfork MT meeting with our realtor and builder. We are building a Craftsman Cottage with a quilt studio all to myself and will be retiring here next spring. Bigfork lies outside Glacier National Park. What fun. Glen Gardner is located within a northwestern farm county. Whoever nicknamed NJ the garden state must have lived within our boundaries.
Leslie
I have been to Big Fork – over 35 years ago! A friend of mine was in a summer stock company there and a few of us went to visit for a week. An absolutely beautiful area! Best of luck on your home building and retirement!
Ness
Meant to say I LIVE in Wy but yes..I love here too. haha!
Ness
I’m so jealous! Love love MT!! Happy for you! 🙂 I love in Wy and we go to Glacier and Yellowstone all the time. Beautiful! I can never get enough of it! 🙂
suzjones
I live in a small semi-rural town called Beaudesert in South East Queensland, Australia. We are part of the beautiful Scenic Rim that is dotted with mountains, farmland, wineries and is a wonderful place to live. 🙂
Wendy Fittler
Hooray! Another Aussie!
I, like a couple of other contributors, sent a message but it is not here now. Mystery?
I am from beautiful George Town, in Tasmania, Australia’s smallest state. Tasmania is an island and GT is on the Tamar River right near the north coast. We have beautiful beaches, both river and coastal, and our town is the oldest town in Australia (this is not counting cities!) There is a population of 8 1/2 thousand and a community of really lovely, caring people. I have lived here for over 50 years (moved to GT when I was just eleven) and the only thing that would make me move would be to move closer to my son and his wife and my precious two year old grandson, where I am currently staying in Victoria.
Back to GT: our town focuses heavily on heritage and tourism but also, just a few kilometres south of the town is an aluminium smelter, a ferro- manganese alloy foundry and a timber industry. I wish I could send some pictures, but if you Google George Town Tasmania, you should be able to see some of the beautiful scenery.
About ten years ago, our quilt group and others in the community commenced a project for the town’s bicentennial celebrations, making a series of three quilts depicting the assets and history of our town. It was a six year project and when finished, was presented to the community for display. I am proud to have been a part of this!
Kaye M.
It;s been fun to read where everyone lives! I live on a farm near Chapman, Nebraska in the southcentral part of the state.
Marta
After 35+ years in FL, we retired to south Georgia to a lake area to be near our grands. We had health issues and didn’t get out much to make friends. I was ready to move back to FL to my friends after our family moved away up North. There was a notice in a local paper about a quilt guild meeting in a town a few miles away. I attended, joined, and as they say, the rest is history. Although I had been sewing since I was age 10, never had tried quilting. The group has been such a source of friendship, inspiration, and, oh yes, help in learning to quilt. We have welcomed several new ladies since I joined 3 years ago. We also pray for one another’s needs and make comfort quilts for them. My husband and I thoroughly enjoy living at the lake… few houses are here and only on big holidays are people gathering for recreation. Neighbors are sincere and helpful..I have to say we landed in a paradise. Marta, Lake Lindsay Grace, Georgia (out in the sticks but we have wi-fi !) PS I wish there was place to post photo of the lake. I am still in awe of it.
Janice
New Englander here. NH is a great state. One of the few that can boast seashore, lakes, mountains, and “flat lands”, and all close enough to visit in a single day!
Marta
It was so lovely when I spent a summer in Keene in 1961. Always remember how nice the people were. One of my many good memories.
Edna Kidd
I left a message but don’t see it anywhere. I live in Nitro, WV, where we have beautiful mountains everywhere you look…
daisyandjack
wow Lori – thanks for including us down under residents in your giveaway ! I live in Tumbarumba, Australia. Tumbarumba is a very small rural town which sits in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains – the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric scheme is the biggest engineering project undertaken in Australia – started in the 1950s it took 25 years to complete !
Tomomi McElweee
I live in nice countryside of Carlow, Ireland. All are green around here!
Paula
I live in Valdez, Alaska, sometimes referred to as the Little Switzerland of Alaska. I look out my sewing room window to incredible mountain and ocean views every single day. The ever changing snow and sun and clouds on the mountains and sea make it a new view every day…oh wait, that’s my old brain that does that! Most of the time the post office thinks we are not part of the United States, but we are 😀 Valdez is the terminus for the Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline and home to Valdez Quilt Festival, held in September. Thanks for all of your inspiration Lori!
Suzanne Beech
I live in Pinellas Park Florida. It is a suburb of St Petersburg Florida. There are no fabric shops…. not even a Joanns in town… very sad! The weather is usually sunny. ..tho in the winter it does go down to the 60’s…. and gasp. … yes even into the 50’s for a few days!!!!!
Barb E
I left a message but don’t see it so I am sending a second one. I live in Fort Erie, Ontario. We are just across the Niagara River from Buffalo, NY. Thanks for having another contest. Love all your blogs.
Suzanne
I live in Blezard Valley, Ontario, Canada. It’s nice to see a *Giveaway* that takes international quilters into consideration, thank you.
Cindy
I live in South Western Ontario, A 20 minute drive to Lake Erie and an hour to Lake Ontario.
Diane H
I live in beautiful Caledon, Ontario Canada. Our little hamlet of Palgrave will be hosting the 2015 Pan Am Games Equestrian events. Lots of excitement and preparations going on.
Helen Sullivan Sini
I live in a beautiful medieval Italian town called Assisi, where we just held the 5th Annual Meeting of Patchwork Café, an on-line Italian quilting forum. The PC ladies have posted a slew of photos of the “Raduno” on the forum Facebook page, if anyone wants to see pix of Assisi. Finally a Giveaway that takes non-US residents into consideration! By the way, I adore your Tuesday tutorials. They make free-motion quilting look so easy and your designs are so beautiful and original. Inspiration for finally getting up the courage to machine quilt!
Barbara DeBolt
I love Assisi ! I’ve visited it twice from the Georgia, USA. If I had to pick my favorite place to live it would be Assisi.
Marianne
It sounds wonderful in Assisi!
glenda
I live in Tomah, WI. Grew up up mostly in Pendleton,Oregon. Miss the west even though I have been here 40 years. Love your site. Trying to learn free motion quilting,but really suck at it. Thanks for all your info.
Marta
We enjoy Tomah…my inlaws lived in Neillsville for their retirement from Chicago-Windy City. We went to Hatfield-Lake Arbutus for years. I miss the birch trees.. LOL..
Carol Allen Hungerford
I live in Paso Robles, California.
Margaret
I lie in St, Helens Oregon on the lower Columbia River, 30 miles west of Portland
Marsha
I love in Lyle, Washington in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge.
BARBARA
Lori,
We live in Greenville, SC. a lovely, small city with quality events “happenin” all the time. It is very cosmopolitan & growing. Our large industries are Michilin, BMW, Hitachi, etc. We also have Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s along with the usual markets, & The Peace Centre (Off Broadway shows & renown musicians), The Biltmore is in our back door as is Grove Park.
We have a female GOVERNOR who has done well butting heads with “the good ole boy’s network”. We are a diverse area with talented people for quilting, woodworking, weaving, etc.
I love your free motion pieces—has m
otivated me back into our quilt studio. Thank you!
Chris
Thanks lori the rest of the world exists hurrah !!!!! Love this site xx
Jean Garces
I live in Camarillo, CA. Born and raised in Ventura, CA. I’ve been quilting since the late 70’s!
maryflaum
I live in Fairview Oregon, a small town 20 minutes east of Portland. Quilting and all things sewing are really big in Oregon. I love your blog!!
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