The Quilt Studio Patterns

If you don’t already know about the longarm quilting patterns provided by The Quilt Studio, then I’m here to do my duty and point you in that direction.
If you’re looking for angels, seashells, fish, pine needles, and a gorgeous little ginko pattern, you can find it here. I counted about 32 patterns just on this […]

Fiber Optics: Fine Art Quilts

The work of contemporary quilt artists is featured in “Fiber Optics: Fine Art Quilts,” a new exhibition organized by the John Michael Kohler Arts Center at ARTspace, located at the Shops at Woodlake Kohler.
Fiber Optics showcases nationally recognized quilt artists in this vibrant and lush collection, perfect for warding off the chill of a Wisconsin […]

Gold Donors On the March

FiberArts for a Cause’s Reverse Auction is in full gear as of today…but if you didn’t participate in the Gold Donor Day on Friday, you missed out on some beauties. Gold Donors and their claims are as follows:

Michele Hardman purchased Heidi Miracle-McMahill’s “Content In Her Own Skin”
The Tomme Fent Art Quilt Collection purchased Jane Davila’s […]

Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History

Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History (Wormsloe Foundation Publication) was published in January as the end product of the Georgia Quilt Project, a multi-year survey that has documented some 10,000 quilts. The book contains 120 out of those 10,000 quilts, and the choices are enough to keep a quilt lover happy. But, there’s more…
The text […]

IRQS Quilt of the Month Offerings

Professional English embroiderers made this stunning coverlet pictured at right, possibly for a wedding bed, using red, green and yellow cotton floss and metallic thread in a variety of stitches. The design, found originally on an early Persian manuscript cover, was modified into a fabric pattern by Indian printers and later appeared in England during […]

Melody Johnson’s Happy Quilts

I made a very happy discovery this week, thanks to the Eclectic Detective. Melody Johnson’s quilts are the happiest, most colorful tapestries I’ve seen, and they seem fitting for a time of year when days are getting longer and flowers are about to bloom.
Melody describes herself as an artist whose medium for the last 24 […]

Quilters sought for Florida Exhibit

Quilters throughout the Upper Peninsula are invited to submit their creations to “Fabrications: Art Quilts of the U.P.” opening June 21 in the Upper Gallery at the Bonifas Fine Arts Center in Escanaba, Michigan.
Fabrications will be on display during the showing of the National Quilt Show in the Lower Gallery from June 21 through July […]

Quilts in a Material World Exhibit

Don’t miss this first-ever exhibition of Winterthur’s quilts, featuring stunning examples of exceptional artistry which have never been exhibited before. Quilts in a Material World: Selections from the Winterthur Collection will show the relevance of quilts in the lives of their makers, both past and present. Ranging in date from the 17th to the 19th […]

Thimble & Thread Quilt Expo

This year’s quilt show, “Alzheimer’s â€â€? Forgetting Piece by Piece,” features 52 quilts about Alzheimer’s disease created by nationally recognized artists. The 30th annual show includes more than 300 quilts plus vendors, lectures and demonstrations. Presented by the Thimble and Thread Quilt Guild of Greater St. Louis at 1-6 p.m. today, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday […]