Quilters by the Sea

in La Habra until 2, Fabric Sale Friendship Square Quilt Guild Fabric and Quilt Sale today.Please join us! 10 am - 2pm. La Habra Christian Church parking lot. 1400 Bella Vista Drive (corner of Harbor and Bella Vista Dr.)... La Habra Heights, CA 90631 See more

More photos from the 2021 Quilt Tour. If your guild wants info on putting on this type of event, PM your email or send info request to: [email protected]

2021 Quilt Tour is over. Thank you to all our workers and Tour guests for making it a success!

"Leftovers" made of orphan blocks donated by QBS members.

"The Great Barrier Reef" by Miki Murakami. Flickr

From our sister guild: Saturday, May 22, 2021 10am 2pm Giant Fabric and Quilt Sale La Habra Christian Church parking lot... 1400 Bella Vista Drive (corner of Harbor and Bella Vista Dr.) La Habra Heights Sponsored by Friendship Square Quilt Guild Fabric starts at $1.00 per yard Plus Boutique, Silent Auction and Opportunity Quilt. Masks required and Social distancing enforced www.fsqg.org See more

Great idea! I wish I had a long fence like this in my neighborhood.

5 quilts each bound and labeled delivered to Community Relations. 3 to go!

Harriet Powers, the folk artist known as the "mother of African-American quilting," was born on this day in 1839. Powers was born into slavery near Athens, Geor...gia, and spent her early life on a plantation where she first learned how to sew. Her quilts are considered among the finest examples of 19th century Southern quilting, although only two of her quilts, both of which were made after the Civil War, survive today. Her quilts are a unique blend of both European quilting traditions and African textile arts, and were made using both appliqué and piecework. The two surviving quilts, the Bible Quilt from 1886 and the Pictorial Quilt from 1898, contain numerous pictorial squares that depict either biblical scenes or celestial events. Powers also created a key for both quilts, explaining the meaning behind each panel. Today, her quilts are displayed in the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. For an inspiring picture book about Harriet Powers, we highly recommend "Sewing Stories" for ages 5 to 8 at https://www.amightygirl.com/sewing-stories-harriet-powers For a fascinating book for book for adults about her work, we recommend "This I Accomplish: Harriet Powers' Bible Quilt and Other Pieces" at http://amzn.to/2zNl0QQ For more books about the significance of quilts to enslaved African Americans, we recommend "Show Way" for ages 5 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/show-way) and "Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt" for ages 6 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/sweet-clara-and-the-freedom-qui) For a fun no-sew quilting set for kids ages 5 and up, visit https://www.amightygirl.com/created-by-me-quilt-set -- or discover more fabric arts options for children in our "Fabric Crafts" section at http://amgrl.co/2loxL1T

From long flowy dresses to vests and long shorts, compositions of #DolceGabbana prints and button embellishments pervade the #DGSicilianPatchwork looks. The out...fits are completed with oversized bags and patchwork boots. A celebration of Sicily and the contrasts that render it unique, the #DGSicilianPatchwork looks feature a union of different colours, forms and fabrics, each one crafted and interpreted manually by skilled hands. Watch the fashion show on IGTV. #MFW Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana

If you've ever wondered about those delicate patterns on Japanese textiles, Mira Gupta sheds light on how it's done.

Creative Grids is having an issue with foreign counterfeit rulers on Amazon. We are taking steps to stop the counterfeiters, but in the meantime here are known Amazon counterfeit sellers: Raymond Bart, Music Beikeyu, Choose Best, Denggulong, Sunitek and Lroom. Unfortunately Amazon is commingling their counterfeit inventory with other legitimate Amazon sellers. Therefore, even if you order from a legit Amazon seller you might receive a counterfeit. Until this issue is resolved, we suggest you purchase from your local quilt shop or one of the trusted online retailers. The Where to Buy tool allows you to find a Creative Grids retailer near you: https://www.creativegridsusa.com/wheretobuy

Amazon is running a promotion encouraging shoppers to spend money with small sellers, including Handmade, on its marketplace. Now through October 12, Prime members who spend $10 will receive $10 to spend on Prime Day.

Any textile manipulators out there?

Quel beau projet que celui de la robe rouge qui a réuni des femmes de 28 pays .205 Femmes qui se sont unies pour orner et broder ce symbole de paix et d'unité .......Magnifique projet et réalisation à initiative de Kirstie Macleod The Red Dress, a decade long global embroidery project 2009-2019 by British artist Kirstie Macleod is centred around a red silk dress. Seed investment provided by the British Council in 2009 allowed the dress to begin its journey, and it has since travelled around the world being continuously embroidered onto by over 120 different artisans to date. Embroiderers include refugees in Palestine, victims of civil war in Kosovo, Rwanda and DR Congo, individuals in South Africa, Kenya, Japan, Paris, Sweden and Peru, upmarket studios in Bombay and Saudi Arabia, artists in Wales and Colombia alongside initiatives to support women in poverty such as Missibaba in Cape Town, South Africa, and FanSina working with Bedouin embroiderers based in the mountains above St Catherine's in Egypt's Sinai. https://reddressembroidery.com/ https://www.facebook.com/thereddressembroidery/ See more