The theme for this week’s virtual quilt contest is On the Farm. Many thanks to everyone that entered. Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourite!! The lucky winner will win a layer cake of their choice from the Fat Quarter Shop. Voting is open Friday – Sunday @ 11:59 p.m. One vote [...]

By: Wayne Kollinger My wife tells me that it takes an elephant two years to give birth and that it takes me longer. I may have been slow, but I got there. I gave birth to a book. It’s called Designing Quilts is Easy! and it’s available from C&T Publishing. The book I ended up [...]

Congratulations to Gail from Ontario, Canada for winning last week’s themed quilt contest, Earth Day (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle), with her Shirts for Stavros quilt. Gail wins a fabulous fat quarter pack from The Quilted Fish. This week’s theme is On the Farm and is sponsored by the Fat Quarter Shop. I’m looking forward to seeing [...]

The theme for this week’s virtual quilt contest is Earth Day (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). Many thanks to everyone that entered. Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourite!! The lucky winner will win a 24-fat quarter pack of Wheels by My Minds Eye from The Quilted Fish. Voting is open Friday – Sunday [...]

Threadworks 2010: Trees A travelling juried textile art exhibition Wellington County Museum & Archives 0536 Wellington Road 18 R.R.1, Fergus, Ontario N1M 2W3 (Canada) www.wcm.on.ca Exhibition: April 24, 2010 – June 13, 2010 Opening Reception: Sunday, May 2 (1-4 pm) Discover the art of creative needlework at one of the finest juried textile exhibitions in [...]

The Threadbare Heart is novel is about, among other things, the way that fabric can speak so powerfully about our lives – about the things we love, the things we lose, and the things we may regret never doing. The main character, Lily Gilbert, loses a lifetime of fabric in a Santa Barbara wildfire. When [...]

Here’s my progress so far on Rachel’s Pinwheel Sampler Quilt Along. I was caught up at Easter, but now I’m behind the last three blocks blocks. Oh well, they’ll have to wait now until after Market and other deadlines get done first. I’m loving how these are coming together. Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 [...]

Congratulations to Roxanne from Ontario, Canada for winning last week’s themed quilt contest, Scrappy Quilts, with her wonderful Family Quilt. Roxanne wins two Authentic dessert rolls from Jojo’s Quilt and Gift Shoppe. This week’s theme is Earth Day (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) and is sponsored by Amanda Herring of The Quilted Fish. Be creative with this [...]

As founder of “A Way to Women’s Wellness, Inc.”, I began the non-profit foundation in 2003, when I began to invite friends to create embellished bras. The term ArtBra was born and we continue to create ArtBras for our annual WTWW ArtBra calendar and exhibitions. 100% of the net proceeds from the sale of the [...]

You’re going to want to grab a cup of java to browse through these gorgeous Scrappy Quilts for this week’s virtual quilt contest. Many thanks to everyone that entered. Scrappy quilts are a favourite of mine, and your quilts have provided me with so much inspiration. Now it’s time for you to vote for your [...]

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I was so excited to learn that Quilting Gallery was chosen as one of the top 55 favourite blogs for quilters in the latest issue of Quilter’s Home magazine. Check us out on pg. 17, middle column. Last month, we were also chosen as the blog pick of the month in the local Ottawa computer [...]

Congratulations to May Britt of Norway for winning last week’s weekly themed quilt contest, Circles, with her gorgeous Inside my head the ideas are spinning quilt. May wins the fabulous fat quarter pack of circle fabrics from Around the Block Quilters Shop. This week’s theme is Scrappy Quilts and is sponsored Jojo’s Quilt and Gift [...]

I must admit, I was a little worried that this week’s Circles theme for the virtual quilt contest wouldn’t be very popular. Much to my surprise, so many of you have made fabulous quilts with circles. Thanks to everyone that entered. Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourite!! The lucky winner will [...]

This week’s Shout Out Thursday blogger is The Quilt Rat. She’s a fabulous quilter and doodler and always has inspiring projects she’s working on. She shares her trials and errors and I’ve learned a lot just by reading her blog the past several months. We had fabulous weather in Ontario over the Easter weekend. Check [...]

It’s that time … time for a new swap. This one incorporates an embroidered stitchery, piecing of the borders and some quilting. A perfect combination. Lenna, our expert columnist for the past few months, created this gorgeous pattern specifically for this swap. I hope you love it as much as I do. Of course, if [...]

Just like any other quilter, it started someplace, somewhere and somehow. I started sewing when I was in high school and my first “real job” was working in a fabric store. As time went on, I worked for a drapery company and then did tailoring for a local men’s wear shop. After a few years, [...]

Lazy Daisy stitch, also known as detached chain stitch is a wonderful little looped stitch perfect for working small flowers. It can be worked alone or in groups. When working this stitch, the trick is to apply a gentle amount of pressure otherwise the loop will close up. It is also important to keep the [...]

Congratulations to Kim Powers of California for winning last week’s weekly themed quilt contest, Easter, with her super cute Easter Hop quilt. Kim wins a jelly roll of her choice from the Fat Quarter Shop. This week it seems like everything is going around in circles. In fact we are even called “AROUND the Block [...]

Running stitch is a very quick and easy hand embroidery stitch to master. It is often used to form the foundation of other stitches or it can be used on its own as an outline stitch. Running stitch is also the stitch used for hand quilting. For best results work each stitch a uniform size, [...]

Grab yourself a cup of coffee, these quilts are fabulous. The theme for this week’s virtual quilt contest is Easter. Thanks to everyone that entered their fabulous quilts in the Weekly Themed Quilt Contest. Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourite!! The lucky winner with the most votes will win a Jelly [...]

Each Thursday, I’m going to feature one of the fabulous bloggers from the Quilting Bloggers directory. With just under 4,000 blogs to choose from, I’ll have more than enough content to fill this spot. (I’d need 77 years to feature everyone, yikes!) My first ShouT OuT Thursday blogger is Linda M. Poole. I had the [...]