Quilting News

A rhythmic whir resonated from a room full of tables overflowing with vivid fabric strips.

For months, quilters in states such as Oklahoma, New Mexico and Wisconsin have been carefully stitching for New Hampshire veterans.

Even as a young girl, I was fascinated with quilts. My maternal grandmother died a number of years before I was born, but one of the few remembrances my mother had of her was a wedding ring quilt that my grandmother had pieced.

They call themselves Quilting For Troops and they come together from 1:30 - 3pm every Thursday at the YMCA work on "comfort quilts" for military families in our area who have or have had a family member stationed overseas.

Central Arizona College, the community college of Pinal County, hosts special interest learning programs known as Central Arizona Lifelong Learners .

The annual quilt exhibition at Diss High School on Saturday attracted a bumper turn-out of more than 300 people to see the colourful array of quilts and wall hangings.

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The O'Malley Senior Center, 1275 Odenton Road, Odenton recently announced its calendar for this month.

Quilting may be an old craft but new ideas are found everywhere in "Material Obsession: Modern Quilts With Traditional Roots," where bold colors, often in unusual combinations, along with new patterns, are the name of the game.

Plenty of quilting classes! That is what you will find at Catalina Quilting , recently reopened at a new easy to find location on 1st Ave and Tangerine in Oro Valley .

Betty Elaine Maurer of Oklahoma displays one of her quilts. Her daughter, Belinda Fernandez of Mill Valley, created One Woman s Journey Told In Quilts," a book that tells the story of her mother's life and world travels through her quilts.

Historians believe the art of quilting might have developed in Ancient Egypt or China as far back as 3,400 years or more.

Entering the Treasures of Tomorrow Quilt Show, attendees were greeted by the event's first-place award winners.

"The British are coming! The British coming!" Yes, I'm writing about a British Invasion, and it's not the Fab Four of 1960s fame .

Jane Hermann presented an interesting program on the history and art of Quilting at the Alida C. Bliss Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution meeting held Monday, Oct.

DE PERE - Cathy Wozniak of Green Bay likes to sew, knit and crochet, but she can only make so many blankets for her family.

'We're tickled pink,' Susie Hoot, co-owner of Chocolate Thimble, says of traffic to the store, which sells candy and offers quilting classes.

COLOURFUL: New Plymouth's Celia Tootill makes her way through the selection of large quilts at the Festival of Quilts at Spotswood College.

Quilters from throughout the region descended on Estherville Saturday to hear a nationally recognized quilting historian tell how the once-humble quilt has now taken on a role as treasured heirloom.

Gail Strickler and Elizabeth Lawrence spent a month building their log cabin. Now they're hoping to find it a home.