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These links lead to other interesting sewing and quilting sites on the World Wide Web. Please bookmark this page and refer to it whenever you need to find something in cyberspace!

We strive to keep these links as up to date as possible. However, things change quickly on the web. If you find a link that is broken or leads to a site that is incorrect, please email us and we'll fix it immediately.

America Links

American Red Cross—Together we can save a life!

Better Homes & Gardens—America Unites: Coping & Helping

Free Quilt Pattern—Happy 4th of July Pattern from popular designer Sara Nephew.

Independence Quilt—An original design quilt.

Warming Families—A volunteer project providing blankets and warm items (hats, mittens, etc.) to homeless and domestic violence shelters, as well as foster homes and assisted living facilities. Free patterns and family charity work information can be found on our website.

Sewing Organizations

American Sewing Guild—This national nonprofit organization provides home sewing enthusiasts with education, news, inspiration, and networking opportunities.

Home Sewing Association—This is an industry association of wholesalers, retailers, manufacturers, and educators that work together to inspire and teach consumers to sew. The HSA promotes September as National Sewing Month in the United States. The organization sponsors and/or supports the Each One, Teach One campaign, the Sew for a Cure campaign against breast cancer, the Sewing . . . It's Sew Soothing program, the Sew Creative! study that found cognitive benefits from sewing in children, and other programs. This group chartered the American Sewing Guild in 1978.

The Professional Association of Custom Clothiers—PACC is a nationwide, professional organization of custom clothiers in home-based and commercial settings. It educates its members about developments in the business, sewing, and textile industries, and promotes the use of custom sewing services by consumers.

Contest Sites

Quilting Organizations

Alliance for American Quilts—This group works to have quilts recognized both as works of art and as pieces of history, and to preserve the stories of quilts and quiltmakers. The Alliance has launched the Quilters' SOS (Save Our Stories) Project and, in cooperation with the Library of Congress's American Folklife Center, the Boxes Under the Bed™ project to preserve information about the history, patterns, practice, and people of quiltmaking. This site contains information about the Center for the Quilt, the Quilt Index, and how to become a Friend of the American Quilt.

American Quilt Study Group—This group encourages, presents, and preserves research on quiltmakers, quilts, and quiltmaking in the United States.

American Quilter's Society—AQS was founded in 1984 in Paducah, Kentucky, to showcase quilting as an art form. AQS certifies quilt appraisers, publishes fine quilting books, sponsors an internationally renowned annual quilt show and contest, and operates the Museum of the American Quilter's Society in Paducah. The Society has kicked off the twenty-first century by producing a "Teach America 2 Quilt . . . Again!" design for quilters to use in sharing their skills with others.

Appliqué Society—This US-based group has more than 2000 members in 11 countries. Check the site for a list of appliqué teachers and experts.

Canadian Quilters' Association/Association canadienne de la courtepointe—CQA/ACC sponsors the Quilt Canada conference every two years, which includes intensive workshops and national juried and unjuried quilt shows. The organization provides educational grants, awards of excellence for quiltmakers and teachers, and Best of Show/Viewers' Choice rosette ribbons for local guilds to award at their shows. CQA/ACC maintains a library of books, articles, patterns, videos, and slides for member use.

International Quilt Study Center—This organization was formed in 1997 when Robert and Ardis James donated more than 900 quilts to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The collection has since grown and is housed in the Department of Textiles, Clothing, and Design. It includes many fine Amish and Mennonite quilts from the late nineteenth century. The Center conducts quilt research, analysis, and preservation.

International Quilt Association—IQA works to preserve the art of quilting, to attain public recognition for quilting as an art form, and to advance the state of the art throughout the world. IQA publishes an annual teachers' directory, sponsors an annual quilt show and contest at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas, funds quilt-related research and artistic development, and sponsors the Patchwork & Quilt Expo, Europe's largest biennial international quilting conference.

Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation—This organization is looking for people or groups interested in making quilts from donated wedding gowns. They furnish the gown and the quilt is returned to the Foundation for them to raffle off to raise money for the foundation. This would be a great charity opportunity for quilt guilds.

NZQuilters Online—This is a group for quilters in New Zealand.

National Quilting Association—NQA was founded in 1970 in Washington, DC, to stimulate and document interest in quiltmaking, collecting, and preserving, and to establish and promote educational and philanthropic programs. This group certifies teachers and quilt judges, provides consumer advocacy, operates a Master Quilter program to recognize masterpiece quilts and their makers, and sponsors an annual, internationally renowned quilt show and contest.

Project Linus—This volunteer group provides security blankets to children experiencing serious illness and trauma. Based in the United States, Project Linus has 400 chapters in the US, Canada, Australia, England, Romania, the Philippines, and Mexico, and has delivered more than 250,000 security blankets to children around the world.

Quilters' Guild Inc.—This group is based in Sydney, Australia. It offers workshops, scholarships, teacher accreditation, quilt valuations, and a library for member use.

Quilters' Guild of the British Isles—This organization offers education and resources for members both inside and outside the British Isles, including lists of shops and museums within the UK and other countries. International representatives promote and maintain contact between the Guild and other quilters and guilds around the world. Services include putting members in touch with foreign penpals, providing assistance and information for overseas travel, providing information about exhibitions and competitions in other countries, and offering advice about sending quilts abroad for exhibition. Follow the "Diary" link for a list of quilt shows in Britain. This site also contains pages for the European Quilt Association.

The Lost Quilt Come Home Page—As the name implies, this site is dedicated to helping people find their lost and stolen quilts. It contains valuable information about labeling, documenting, appraising, insuring, storing, and safely shipping your quilts.

West Australian Quilter's Association—This group presents workshops, retreats, and Friendship Days, sponsors quilt shows, accredits teachers and judges, makes a resource library available for its members, and more.

Fabric Companies

Benartex—Benartex makes the ever-popular Fossil Fern, Berry Patch, Foundation by the Yard, Apple Butter and other fabric lines.

Chanteclaire—This is a relatively new company, founded in 1997. Some of its fabric lines are available at SewAndQuilt.com.

Hoffman California Fabrics—This site contains previews of Hoffman's new lines and a directory of US stores that carry Hoffman fabrics.

Marcus Brothers—This company's lines include Civil War Prints, Redwork and Blue, Vintage Country Charm, Country Charm Legacy, Pansies, and Bebe Moss's new Something Wonderful.

P&B Textiles—P&B's collections include Impressions, Turkish Treasures, Naturescapes, DAR Museum, and others.

RJR Fashion Fabrics—RJR's lines include Jinny Beyer, Thimbleberries, Pennwick, and Northern Brights. The site features a handy Fabric Search feature that lets you post messages about out-of-print fabrics you're seeking.

South Sea Imports—South Sea distributes the popular Debbie Mumm, kp kids, Kaye England, and Grandma's Attic collections, among others. The site highlights the collections and their designers.

VIP/Cranston—The Cranston Village site is jam-packed with quilt and fabric information and patterns. The Reference Desk in the Library contains useful items such as a glossary of fabric terms, how to read a fabric label, and more. The one thing you won't find on this site is actual VIP/Cranston fabric.

Sewing Machine Companies

Baby Lock—This site contains the latest information on Baby Lock sewing machines, sergers, and programs.

Bernina—The home page contains links to Bernina's sites in Australia, Denmark, Great Britain, Switzerland, the United States, and Europe. The World Quilt Competition is featured each year on Bernina's USA site.

Brother—To learn about Brother sewing machines, you'll have to go to the corporate site and use the search feature to look up "sewing machines."

Elna—The main site contains information about the Elna company and products. You can also visit the North American site.

Husqvarna/Viking/White—This is another international site. Click on the flag for information about Husqvarna Viking products and services in your own country.

New Home/Janome—The machines are called New Home in the United States and Janome in Canada. This site is for both.

Pfaff—The home page contains links to Pfaff's sites in a variety of countries. For pages in English, go to the US site.

Singer—This is the home of Singer sewing machines and other products, including the new Featherweight II, a 10-pound machine that comes with 16 stitch patterns and a four-step automatic buttonholer.

Magazines

Chitra Publications—They publish quality quilting magazines and books that recognize, promote and inspire self-expression.

McCall's Quilting—This link takes you to QuiltersVillage.com, the site for all of Primedia, Inc.'s quilting magazines. It's a great site if you're looking for basic quiltmaking lessons.

New Zealand Quilter—New Zealand QUILTER is dedicated to publishing a top quality colour magazine showcasing the strength and diversity of patchwork and quilting throughout New Zealand today. New Zealand QUILTER proudly promotes quilting in New Zealand to a wider international audience.

Quick Quilts—This link takes you to QuiltersVillage.com, the site for all of Primedia, Inc.'s quilting magazines. It's a great site if you're looking for basic quiltmaking lessons.

Quilter's Newsletter Magazine—This link takes you to QuiltersVillage.com, the site for all of Primedia, Inc.'s quilting magazines. It's a great site if you're looking for basic quiltmaking lessons.

Quiltmaker—This link takes you to QuiltersVillage.com, the site for all of Primedia, Inc.'s quilting magazines. It's a great site if you're looking for basic quiltmaking lessons.

Sew News—This site contains archives of some of the magazine's popular columns and articles, including "Q and A" and "Making Connections."

The Quilter Magazine—This site contains information about the current issue and offers back issues of The Quilter Magazine for sale. You'll also find a directory of shops in the US, Canada, England, Norway, and South Africa. a project archive, and a large page of quilting links.

Threads—One of the best features of this site is the online index to Threads magazine. If you vaguely recall an article in a past issue and want to find it again, use this feature. The Threads site also contains excellent information about sewing techniques, fitting, garment design, and more.

Educational and Retail Sites

#1 Quilting Accessories Emporium—This site offers affordable, heirloom-quality quilting frames, quilt racks and quilt hangers of exceptional beauty.

America's Quilting History—The history of American quilting covering
women and their quilting from Colonial America to the Great Depression
plus Native American, African American and Amish quilts.

American School of Needlework, Inc.—ASN publishes approximately 100 books each year in all areas of needlework and crafts, including quilting. This site shows some of ASN's creative instruction books and products.

Block Central—This site includes a quilter's "Coloring Book"—pages of traditional quilts you can print out and color. A great quilt-planning resource!

Bluebird Gardens—A family-owned company established in 1999 to merge a love for quilts, gardening and cats with a dash of antiques, furniture refinishing and favorite collectibles, particularly handmade items.

Button Emporium—Whether your interest in buttons is to enhance embroidery, for fashions, to decorate pillows, for period costumes, or for a precious button collection, you will find that The Button Emporium virtual store has many treasures for you to discover. .

C&T Publishing—C&T is the publisher of many of the books available through SewAndQuilt.com.

Clearview Triangle—This is the site of quilt designer and author Sara Nephew, who is featured in SewAndQuilt.com's Designer Workrooms. Her books and 60-degree-triangle rulers are available in the SewAndQuilt.com online store.

Creative Feet™—The home of the original sewing machine presser feet guaranteed to fit all zigzag sewing machines. Creative Feet™ has been supplying unique, quality products for over 11 years.

Crosley-Griffith Publishing—This is the site of quilt designer and author Judy Martin, who is one of the featured authors in the Designers' Workrooms at SewAndQuilt.com. Judy offers online classes, block-of-the-month quilt patterns, information about her books and tools, and class outlines for teachers wishing to use The Creative Pattern Book for their classes.

Darlene C. Christopherson—An accomplished quilt maker since 1979 and has published many quilting books. She teaches fine hand work in the area of applique hand piecing and quilting. Darlene's classes on design and color are inspirational and hold the interest of hand and machine artists alike.

Deidre Scherer—This site features the work and philosophy of fabric artist Deidre Scherer, who is featured in the Designers' Workrooms at SewandQuilt.com.

Fairfield Processing Corp.—Fairfield manufacturers quilt batts, fiberfill and pellets, pillow forms, and a range of industrial products. The company sponsors the popular Fairfield Fashion Show and the Sew Creative with Donna Wilder PBS television show.

Flights of Fancy—Ten unique boutiques feature embellished buttons, wonderful trims, beaded fringe, 'vintage' blossoms & leaves, satin prints, selected kits, and handcrafted treasures.

Free Embroidery Designs—They have a vast list of embroidery company links available, including sewing machine equipment, material suppliers, thread suppliers, software demos, trade shows, software tutorials, corporate apparel, and much more.

Grey Fort Quilts—Handmade quilts in many sizes available for sale.

HGTV—Here you'll get top tips from some of America's best home builders, remodelers, decorators, interior designers, gardeners, craft experts and lifestyle hosts. Just imagine what you can do!

Jinny Beyer Studio—This is the site of one of quilting's preeminent quilt designers and authors.

Joen Wolfrom—This is the site of quilt designer and author Joen Wolfrom, who is one of the authors featured in the SewAndQuilt.com Designers' Workrooms. Joen's site contains information about her lectures and workshops, touring schedule, books, free patterns, and more.

Katie Lane Quilts—They have a number of unique patterns and products that are easy to use. Thread-Wrap keeps spools of thread neat and clean. This is especially good with expensive decorative threads. Our two types of Radial Rules help with corners and borders. Katie's Korners makes a snap of rounded corners. Katie's Scallops add fancy scallops to borders for many projects. Take a look at the Stained Glass Techniques and Easy Lap Quilting books too!

Knit Crochet Patterns—If you're interested in yarn crafts, check out this site. It contains patterns by well-known designer Hélène Rush, former editor of McCalls' Needlework and Crafts.

Linda Poole—Author of Turkish Delights to Applique published by AQS. Website is a showcase for the author's beautiful applique quilts.

Linderella's Quilt Design Studio—Emphasizing fun instead of formality, Linderella's Quilt Design Studio specializes in creating quilts and quilt patterns that combine unique and whimsical characteristics with a dynamic, bold, contemporary flavor. Each quilt blends part folk art, part modern and part traditional quiltmaking themes into a bright, eye-catching design that is sure to inspire quilters young and old.

M. A. Klein Designs—Do-It-Yourself Needlecraft Designs in Embroidery, Cross Stitch and Needlepoint at all skill levels.

Martingale & Company—Martingale & Company publishes fine quilting books under the well-known imprint That Patchwork Place. Many of its books are available at SewAndQuilt.com.

Planet Patchwork—This site contains some great information, if you don't mind searching for it. You'll find a series of "Inspector Cluesew" mystery quilt patterns, other free patterns, articles about quilters and quilting in various parts of the world, book and tool reviews, and much more.

Press for Success—This site belongs to quilt designer and Quilter's Newsletter Magazine columnist Myrna Giesbrecht, who is featured in the Designers' Workrooms section of SewAndQuilt.com. If you want to make flat, even quilt tops with design lines that meet perfectly, check out Myrna's foolproof techniques for pressing the seams in your quilts.

Purrfection Artistic Wearables—If you like stamping on fabric and unusual garment patterns, this site if for you! The stamps are mounted on acrylic, so you can see what you're stamping on. Purrfection also offers fabric paint, buttons, rayon batik fabrics, and more.

Quilted Baby Bedding by Terri—Custom crib sets and other quilted items for baby.

Quilting.About.Com—About.com is a vertically arranged site containing forums and information pages on more than 700 topics. Susan Druding is your guide to the quilting section of the site.

Quilting from the Heartland—This is the site of quilt designer and TV personality Sharlene Jorgenson. Many of her books and tools are available at SewAndQuilt.com.

Quilting Made Easy—This is the site of Borders Made Easy, Blocks Made Easy, and Stipples Made Easy. Products are available at SewAndQuilt.com.

Quilts, Inc.—This company produces the International Quilt Market and the International Quilt Festival each fall in Houston, Texas.

The Embroidery Seamstress—Quilting and Machine Embroidery patterns.

The Sewing Connection—Television personality Shirley Adams is no longer making episodes of The Sewing Connection for PBS, but you can still see her at sewing expos and on her own web site.

SewNet—SewNet offers online sewing classes, a partial directory of sewing stores throughout the US, and a cyber-trading list for sewers (called "sewists" on this site). This site contains links to a wide variety of independrnt pattern companies.

SewStorm Publishing—This company publishes books about sewing as a business. The site contains articles about the business of sewing and crafting.

Smithsonian Institution—The Smithsonian offers a Textiles and Quilts directory that includes links to antique-quilt exhibits, information on storing and caring for antique textiles, and more

Stamp Folk—Where Rustic Meets Rubber! Rubber stamps for Quilt, Stamp and Craft enthusiasts. Rustic and primitive are our passion at StampFolk. From quilting to paper crafts, each image in our catalog inspires many great projects.

Sulky of America—This is the company that makes all those luscious decorative threads, stabilizers, adhesives, transfer pens, puffy foam, and other products so essential to beautiful quilts and wearable art. We carry most of Sulky's products at SewAndQuilt.com, but if you'd like to see the company's own site, here it is. There's a great Q&A section for working with Sulky products on this site.

Sundrop Outerwear Textiles—Visit this page for high-tech outerwear and activewear fabrics and patterns.

The Tattered Rabbit—An online fabric store catering to quilters, crafters and fabric artists.

Tidy Crafts—This is where you'll find Inkerbell's Tidy Tray, which is perfect for working with beads, sequins, snaps, buttons, glitter, embossing powder, and other tiny, loose items. When you're finished, you simply upend the tray and everything flows nicely through the built-in funnel and back into your bottle. You'll find other organizational tools for crafts and hobbies on this site, too.

Thimbleberries—This is country-style quilt and fabric designer and author Lynette Jensen's web site. Lynette is featured in the Designers' Workrooms section of SewAndQuilt.com.

The Warm Company—This company manufacturers Warm & Natural, Warm & White, and Soft & Bright battings, Soft Stuff fiberfill, Quilted Muslin fabrics and pillows, Steam-a-Seam and Steam-a-Seam 2, Warm Window, and Beads-2-Fuse.

Other Sites of Interest to Quilters

Country Heritage Tours—This company specializes in quilt tours.

Wild Zipper—Specializes in T-Shirt quilts.

Search Engines and Resource Sites

Jack and Susie's—Arts and Crafts Search Engine.

Quilting Resources—Signs of Wood Co. - Arts, Crafts & Hobbies
Directory. Find all your hobby and craft needs with our directory and search engine. We have assembled this resource for hobbyist and crafters, our way of giving back to the Internet Community.

QUILTING.COM—Your one-click quilting stop!

S W Creations Jewelry—You will find a variety of unique handcrafted beaded jewelry; using quality beads, gemstones, crystals, and findings gathered from all over the world. You will also find Links to Arts, Crafts, Gifts, Jewelry, Shopping, and Women in Business...Top 100 Arts and Crafts on the Web, a Guest Artist Gallery feature Artwork from other talented Artists, and a great deal of Webrings featuring Crafters, Artisans, Women in Business, and more...

USA Quilt Guide—Your One Stop Information Source on Quilting in the USA. An exhaustive collection of sites on the internet.

The QuiltBroker—Site offers exclusive Color-It-Quilts CD ROMs with online demo and a free pattern, in addition to quilts for sale with a quilt brokerage service (no listing fees) for quilters who want to sell their quilts. Also provides excellent information on quilt care and storage.

The Quilt Channel—This site contains links to web sites about quilt history, care, and conservation, as well as to a huge variety of commercial and educational quilting sites.

Tink's Cotton Club—This is a website where quilters can find quilt shops and other quilt-related stuff online without surfing for hours. Find hundreds of links to quilt shops, fabric, patterns and more quilting stuff. You can join online quilting guilds, and visit quilt museums online, too. Check out the Message and Chat boards as well.

World Wide Quilting Page—Launched in 1994, this may be the oldest site for quilters on the Web. Visit this page for a quilting glossary, patterns, links to quilters and their work, classified ads, and more. It even contains a directory of quilt shops around the world.