2012 Calendars for Quilters with Quilt Pictures and Quilting Patterns

Calendars make beautiful and inexpensive gifts. They are practical, since people can use it to figure out what day it is, remember important appointments, and avoid scheduling events when they are busy. They are also beautiful to look at, and make great decorations. Since the picture changes every month, it provides a nice change in decor without much effort.

These calendars are especially tailored for quilters. They include beautiful quilts of all kinds, and many of them also serve as a double function, since they also include patterns to make the quilts. These patterns will make them useful even past 2012. Choose one of these for your favorite quilter!

These calendars are very popular and tend to run out quickly, so get them while they last.

The calendar from That Patchwork Place is the most popular calendar for 2012. It has a full picture on the top and large squares on the bottom for the calendar. There is a tear-out section in the back that includes the patterns for all of the quilts that are shown.

This calendar provides a new pattern each day. You can make a block every day of the year, and come up with lots of blocks to make several quilts at the end of the year. It provides something beautiful to look at every day. This calendar is not useful in organizing your life, but getting 366 new patterns is a great value.

For the art quilt lover, this weekly calendar provides 54 quilts selected by Klaudeen Hansen. There are no patterns. This beautiful spiral-bound engagement calendar provides plenty of space to record your thoughts of the day or record your appointments.

Thimbleberries also makes a beautiful calendar each year. There aren't any patterns in the calendar, but they can be found in Lynette Jensen's popular quilting books.

The batik quilts in this calendar are created by Edyta Sitar. The patterns are in the book Friendship Strips & Scraps. Get them both so your quilter can make the beautiful quilts on this calendar.

Diane Phalen paints beautiful watercolors of American life, and many include quilts in them. There are country cottages, flowers, barns, country stores, and other scenes of Amish country life from the rural Pennsylvania countryside. There are no patterns in this calendar, so there is no pressure to make a quilt. Simply look, admire, and organize your life beautifully.

The thirteen quilts in this calendar are award-winning masterpieces. There are no patterns in this calendar, and most quilters would be too intimidated to make these quilts. There is a two page spread that tells you about each of these quilts. These quilts are spectacular to admire, and the spaces in the calendar are big enough to organize your life.

Another idea for a calendar is to take photos of the quilts your favorite quilter has made, and get a calendar made from it. There are many photo places, including drugstores, which will make photo calendars and other photo gifts. Imagine the look of surprise on your favorite quilter's face when the photos on the calendar are the quilts she has lovingly made.

Calendars make great, inexpensive, beautiful and practical gifts. Quilters appreciate looking at beautiful things, especially quilts, and would love to get a calendar.