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My good friends over at the Stitchin’ Heaven are hosting a New Year’s Eve party for quilters tonight.

I wanted to take a couple of minutes to thank two dear friends who took the time to feature the Quilting Gallery on their web sites this week. Also, for my local quilting friends, I’ll be doing a trunk show at the Ottawa Creator Camp next week.

The Alliance for American Quilts’ annual fundraising auction of 16″x16″ quilts donated by artists from all over the US and Canada began last night on eBay.com, and will continue through December 6. The first of four auction weeks includes 30 quilts. Don’t miss this opportunity to pick out special gifts for the holidays or add [...]

Welcome to everyone hopping around quilter’s blog land for Pat Sloan’s The Edge Blog Hop. Today is the last day of the hop and my special day. What’s been your favourite part of the blog hop? The fabulous recipes? The measuring antics? The marshmallow fields? I know, a chance to win a 10 pack set [...]

Debi is organizing a Fall into Fall Quilters Blog Giveaway starting October 1st. The Quilting Gallery will be participating with its own giveaway too. Debi’s currently looking for bloggers that want to participate in doing a giveaway on their blog too. Read this post for all the information. Here’s the list of participants so far. [...]

Please join me in welcoming guest blogger Margery Newman as she shares with us the new Milwaukee Art Museum and quilts from the "American Quilts: Selections from the Winterthur Collection" exhibit. Thanks Margery for sharing this fabulous exhbit with us. I had the great pleasure of leaving my home in what some people this summer [...]

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 [...]

Earlier this year, I told you about the “New from Old” quilt contest in support of the Alliance for American Quilts. Quiltmakers are encouraged to think broadly and creatively about this opportunity to celebrate the past in the frame of the present. The rich array of prizes this year includes a Handi Quilter HQ Sixteen [...]

With less than two weeks until the Lancaster AQS quilt show, I’m getting really excited. Lancaster is about an 8 hour drive from Ottawa, with a few quick rest stops. Definitely doable in one day, however, I’m planning to leave a day early, take my time and explore a few areas along the way, such [...]

The Parkinson’s Quilt Project is the first global quilt project to focus the world’s attention on the nearly one million people in the US and more than 4.1 million people worldwide living with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The project aims to raise awareness of the impact that the disease has on people living with Parkinson’s along [...]

The fabulous ladies from the Fat Quarter Shop are organizing a silent auction to raise funds for charities helping the victims of the Haiti.