So many people have reached out to so many organizations asking how they can help those in need affected by the fires in the Los Angeles area that occurred in January, 2025. In the sewing community, calls for quilts and blankets for those that have been affected by the fires and have lost everything, have…
Charity Sewing at Sewing & Stitchery Expo 2025
Sewing & Stitchery Expo – February 27 to March 2, 2025 Puyallup, Washington Every year, the Sewing & Stitchery Expo supports charitable organizations benefiting from hand-made or home-sewn projects. 2025 Partnership – Project Linus This year, the Sewing & Stitchery Expo is excited to partner with Project Linus to include a fun opportunity to serve our community. Named after the security blanket-toting…
This Is How We Roll! Project Jelly Roll
On the third Saturday of September each year, Moda Fabrics and local quilt shops everywhere celebrate National Sew a Jelly Roll Day. Save the date: September 16, 2023. What is National Sew a Jelly Roll Day? Quilters all around are encouraged to sew something fun and enjoy the day using a favorite precut, the Jelly Roll!…
Get Ready to Roll! National Sew a Jelly Roll Day
On the third Saturday of September each year, Moda Fabrics and local quilt shops everywhere celebrate National Sew a Jelly Roll Day. Save the date: September 17, 2022. What is National Sew a Jelly Roll Day? Quilters all around are encouraged to sew something fun and enjoy the day using a favorite precut, the Jelly Roll!…
Wrap Ukraine With Quilts
Gina Halladay and Beth Hawkins were days away from launching their next quilt adventure, a combination of online quilting classes and a fabric shop called Hello Cottons when the invasion in the Ukraine started. When they heard about the devastating occurrences through friends and colleagues living in Ukraine and Poland, and saw the images of…
United We Stand
Reposted with permission from Weeks Ringle, Modern Quilt Studio The past few years have brought tremendous changes to the world of quilting. Shops have closed by scores. Magazines and book publishers have shuttered or merged with other publishers. American Quilter Society has ceased publishing books all together. City Quilter in New York is closing. Tension…
How Quilt Shop Quality Fabric Can Make You {Look Like} a Better Quilter
By Maddie Kertay, founder of the BadAss Quilters Society. Being a hands-on quilt shop owner means I spend a lot of time acting as confessor and therapist to a wide variety of patrons that visit our shop. Some need little more than hand holding and a quick lesson on how to spiff up their mitered…
10 Reasons to Shop Locally
Published with permission from the Institute for Local Self Reliance.
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