Links

Have you found a great quilting website, visited a quilt show, discovered a wonderful quilt shop? Please share your links and experiences by sending a report to info@prairiepiecemaker.com, along with letting us know about errors and outdated links on this page.

Quilt Guilds and Associations

• An annotated listing of links to quilt guilds in Canada
• The Canadian Quilters' Association
• Saskatchewan Quilt Guilds:
• The The Moose Jaw Prairie Hearts Quilters' Guild
• The Saskatoon Quilters’ Guild
• The Humbolt Prairie Patchworker's Quilt Guild
• Quilt Guilds and Organizations in Other Provinces:
• Ottawa Valley Quilters’ Guild
• Victoria Quilters' Guild

Quilt Patterns

• Links to over one thousand sites that offer free quilt patterns.


• Marcia Hohn's Quilters' Cache offers many free quilt block patterns.


• From World Wide Quilting, quilt block patterns in alphabetical order.


• Information about and examples of quilting dedications.


• Disappearing Nine Patch
1. Lori Tourscher provided an excellent tutorial on the Disappearing 9-Patch Design at the February 2, 2010 Guild Meeting:
   
   and examples of the wide variety of patterns that can be created using different fabrics and block placement:
   

Lori provided links to more information about the Disappearing Nine Patch pattern and good examples of different applications of the Disappearing Nine Patch pattern.


2. Kathy Tanner has provided instructions for creating a Spilt Nine-Patch With a Twist. See an example of the design posted on her website.


• Recommended by Sharon Harris:
  1. Thumb Butte Quilters’ Guild of Prescott, Arizona:
     If you like to look at quilts or looking for inspiration click on the Show and Tell icon and see about five years of photos of quilts.
  2. Quiltville is a great site for those who enjoy making scrap quilts. Huge number of free patterns with great step-by-step pictures. Denise also recommends this site for ideas for using the strips of fabric collected through the Guild exchange.
  3. An on-line class for a Crazy Quilt, complete with embroidery stitch instruction.

Reports and Recommendations

The Thread Studio

Some guild members are entering their original small fabric art work in The Thread Studio special exhibit called Textile Tantrums. The exhibit opens in March at the Australian Quilt Convention in Melbourne and will travel to different venus over the coming year. The fabric art work will also be featured on The Thread Studio website in a special gallery section and featured in at least two international magazines.

Become a Quilters sleuth and solve a mystery!

Peggy Fischer recommends the challenge of a Mystery Quilt to launch the new quilting year. Following are a couple of links from Peggy to get started:

• Planet Patchwork is offering a "Wonderful One-Day New Years Mystery" event.
• The Quilt and Needle offers free original designs during its Mystery Quilt Weekends.

Here are a few more links:

• Susan Druding writes about mystery quilts and recommends links to mystery quilt sites.
• Tink's Cotton Club offers links to shops and personal web pages that have mystery quilt patterns.
• Quilting Passion has a whole section of mystery quilts.
• Quiltville offers Mystery quilts with plenty of pictures and instructions.

Mavis reports from the Ottawa Valley Quilters’ Guild Meetings

• February 2010
  Our evening began with 4 long tables of potluck finger foods. It was nice to have a festive feeling in the middle of winter. Enough about food. The guest of the evening was Diane MacLeod Shink from Montreal. She is a quilt historian, certified AQS appraiser and co-author of the book "Canadian Heritage Quilting". Her presentation was on techniques used by our grandmothers and still used today.She brought with her approx. 50 quilts from the 1800's and early to mid 1900"s (part of her personal collection). Many of these quilts she was in the process of refurbishing. It was so nice to see all the original fabrics and how they had survived the elements. Alot of them she aquired as she has travelled through the Laurentians. She also gave tips on caring for and preserving our quilts.She apparently has an apron collection which she did not bring with her. I think they would have been wonderful to see.She is doing a workshop or presentation at the Canada Quilt Show in Calgary in April .So, some of you may see her there. She may have some of her collection there. Anyone interested in the historical aspect of quilting would enjoy her. I must say, I surely look forward to the meeting- always so interesting!!



• December 2009
  Mavis Wood writes "Helen Fujiki from Toronto was the guest for the evening and she had a trunk show featuring approximately 125 small quilt projects, wall hangings and her quilted interpretations of manhole covers she saw while visiting Asia. Apparently, Asian countries (in particular, Japan) are much more creative in designing their manhole covers and actually have contests for designs representing their economy, culture.
  
  Mavis continues, "Helen Fujiki did a series of approximately 50 of these interpreted by quilting. She combined broderie perse, machine and applique, with the use of panels to accomplish her wall quilts. She also had 2 video presentations of her trips to Japan and showed works of and info on the 5 original quilt masters of Japan. I loved every single moment of the evening.
  
  Mavis notes that some Guild members may be familiar with Helen Fujiki's work as she had some pieces at the mini Canadian Quilt Show in Saskatoon last spring. Mavis highly recommends visiting Helen Fujiki's website and encourages you to click on all tabs, especially the underground of Japan.


• November 2009
  Mavis Wood recently moved to Ottawa and has joined the Ottawa Valley Quilters’ Guild. Pippa Moore, a fabric artist from Comox, B.C. made a presentation at the November Guild meeting. Mavis recommends visiting her website, particularly take a look at the “Kitambaa” designs!