Submit a recipe for this year’s Holiday Traditions – Quilter’s Cookbook today! Pink Panda Fabrics has donated a $30 gift certificate for use in their online shop. Tomorrow morning, one lucky winner will be randomly chosen from all the recipes submitted by the end of today. Recipes can be submitted in the following categories: Appetizers [...]

I can be forgetful, busy and side-tracked… that’s my excuse anyway. I totally forgot to pick and announce the winner for the Fall into Fall Quilters Blog Give-Away. The winner is #30, Sandi Here’s Sandi’s tip: Hmmmmm, the one thing I wish I knew when I first started quilting……ah, don’t mix poly-cottons with 100% cotton! [...]

Woohoo!! The new Quilt Guilds section is now ready for Guilds to start entering their information. The Guilds will be organized geographically by country and sub-divided into province and state for Canada and the USA. Each Guild will be able to add links to their web site, blog, Facebook, Twitter and email, as well as [...]

Welcome to everyone hopping around in blog land for the Fall into Fall Quilters Blog Give-Away. A huge thank you to Debi for organizing this event. It’s sure to be a lot of fun. If you’re new here, let me give you a brief tour of the Quilting Gallery site. Do you love to read [...]

I’m very excited to participate in Pat Sloan’s The Edge Blog Hop this coming week. My day is Saturday, October 2nd and I’ll be sharing a family-favourite cookie recipe and a short story of one of my first quilts. Have you heard about the new The Edge rulers from Sullivan’s? It sharpens your rotary cutting [...]

Registration is now open for the Candle Mat Swap. Sandi Andersen created this adorable candle mat, a downloadable free pattern and step-by-step photo tutorials. Mail dates for this swap are November 15th (international) and November 22nd (domestic and Canada/USA). Click on the links below to join the fun!! swap guidelines registration participants Flickr group download [...]

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. [...]

I’ve made changes to the advertising rates for the Quilt Shop Locator to better reflect the current economic times. I understand how difficult it is for a quilt shop or online quilting retailer to attract new customers. It’s a tough market out there! Advertising in the Locator is very inexpensive. There’s no long-term commitment. You [...]

I made some changes last week to the Quilting Bloggers directory. For each blog, you’ll now see the latest 3 blog posts. I’ve also added integration with Facebook, so you can “Like” blogs here and share them with your friends on Facebook. If you’re blog is not showing the latest posts, there are generally two [...]

Congratulations to #120 Avery Claire for winning Patsy Thompson’s Free Motion Fun…with Feathers! DVD. I’ll be sending you an email to get your mailing address. Here’s Avery’s tip: I absolutely adore feathers….they look so elegant on a quilt. My favorite quilting tip is to do a LOT of practice quilting by making baby quilts. They [...]

Yesterday’s live interview with Pat Sloan is now available. Go to Pat’s Creative Talk Radio web site and click the play button as indicated in the picture below or listen via Itunes. My interview is the second one listed as July 16, 2010. Here’s the mp3 version if you prefer to download it and listen [...]

Grab a cup of coffee, and listen in as I’m a guest on Pat Sloan’s Creative Talk Radio show broadcast live this afternoon at 4:00 pm (Eastern). We’ll be chatting about my quilting history, the inspiration behind the Quilting Gallery and what I’m currently working on. You’ll also get the inside scoop on what’s coming [...]