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Awarded First Place by the regional Oklahoma Writers Federation Inc.
2006 Non-fiction Book Award
 

 

“God Bless America”
 Touring Quilt Exhibits
Enter Your 22”Quilt Today!
Deadline: ASAP to be published or December 31, 2008 to tour
Call 405-751-3885 today to reserve your exhibit
--$100/week-end show

 



ilted by Kari Lane.

 




Debut Showng of God Bless America Exhibit


Judy Howard - Oklahoma City, Ok
 

 

 Delaine Gately, Gig Harbor, WA


 




Delaine Gately, Gig Harbor, WA

 

 

Quilter's Corner in Midwest City, OK


 


Delaine Gately, Gig Harbor, WA
 

 

Dolores Paddack, Oklahoma City, OK




Dolores Paddack - O
klahoma City, Ok

 

Ann Roberts -  Fayetteville, Ak


 

Judy Howard -  Oklahoma City, Ok

 


Judy Howard - Oklahoma City, Ok

 

 


By Sharon Martin - Newalla, OK
 

 

By Virgie Poe - Bella Vista, AK


Psalms 123 - By Judy Howard - Oklahoma City, Ok
 

 


By Pat Rosenthal - Gig Harbor, Wa

 


By Helen Peel - Duncan, OK

 


Dolores Paddack -  Oklahoma City, Ok


 


Dolores Paddack - Oklahoma City, Ok
 

 


Shirley Scharping - Oklahoma City, Ok



Joan Ballew Marine Mom - Edmond, Ok
 

 

By Opal Baum -  Oklahoma City, Ok

 

 


By Opal Baum - Oklahoma City, Ok
 

 

Opal Baum - Oklahoma City, Ok




By Ina Smith, Kingfisher, OK
 

 

By Ina Smith, Kingfisher, OK




Ben by Judy Howard - Oklahoma City, Ok
 

 

By Lois Lyon - Bethany OK




By Sharon Banta -  Yukon, OK

 

By Cherrie Hampton  - Oklahoma City, Ok

By Millicent Gillogly - Oklahoma City, Ok

 


By Marilyn
Karper - Oklahoma City, Ok


 


By 13 Year Olds Virginia Kotyza and
Courtney Vanderford   - Bella Vista, Ak

 

 

By Robin Corvin - Oklahoma City, Ok


By 7 yr. old Shane Randall- Fairview, Ok
 

 

Pamela Kozak, Oklahoma City, OK

 

 




By Bety Chalk - Oklahoma City, Ok
 

 

By 6 yr. old Jaxon Bond - Seminole, Ok




By
Anna Jo (Jody) Lamb - Bartlesville, Ok
 

 

By 9 yr old Carson Bond of Seminole


By 9 Year Old Laura Randall - Fairview, Ok
 

 

By Brittany Chalk - Oklahoma City, Ok


By Alexander Houk - Cibolo, TX
 

 

By Kay Landis - Edmond, Ok


By Elaine Nelson - Seminole, Ok
 

 

By Sharon L. Schlotzhauer
Colorado Springs, Co


By Ann Poindexter - Erie, Co

 


By Marsha Poplin - Seminole, Ok


 



By Jackie Smith - Oklahoma City, Ok

 


By Marsha Poplin - Seminole, Ok


 




By Darlina Eichman - Oklahoma City, Ok

 


By Austin Houk - Cibolo, Tx


 


By Elaine Nelson - Seminole, Ok
 

 

By Sharon L. Schlotzhauer - Colorado Springs, Co

By Jackie Smith - Oklahoma City, Ok

 


By Marsha Poplin - Seminole, Ok


 


By Kristin Eilers - Lemoore, CA

 

 

By Charlotte Rogers - Hanford, Ca
 


By Marsha Poplin, Seminole, Ok

 


By Robin Corvin - Oklahoma City, Ok



 


By Dolores Paddack - Oklahoma City, Ok
 

 


By Kay Steiger - Oklahoma City, Ok

 

By Kay Steiger - Oklahoma City, Ok
 

 

By Judy Howard, Oklahoma City, Ok



By Judy Howard, Oklahoma City, Ok
 

 

By Judy Howard, Oklahoma City, Ok




Anonymous
 

 

 74" x 87" Star




United We Stand
 

 


Colleen Garrett


 


By Linda Everhart
 

 

By Judy Howard

 


By Revonda Blanding
 

 


By Jo Golden


Kaye Vicars Hansen
 

 


Deborah Hardy, Oklahoma City


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Eyvonne King


 




Eyvonne King

 


6 Year Old Andrew Houk -
Cibolo, TX


 


Loraine Provine Gasper Family
 

 


Loraine Provine Hill Family


Betty Bauer
 

 


Virgie Poe


 

Jo Lam

Anna Jo "Jody" Lamb, Bartlesville, OK
 

 



Constance Price of Chester, OK




 


Vicky Lawrence
 

 


Kathryn Brooks, Norman, Ok


Jackie Robinson, Erurka, Mt.
Jackie Robinson

 


Kristi Burt, Lincoln, Me


 


Delaine Gately, Gig Harbor, Mi

 


Barbara Freed Okeene, Ok


 




Barbara Freed, O'Keene, Ok
 

 


Barbara Freed, O'keene, Ok





Loretta Weaver - Tuscon, Az
 

 


Suzanne Roy - Newkirk, Ok


 

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God Bless America 22”Quilts Tour
US to Benefit Wounded Soldiers


Theme: Patriotic, StStars and Stripes, or Biblically Inspired - Support our Troops

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Deadline: ASAP to be published. Quilts accepted through December for touring.
 

No Entry Fees***$100 Exhibit Rental *** 100% profits go to make
quilts for wounded soldiers.
 

Schedule this exhibit for your quilt show, library, school, church now
.   BuckboardQuilts@cox.net.

 

All quilts will tour US for three years. Quilts with your patterns and stories will probably be published by Judy Howard, Dorcas Publishing, award-winning author of three quilt books.

 

Mail each quilt with signed consent/entry form below ASAP to 12101 N. MacArthur#137 Oklahoma City, OK 73162.  Quilts will be 22” x 22” with a 4” opening sleeve sewn along the upper back and four plastic ½” drapery rings spaced along the upper edge. Please include on the back of your quilt: title of quilt, your name, address, phone number and email.  Please also attach securely along the bottom of your quilt (that can be flipped up for shipping) a 16”wide by 8” high fabric quilted label that includes the quilt title, your name, town and state, and a story of what inspired you to make the quilt. You can type, embroider, cross-stitch or paint it on fabric, quilt it and coordinate it as part of your quilt art. Please include the sales price and contact info if quilt is for sale. You will deal directly with the buyer and receive 100% of proceeds.
 
 

Categories for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place ribbons: Best of Show, Best Theme, Most Original, Best Handwork. Best Machine work, Best Group, Best Art, Best Contemporary, Best Traditional, Best Crazy, Best Appliqué, Best Embroidery, Best Pieced, Best Youth under 18, Best Youth under 12, Best Mixed, Best Pictorial. Judges reserve right to switch categories.

Click here for Entry Form

Click here for Exhibit Rental Form

 

Modern day Betsy Ross's help wounded soldiers heal

“How do I love America? Let me quilt the ways” is the theme of Judy Howard’s “God Bless America” Quilt Contest and traveling exhibits to benefit wounded soldiers.

These traditional or pictorial 22” quilts created by children and adults capture the essence of “America the Beautiful” by paying tribute to our American Heroes, Troops, Presidents and depicting “Liberty and Justice for all,” or expressing flag-waving loyalty to our “One Nation Under God.” 
“Blanket America in Stitches of Comfort, Patriotism and Hugs for our Heroes

All profits from the $100/ week-end rental fee go to non-profit groups who provide quilts for wounded and families of fallen soldiers — those most in need of the touch of love that quilts represent. Reserve the exhibit for your quilt show, church, library, school or event today by emailing BuckboardQuilts@cox.net See Calendar for exhibits already rented.

The exhibits have already been reserved for April 26-27 for the National Cornbread Festival in S. Pittsburg, TN; May 8-10 for the Home Machine Quilters Show in Salt Lake City, UT; June 15-August 15 at the Pioneer Woman Museum, Ponca City; July l-August 29 at Bank of America at Leadership Square, 211 N. Robinson, Oklahoma City; August 20-23 in Nashville at the American Quilters Society show; September 4-7, at the Taste of Country Week-end in Vinita, OK; October 11 at 2:00 p.m. for a Trunk Showing at the Edmond, Oklahoma Library; November 4, 7:00 p.m. at quilt guild meeting in Liberal, KS; November 9-11 at the Shelburne Museum in VT; December 6 at the Winterfest Show in Kingfisher, OK: April 17-19, 2009 for the Best of the Valley Quilt Show in Tulare, California; and tentatively two months in  early 2009 at the Oklahoma State Capitol.

                                         

Click Here for Consent to Publish Form

 

Click here to Share Your God Bless America Patriotic Story

 

 

 


Quilt Exhibits
and Programs Available

Sampling of quilts in the Centennial Stitches Quilt Trunk Show Program

 



c1930 Dahlia

 

           
 

 

   
 

c1982 Winter's Harvest Appliqué

 

c1870's Pineapple

 
 
 
 
       
 

 

   
  c1925 flower basket   c1850 Rose of Sharon  
           
 



c1930 Postage Stamp Rosebud

 


c1900 Rose of Sharon

   
         
         
 

 

   
 
 c1834 Mariners Compass
  c1875 Bridal Tulip Basket  
 

 

     
 


c1895 Redwork

 

c1852 Princess Feather

   
           
           
 

Civil War Rising Sun

   
         
   
   


Exhibits, Writing, Marketing
and Publishing Programs
 

  1. “Under the Covers with Granny Reveals Oklahoma’s Secrets”:  Entertaining and educational stories and power point presentation of quilts included in Judy’s three award-winning books.(30-120 minutes)

  2. “Under the Covers with Granny Reveals Oklahoma’s Secrets” Quilt Trunk Show:  In this hands-on quilt show and amusing story-telling session, Judy displays 30-100 Oklahoma Historic quilts. Included are Murrah Memorial, contemporary art and antique quilts appraised for $5000 to $17,500 dating back to 1834 with vintage photos featured in her books. (30-120 minutes)

  3. Tell me a Story of Oklahoma—Children’s Program: This story-telling educational program teaches history through the courageous eyes of our pioneer women and includes a display of quilts made by children and adults. (30-60 minutes)

  4. Children’s Quilt-Making Workshop: In this hands-on workshop, children will learn Oklahoma history as they help create small quilts to travel around the state in exhibits. (one hour to four hours)

  5. Jane Phillips, Carrie Nation and Kate Barnard in costume Educational titled “You too Can Change the World.”   Travel back in time to another era to meet three of Oklahoma’s most illustrious characters--showing the 1934 Frank Phillips Autograph Quilt, photos of the 1914 Carrie Nation Fund-raising Quilt with 600 autographs of Hobart and area pioneers and the Quilt made from McAlester Prison Uniforms along with other Quilts. (30-120 minutes)

  6.  Centennial Stitches—Oklahoma History in Quilts Exhibit of thirty antique quilts with vintage family photos, wedding certificates and Homestead Certificates. Stories are featured stories in books. (Rental is $200/week-end show)

  7. "God Bless America"  Exhibit of 22"x22" quilts by children and adults. Easy to display with a 4" sleeve on back to run a rod through and also 4 drapery rings through which to pin into the wall or onto draped racks. Please indicate how many quilts you have space to hang and whether you'd like the focus to be Patriotic, Biblically inspired, all made by children, or a mix of all. (Rental is $100 for four days for a week-end show.)

  8. New Beginnings: Pursuing and Achieving the Impossible Dream:  God has gifted each person of every race, religion, creed or culture with unique talents and has a distinctive plan for each person.  Judy’s personal story of overcoming insurmountable obstacles will inspire you to pursue your dream in order to become all that God created you to be. (For children or adults, 30-60 minutes)

  9. Historic Quilts of America:  An educational and breath-taking power point display of historic antique quilts from Judy’s collection of 30 years and museums across the nation. (30-120 minutes)

  10. Creative Writing Workshop: Judy teaches writing techniques tailored for adult or children’s program and includes an actual writing exercise and reading. (30-60 minutes)

  11. Preserving Your Family Heritage: Great for genealogy enthusiasts, this writing workshop helps you organize your family stories and present them in a readable format that will entertain generations to come as it preserves your valuable family heritage. (30-60 minutes)

  12. Networking Magic: How to conduct an Email Blast and make your book an Amazon.com Bestseller: After conducting her own campaign, Judy leads you through the process step by step This includes: compiling email lists, bonus gift solicitation and free samples letters, reminders, et al. (30-60 minutes)

  13. Self-publishing for Dummies: Judy discusses the challenges, obstacles, rewards and valuable tips from her personal experience. (30-60 minutes)

  14. Block Buster Book Sales on a Shoe-String: Judy gives valuable pointers in what works and what doesn’t in selling books. (30-60 minutes)

  15. Be Your Own Publicist and save $10,000/month: Having sold 5000 of her first book in seven months, Judy shares her tips on marketing and merchandising, selling, distribution, shipping and publicizing.
     

 

 



 
Judy Howard Interview - Jane Phillips costume portrayal
July 23, 2007   TravelNet.com

6 min, 23 sec   Windows Video Format (.wmv)

 

 

 

 

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"Heavenly Patchwork" stories by E-Mail or Mail to:

Judy Howard
12101 N. MacArthur, Suite 137
Oklahoma City, OK 73162-1800

Phone: 405-751-3885
Cell:  405-640-1058

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