Student Commons

The Student Commons is the doorway to our discussion forums and the place to find announcements of special exhibits, events or contests.

In the Student Lounge, you can post messages to other visitors.  Introduce yourself and join right in.  You do not have to be a QU student.  Talk with your friends, ask questions on quilting or related issues like "what sewing machine should I buy?"  You may leave announcements about events, but please do not post commercial messages.

Product Reviews allows to students to post reviews or questions about quilt-related products.  Guidelines are on the opening page.

Book Reviews gives you a chance to help others decide which new books they should add to their library.  If you are the first to write about a book, include the title, author, publisher, number of pages and price marked by the publisher.  Multiple reviews are welcome!

Special Displays and Virtual Quilt Shows

2008 Virtual Quilt Show Winners

Visit the Quilt University garden!

Snapshots from Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival
Some thoughts on getting the most from a big quilt show

Two Summer Fun Galleries

How I Spent My Summer Vacation will contain photos of your summer activities.  Whether you used our ideas or made up your own, we want to see what happened.  This will also give you a chance to get a peek at each other!

Wish You Were Here will exhibit fabric postcards and journal-sized quilts that tell us something about your summer.  You can portray anything you want: the view from your back porch, a flower in your garden, the pie you served at the cookout, tickets from all the places you visited in your town.  You can make a traditional postcard or work in the slightly larger 8"x10" journal page. Use any materials or techniques that appeal to you and then tell us about them.

Beginning August 1, send your photos in jpg format to . Include the name of the gallery, your name and where you live, and appropriate information about the picture.  If it is a group of people, you may include the names of  and the activity.  If it is a postcard, you can tell us what techniques you used.  The two galleries will open September 2, the Tuesday after Labor Day.

 

Need some help getting projects finished?  Quilt U's Finishing School gives you a place to commiserate, cheer or get help from your friends.

If you are an alumni of any of our dyeing classes and wish to continue talking about dyeing, join your classmates in the Dyeing Forum. 

To read the most recent Quilt U Newsletter, click here.

FINDING QUILT SHOWS

These links will help you to locate quilt shows near you.  The first two sites list several different large regional shows.

Mancuso Show Management   http://www.quiltfest.com/
Quilts, Inc.   http://www.quilts.com/home/ 

American Quilter's Society (AQS)   http://www.americanquilter.com/shows_contests/
Black Hills Quilt Show - Rapid City, SD  http://www.blackhillsquilters.com
CreativFestival, Mississauga, ON http://www.csnf.com/s07_index.html
Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, UK http://www.twistedthread.com/festivalofquilts/index.asp 
Lowell Quilt Festival (Lowell, MA) http://www.lowellquiltfestival.org
Maine Quilts - http://www.mainequilts.org
National Quilting Association (NQA) http://www.nqaquilts.org/
Quilters’ Heritage in Lancaster, PA  http://www.qhconline.com
Vermont Quilt Festival - http://www.vqf.org
 
Sites listing local and regional shows around the country:

http://www.vcq.org/calendar.htm
http://www.quiltwoman.com/index.cfm#Services 

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