Spring Fever Antique & Quilt Show

The Spring Fever Antique & Quilt Show is sponsored by Cedarburg (Wisconsin) Chamber of Commerce, and all proceeds will benefit the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts. You’ll experience a judged quilt competition, antique and quilt vendors, door prizes, quilt appraisals (Saturday only), free “make and take” projects, and more.
The contest is open to […]

March is National Craft Month

National Craft Month (NCM) is one of many nationwide consumer awareness programs designed to draw attention to crafts and the benefits derived from craft activities. Celebrated each March by consumers and the crafts industry, NCM activities and promotions take place nationally and locally. So open up that paper tomorrow morning to discover what’s happening in […]

This is Your Brain on Quilts

At Right: A crafty brain by Marjorie Taylor.
The Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art exhibits the world’s largest collection of anatomically correct fabric brain art, inspired by research from neuroscience, dissection and neuroeconomics. Their current exhibition features three quilts with functional images from PET and fMRI scanning, a knitted brain, and two fabric pieces […]

MAQS Staff Presenting at Symposium

The Museum of the American Quilter’s Society (MAQS) is proud to announce that Curator of Education Carrie Cox, PhD, and Curator of Collections/Registrar Judy Schwender, MA, will be presenting at the 2007 International Quilt Study Center Symposium at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
This year’s IQSC symposium, Traditions and Trajectories: Education and the Quiltmaker, is […]

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 […]