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! 2022
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…
Helping to Heal the Hurt
Tina Bauer of Bittersweet Quilt Shop in Pinconning, Michigan is nearing the end of a heartfelt campaign to gather quilts and donations for those affected in the Paradise fire disaster in California. The Camp Fire is the deadliest and most destructive fire in recent U.S. history. It started in the densely populated foothill town 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.
Don’t Skip The Store
Re-published with permission from Shannon Ownby, Owner of Fabrics N Things. See the original posted November 3, 2015. We all know that our world is so much smaller than it used to be with the technology that has exploded in the last 15 years. It would be hard to be completely unplugged. For those with…
Covering Seniors With A Hug – One Quilt At A Time
Meet Shannon Ownby, the owner of Fabrics N Quilts in Jamestown, Tennessee. She is always ready for a challenge and committed to giving back to her community. When she heard about the Quilted EMbrace organization, she wanted to get involved herself and bring her customers into it as well. And thus a very special community-service project was born.…
Being A Quilt Shop Owner
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