From Quilts, Inc.: "Quilts, Inc.—producer of trade show International Quilt Market and public show International Quilt Festival—has named Jamie Mueller as the company’s new Director of Education.She takes over for the retiring Jill Benge." Click through to learn more about Jamie and the role she'll be playing as part of Quilts, Inc. going forward.
Join award-winning quilter, designer, author, teacher, and musician Ricky Tims for a special FREE four-part class to create The Odette Quilt — a stunning 48" x 48" project designed by Kaye England.
Did you catch Alex's LIVE on Wednesday about her visit to the 50th Sisters Outdoor Quilt Festival? Did it make you excited to visit next year? Want to learn even more about this storied quilt show? Well, you're in luck, as founder of the Sisters Quilt Show, Jean Wells, has written a book about the history of the show and more entitled, Sisters, Oregon - Five Decades of Quilting in America. Listen to Jean, and her daughter Valori Wells, as the talk about the book, its release, and how you might be able to get an autographed copy for yourself.
"You Made That?": The Quilting Adventures of Harvey Fierstein on Display in Ridgefield, Connecticut
Lifetime Achievement Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein has many gifts, including being an award-winning playwright and actor for the stage and screen for his work in Torch Song Trilogy, Hairspray, La Cage aux Folles, and so much more. But did you also know that that this multi-talented individual is also an amazing quilter? For the first time, Harvey's quilts will be on display for three days as part of the exhibition, "You Made That?": The Quilting Adventures of Harvey Fierstein, in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Come and see his fantastic quilts, and catch a glimpse of his creative prowess.
From The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum: "Ricky Tims has enjoyed a rich and exciting career in quilting, winning numerous awards at national and international exhibitions. Ricky has shared his skill through patterns and teaching his methods, but has been fortunate to keep a large collection of his creations and the time has come to display this amazing journey of creativity in a single exhibit. Many of these quilts will be available to purchase – so admirers and collectors can add to their personal collections pieces created by this internationally influential quilt artist. Take a journey through Ricky’s creative quilting life in this exhibit." The exhibit will be on display at The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Golden, CO from July 21, 2025 through October 18, 2025
From the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive: "Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California traces the flow and flourishing of quilts in the context of the Second Great Migration. As millions of African Americans sought greater opportunities and escape from the South’s oppressive racial environment from 1940 to 1970, they carried quilts as functional objects and physical reminders of the homes they left behind. The quilts in this exhibition explore the medium’s unique capacity for connecting kin across time and distance, holding memory and ancestral knowledge, and opening up space for beauty and artistic ingenuity."
Cherrywood Fabrics has unveiled the theme for their 2026 challenge. Each year Cherrywood produces a set of fabrics in a limited color palette and asks its contestant to a quilt of a certain size themed to that year's challenge. For 2026, the "theme inspires you to stitch your story." What do you think it is? Click through to find out.
Lisa Walton, textile artist and past President of SAQA, talks to Sheila Frampton Cooper about her quilt, Ruins of Roussillon, which was inspired by a village in France. Sheila is renowned for her intricate piecing, which she creates one piece at a time, often building upon a central nucleus for a design. Learn all about the work that went into making this complex quilt in another installment of Quilt Stories.
The latest exhibit at the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska opens today and is ready for all to see. The exhibit, "Chinese Quilts Today", showcases "the ways in which quiltmaking is a thriving, growing, and changing art form in modern China." See photos from the museum showing off the installation of the latest exhibit, and find out more about this fascinating portion of quilting history.
One of the most frequently asked questions at the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska is, "What is your most valuable quilt?" Well, they have an answer for you! Do you know what it is? Do you know how they figure out what makes it the most valuable? Watch this video and discover the answer.
The Sew & So... podcast with host Meg Goodman recently featured superb sewing sisters Sue Nickels and Pat Holly as its guests. Come and listen to a fabulous conversation where Meg talks with Sue and Pat about their contributions to the quilting community, and so much more.
Lisa Walton, textile artist and past President of SAQA, spoke with Jane Sassaman about her quilt, Johnny Jump Ups, and discussed the color, quirkiness, and vibrancy in both this and many of her other quilts in a colorific installment of Quilt Stories.
Every year before the Houston International Quilts Festival, Quilts, Inc. holds the Fall Quilt Market, "the only credentialed trade show in the world dedicated to quilting and sewing exclusively." Well, now that won't be the only time you'll be able get the inside track on all things quilting, as the Spring Quilt Market will officially be returning next year from April 10-12, 2026 at America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri! Click through to find out more about this exciting return.
From the Texas Quilt Museum: "Saddle up and get ready to head to the Texas Quilt Museum for the debut of three brand new exhibits this Spring and Summer! Visitors will enjoy Blue Ribbon Prizewinners from the 2025 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Framed Center/Medallion Quilts, and Rebound-Renew-Reimagine. They will run from May 1, 2025 through August 23, 2025." Click through to find out more about the new exhibits, and watch a video to see how the museum switches out the previous exhibits and installs the new ones.
Join TQS's Susan Cleveland and co-hostess, Kimberly Einmo, in Japan this November! They've planned hands-on textile workshops and visits to Yoko Saito's quilt shop, the Yokohama quilt show, markets, a museum, shrine, garden and other surprises. Opulent Quilt Journeys takes great care to arrange top-notch experiences abroad. You really don't want to miss this opulent tour!
The Quilt Show ran into Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry at her exhibit, Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry: A Life In Color, at the National Quilt Museum this weekend as part of the festivities for the 2025 edition of the Paducah Quilt Show. While there, she showed us two of her firsts, her very first quilt, and her first art quilt. See both of these quilts as they were hung in the exhibit and chart the journey she took from her beginnings to now.
The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles has a new exhibit on display entitled Just Quilts!, "featuring three innovative, diverse, talented quilters from the Valley of Heart's Delight (Santa Clara Valley). These quilters being Charlotte Scholberg, Randa Mulford, and the late Joy Palmer." Come check out these great quilts at one of the Bay Area's preeminent quilting destinations. But come soon if you want to see it, as it'll only be there for a month.
This past year Janet Stone finished the last quilt in a her Alphabet series, which has twenty-six quilts with each one corresponding to a letter of the alphabet, that she began in 2008. And guess what? Starting next year you'll be able to see all of them together for the first time at the National Quilt Museum as part of their new exhibit, Janet Stone: And Now I Know My ABCs. Click through to learn more about this exciting exhibit to come.
Are you a fan of Star Wars? If you are, or even if aren't, we're sure you'll love what Star Wars fan Becky Glasby made that hung in the National Quilt Museum in 2024 as part of her solo exhibition, My Quilting Medley: Becky Glasby. Hear the story behind her Star Wars Trilogy quilts as part of the Go Tell It at the Quilt Show series from the Quilt Alliance.