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Quilt Publishers & Shops & Patterns |
| ArtsLinksList.com - An Arts Directory. Sewing section has quilt & fabric stores and instructors. | Alliance for American Quilts - Interesting site for information on quilting past and present. |
| Animas Quilts Publishing - Patterns and books by Jackie Robinson. | |
| Art Works Gallery - A wonderful gallery in Newark, Ohio. | Aveli's Quilts & General Store - Precut fabric for quilting, crafting or sewing. Precut quilting kits; baby quilts, wall hangings and more. Also batting, freezer paper sheets, new items monthly. |
| Barbara Kraus Jenkins - A wonderful colored pencil and mixed media artist. | Awesome Artisan Quilts -Longarm Quilting Services and Artisan Quilts. |
| Canton Museum of Art - I had work in a show here in Spring/2008 with the Contemporary Fiber Artists. | Bear Paw Quilt Co. - A discount fabric center with over 10,000 bolts of fabric |
| C & T Publishing - Wonderful publisher of quilting and other creative books. | |
| Carnegie Art Center - across the river from Louisville in Indiana. This center has fiber shows several times a year. | C & T Media Services - quilt photography. |
| Cincinnati Art Museum - A wonderful place to visit. | Crooked Brook - Custom embroidered designs, quilt blocks or panels and more. No minimum. |
| Coral Springs Museum of Art - located in Coral Springs, Florida this is a small museum, but very active. | Cynthia's Fine Fabrics - Sewing machine sales & service, embroidery supplies & software classes, fine fabrics, trims and buttons. |
| Denise Clason Studios - Author of New Country Quilting & Quilted Bags and Totes. Designer of "Stitchin' Up the Pieces" buttons. | Decoratorsbest.com -Designer fabrics and designer wallpaper at trade prices with a variety of patterns. Visit our online DecoratorsBest designer drapery fabrics, designer upholstery fabric and designer wallpaper store. |
| Jane Sassaman - A terrific quilting instructor, fiber artist, and fabric designer. | Denver Fabrics - Fabric for fashion, dancewear, costumes, rug hooking, crafts and home decor. Many silk, wool, and linen designer fabrics. Prices often at or below wholesale fabric pricing. Also sewing notions, trims, books and patterns at discount. |
| Judy Rush - Art Quilts by a friend of mine. | England Design Studio - Cynthia England's site. Source for her Picture Piecing book which has a photo of one of my quilts. |
| Kentucky Haus - Gift shop in Northern Kentucky that carries my patterns. | Fabric Trends Magazine - New magazine for quilters. |
| Lynn Ticotsky - Cincinnati, Ohio quilt artist inspired by nature. | |
| Photo Studio Lighting - Photo Studio Supplies is an online store providing you with better photo studio equipment like Photo Studio Kits, Professional Photography Kits, Photography Lighting, Videos Solutions and Chomakey Blue and Green Screens for professional as well as amateur photographers at very low price. | |
| Remarkable Quilts - website of Mark Sherman, another quilt artist friend, located in Florida. | |
| Xylem Design Easel Store - Source for all kinds of easels for home or office. They have a terrific links page for artists and collectors with galleries, art supply stores and other artist's services. | Fabric Square Shop - Brand new online quilting site. "Too hip to be square!" |
| Art & Quilt Organizations | Fat Quarter Factory - Fat quarters, jelly rolls, charm squares, quilt kits and fabrics for the creative sewer and quilter. |
| Berea Arts Council - Gallery in downtown Berea, Kentucky. | Fat Quarter Quilters - New online quilt shop. |
| Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society - Statewide quilting guild of Kentucky. | Fat Quarter Shop - Online quilt shop. Fabric! |
| National Quilting Association - Website of the National Quilting Association. | Fat Quarter World - Fat quarter bundles and quilt fabrics from Moda and other top manufacturers. Shop by color, collection, theme, or brand. |
| Find a Quilt Pattern - Here's the place to go if you want to find a quilt pattern. Search by designer, descriptive words or pattern name. New site in 2010. | |
| Northeastern Ohio Regional Quilt Council - NEORQC quilting organization that works with quilt guilds in the Northeastern Ohio Region. Sponsors a weekend getaway in February each year. | Hickory Hill QuiltBus - the quilt store that comes to your door! |
| Homespun Hearth - Homespun Hearth is a premier online Quilting Fabric & Quilt Shop offering a huge selection of the finest quality designer fabrics & quilting products, an interactive design board on our website along with live chat to answer customer questions, podcasts & so much more! | |
| Ohio Designer Craftsmen - a statewide organization of artists of all media in Ohio. Runs several fine art and craft shows a year. | Martha's Quilting Corner - A full service quilt shop with name brand discounted quilt fabric, books, quilt kits and more! |
| Quilter's Guild of Indianapolis - Indianapolis quilt guild. | Martingale and Company - The publishers of my new book! |
| Ozark School of Creative Arts - Where the arts and artists grow both creatively & spiritually. | |
| Studio Art Quilt Association - SAQA, professional and non-professional art quilters. Gallery of art quilts. | Professional Quilter - a business journal containing articles written for professional quilters by professional quilters. Full of tips, events and information for quilting instructors or others who make their living through quilting. |
| Sunshine State Quilters Association, Inc. - Florida Statewide Guild. | |
| Surface Design Association - SDA, organization of quilters, fabric designers, wearable artists, students, and embroiderers. | PM Quilting Co. - Hand dyed cottons and flannels 108" wide! |
| Quilt Art - Internet mail list for contemporary quilters. Check out the artist links! | |
| Quilt Shows | Quilt History - A terrific website to visit if you are interested in the history of quilting and antique quilts. A great resource. |
| AQS Quilt Museum - Located in Paducah, Kentucky. | |
| A Quilter's Gathering - Quilt Show in Nashua, New Hampshire every November. | Quilt Professionals - Listing of quilting professionals from across the U.S. |
| Dairy Barn - The exhibition space for Quilt National every two years in Athens, Ohio. | Quilt Shops.com - an internet locale for quilt shops. |
| Indiana Heritage Quilt Show - Bloomington, Indiana. | Quilter's Fancy - Home of Cindy Oravecz's website. |
| Original Sewing & Quilt Expo - Sewing, quilting, machine embroidery, supplies, classes, shopping! | Quilter's Newsletter - Online site for Quilter's Newsletter Magazine and 3 other magazines. |
| Quilt Fest - This is the website for the Mancuso shows. | Quilter's Warehouse - Great source for patterns. |
| Quilt Odyssey - Wonderful quilt show in Pennsylvania. | Sew Essential - the online dressmaking, haberdashery, embroidery and needlecraft store dedicated to the sewing enthusiast. |
| Festival of Quilts - Annual quilt show in Birmingham, England. | |
| Vermont Quilt Festival - Annual quilt show with lots of classes. I'll be teaching there June 25-27, 2010. | The Thread Studio - Online source for art quilt fibers, books and online classes from Australia. A fun place for ideas! |
| Places to Visit | The Quilter Magazine - Quilting magazine. |
| Aullwood Audubon Center - located in Dayton, Ohio the Aullwood Center has an annual quilt show each summer. | Upholstery Fabric - Upholstery Fabric at extraordinary discounts from Fabric Maven. |
| Cincinnati Nature Center - Terrific trails through the woods, next to streams and around ponds. The gift shop carries my dye painted scarves. | Craft & Folk Schools & Instruction |
| Gumbo Limbo Nature Center - located in Boca Raton, Florida this is a terrific place to see sea turtles, & ocean wildlife in their three outside salt water tanks. They also do sea turtle research. | Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts - Craft school located in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. |
| Lake Farmpark - Quilts 2008 Show coming in February/March. | |
| Sawgrass Nature Center & Wildlife Hospital - Located in my new community of Coral Springs, Florida and on the edge of the everglades is this small wildlife hospital and education center. | Cedar Lakes Craft Center - Quilting and other craft workshops, special quilting retreats located in Ripley, West Virginia. |
| Wilderness Center - The Wilderness Center is located in Wilmot, Ohio and is dedicated to nature education, wildlife conservation, natural history research and community service. | |
| Bead, Thread, & Ribbon Links | John C. Campbell Folk School - Great place to spend a week taking all kinds of classes. I taught there July, 2004. |
| Artfabr!k - Laura Wasilowski's wonderful hand dyed pearl cotton threads. | Peters Valley Craft Center - Fiber studios, teaching all kinds of fiber related workshops, also other types of crafts taught. |
| Bead Paradise II - Terrific source of unusual beads. | Quilt Escape - Weekend quilt getaway to Shawnee State Park in Portsmouth, Ohio. |
| Fire Mountain Gems & Beads - Beads & beading supplies, catalog. | Quilt Surface Design Symposium - 2 weeks each summer full of classes for art quilters and surface designers in Columbus, Ohio. |
| Meinke Toy - Source of fabulous books and unusual supplies to apply to surfaces of fabric. | Quilting with Machines - Northeast Ohio's premier quilting event for learning, reaching & growing in your quilting skills. |
| Nordic Needle - Silk ribbon supplies, books, catalog. | |
| RibbonSmyth - Website full of all kinds of ribbons, samplers, fibers & beads. Also silk supplies to dye, sequins. | |
| Shipwreck Beads - Terrific source for beads of all kinds. Catalog. | |
| Stef-Francis Company - This is a website from Great Britain. Terrific fibers to use with art quilts. | |
| Sun Country Gems - Beads and Jewelry making supplies. | |
| Superior Threads - a wide variety of machine quilting and embroidery threads. | |
| Treenway Silks - a terrific resource for silk fibers, yarns and ribbons. Also have a great education page on silk. | |
Site last updated February, 2010.
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Leigh
E. McDonald, P.O. Box 772746, Coral Springs, FL 33077
ph: 954-227-6859
email me at: leighemcdonald at adventuresinquilting.com