Thimble Pleasures 2010 Quilt Show March 13 & 14, 2010 Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical

High School, 65 Pleasant St. Upton, MA; For more info: www.thimblepleasures.org

Quinobequin Quilters Twelfth Spring Quilt Show March 26&27, 2010 Needham Masonic Lodge, 1101

Highland Ave., Needham, MA; For more info: http://www.quinobequin.org/quiltshow

Pioneer Valley Quilters Quilt Show Pieces in Time ; April 16, 17, 18, 2010 Castle of Knights, 1599 Memorial

Drive, Chicopee, MA Free parking $7 admission. For more info: pioneervalleyquilting.com

Timberlane Middle School, Greenough Rd, Plaistow, NH (only 4 miles from Rt. 495); admission $6.00 for

more info: http://mvquilters.wordpress.com

Chelmsford Quilters Guild Spring Quilt Show May 14 & 15, 2010 Church of St. John the Evangelist,

Amoskeag Quilters' Guild Biennial Quilt Show May 15-16, 2010, 10am-4pm Memorial High

School, 1 Crusader Way, Manchester, NH Multi-day admission: $6 for more info:

plenty of parking and handicap accessible

Elsewhere:

New England Quilt Museum: New exhibit: Kinder Komforts – Amish Crib Quilts - March 4 – May 9,

2010 Opening Reception: March 6, 2010 @ 1pm – lecture by Bettina Havig “The Amish Lifestyle &

Their Quilts. These quilts, intended for children use and made for hard wear, were not expected to become

heirlooms and shed new light on Amish quilting.

During the Kinder Komforts exhibition, the museum also features the late Dorothy Bosselman’s miniature

replicas of Amish quilts. These miniature quilts were created for a spring 1990 NEQM exhibit and were

recently acquired by the museum.

Fuller Craft Museum, Nancy Crow: Crossroads/New and Recent Quilts January 30 — April 19, 2010

This exhibition, in Fuller Craft’s Stone and Barstow galleries, presents her asymmetrical designs using