Quilting News

Jeff Morris Web Producer: Jeff Morris Also Contributing: Associated Press Reported: May.

The 64-year-old has bags and trunks full of fabric at her Guelph home and has more quilting ideas than she'll ever have time to complete.

This month's Quilter of the Month from the Pieceful Hearts Quilters Guild is Patty Lennon who has been a member for 12 years.

Twenty quilts have been donated to the victims of the Moore, Okla. by the quilting circle at South Bend United Methodist Church in Gainesville, Ga.

The Blue Ridge Mountain Quilt Guild is dedicated to charitable & educational purposes of the art of quilting in the community.

They may be composed of stitches instead of words, but every piece featured at this year's Quilted Treasures tells a story.

June 1 will be the last opportunity for owners of pre-1979 Cumberland County quilts to have them documented by the LeTort Quilt Guild of Carlisle and Cumberland County Historical Society.

Bettye Walker sees a lot of value in teaching children how to make something that is truly theirs.

Visual Arts Society of Texas member Tonya Littmann of Denton will exhibit a collection of her fine art quilts at the PointBank Black Box Theatre, 318 E. Hickory St., through July 11.

The fires that swept through the Warrumbungles early this year may have destroyed tens of thousands of hectares of bushland, family homes and killed animals but what it didn't do was dampen community spirit.

Anyone expecting to see a few bedspreads on show at the arena of the Gibsons and Area Community Centre last weekend would have been in for a surprise.

Brow is a graduate of Michigan State University and has worked as a professional graphic designer and cartoon illustrator before channeling her energies into quilting and designing.

Details: Area quilters will display more than 200 quilts. The show features vendors, food and music by the Rock County Dulcimer Club.

"If you've never been to a quilt show, one reason to come is to see how innovative so many of these quilts are a they are not just in the traditional style.

A woman today revealed her anguish after her labour of love quilt that she spent two years painstakingly creating was stolen from a mill where it had been entered for an exhibition.

Judy Edwards says she has been quilting "since birth," so it was natural for her to open a quilt shop in Loveland.

The society's newest exhibit is of quilts, "Then & Now," which showcases quilts and different quilting techniques from different generations.

The Mission Sewers of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church met as a group at the AmericInn to gratefully acknowledge the large donation of bedspreads, sheets and blankets recently received from the AmericInn in Merrill.

Lois Milosch, this year's Featured Quilter at the Sun Country Quilter's Biennial Quilt Show, not only uses fabrics of many colors in her quilts, but has led a colorful life beginning with her childhood in Colorado and Oregon to her home in Redding.

A dream 30 years in the making has come together like a handmade tapestry for Diane J. Lake, as she opened the Old Creamery Fabrics & Quilting store in the village.