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Quilting for a cause

Meridian Booster - Jan 27, 2012
By Justina Contenti The Lloydminster Healthcare Auxiliary raised $4400 for patient care at the Lloydminster Hospital this year through their second quilt raffle. Tickets were on sale from May 6 to Nov. 26 and all 2500 tickets were sold for the draw.

Seaport Stitchers hone skills and serve the community

Asbury Park Press - Jan 27, 2012
But the landmark site also is home to another important and long-standing group — the Seaport Stitchers, a quilt guild whose members actively serve the community while enhancing their own quilting skills and techniques. Formed in 1999 by quilting ...

Documentary focuses on quilting competitors

Elmira Star-Gazette - Jan 25, 2012
A new documentary follows three artists getting ready for the 2010 International Quilt Festival, the largest quilting event in the United States. "Stitched" will get a screening at 11:30 am Sunday at The Glen Theater in Watkins Glen, followed by a ...

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Quilting books

Amazing Quilts - Tips and Ideas

by: Chris Thomas
"Amazing Quilts" is a collection of inspiring, unusual, and simply amazing quilts from the creative community at Instructables.com. Learn how to make a crazy quilt, a video-game themed spread, or a personalized blanket. All projects come from us are written by our creative authors. They contain pictures for each step so you can easily make these yourself.

We provide easy DIY tools with pictures to enable passionate, creative people like you to create your most innovative projects, recipes, skills, and ideas.
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The Art of Manipulating Fabric

by: Colette Wolff
The possibilities for three-dimensional manipulation of fabric - gathering, pleating, tucking, shirring, and quilting woven materials - are seemingly endless. To describe them all would be to describe the entire history of sewing.

In The Art of manipulating Fabric, Colette Wolff has set herself just this task, and she succeeds brilliantly. Working from the simplest possible form - a flat piece of cloth and a threaded needle - she categorizes all major dimensional techniques, show how they are related, and give examples of variations both traditional and modern.
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A Field Guide to Fabric Design: Design, Print & Sell Your Own Fabric; Traditional & Digital Techniques; For Quilting, Home Dec & Apparel

by: Kim Kight
If you have ever dreamed of showing your designs on fabric, textile aficionado Kim Kight, of popular blog True Up, is here to teach you how. Comprehensive and refreshingly straightforward, this impressive volume features two main parts. First, the Design and Color section explains the basics with step-by-step tutorials on creating repeating patterns both by hand and on the computer. Next, the Printing section guides you through transferring those designs on fabric-whether it's block printing, screen printing, digital printing or licensing to a fabric company-and how to determine the best method for you.
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Quilting videos

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Dresden Plate Tutorial - Beginner Block Quilting Series

missouriquiltco.com - How to do Dresden Plate with Jenny from Missouri Star Quilt Co. Part of the Beginner Block Series, but this is an intermediate level project. For a great selection of layer cakes and jelly rolls click below Dresden Ruler missouriquiltco.com Charm Packs missouriquiltco.com For quilting supplies and fabric, come on over and check us out at www.MissouriQuiltCo.com or take a look at http

 

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Quilting BIG Quilts on a Small Machine

www.daystyledesigns.com Watch how Leah loads her quilts into her domestic sewing machine using her "Squish, Squish, Flatten!" method.

 

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T-Shirt Quilting! - How to make an heirloom quilt!

missouriquiltco.com -- Natalie shows a easy way to make keepsake T-Shirt Quilt. To get the materials needed to do this project, follow the links below Fusible Interfacing by Pellon www.missouriquiltco.com 12.5" x 12.5" Omnigrid Ruler www.missouriquiltco.com Yardage sorted by color www.missouriquiltco.com Scissors and Rotary Cutters www.missouriquiltco.com

 

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Binding Your Quilt - Quilting Tips & Tricks

missouriquiltco.com - How bind a quilt with Jenny from Missouri Star Quilt Co. To get all the materials featured in this tutorial, follow the links below John James Quilting Needles: www.missouriquiltco.com Clover Needle Threader www.missouriquiltco.com Fabric by the Yard www.missouriquiltco.com If you'd like to get started on quilting and need supplies, come on over and check us out at www.MissouriQuiltCo.com or take a look at http

 

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the Quilt Halo

The Quilt Halo is a brand new product from Sharon Schamber. She created it because she need some thing that would give her the extra controll and accuracy she needed when quilting on a Domestic machine. The Quilt Halo will be available October 2007. Sign up for the newsletter at www.SharonSchamberNetwork.com and recieve updates when this product is ready to launch.