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Quilting Makes Me Happy!



You Are My Sunshine!

Let Your Light Shine!


It's Summer Reading Time!


Greetings, Fellow Quilters,
We all share a love for our craft, but we might also need to give it a rest sometimes, What better way to take a break from quilting is there than reading about quilting?  Check out these authors for novels with a quilting theme. The links will take you to more about each author and her publications. Thanks to guild member Melody Day for sharing this idea from McCall's Quilting.

-Marie Bostwick is a New York Times and USA Today author of historical and contemporary fiction.  

-Patience Griffin has been writing and sewing her whole life, while at the same time holding down an engineering job. You will find a love of quilting, stories from small town roots, and a bit of Scottish heritage in her novels."

-Clare O'Donohue has written a series of quilting novels in the Someday Quilts series. She is also a writer of true crime and documentaries.

-Earlene Fowler's fifteen books with a quilting theme feature the protagonist, Benni Harper. Earlene loves cowboy boots, quilting, and reading, all with a side of tacos.

-Ann Hazelwood is a certified quilt appraiser, a quilt collector, and historian. Both fiction and nonfiction, her books focus on quilting and traveling.

-Frances O'Roark Dowell combined her love of storytelling and quilting and currently leads the QuiltFiction.com online writers' community.  Frances also contributes to Quiltfolk, Quilting Arts, Love of Quilting, Curated Quilts, and QuiltCon Magazine.

Explore these authors and immerse yourself in a book as a break from quilting. An added bonus is that each author's website also shares quilting tips and ideas. Happy Reading! 



If it's Wamego Tulip Festival Time, then it's Quilt Throwdown Time!

Again, the 2025 Throwdown was a 90-minute challenge between the
Kaw Valley Quilt Guild of Wamego with the Konza Prairie Quilter's Guild
in a race to create a quilt of the same pattern for a child paired with each guild. 
The children selected 20 fabrics from which to make 10 blocks and then chose
the layout of her quilt once the blocks were completed.
Those speedy stitching Kaw Valley  Quilters raced to the finish first,
but contestants and audience members all had a fun morning on a beautiful spring day!


Alison and Vickie racing the clock


KPQG Team: Michelle Crisler, Alison McCullough, Vickie, Greenwood, Rebercca Meyerkorth, Lori Gray,
Kathy Garvin.


KPQG Cheerleaders

You Are An Artist; Your Quilts Are Valuable!

As quilters, we have various reasons and motivation for sitting down, cutting up fabric into smaller pieces and stitching those pieces back together in a new pattern. You might quilt to have an outlet for your creativity; you might want to make a memory quilt for a special family occasion or a legacy quilt to be handed down to other family members. Many of us quilt for gifts, for home decor, to experiment with a new technique,  or to make a cozy cover for a chilly night. Some of us quilt because we love the colors and textures of fabrics; we might want to be thrifty and reuse scraps, to enjoy the challenge of designing something unique, or simply for relaxation and therapy. 

For whatever reason you are a quilter, have you stopped to think what a treasure you have in your collection of quilts?  Here are some ideas from just one source (AI) on how to determine how much your quilt is worth.  "Determining the value of a quilt involves several factors, including the age, condition, rarity, craftsmanship, historical significance, and of course, sentimental significance.  A written appraisal by a certified appraiser can offer an unbiased opinion of value, but you can also estimate value by considering factors like material costs, labor, and artistic value."  The following list is simply an estimate for one quilt by one quilter with already outdated labor costs, but it provides a perspective. Remember that you are the skilled creator and your time and expertise must always be factored in. 
Don't underestimate your own worth!




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The purpose of this organization is to promote the art of quilt making, to stimulate an interest in quilts, and to provide educational programs and services in quilting to our community. 

The Konza Prairie Quilters' Guild welcomes all who are interested in quilting.  Our members range from beginners to advanced quilters.  We offer programming and workshops that feature professional presenters, as well as sessions presented by our own members.  You will get to know members with special interests in wool applique, Featherweights, modern quilting, traditional piecework, free-motion quilting, and much more.  

Visitors are welcome to meet with us on the second Monday morning of each month at 9:00 a.m.  in the Utopia Room at St. Thomas More Church. Our annual dues are $40.  You are welcome to visit twice before joining.


About us

We are here to promote quilting.  We have members of all ability levels from beginner to advanced.   You will meet members with interest in wool applique', Featherweights, modern quilting, traditional piecing, free-motion quilting, and much more.

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You are welcome to visit twice before joining.  We hope to see you at our next meeting!

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