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.

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.

Art, Culture, Environment, and Technology revealed at the new International Quilt Study Center

[excerpt]The new three-story, 36,000 square foot, International Quilt Study Center opens Sunday, March 30, 2008 at the East Campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NB. The new facility will house the world’s largest collection of more than 2,300 quilts and an international study center dedicated to the research, preservation and display of important quilts from cultures around the world.

In addition to the Ardis and Robert James Collection of antique and contemporary studio art quilts, the collection also includes the Cargo Collection of African American Quilts, and the Jonathan Holstein Collection, which includes the seminal Whitney Collection and an unparalleled group of Pennsylvania Amish quilts.