On the set of “Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting”
Here is something I never expected I’d say: last week I got back from a whirlwind trip to Iowa to tape a guest appearance on a TV show. To be specific, I taped an episode of “Fons & Porter’s Love...
View ArticleSo Many Books Giveaway Part 7!
PLEASE NOTE, THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED. CONGRATULATIONS KAREN, SARAH and MELISSA. Around the Quilters Newsletter office, there’s been a bit of talk lately about...
View ArticleQuilt Comes to Life with Applique Created from Fabric Motif
I’ve had a busy, busy week getting ready to move. In fact, there was so much to do that I haven’t even touched my sewing machine. As I was packing yesterday, I took my beautiful wool quilt from my mom...
View ArticleNational Craft Month Quilters Celebration Week 4
March is National Craft Month and National Quilting Month, and here at Quilters Newsletter, we’d like to spend March celebrating the craft of quilting by celebrating you, the quilter. At the end of...
View ArticleKids Quilts Books & Fabric Giveaway
PLEASE NOTE, THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED. CONGRATULATIONS MICHELE and SHIRLEY! Yesterday was the official on-sale date for Quilters Newsletter Presents Best Kids...
View ArticleMy Greek Key quilt
As readers of Quilters Newsletter know, in each issue columnist Pam Rocco describes a different facet of her improvisational approach to quiltmaking. She usually makes three or four (or more) quilts...
View ArticleWhen it really is the fabric’s fault
OK, maybe “fault” is too strong a word. But sometimes you can chalk up small imperfections in your piecing to the fabrics themselves and, most importantly, how they play together. Scraps of Delilah by...
View ArticleQuilting Progress 2016: 1st Quarter Report (& 2015 wrap-up)
Going into the final quarter of 2015 I set myself a goal to complete four more quilts/quilted projects by the end of the year. I ended up completing three. Well, the final stitches on the binding of...
View ArticleIt’s never too late to be a beginner
One of the biggest events in a person’s life that acts as a catalyst to try quilting for the first time is the impending birth or arrival of a child, whether her or his own or one expected by a loved...
View ArticleScrap Bag: Bonnie Hunter gets honest, Bicentennial quilt found, celeb’s...
Happy 4th of July, y’all! A Nigerian woman named Olutosin Oladosu Adebowale created a business initiative she named Tosin’s Turn Trash to Treasure that employs women who’ve survived domestic abuse to...
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