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Page last updated 03/02/07
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Air's Quilting and Craft Refs
Air's Quilting and Craft Refs
Online:
- "How Much Time" (did it take to do your blocks)?
- Post your "missing fabrics" or help other people to locate theirs:
In my area (sometimes elsewhere as well):
- JoAnn Crafts/Etc. (NoVA and other locations)
- Hancock Fabrics (Sterling VA)
- Michael's (NoVA and other locations)
- G Street Fabrics (NoVA, MD)
- Quilters Unlimited - NoVA store info
- National Needlework Assn.'s Retail Directory - Virginia
- The Washington Post's suggestions for knitting books, online sites, and DC-area shops
- Wool Works: knitting stores in Virginia
- Baa Baa Joe's Wool - places to buy in VA (with phone #s)
- VA yarn shop reviews
- Mid-Atlantic Needlework Retailers Association
- Aylin's Woolgatherer, Falls Church
- KnitKnack, Arlington
- Springwater Fiber Workshop, Alexandria
- Hunt Country Yarns, Middleburg
- Wooly Knits, McLean
Elsewhere:
- The St. Jude Quilt of Dreams contest (annual - through Hancock Fabrics)
- Care Wear Volunteers ask people to make and donate toys, gowns, blankets, and so forth to hospitals for use by their youngest patients
- Suzanne's Quilt Shop, Royal Palm Beach, FL
- eQuilter.com
- quilt backing fabrics (60-120" wide)
- retro, vintage, old-fashioned fabric patterns including
- angels, fairies, mermaids
- Miranda's pink ballerina fabric - bought some at the 2002 Sully quilt show
- multicolor abstracts, contemporary prints, textures
- geometric, including circles and blobs and dots
- roses, hearts, other kissy-huggy stuff
- large florals, including at least two that I have:
- not-so-large florals
- more florals ("A Year of Flowers" and state flowers), including at least two that I have:
- Art Nouveau, Victorian, William Morris, including
- animals...
- Betty Boop
- skies, space, rockets, robots
- myth & magic, Celtic, Renaissance, including some of the
- cherries
- other edibles, plus drinks - lots of apples
- marbleized & hand-dyed look
- holidays
- LEARN TO KNIT and CROCHET
- The Quilter's Cache
- Sewing World - looks interesting, but I haven't been able to register yet as it keeps insisting whatever user name I make up is already being used
- KathKwilts
- SewMommy's Sewing Tip Exchange
- Sew Hip It Hurts
- Wrights (makers of sewing trims & notions)
- Eastwind Art - Japanese quilting, fabric, kimonos, clothing
Software and swaps:
- FAQ's about Quilt Software and Computer Quilting page 2 of 3
- #QuiltChat(TM) FUNtastic Swaps
For your viewing pleasure...
- "Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting" show at the Museum of Arts & Design in NYC - teeny-tiny gloves; huge net things hanging from the ceiling, more! Show runs thru June 17, 2007.
- the American Sewing Guild contest page - some really unbelievable 2003 entries; looks like at least one took hundreds of hours!
- Ground Zero Quilt - just amazing, the amount of thought and effort and time that this took.
- AKC Museum of the Dog Dogs-N-Stitches Display of various dog quilts
- LABMED's annual fundraising quilt, done each summer
- The Hermitage Museum's 2003 exhibition of costumes from a 1903 dress ball
- IEEE Quilt Block Contest, 2001
- Download-a-Dinosaur
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