Herring Run Quilters' Guild

This page highlights antidotes, adventures, recipes, travel, minutae and links to helpful sites as submitted by our members.

Need some quilting inspiration. Check out the beautiful quilts on this site. Hit the "tour" button and enjoy the show.

http://www.amishcountrylanes.com/

There is a new quilt shop on the Cape.  The address is:

SeaSpun  Quilts
The Village Fabric Shop
891 Main Street
Osterville, MA 02655
508-419-7150

We should all try to visit to make their new shop a success.

Anne Marie Stanton found some great art quilt sites. Check these out. Pretty Cool!!!

http://www.wyndhavenartandquilts.blogspot.com/

http://juanitayeagerartquilts.homestead.com/

http://www.jeririggs.com/

http://www.equarelle.ca/EQuarelle.htm 

http://www.karenstiehlosborn.com/

Looking for a yummy dessert idea? Click here for Mary Nagle's Almond Fruit Tart recipe.

Click here to read about Lois Robert's adventures to Colorado.

Click here to read about Sheila Berry, Christine Moriarty and Pat Sudimack's adventures to the Vermont Quilt Festival. 

Poem submitted by Christine Moriarty. The poem was found in a book Christine bought in Ireland. ENJOY!

These sites have lots of great quilt patterns:

http:\\www.quilterscache.com

http:\\www.blockcentral.com

http:\\www.mccallsquilting.com

http://www.quiltville.com

http://www.freequiltpatterns.info/

http://www.freequilt.com/

This site has lots of quilting how-tos:

http://www.victorianaquiltdesigns.net/QuiltingLessons.htm

Looking for fabric? Here's a site that's the "home of the 39" yard:

http://www.fabric.com

Having trouble figure out the measurements for setting your blocks on point? This site has some great information and a calculator to figure out your block sizes

http://quiltingpassion.com/triangles.html

This site takes all the math out of figuring out how to enlarge and reduce applique and paper pieced patterns on the photocopier.

http://www.thequiltedsnail.com/scale.html

Sit back and enjoy the journey through "Popser's Playground". These are quilting stories about a beginner as she encounters the strange world of quilting written by her husband:

http://www.popser.com