Welcome to the latest issue of the Quilting Gallery Newsletter.

It has been an fun-filled month at the Quilting Gallery. Mini quilts for the Spring Blooms Mini Quilt Swap have been sent all around the world. See what I made and received. Check the Flickr group to see all of the gorgeous creations.

More fun includes: a summer-themed swap; a new photo contest; Friday give-aways; and, summer savings to join the Quilt Shop Locator. See below for more information.

The Quilting Bloggers directory surpassed 3,000 bloggers this month from 65 countries. Thank you to everyone that has joined and promoted the directory.

Have a wonderful weekend and happy quilting!

Michele (aka Mishka)
Quilting Gallery
michele@quiltinggallery.com

P.S. I’m trying out a new email service, please let me know if you have any problems with this newsletter.

Summer Savings – Quilt Shop Locator Membership

The Quilt Shop Locator is a growing database of quilt shops, online retailers, pattern and fabric designers, authors, teachers and other quilting professionals from around the world.

• Shops are searchable geographically and by category, using Google Maps to see locations by country, state and more
• Retailer profiles include contact info, map, hours, unlimited photos and a detailed description
• Currently there are 90 shops from 29 states and four countries

News from the Quilting Gallery

	In the Good Ol’ Summertime Mini Quilt Swap Guidelines Registration Participants Flickr group
	"What was I thinking?" – The Ugly Quilt Contest Guidelines and Prizes Thanks to the sponsors: Romanian Quilt Studio, Shiisa Quilts and Angie’s Bookshelf Photo Submission Contestants & Submissions
	Friday Give-Aways A new give-away is posted each Friday. You have until the following Thursday to leave a comment for your chance to win. Many thanks to this month’s sponsors for their donations: West Plains Quilt Company – Two Fat Quarter Packs Sisters’ Scraps Quilt Shop – Four Appliqué Patterns Simplicity Creative Group – 8″ Fabric Shears June Tailor – Two Perfect Half-Square & Quarter-Square Triangle Rulers

Around the Web

• I had the great pleasure to meet Kat from Studio Kat Designs and see her wonderful creations at Spring Market last month. She creates unique handbag patterns for the way women really live.

  Her web sites has free patterns and embellishment downloads, a handbag game and more. I’ve been reading Kat’s newsletter for a while and it’s always informative and entertaining. She has a blog too.

• Subscribe to The Sewing Gazette created by Julie Pieri of Quilted Pleasures.
• The Safe Motherhood Quilt Project is the vision of America’s leading midwife, Ina May Gaskin, to raise awareness about maternal mortality in America. Each woman that has died in the U.S. from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes since 1982 can be honored with a quilt square.