Do You Know of Quilters’ Online Groups or Chat Rooms?
February 4, 2009 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
Quilting often is a solitary task, but quilters also enjoy getting together and sharing their projects and ideas. This has been true since the pioneer quilting bees, when ladies in an area, often many miles apart, gathered for a day of socializing and stitching called a quilting bee.
Nowadays, there still are quilting bees and groups that meet monthly or more frequently. However, there are online groups, too.
Constance is looking for an online group.
i have been quilting for about 10 years . nothing fancy,but my family love my quilts. it would be nice to have someone to talk to that understands being addicted to quilting! There are no quilters near where I live, so it would be great to have someone to talk to.
Do you know of any you can recommend? Sometimes these involve specific types of quilting. Other times they consist of anyone interested in any type of quilting.
I have two suggestions for quilting groups:
Janet Wickell’s quilting.about.com site has a forum that I visit occasionally.
I get the newsletter from quiltedparadise.com and they have a forum.
Addicted to quilting? Yes, I confess.
Thank you, Jean, for providing this information about online quilting groups or forums. I hope it will prove helpful for Constance.
Happy quilting!
there is a yahoo group “beginners and beyond” that is an excellent group for anyone interested in quilting.
http://www.quiltingaroundtheworld.com
Quilting Around the world is a great online forum. There are tons of sew and no sew swaps.
been there done that – was a member once of quiltingaroundtheworld. Not a good experience. Had better luck elsewhere
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