BC-based Quilter’s Connection launches this September, rising from the ashes of the former Connections for Quilters newsletter. Quilting Confections (Windsor, ON) With a little help from her family, McArthur spent about $6,000 to launch the first issue, although she has kept overhead costs pretty low. Printing is done at Rhino Print Solutions , and her staff so far consists of herself and one dedicated layout artist who’s working on the first issue for free. For the first issue, 1,000 copies will go towards subscriptions and in-store sales, and another 1,000 will be distributed at Canadian trade shows such as Toronto’s Creativ Festival (Oct. If all goes according to plan, McArthur hopes to double the magazine’s circulation in the next year and increase its page count from 48 to more than 90.

Search Browse by date Wed, Jul 29, 2009 Tue, Jul 28, 2009 Mon, Jul 27, 2009 Sun, Jul 26, 2009 Sat, Jul 25, 2009 Fri, Jul 24, 2009 Thu, Jul 23, 2009 Wed, Jul 22, 2009 in Choose. BENTONVILLE - For the last several years, Barbara McPhee of Rogers and four of her friends have traveled to her family’s home in southern Wisconsin for a week of milder weather and friendship. In 2002, the women were driving through the Wisconsin countryside when they became intrigued by the old barns along the way. Over the course of the next five years, the friends traveled once a year to Wisconsin, where they bought fabric and worked on their barn quilts, and gathered the history of each of the barns they were quilting along the way. The end product was five quilts that depict the barns of southern Wisconsin during different times of the year, each with different elements waiting to be found in the quilt patterns, said Leah Whitehead, executive director of the Peel House Foundation in Bentonville.

Elaine Osborn stands in front of the barn at Maple Crest Farms that recent received one of Saline County’s latest barn quilts. Workers install a barn quilt on a barn owned by Robert Thompson of Arrow Rock. Council spokesman Mary Duncan of Arrow Rock said the group’s goal is to have 20 barn quilts in three counties — Saline, Cooper and Howard — by 2011, and at least one more quilt will be added in each county in coming weeks. Duncan said the council plans to develop a brochure by next summer that will provide information about the quilts and guide tourists through the barn quilt trail.

Jill and Mark Greene peruse the entries with their grandchildren, Anna and Peter De Guzman, Friday at the River Country Quilt Show at Jacksonville High School. Many of the more than 200 quilts on display Friday at the annual River Country Quilt Show at Jacksonville High School were machine made rather than hand sewn. Howell will be giving lectures about her business marketing quilting patterns and her 33 years of quilt making at noon and 2 p. Howell is a designer who has been creating patterns and books for hand stitchery, machine appliqué and embroidery. Howell said she also is seeing more men entering the quilt-making industry “because they’re saying, ‘Hmm, I guess I could make a livelihood, too, selling the fabrics and designing patterns and getting out there on the teaching circuit. In addition to all vendors and quilts on display, attendees will be able to vote on their favorite quilt for the Viewer’s Choice award.