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My book titled, A New Look at Log Cabin Quilts,
published by C&T Publishing is available from Flavin or Amazon.com
The following quilts are featured as patterns:

Geese in Flight    

    Up at Sunrise
Sustainable           Moms and Babes
Mainely Pines         Row Houses
Canterbury Fields         Carolina Row
  Hilltop Houses
Flavin's teaching schedule includes:
  
March 2010.  Nimble Thimbles Quilt Guild, Mauldin, South Carolina.
March 2010.  Busy Bees Quilt Guild, Fountain Inn, South Carolina.
March 2010.  Jackson Quilters, Jackson, Mississippi
May 2010.  Madison Station Quilters, Madison, Alabama
June 3-6, 2010.  North Carolina Quilt Symposium.  Johnson and Wales University.  Charlotte, North Carolina.
Coloring with Fabric in Creative Patchwork -- Full Day Workshop
Colorful and Creative Log Cabin Diamonds -- Full Day Workshop
Log Cabin Diamonds and Triangles -- Half Day Workshop
June 17-19, 2010.  Minnesota Quilters 2010 Show and Conference, "Quilting in the Quarry," St. Cloud, Minnesota.  (note: classes begin on June 16).   www.mnquilt.org
June 16 -- Introduction to Kaleidoscope Patchwork -- Full Day Workshop
June 17 -- Treatment Goals of a Quiltaholic -- Lecture
June 17 -- The Versatile Log Cabin Block -- Half Day Workshop
June 18 -- Colorful and Creative Log Cabin Diamonds -- Full Day Workshop
June 19 -- Integrating Patchwork into Log Cabin Designs -- Full Day Workshop
June 2010.  Ozark Piecemaker Quilt Guild, Springfield, Missouri
August 2010.  Cherokee Rose Quilt Guild, Lithia Springs, Georgia.
September 2010.  Flying Needles Quilt Guild, Niceville, Florida
September 2010.  Brazos Bluebonnet Quilt Guild, Bryan/College, Station, Texas.
September 2010.  Cotton Boll Quilters, Covington, Georgia.
October 2010.  2010 AQS Quilt Show-Des Moines.  Des Moines, Iowa.  www.americanquilter.com
Oct 6 -- Pictorial Log Cabins -- Half Day Workshop
Oct 6 -- Discovering One's Quilting Heritage -- Half Day Workshop
Oct 7 -- Innovative Log Cabin Courthouse Steps -- Full Day Workshop
Oct 8 -- Log Cabin Houses -- Full Day Workshop
Oct 9 -- Treatment Goals of a Quiltaholic -- Brunch Presentation
November 2010.  International Quilt Festival.  Houston, Texas. www.quilts.com
Nov 1 -- Innovative Log Cabin Courthouse Steps -- Full Day Workshop
Nov 1 -- Preparing to Teach -- Half Day Workshop (6-9 pm)
Nov 2 -- Log Cabin Houses -- Full Day Workshop
Nov 3 -- Log Cabins on Point -- Full Day Workshop
Nov 4 -- Colorful and Creative Log Cabin Diamonds -- Full Day Workshop
November 2010.  Hot Springs Village Quilt Guild.  Hot Springs Village, Arkansas.
February, 2011.  Cobblestone Quilters Guild.  Charleston, South Carolina.
March 18-19, 2011.  Patoka Valley Quilt Show, Ferdinand, Indiana.  Contact Chris Ridley via email:  ridley@psci.net
April 2011.  Spring International Quilt Festival.  Cincinnati, Ohio.  www.quilts.com
Apr 7 -- Innovative Log Cabin Courthouse Steps -- Full Day Workshop
Apr 8 -- Integrating Patchwork into Log Cabin Designs -- Full Day Workshop
Apr 9 -- Denimania -- Creating from Blue Jeans -- Half Day Workshop
Apr 9 -- Saturday Night Sampler -- Turning the Corner with Courthouse Steps
April 15-20, 2011.  Empty Spools Seminar.  Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California.  Five-day workshop: Colorful and Creative Log Cabin Diamonds.
May 21-22, 2011.  The Colorado Quilting Council, Incorporated.  Wheat Ridge, Colorado.   www.coloradoquiltcouncil.com
June 23-26, 2011.  Vermont Quilt Festival, Northfield, Vermont.  www.vqf.org
July 29-31, 2011.  Maine Quilts 2011, Pine Tree Quilters Guild.  www.mainequilts.org
March 2012.  Wiregrass Quilt Guild.  Tifton, Georgia.
September 18-22, 2012.  Utah Quilt Guild Annual Quilt Festival.  St. George, Utah.  www.utahquiltguild.org
 

Pattern and Other Information

 
You can order a signed copy of Flavin's book, A New Look at Log Cabin Quilts, patterns for Diamonds That Shine, Seasons, Mossy Point, Log Cabin Tumbling Block Primer and Log Cabin Design Grid sheets from Flavin.  Click here for an order form.
The pattern for Flavin's quilt, Log Cabin Stars, can be found in the October 2009 issue of American Patchwork and Quilting http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/magazines/americanpatchworkquilting/october-09-color-options_ss1.html
Flavin's quilts and studio are featured in an article on Alabama Quilts in Patchwork Quilt Tsushin, No 151, August 2009.  Japan's premier quilting magazine's Editorial Director, Naomi Ichikawa, came to Alabama to see quilts, visit historic sites and interview quiltmakers and quilt historians about current work, historic quilts and the Alabama Quilt Documentation Project.  www.viq.com/english/pub/index.html
The pattern for Flavin's quilt, Stepping Out in Color, can be found in the January/February 2008 issue of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting -- www.fonsporter.com
Flavin's quilt, Spring Star, is on the cover of Log Cabin Quilts by Rita Weiss and Linda Causee.  A step-by-step pattern for Spring Star is included in the book, published by Sterling Publishing Co. in 2006.  The book is available at www.barnesandnoble.com
The September/October 2006 issue of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting, includes the pattern for Flavin's quilt, Tuscan Village.  The issue is available from www.fonsporter.com
Students often ask Flavin how she draws the Log Cabin grids and other handouts used in her classes.  Her husband, Glenn, uses Microsoft WORD's drawing capabilities to produce these documents.  Learn how you can use WORD to draw -- Click here for WORD-2007 or click here for earlier versions of WORD (WORD97-2003).
In December, 2004 McCall's Quilting -- American Makes Scrap Quilts, Flavin's Practical Colors Log Cabin quilt was featured. 
In September 2004 issue of The Quilter Magazine, Flavin was the "Featured Teacher."  The pattern for her quilt, Along the Crest, is included in the article.  Copies can be obtained by calling 1-800-877-5527 or www.thequiltermag.com.
HGTV's Simply Quilts QLT-634, features Flavin and her Pictorial Log Cabins.  The show opens with a review of The 20th Century's 100 Best American Quilts Show in Houston, Texas October 1999 that included Flavin's Row Houses.
Flavin Glover Retrospective: 25 Years of Patchwork Quilts was at the Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, Alabama in 2003.
Click here to see the a virtual tour of the exhibit

Read an Essay about Flavin's mother, Nonnie Hudson Williams and her string patchwork quilts
Selected Patchwork by Flavin Glover
Auburn Arts Association Summer 2003 Invitational was at the
Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center, Auburn, Alabama
Click here to view images of the show
On the Cover of Alabama Arts -- Art Trails in Alabama Folklife, Volume XX, Number 1, is a digital montage using two of Flavin's quilts to create a patchwork motif of the state of Alabama.  Artisans and musicians throughout Alabama are featured.  (www.arts.state.al.us)
The pattern for A Day at the Beach is published in Shoreline Quilts by C&T Publishing.  The book features 15 fun, creative quilt projects featuring beach, ocean and underwater themes.  Shoreline Quilts is available through www.amazon.com -- search for Shoreline Quilts.
A Special Hard Cover Edition of the The 20th Century's 100 Best American Quilts Show that included Flavin's "Row Houses, has been published by Primedia.  Call 1-800-590-3465 (or FAX 303-277-0370) for details.
Row Houses was featured in Encyclopedia of Classic Quilt Patterns, by Oxmoor House/Leisure Arts.  It includes the pattern and instructions for Row Houses and a multitude of other quilt patterns.  Contact Leisure Arts at 800-643-8030 or visit your favorite bookstore.
The free online pattern, Around the Corner, is Flavin's patchwork house pattern derived from "Row Houses."  It is online and available for you to download or print.  Check it out!.  CLICK HERE!!
Quilt with the Best, published by Oxmoor House in 1992, included a chapter on Flavin's Log Cabins titled, "Up and Away with Log Cabin Patchwork."  Within the chapter are photographs of Row Houses, Morning Graze, and Inside Passage.  Quilt with the Best may be  available at www.amazon.com (search for "Quilt with the Best").
Quilter's Newsletter Magazine issues #318-322 feature step-by-step instructions for Keep the Homes Fires Burning, a 25th anniversary quilt Flavin gave her husband, Glenn.  Each mentioned issue of QNM illustrates a particular section of the quilt with "how-to" instructions.  For single issues of QNM, call 800-881-6624 or 800-477-6089.
Wrapping the front and back covers of Summer 2000 Alabama Arts, is a close-up view of Row HousesAlabama Arts is the journal of the Alabama Council on the Arts.
Log Cabin Tumbling Blocks was used as the cover of a college textbook entitled, Weaving a Website, written by Anderson-Freed and published by Prentice Hall (2001).
Rio Street Dance graces the cover of a college sociology textbook entitled, Shifting the Center--Understanding Contemporary Families, by Mayfield Publishing Company (1998).
    

   
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