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New iPhone App: Quilt Making Tips and Tricks – Easy Quilt 1.0(0)

March 12, 2010

by Gary Johnson
The art of quilting can now be taught on a mobile device with the launch of Easy Quilt 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Released by Arizona based “Technical Made Easy” the app has all the tools to get users started straight away.
Easy Quilt gives information on every step of how a [...]

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Fiber artist teaches origami quilting class

by Rebecca Martinez
Anne Armentrout never thought she could draw, so she became a theater director and played with fiber and paper art on the side, and over the decades created a repertoire of quilt-style needlepoint, collagescapes and origami quilts. She even designs her own paper.
“I sometimes think I’m getting to be the artist I wanted [...]

Work of Shell Knob quilter in national contest

A quilter from the Shell Knob area has been selected as a semifinalist for the 2010 American Quilter’s Society Quilt Show and Contest April 21-24 at the Paducah Expo Center in Kentucky.
Clara Cartwright’s quilt, Colorwash Garden, will be displayed along with 386 others in the annual contest, now in its 26th year.
Judges will selected first [...]

National Quilting Day

NQA began sponsoring National Quilting Day with a resolution passed by members attending the 22nd Annual Show in Lincoln, Nebraska, in June 1991. The third Saturday in March is officially designated as National Quilting Day, but quilters are flexible and we love a celebration — especially when fabric is [...]


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