AQS Quilt Show & Contest Des Moines IO

More than 1,000 quilts will be on display at this year’s AQS Quilt Show & Contest in Des Moines, Iowa, October 6 – 9, 2010. Registration and other general information is now available online.

Healing Quilts of the Ozarks continues

Seven years after the Healing Quilt Project of the Ozarks was established in Springfield, its founder is taking the ministry to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Despite the move, the work of the Healing Quilt Project — providing warming quilts for people who are ill and creating memorial quilts for those who have died — will [...]

International Quilt Study Center & Museum

A new exhibition: “Pojagi: Patchwork and Quilts from Korea” will run through November 16, 2008. Exhibit iincludes wrapping cloths, examples of Korean traditional dress, ceremonial articles, every day accessories such as pincushions, as well as several high fashion evening gowns inspired by pojagi.

In the Heart of a Quilt

“It’s not about patience, or the patterns she’s learned| It’s not for the ribbons or the money she’s earned| Her heart is so full, it spills out through her fingers| Right into each quilt that she sews| In the heart of a quilt, she’s home.
- from ‘In the Heart of a [...]

‘The Ozarks Quilt’ Collaboration

Designed by Lily Kern, made by members of the Ozark Piecemakers Quilt Guild, Springfield, Missouri, and quilted by Peggy White, The Ozarks Quilt received a second place at the Internatonal Quilt Festival in Houston, 1999, was exhibited at Paducah, and again received a 2nd place ribbon at the National Quilt Association show in Tulsa in [...]

Quilt Artist: Verna Mosquera, The Vintage Spool

Verna Mosquera is Owner/Designer of The Vintage Spool.
Her quilting artist statement:
As a first generation quilter, the art of making quilts is relatively new to me. With a strong background in art, and having sewn since childhood, quilt making always intrigued me. I was able to take my first class at my local quilt shop in [...]

Crafter’s Manifesto

Ulla-Maaria Mutanen, a Ph.D. student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, has been thinking about why we enjoy making things. Click the title to read her complete 10 point Crafter’s Manifesto….1. People get satisfaction for being able to create/craft things because they can see themselves in the objects they make. This is not possible in purchased products….

2. The things that people have made themselves have magic powers. They have hidden meanings that other people can’t see.

Color Facts For Quilters by Lily Kerns

Summary of Color Facts for quilters: 4 Ways of Describing Color, Using A Color Wheel, Using Colors Together, and Three “Rules” to Remember.

“Safe As Houses” Quilt Story

By Sharon Boggon
I live in Canberra Australia in one of the suburbs that was hit by the firestorm on January 18 2003. This was a small crazy quilt I made in response to the fires.
The quilt is divided into 4 strips. Starting left to right, the first represents the day of the fires, the [...]

Quilt Care in a Nutshell

The following tips are offered by Patricia Cummings, author of Straight Talk about Quilt Care: Display, Cleaning, and Storage of New and Antique Quilts and Needlework, Quilter’s Muse Publications
. Remember that quilts like the same environment as humans. Do not store quilts in unheated areas, in plastic bags, or in high humidity. Attics, garages, [...]