Quilting Arts 2008 Calendar Contest Theme

Quilting Arts Magazine® is pleased to announce the seventh annual Quilting Arts Magazine® Calendar Contest.
The theme for the Quilting Arts Magazine® 2008 Calendar Contest is “A Novel Idea.” Show them in stitch, fabric, and embellishment how a favorite work of fiction has inspired you, influenced your life, changed you, made you laugh, or brought you […]

American Sewing Expo Contests

The American Sewing Expo will be held at the The Rock Financial Showplace, Novi, Michigan, from 28-30 September 2007. This year, among their many contests, will be a competition for the Art of the Quilt. The 2007 Art of the Quilt show and competition theme will be “Twirls, Swirls and Pearls.” Be creative. Think outside […]

18th Annual Quilt/Surface Design Symposium

The Quilt Surface Design Symposium (QSDS) has been critical to the non-traditional quilt movement since 1990 in providing education for all those interested in exploring their own potential in the medium. To this end, they have selected the very best teachers available worldwide to give workshops annually at a two-week conference in Columbus, Ohio.
They have […]

Quilt Artists of Kentucky

The Quilt Artists of Kentucky (QAK) was formed in 2003 as a second auxiliary of the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society. The current membership of QAK stands at approximately 70. The purposes of QAK are:

to serve as a support and information group for innovative quilters who choose to practice creativity with quilts as an art form.
to […]

Quilts! Quilts! Quilts! Show Begins

The Museum of East Texas presents Quilts! Quilts! Quilts!, an exhibition featuring 52 quilts ranging from 1840 to Art Quilts created in 2007. The opening reception for Quilts! Quilts! Quilts! is scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, 4 March. The exhibition is co-curated by C. James Haley, Jr. and J.P. McDonald. Quilts will be […]

Kentucky State Fair 2007

The KHQS (Kentucky Heritage Quilting Society) wants to know if you’ve ever considered entering a quilt into the Kentucky State Fair? There are a number of categories in which you may enter your quilts each year. Maybe you have a quilt already completed, or one in the process that you could enter in 2007!
Categories range […]

Virtual Quilt Show Call for Entries

That’s right! A virtual quilt show! The Ties That Bind Virtual Quilt show features eight categories. Among the categories is a special one for virtual quilt design. The Virtual Quilt show is open to any quilt guild member of the universe. If you have an Internet connection, you can enter the quilt show.
Sponsored by the […]

I’m Not In Tune…But You Are!

Dedicated quilters - categorized as the serious ones who spend about $2,300 a year on their art - account for 88 percent of the total quilting expenditures. Their percentage may be small - only 4.7 percent of all quilters - but their clout is stout. This market has grown by 34.6 percent in the past […]

4 Guys Exhibit at MAQS Begins

At right: Glen Eyrie Castle, 50� x 51�, by Ricky Tims of LaVeta, CO©.
Find insight into the male mind during the exhibit 4 Guys and Their Quilts at the Museum of the American Quilter’s Society (MAQS)!
On exhibit 16 May - 12 August, these quilts combine the talents of four male award-winning quilters: John Flynn, Gerald […]