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Booksigning Saturday, December 10th: 1-3 pm
Join us this Saturday for a book-signing with Salley Mavor, author/illustrator of Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes.It took Salley ten years to develop her own fabric relief...
View ArticleEndings and Beginnings
2011 is almost over! How is it that the older we get, the faster the years seem to scroll by?There are only four more days to see PATIENCE TO RAISE THE SUN: ART QUILTS FROM HAITI & THEIR POWER TO...
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The Museum (or one of our quilts, anyway) goes to Japan!
This week, a quilt from the New England quilt Museum permanent collection is on display in Tokyo, Japan! Martha Washington’s Flower Garden (NEQM 1989.06T) is on display at Tokyo International Great...
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NEQM Quilts featured in \"Why Quilts Matter\" DVD Series
_ As we celebrate our Silver Anniversary in 2012, we are offering free admission to the New England Quilt Museum on the 25th of each month (when we are open on that day). On those “free” days we will...
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NEQM Establishes a Fund for Quilt Acquisition
The generosity of many donors has allowed the New England Quilt Museum to amass a collection of more than 400 quilts. Large museums often have dedicated funds for purchasing objects to enhance their...
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NEQM Quilts on Loan to the National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY
c1870 Basket Quilt [1999.13] Every year the National Quilt Museum issues a challenge to quilters to create a quilt from a specific “old favorite pattern.” The winners of the challenge are featured in...
View ArticleYour Help Makes Us Thankful!
Last month (April 10), we posted an entry here announcing the find of a significant early quilt with New England provenance that we wished to add to our collection. We are happy to announce that,...
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Mastering the Rotary Cutter: The Journey of a Beginning Quilter
UNION FOREVER fabric line (partial) Although I have been sewing for most of my life and crafting for years, I have never attempted a “real” full-sized-pieced-from-a-pattern quilt. There are a couple of...
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Get the 411 by reading our Gallery Guide
INNOCENCE by Hollis Chatelain (78" x 103") Many visitors have asked for a catalog or gallery guide to our exhibitions. Now, you can download the Gallery Guide to Backstitch, our current exhibition....
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A Thrilling Discovery at the Recent AQSG Seminar in Lincoln, Nebraska
Our brand new acquisition by New England's own Michael James. With Michael James in the Collections Room I’m just back from the American Quilt Study Group annual seminar,held this past weekend in...
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Hurricane Harvey and the Four-legged Fur-babies
In August, Hurricane Harvey hit Texas with record rainfall resulting in catastrophic losses. Thousands of people have been displaced. As always, whenever there is disaster or tragedy, quilters do...
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#1yearofstitches2017
In honor of our current exhibit, “Gilding the Lily: Embroidery in quilts, past and present” we have this contribution from Donna Hopkins, a volunteer in the New England Quilt Museum Library:It all...
View ArticleA Full-Service Library!
While volunteering in the museum’s library, I received a call from Margaret H., a member of the Calico Quilters in Yarmouth, Maine. Her guild, one of the member guilds of the Pine Tree Quilters Guild...
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A New Reference Book Worth Perusing
The Museum Library has recently acquired Susan W. Greene’s Wearable Prints, 1760-1860. The book, which contains around 1600 full-color images, describes not only the decorative aspect of fabric, but...
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