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Book includes 40 photographs in 64 pages for projects also suitable for AccuQuilt’s GO Baby!® Fabric Cutter.

Children’s book by Nebraska author N. L. Sharp, illustrated by Timothy Hantula and designed by Lynn Gibney wins one of state’s highest book honors from Nebraska Center for the Book.

When you make a gift for another person, it’s more meaningful. Coming up with creative ideas for handmade gifts can be challenging for most. Find "fast-scratch" and "almost-homemade" kits for easy big results!

Delightful GO!® And GO! Baby™ Fabric Cutter die designs with whimsical themes reflect professional talents of the quilting industry’s most influential quilt experts.

Saturday Oct. 8th & Sunday the 9th, the Montrose High School will host the "Quilts of the Endless Mountains Quilt Show" at the Montrose High School. Featuring 100 plus quilts from around the region along with the Hoffman Challange, a traveling show.

With contrast-colored foam cutting dies, quilters and fabric crafters can easily see where to place fabric, so every bit of fabric can be used for quilt and craft projects

Included: Appliqué Alphabet, Square and Half-Square Triangle Multiples, Ribbon and Rick Rack Borders and Strip Cutter — for Use with GO!® Fabric Cutter

AccuQuilt, the world's leading maker of fabric cutters for quilting and fabric crafts, announced the appointment of Lynn Gibney to marketing director. Gibney offers 20 years of marketing, design, fabric crafting and quilting experience.

The two speakers at the 8-16-11 Montgomery County Toastmasters Club meeting were Todd Austin, who spoke about how he came to be a sideline chiropractor for the Springfield Foxes & Nita Markos who demonstrated how she became such a talented quilter.

The Quilts of the Endless Mountains Quilt Show (QEM) is being held at the Montrose High School, Saturday Oct. 8th and Sunday the 9th. The committee is looking for quilters to display their works. Entries must be received by September 10, 2011.

The Patchwork Rose Zippered Bag Project (You Can Never Have Too Many Handbags)

Quilters and fabric crafters can access quilting information, store locations and inspiration anywhere using their phones and mobile devices

10 Top Quilting Blogs Connect to Put ASF's Beam N Read LED Hands Free Light to the Test

AccuQuilt hosted 73 quilt enthusiasts at the first ever Let’s GO! Quilting Retreat June 9-11. While there, quilters were treated to three fun-filled days of cutting the GO!® way, sewing, laughing and meeting the AccuQuilt family.

AccuQuilt hosted more than 300 fans and quilt enthusiasts at the 2nd Annual Barn Quilt Unveiling held on June 10. The unveiling celebration was the conclusion of the 2011 AccuQuilt Barn Quilt Design Contest.

House-Mouse Designs® Artist Ellen Jareckie will a featured guest at the Vermont Quilt Festival.

AccuQuilt will unveil its newest 17’ x 17’ barn quilt block on its headquarters June 10. Quilting icon, Eleanor Burns, will have a special presentation on barn quilt blocks as part of the day’s fun.

AccuQuilt announced Candace Door of Sidney, Neb., as the grand prize winner of the Second Annual Barn Quilt Design Contest.

Quilters can now download GO! Fabric Cutter shapes in digitized form to plan quilts in EQ7 software, then use the AccuQuilt GO! cutter to cut the shapes for their quilts.

AccuQuilt announces the release of its It Fits! die collection for the GO! and GO! Baby Fabric Cutters. Included in the release are quilt piecing and appliqué shapes plus new strip cutter sizes.

Designer and Illustrator Kathy Weller of WellerWishes Illustration & Design announces partnership with Northcott Silk, Inc. with debut fabric line slated for a release of Fall 2011

Margo Krager, owner of ReproductionFabrics.com, launched an exclusive new line of Chintz Center Panels for quilts. These Center medallions are High Quality Giclee Fine Art Prints made in America

House-Mouse Designs® Artist Ellen Jareckie will a featured guest at the Vermont Quilt Festival.

Want to learn about the fabrics of the day during the Civil War and 1860s? The Bozeman Quilt and Textile Study Group is presenting a historical exploration of the fabrics of time.

House-Mouse Designs® has partnered with Cranston Fabric Works to produce the "Micest" fabric in the World.

Company creates a shared success model between wholesalers, retailers, customers, and charities in the sewing, quilting, and craft industry.

Quilting Celebrations with Patrick Lose, is an exciting new online show that airs on QNNtv.com by parent company New Track Media (www.quiltingcelebrations.com). Quilters celebrate life’s events, seasons, and holidays in true quilters’ style!

AccuQuilt announces the start of their second annual Barn Quilt Contest. Quilters, artists and creative types everywhere are invited to submit their ideas for a quilt block to be displayed on the AccuQuilt headquarters in Fremont, Neb.

AccuQuilt joins quilters everywhere in the celebration of February’s National Embroidery Month. This is the first year AccuQuilt will join the celebration after the addition to the GO! product line of compatible digital embroidery designs in 2010.

New management at Crystal Key Inn in Newman Grove promises guests increased satisfaction and excellent service since its reopening in May 2010.

AccuQuilt Studio Fabric Cutter appears in author Clare O’Donohue’s latest novel, The Double Cross. The Double Cross is the 3rd installment in Clare’s A Someday Quilts Mystery series.

DRG Publishes Mix & Match Quilts with the AccuQuilt GO! Book

Advertise your quilt shop or quilting products directly to thousands of quilters. Recipes, quilt photos and stories are now being submitted from quilters around the world for the 2nd annual Quilter's Cookbook put together by the Quilting Gallery.

Event Raises Money for Research and Education

AccuQuilt GO! Shapes Featured in Star Designer Sarah Vedeler’s Winning Quilt

An In-The-Hoop solution that eliminates the complexities associated with cutting and sewing on the bias for quilt blocks is now available. EZ Build Quilt Blocks include: Half Square Triangles, Quarter Square Triangles and Four Patch blocks.

AccuQuilt announces the release of its newest fabric cutter, GO! Baby™.

C&T Publishing is pleased to announce a new series of iPhone apps filled with beautiful how-to illustrations from Judith Baker Montano’s embroidery & crazy quilt stitch tool, combined with video clips from her popular crazy quilting DVD.

A "World Wide We’d Like to Get to Know You Bouquet” project has been created to determine the reach of sewing enthusiasts that participate in embroidery and quilting in the hoop techniques available through computerized sewing machines.

AccuQuilt Adds Classic Quilting Designs to the GO! Line of Dies

AccuQuilt Celebrates Award-Winning Barn Quilt Designs

ASF Lightware Solutions ships first hands free led light with night vision filter and clip-on magnifier. Portable light is used for reading, knitting, quilting, travel, changing diapers, and as an emergency light.

The "Quilts 1700 - 2010" exhibition recently closed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, but you can still learn more about the quilts and quilting techniques on display with the accompanying book,

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Senior Center of Hackensack, NJ Begins Construction of a Living History Quilt To Celebrate the Winter 2010 Opening of the New Center

Sometimes tying a quilt seems conforming the express last resort to getting a quilt finished. Chronology hand quilters enjoyment the regard of a skillfully hand quilting, and engine

AccuQuilt’s Barn Quilt Design Contest Puts Out the Call for Design Superstars

Quilt Artist takes obsolete drapery materials and transforms them into exquisite new work including pillows, a rug, a tote bag and a snuggie.

The ever popular site, Sheepmom.com, features a wide variety of information about raising Shetland sheep in and off the power grid ranch. They are pleased to announce new features that make the sheep and other stories more accessible.

A one time haven for Hollywood stars of yore. Stay at Saddlerock Ranch and you can say you slept where The Duke did… as well as Jimmy Stewart, Randolph Scott, Arlene Dahl, and Hopalong Cassidy.

Did you know that February is National Quilt Month? We’re going to be spotlighting quilting here all month long. Everything we can find about quilting we’ll be sharing with you, fabric, tools, books, project ideas and more.