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Local Quilt Shop Featured in Better Homes & Gardens®
Quilt Sampler®Magazine
The Cotton Harvest, a quilt shop in Seaforth, Ontario, has been chosen as one of 10 shops from across North America to be featured in the Spring/ Summer 2019 issue of
Quilt Sampler® magazine, published by Better Homes & Gardens. The issue will be available on newsstands on May 10, 2019.
Quilt Sampler, published twice a year, has been profiling North America’s top quilt shops since 1995. The Cotton Harvest is the only Canadian shop on the 2019 list.
Competition to be included in
Quilt Sampler is high—nearly 3,000 quilt shops were eligible to apply for this year’s honor. To apply, quilt shop owners submit a detailed application on their history, business promotions, charitable work, teaching schedules, and design philosophies. A panel of quilt experts, spearheaded by the American Patchwork & Quilting® staff, reviews the applications to select the 10 shops.
The Cotton Harvest and the other nine chosen shops were photographed and interviewed by a team from
Quilt Sampler for a multipage profile that will appear in the magazine. Employees of each quilt shop also designed and made an original quilt. Instructions for that quilt will accompany the shop profile.
The art of quilting has changed dramatically since the days of quilting bees in church basements, and quilting is experiencing a major renaissance. A Quilting Consumer Insights study completed by American Patchwork & Quilting magazine reports that the U.S. quilting market is composed of 4.2 million avid quilters. Further research shows that readers of American Patchwork & Quilting spend an average of $1,165 per year on quilting supplies and complete nearly 11 projects per year.
For additional information on
Quilt Sampler, contact associate editor Lisa Schumacher at 515/284‐3369 or lisa.schumacher@meredith.com.
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