As you may have heard, an increasingly popular outlet for the imaginative mind is quilting. Your thoughts and feelings can be portrayed through fabric and the limitless combinations of color. Quilting has a tendency to grab hold of many who give it a try. They can quickly become focused on collecting the newest and greatest collections of fabric by their new-found favorite designers in order to give their inquisitive minds food for thought.
An innovative company has produced a group of publications that feature contact information for quilt shops across the country. With over 4500 quilt shops listed, the 'Showtime Quilter's Guide and Directory' by WRBQ, Inc. has more than twice the listings than that of their closest competitor. The convenience of using this spiral bound quilt shop directory has surpassed expectations of many. You will find national quilt guide to be the most comprehensive quilt shop directory available to purchase. The 'travel pages' give you a heads up by town as you are traveling, while the 'yellow pages' are listed alphabetically by the state of their location. Twice yearly WRBQ, Inc. fastidiously contacts each and every quilt shop to confirm the quilt shops have remained at the same location and is still in business prior to each twice yearly printing.
The quilter quickly learns where they locate a quilt shop, that there is bound to be a quilt guild and those shops and guilds are likely to be hosting a quilt show, putting on display for the community and visitors to see, the detailed and gorgeous creations that may have been created with an original pattern. Many of these quilt shows are also listed in the Showtime Quilter's Guide & Directory. Not only can you browse the listings in the printed directory, but you can also review the online quilt shop guide which WRBQ, Inc. has made available to all. Ultimately you come to understand that many pattern and fabric designers get their start through their local quilt guilds and quilt shows.
Using a quilt shop resource or online quilt shop guide to find the many quilt shops tucked into small and quaint communities has broadened the horizons for many new quilters, whether they be from a metropolitan area or the wide open spaces across the country. The prospect of locating that perfect piece of fabric to include in a project you have conjured up in your mind makes you continue your quest during every extra moment that can be squeezed out of each busy day. While you find it hard to describe just what you are after, you understand you will know it when you see it. That certain piece, if it exists, will jump right out at you and it will be just what you have been searching for. You have envisioned it, you can feel it, and you know what you want.
Eventually the quilt shop locator will lead you to enough quilt shops, online quilt shops, quilt shows, guild shows and quilters shop hops that you will have built up what seasoned quilters affectionately define as their 'stash'. Though there will always be the elusive and never ending new and exciting fabric lines and patterns to find and purchase, this so called 'stash' will give you a base from which you can begin.
Why not start quilting when there are so many wonderful quilt shop resources made available by WRBQ, Inc.?
Originally posted 2009-04-01 04:49:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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