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My book titled, A New Look at Log Cabin Quilts,
published by C&T Publishing.
A signed copy is available from
Flavin.
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:
  
January 10-14, 2012.  Havasu Stitchers' Quilting at the Lake.  Lake Havasu City, Arizona.  www.havasustitchers.com
March 2012.  Foothills Piecemakers Quilting Guild.  Greenville, South Carolina.
March 2012.  Wiregrass Quilt Guild.  Tifton, Georgia.
March 11-16, 2012.  Quilting Adventures: Hill Country Style Quilting Seminars .  New Braunfels, Texas.  Five-day workshop: Colorful and Creative Log Cabin Diamonds.  www.quilting-adventures.com
April 2012.  Spring International Quilt Festival.  Cincinnati, Ohio.  www.quilts.com
Apr 12 -- Denimania -- Creating from Blue Jeans -- Half Day Workshop
Apr 13 -- Innovative Log Cabin Courthouse Steps -- Full Day Workshop
Apr 14 -- Colorful and Creative Log Cabin Diamonds -- Full Day Workshop
Apr 14 -- Saturday Night Sampler -- Log Cabin Grids Take Shape
May 3-5, 2012.  Sewing Weekend, Nancy's Notions, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.  www.nancysnotions.com
May 2012.  Northwest Suburban Quilters Guild, Arlington Heights, Illinois
June 2012.  Tall Pines Quilt Guild, Huntsville, Texas
June 2012.  Bay Area Quilt Guild, Houston, Texas
June 2012.  Woodlands Area Quilt Guild, The Woodlands, Texas
June 2012.  Kingwood Area Quilt Guild, Kingwood, Texas
July 26-28, 2012.  Summer International Quilt Festival, Long Beach, California
July 26
-- Innovative Log Cabin Courthouse Steps -- Full Day Workshop
July 27 --
Colorful and Creative Log Cabin Diamonds -- Full Day Workshop
July 28 -- Log Cabin Houses -- Full Day Workshop
July 28 -- Saturday Sampler -
Patchwork Trees Made Simple
September 18-22, 2012.  Utah Quilt Guild Annual Quilt Festival.  St. George, Utah.  www.utahquiltguild.org
October 5-7, 2012. AQSG Seminar.  Lincoln, Nebraska
February 1-3, 2013.  Friendship Quilters and Fabric Artists Quilt Show, Sun City, Arizona.  www.friendshipquilters.us
March 14-16, 2013.  Broward Quilt Expo, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.  www.browardquiltexpo.com
April 2013.  Hill N' Hollow Quilters Guild. Mountain Home, Arkansas.
September 13-15, 2013.  AQSG Seminar.  Charleston, South Carolina
November 2013.  Uncommon Threads Quilt Guild Retreat.  Memphis, Tennessee. 

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, In Full Bloom, will be featured in the July 2011 issue of American Quilter from American Quilter's Society -- www.americanquilter.com
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.  All issues have been sold, but Fons and Porter have included this pattern in a new book, Best of Fons and Porter: Scrap Quilts, now available at www.shopfonsandporter.com/product/the-best-of-fons-and-porter-scrap-quilts.  
The pattern for Flavin's quilt, Tilted 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
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-2007/2010 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.  Used copies can often be found on Amazon.com
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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