View Miniature Quilts in Virginia…

…from your home. If you search for “quilting” videos at YouTube, I’ll guarantee that you’ll come up with some amazing (ok - interesting) videos. Some will make you smile, you might learn from others, and some are just plain ‘ol marketing tools. But, it’s the latter category that caught my interest this time. Nine Patch […]

Tomorrow is Quilting Day!

Remember that the 17th of this month is National Quilting Day. So when you wake up tomorrow morning, pick up a paper and look for a quilting event in your area. I’ll betcha you’ll find one. Go and visit - don’t be scared if you’re not a quilter. Quilters do not bite. Nor do they […]

Leukaemia Quilts

Oh, wandering through the Web is such a fun thing to do (as long as I have plenty of spyware protection, etc.). It was in this wandering tonight that I ran across the Quilts 4 Leukaemia site that originates out of France.

Purl Soho

I stumbled upon the Purl Soho site tonight, and I was astounded with yet another source of fabrics for quilting and fabric arts.
When you go to the site, just click on the ‘fabric’ link at top right. Then you can spend the rest of the evening looking through fabrics by company, style, or designer. Some […]

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 […]