Be sure to look up at Panasonic's 28 x 38 foot Astrovision screen if you're in New York's Times Square during the holidays. Four times each hour you'll see quilts that were part of an exhibition sponsored by NYC's City Quilter earlier this fall. Quilts in the sequence include Judy Doenias' Carmen Miranda, Anita Grossman Solomon's Key West Beauty, In Our Time, a Dear Jane quilt by Judy Doenias and Diane Rode Schneck, Ellen Yamaguchi's New York City Lights and Cathy Izzo's Batik Schoolhouse.

The illustration is a peek at the black colorway of Olde New York, one of the fabrics in The City Quilter's New York City collection. A fabric depicting NYC's subway map is available, too, and more designs are on the way. The City Quilter's Dale Riehl says:

Most visitors--as well as New Yorkers--have always loved our extensive selection of New York-related fabrics. But we could never predict when a great design would come in, nor control how long it would be in print. So this is a logical move to control our own fabric destiny, as well as let us offer a unique product featuring our favorite city.

Order products online if a trip to NYC isn't in your plans.

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It's about that time again, and I've had lots of emails asking if I plan to do a New Year's Day Mystery Quilt. I do, and I've been kicking around ideas, but your input can help. Here's a poll, and it will let you choose multiple answers. The results will be most helpful if you limit your responses to your Top 2 choices. It's impossible to create a quilt that everyone will like, but I'd like to create something that falls into the general "top picks" of the majority. You can also use the Comments area to voice your opinions.

I'm caught up with photo gallery submissions, at least temporarily. I do need to remind everyone of something -- I often receive form submissions but no quilt photos. It's a two-step process, and I can't work with one without the other. I always have so many to do that it's difficult to write everyone individually when that happens. If you do not see your quilt, it means I couldn't match-up a form with a picture.

Hearts and Flowers is a brand new gallery. There are probably older photos that need to be moved into it, but for now, all of these quilts are brand new submissions. All of the following galleries have updates:

Baby Quilts Gallery
T-Shirts Gallery
Rag Quilts Gallery
Cancer Awareness Gallery
String Quilts Gallery
Ugly Quilts Gallery
Circular Themed Quilts
Sampler Quilts Gallery
Patriotic Quilts Gallery
One Patch Quilts
Scrap Quilts
Applique Quilts
Themed & Novelty Quilts
Log Cabin Quilts
Star Quilts
Christmas Quilts
Quilts with a Square Theme

_{Quilt by Kathy Stockbridge}

The new Show & Tell feature is pretty cool. There are four categories so far, with more coming. The most recent, added just yesterday, is a place to submit your fabric postcards. The link in the title leads to the actual submissions, but you'll find a button within each of those pages that takes you to a form you can use to submit your own. I still have to approve them, but it's an easier process than what I use for our galleries (I have been sorting through about 400 photo submissions this morning and plan to work on those over the next several days).

There are just a few postcards so far, so please consider adding yours to the batch. Lots of quilters will be working on cards during the next few weeks -- your photos can help inspire someone who's trying to jump into a new project.

More Show & Tells
First Quilts
Most Memorable Quilting Ah-Ha! Moments
Quilts Made from Swapped Blocks or Block Lotto Wins