Mark your calendar for the third Saturday in March!We’re looking forward to NQD 2018 on March 17th! The Quilt Alliance is proud to be the new coordinator of this special day! Check this page often for fun and meaningful ideas for celebrating National Quilting Day, graphics you can use to publicize your own NQD events and a home base for this important day to honor and promote quilting!
This year, we are so excited to rekindle a project founded by the National Quilting Association – Happy Birth Day, Baby! Individuals and groups are welcome to participate – it’s easy! Make a quilt for the first baby born on National Quilting Day in your local hospital. Find our free downloadable pattern and instructions and full details here.
This National Quilting Day, we encourage you to document your quilts. Add those labels you’ve been putting off! Interview a family member or friend as part of our Go Tell It! project. Or have a documentation day at your group or guild.
In 1989, the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society organized a “Quilters’ Day Out” on the third Saturday of March to celebrate the rich tradition of quiltmaking in Kentucky. In 1991, National Quilting Association officers were so enthused with the concept and success of “Quilters’ Day Out” that they voted to take it to a national level.
The first National Quilting Day was observed in 1992 and since then it has grown into a global celebration for all quiltmakers and quilt lovers. Helen Storbeck, one of the founders of National Quilting Day, wrote in The Quilting Quarterly, “Groups of quilters were encouraged to hold special events, publishers and shop owners were invited to sponsor promotions especially for quilters and it quickly became a grassroots endeavor with quilters in every part of the country participating. In the first year of National Quilting Day, quilters in other countries asked to participate. They were welcomed with open arms. As our feelings of a community network has evolved to include a world community, it is only appropriate that quilters and quilt lovers everywhere united to give recognition to the special art form.”
We would love to hear how you mark this year’s 27th anniversary of National Quilting Day. Post your photos leading up to on March 17, on the National Quilting Day Facebook page. Please subscribe to our free eNewsletter to receive updates on our plans for National Quilting Day, as well as news on all of our projects.
National Quilting Day graphics to post on your blog, social media page, website, etc.
Customizable National Quilting Day Posters for your quilt shop, guild or group.
Choose which size you need. Click to download a pdf.
Letter (8.5″ x 11″)
Legal (8.5″ x 14″)
Tabloid (11″ x 17″)
A4 (8.3″ x 11.7″ or 210mm x 297mm)
A3 (11.7″ x 16.5″ or 297mm x 420mm