The Quilt Alliance and the National Quilt Museum are proud to be the coordinators of this special day! Check this page often for fun and meaningful ideas for celebrating National Quilting Day, graphics and posters you can use to publicize your own NQD events and a home base for this important day to honor and promote quilting!
We would love to hear how you plan to mark the 29th anniversary of National Quilting Day on March 20, 2021 (or what you’ve done in the past). Post your photos on the National Quilting Day Facebook page.
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. Watch Go Tell It! recordings made on National Quilting Day at the International Quit Museum from 2014-2017.
Click on a partner’s name below to view their free downloadable patterns and projects:
Moda Fabrics
Aurifil
eQuilter.com
Handi Quilter
AccuQuilt
StudioE Fabrics
Henry Glass & Co.
Windham Fabrics
Make It Simpler
Indygo Junction by Amy Barickman
Download this free graphic to post on your blog, social media page, website, etc.
Download free NQD 2020 posters to fill in details for your quilt shop, guild or group celebrations.
Choose standard poster or one with a customizable panel.
Click to download a pdf.
Standard posters:
Letter (8.5″ x 11″)
Legal (8.5″ x 14″)
Tabloid (11″ x 17″)
Posters with customizable panel for adding in your own details.
Letter (8.5″ x 11″)
Legal (8.5″ x 14″)
Tabloid (11″ x 17″)
The kickoff of National Quilting Day 2019 was held at The National Quilt Museum on Saturday, March 16th, 2019. The public will again be invited to attend this special event at the museum in downtown Paducah, Kentucky on National Quilting Day. The event is free and visitors are invited to stay and enjoy the museum galleries afterward. Details for the 2020 Kickoff Event to be held on Saturday, March 21, 2020 will be shared here soon.
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.”
