Geta Grama’s Shadow Trapunto quilt at Spring Market and announcing her new patterns for sale.

The Safe Motherhood Quilt Project is a national effort developed to draw public attention to the current maternal death rates, as well as to the gross under-reporting of maternal deaths in the United States, and to honor those women who have died of pregnancy-related causes since 1982.

This week’s Friday Give-Away is two rulers to create perfect half-square and quarter-square triangles by June Tailor.

The quilt I made and the one I received for the Spring Blooms swap, plus goodies and a fabric postcard from Norway.

Join the fun and participate In the Good Ol’ Summertime Mini Quilt Swap hosting by the Quilting Gallery.

The Quilting Bloggers directory reaches 3,000 members.

After I left Spring Market and Pittsburgh behind, I travelled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was a gorgeous trip, in perfect weather. Route PA30 is quite mountainous and an exciting experience for me, as it’s pretty flat here in Ontario by comparison. My ears kept popping, just like they do in an airplane. I finally found [...]

Enter this week’s Friday Give-Away for your chance to win 8″ fabric shears donated by the Simplicity Creative Group.

View the contestants in the the Ugly Quilt Contest.

I’ve been wonderful to see all of the gorgeous creations coming to life for the Spring Blooms Mini Quilt Swap. The participants have done an amazing job. To answer a couple of questions: Yes, there will be another summer-themed swap. Registration will begin June 23rd, with a mail date of September 21st. I’m also working [...]

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This week’s Friday Give-Away is four gorgeous appliqué patterns generously donated by Sisters’ Scraps Quilt Shop of Amarillo, Texas.

We’ve all done it… made or started a quilt we hated once we got into the project. Enter the “What was I thinking?” – The Ugly Quilt Contest.

This inaugural project brings together 12 designers and 12 Australian stores in a unique quilting project to raise money through World Vision for the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia. Women helping women through quilting. Visit each of the participating stores online and purchase the 12 designer blocks for the Bluebird of Hope Quilt for [...]

At Spring Market, I collected business cards for a contest drawing. Congratulations to Janine from Tonic Living in Toronto, Ontario for winning two months of free advertise on the Quilting Gallery web site. Check out the gorgeous fabrics available on her site:

The quilts I created for the Quilt Shop Locator booth at Spring Market.

I started working on my Spring Blooms Mini Quilt last night. Looking for some border ideas.

Enter this week’s Friday give-away of two fat quarter packs donated by West Plains Quilt Company.

I’m very excited to announce that tomorrow will be the start of Friday Give-Aways here on the Quilting Gallery. I’ve received many fabulous donations from sponsors that I’m sure you’ll love. This will be a regular feature here, until I run out of sponsors, which hopefully won’t happen any time soon. If you wish to [...]

Quilters all over the US are threading their needles for a cure. Almost 4,000 quilts have been donated to the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) since it began in 2006.

It’s Fun, it’s fast, and sometimes a tad wicked…. it’s Death By Quilting (DBQ) and it’s on the internet now!