Quilting News

Cherokee Rose Quilters Guild donated 24 handmade quilts to four local group homes as part of its community service project.

Stitch by stitch, many hands are joining to tell the untold stories of the black men who have worked the waters of the Chesapeake Bay.

Posted Nov 17th 2009 at 9:30PM by Amber Eden It used to be that the quilting aisle of your local fabric shop was stocked with flower prints that were far from fashionable.

For the past month, I have been on a mission to clear some of the projects off my work table in one of our bedrooms known as the quilting room.

The library has issued its first "Quilts of Valor" challenge. It wants quilters to stitch something together for the troops that can be displayed at the presidential library for Veteran's Day in 2010.

You can complete a lot of squares over three decades. Dogwood Quilting Group celebrated its 31st anniversary in October, marking yet another year the group has produced original, hand-crafted quilts at Dogwood Pavilion.

What is even more fun than quilting, shop hops, and shows? Try quilt study. Quilt Study is scholarship in antique quilting and quilters.

Art Quilts XIV: Significant Stitching features a variety of quilts from throughout the country and Canada.

Jan Queijo's passion for animals shines through in the quilted animal portraits she makes and sells as part of her business as the "Crazy Dog Lady." Ms.

This is not a story about just one woman; it is about an entire village. However, it takes one woman to tell the story, and that is exactly what Kitty Sorgen does.

A rhythmic whir resonated from a room full of tables overflowing with vivid fabric strips.

For months, quilters in states such as Oklahoma, New Mexico and Wisconsin have been carefully stitching for New Hampshire veterans.

Even as a young girl, I was fascinated with quilts. My maternal grandmother died a number of years before I was born, but one of the few remembrances my mother had of her was a wedding ring quilt that my grandmother had pieced.

They call themselves Quilting For Troops and they come together from 1:30 - 3pm every Thursday at the YMCA work on "comfort quilts" for military families in our area who have or have had a family member stationed overseas.

Central Arizona College, the community college of Pinal County, hosts special interest learning programs known as Central Arizona Lifelong Learners .

The annual quilt exhibition at Diss High School on Saturday attracted a bumper turn-out of more than 300 people to see the colourful array of quilts and wall hangings.

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The O'Malley Senior Center, 1275 Odenton Road, Odenton recently announced its calendar for this month.

Quilting may be an old craft but new ideas are found everywhere in "Material Obsession: Modern Quilts With Traditional Roots," where bold colors, often in unusual combinations, along with new patterns, are the name of the game.

Plenty of quilting classes! That is what you will find at Catalina Quilting , recently reopened at a new easy to find location on 1st Ave and Tangerine in Oro Valley .