Resources

Our members are always coming across great quilting resources and this is where we share them! Take a look through these favorite links contributed by fellow guild members. You might find a new idea, technique, or source of inspiration. If you discover something good, be sure to pass it along!

Send your favorite links for tools, tutorials, shopping, inspiration, etc to nhmodernquilt@gmail.com

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National Modern Quilt Guild

Quilting Apps / Web Tools

A Quilty Solid - match colors and threads from various top manufacturers, create palettes, find nearest matches to Pantone colors, hex values, etc. Built by Steph Skardel

MyQuilts- an online database for photos and information about your own quilts. Sortable by various fields. Built by Kiley’s Quilt Room. Free and paid subscription options.

EQ8 - Full-featured quilt design software. Mac and Windows. Can do everything. Steep learning curve.

Quiltie - A free quilting app for discovering patterns, tracking projects, organizing your fabric stash, and sharing your quilting journey with other quilters.

Quilt Mock-Up - Preview quilt patterns using your own fabric images or manufacturer fabric collections.

Robert Kaufman Quilting Calculator -  Free online quilting calculators for estimating fabric requirements, quilt dimensions, and common quilting measurements.

Coming soon: 

BloqLoft - a new quilt design software. Advertising suggests it wants to compete with EQ8, with an easier user interface. It will run on Macs and iPads. Waitlist for access available.

TOOLS

L. P. Sharp Company -Exchange used rotary blades for discounts off of new Olfa or generic blades

Famore.com offers blade sharpening! (currently suspended while they move to a new warehouse)

Share your favorite tools!

TUTORIALS 

Share your favorite tutorials!

GUEST SPEAKER WEBSITES

Amy Friend - March 2026

Jen Sorenson - September 2025

Local Quilt Shops (LQS) (links will be added soon!)

Nashua, NH

• Purrfect Pastimes. Novelty fabrics.
• All American Quilt Co. Small shop.
• Nashua Sew & Vac. No fabric, but lots of useful notions and classes.Viking, Pfaff, Bernina, and BabyLock sales and service.
• Neverett’s Sew & Vac. BabyLock and Janome  sales and service.

Amherst, NH

• Night Owl Quilt Shop. Bernina sales and service.

Manchester, NH

• Patches Quilt Loft and Embroidery. Custom embroidered quilt labels.

Concord, NH

• Paradise Quilting. Large shop. 
• Golden Gese Quilt Shop. Small shop. Traditional fabrics.
• Concord Clothworks - New shop, building their fabrics. Quilting cotton, fleece, yarn.

Salem, NH

• Pine Tree Quilt Shop
• Angel’s Sewing and Quilting. Small shop. Brother and Juki sales and service.

Pelham, NH

• Bits n’ Pieces Quilt Shop. Largest fabric shop in area. Handiquilter dealer.

Derry, NH

• The Sewing Diva Quilt Shop.

East Kingston, NH

• Compass Point Quilt Shop. Large selection of Batiks

Portsmouth, NH

• Portsmouth Fabric Company. Large shop. Bernina dealer.

Online Stores

HawthorneSupply.com - an upstate NY online-only shop with crazy fast and cheap shipping. Carries many manufacturers. Great prices on pre-cuts. Used to be a reliable shop for Kona Cotton Solids, but can’t get them anymore due to current owner (Missouri Star Quilt Co.) restricting distribution of Robert Kaufman fabrics to other retailers. Offers many alternative solids lines.

Sewfinity.com - an Idaho online-only shop that still manages to keep Kona Cotton Solids in stock. They offer other brands of solids, too. 

And they have a palette builder feature (Sewfinity Colorway) where you can select your fabrics, enter the amount you want to purchase of each (even FQs), then check out.

Red Rock Threads - quilting and embroidery supplies. Great selection of threads!

Quilt Magic Land - Etsy shop, enormous last chance / clearance section with great pricing. Large selection of Art Gallery Fabrics and Rifle Paper Co.