Quilting

The AIDS Memorial Quilt is back in its hometown for its largest San Francisco exhibition since the project moved across the country more than a decade ago. Local organizers began showing 40 sections of the massive quilt Sunday, and plan to hold free ...  

The four women who quilted the latest Opportunity Quilt — to raise money for the Kansas Capital Quilters Guild — went a little crazy this year, said Martha Kistler, one of the quilt’s creators. Rather than fill the 94- by 96-inch quilt ...  

In 1987, a group of San Franciscans created a quilt to honor the memories of loved ones lost to AIDS. Over the last 25 years, the quilt has traveled the country and transformed into a 54-ton tapestry with more than 45,000 panels. And now, the ...  

SALEM – The Quilters of St. John’s Episcopal Church, in Salem, delivered 50 quilts and 15 crocheted lap robes to children at the Ronald McDonald House in Camden. The quilters, women from the Episcopal Church and several other local churches ...  

The AIDS Memorial Quilt is the subject of a free exhibit that opened Sunday in the Castro. There are 312 panels of the quilt that will be shown at five locations in the coming week. It is the largest showing of the quilt in San Francisco since the NAMES ...  

Denise Labadie, an internationally-recognized and award-winning contemporary art quilter and fiber artist, will make a presentation at the Windsor-Severance Public Library on April 3. Her presentation will be from 6-8 p.m. Her works are ...  

Aunt Addie's Album is a traditional quilt block, but you can jazz it up a bit with jewel tone batik or hand dyed fabrics. The quilt block pattern includes instructions for one 8" square block -- perfect when you're making a scrap quilt from your fabric stash, and I've added yardage and a cutting chart for a 16-block quilt top with sashing and cornerstones....Read Full Post  

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Squadron … A single bed quilt — By Kathreen Ricketson Throughout February I will be featuring quilts from my book Little Bits Quilting Bee (published by Chronicle late last year). Because designer fabric is often only in print for one season it can be difficult for quilt designers and authors to choose fabrics that will be still available when [...]  

As snow blanketed the area, a few dedicated quilt-lovers stopped in at Lake Metroparks Farmpark for the annual quilt show's opening weekend. The show began 21 years ago as a way to draw residents out of their homes during cold weather, and give ...  

a professor at Chapman University School of Law in Orange, California. “We have patchwork laws on all sorts of things” that vary from one state to another, such as custody laws and third-cousin marriages, Eastman said in an interview.  

Thousands of visitors are expected to visit the Valley Quilters’ 32nd annual Quilt Show, which opened Friday and continues from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. Guild member Linda Piraino walked through the quilt stands Friday, passing out plastic ...  

This happens to be the first quintessential exhibition of contemporary art quilts since 2006. Quilt National has been juried by Eleanor McCain, Pauline Verbeek-Cowart, and Nelda Warkentin during the fall of 2010, and will feature forty-six works by first ...  

This is a fairly large quilt show on the west coast. Monetary awards are given for the best quilts in specific categories and many classes are offered for both long-armers, art quilters and regular quilters. There are many large quilt shows ...  

COLUMBIA — Dawn Heese has been piecing her quilting business together since her early years. She started by watching her great-grandmother quilt and then picked up the hobby for herself 13 years ago. But it wasn't until 2008 that she patched ...