Category Archives: Baby Quilts

Quilting

• Events on Saturday mark National Quilting Day (Asheville Citizen-Times)
  Celebrate National Quilting Day Saturday at the Folk Art Center, milepost 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville. Quilters Connie Brown and Robin Brooks, members of the Asheville Quilt Guild and the Southern Highland Craft Guild, will demonstrate their craft 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in the center’s lobby.
• Quilting extravaganza Saturday (KKCO Grand Junction)
  Quilting enthusiasts want to spread their passion for fabric and stitching.
• Quilting goes high-tech, but results are still soft wares (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
  High-tech stitching machines, computer software, beading and hand-painting? These aren’t your grandmother’s quilts. Evelyn Townsend of Chesterfield County began quilting in 1985, when patterns were traced and quilts were stitched in more traditional ways.
• Quilting marathon will raise funds for cancer services (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
  Quilting Adventures, a locally owned fabric and quilting shop in the Shops at Willow Lawn, is hosting a 30-hour quilting marathon from April 30 to May 2 to benefit support services provided by Massey Cancer Center in Richmond. The hours will be Friday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 1 a.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. Quilters will gat […]
• Area quilting guild to meet Wednesday, March 24 (The High Springs Herald)
  LAKE CITY -- The Lady of the Lake Quilting Guild will hold its monthly meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at Teen Town, located at 533 NW Desoto St. in Lake City.
• Quilting for Haiti (The Wahpeton Daily News)
  A dozen or so members of Grace Lutheran Church in Breckenridge annually devote their time to crafting quilts to meet needs worldwide, but now they're focusing on Haiti.
• Quilting boom reflected in fairgrounds show (The State Journal-Register)
  Even though high-tech devices such as laptops and iPhones dominate everyday life, people continue to find time for hobbies their mother or grandmother might have enjoyed.
• Quilting Bee (The Alleghany News)
  AT RIGHT: QUILTING—Margaret Killon (left) and Jacqueline Brooks worked on an "Old Susanna" quilt for Killon's granddaughter Madison Suzanne Fender during a community quilting bee that was held at the Blue Ridge Business Development Center's atrium Monday.
• Area quilting guild warms hearts as well as bodies (Jefferson City News Tribune)
  Ironing boards, sewing machines, yards of fabric, bags of polyester batting, spools of thread and thimbles are the ingredients the women of the Missouri River Quilters Guild use to craft their heart-warming goods.
• Henderson County (The Hendersonville Times-News)
  Henderson CountyNational Quilting Day at Blue Ridge Mall