QuiltingHub - Shut down Announcement

QuiltingHub is All or Nothing

The QuiltingHub Advertising Network (QAN) and all of the newsletters have reiterated for years that it is to be the most accurate and complete quilting resources website in the world. It is community maintained in which YOU the community add, report errors (to the listing owners), and maintain the content to 100% accuracy and completeness. To that end, 2025 is the year that QAN was declaring all or nothing. Either You, the community, completed the listings by August 1, 2025, or we shut down the entire QAN from all public use on October 1, 2025. We do not maintain the content, YOU do. You are the only people who know if ALL of your local resources (shops, museums, services, guilds, shows, and brands) are listed or not. Each month between May and August 1st, 2025, you emailed us at quiltinghub@gmail.com if ANY listing was missing (and also told the person who should list it). If any listing was reported missing of any type by August 1, 2025, the shutdown process will begin. It was reported, so we are closing.

Latest Updates

6/1/2025 - You, the quilting community, added over a dozen guilds, three shops, and 1 service provider in the last month. This is an excellent start that might cause QuiltingHub to stay running past the shutdown date. Keep up the great work. It takes a community to keep up this website and you are doing a great job.

7/1/2025 - You, the quilting community, added over three guilds, no shops, and no service providers, and no brand listings in the last month. This was a dismal effort compared to the prior month. I really was starting to think that you, the community, was wanting to keep the QuiltingHub Network alive. We will see how much work you do in July. August 1st is rapidly approaching. Get to work if you want to save this resource for the quilting community.

8/1/2025 - Four quilt shops in Texas were reported open but not on the list. Those Shop owners DID NOT ad their listing and therefore we will be shutting down 10/1/2025 as planned. Please read the article on how this procedure will take place and when.

On October 1, 2025

"I, Paul Johnson, have reached Retirement Age, and it is time to either pack up and quit or sell the entire QuiltingHub Advertising Network to someone else. This includes All the websites in the Network. This means all the sites are for sale (as a whole complete set) to someone looking to expand their empire or to take the reins and continue quilting world domination of the QuiltingHub Advertising Network. If the sites are SOLD before September 1, 2025; the QAN will be moved to a new company and owner. If not, the shut down process will begin September 1, 2025.

For Sale before 9/1/2025: (1.5 Million Dollars)

The future owners will get all assets (which include):

1. All domain names of all websites in the QAN.
2. publishing rights to Quilters Travel Companion
3. The Computer Servers
4. The router
5. The Quilting Advertisers Database & website code
6. Constant Contact Database of opted-in quilting advertisers and quilters

For Sale after 10/1/2025: (1.5 Million Dollars)

The future owners will get only some of the assets (which include):

1. All domain names of all websites in the QAN.
2. publishing rights to Quilters Travel Companion
3. The Computer Servers
4. The router
5. The Quilting Advertisers Database & website code

QuiltingHub Advertising Network 9/01/2025

The QAN will shut down to all quilters beginning 10/1/2025. On 9/29/2025, all pre-existing member advertisers will change from member(paid) listings to free (non-upgradable) non-member listings to stop billing. No customers will be billed after 9/29/2025, unless the QAN continues past 10/1/2025 under a new owner and the customer choses to re-subscribe online AFTER 10/1/2025. No new member listings or conversions to member listings will be welcomed (if the sites have not been sold and changed hands to a new owner) after 9/1/2025.

QuiltingHub Advertising Network 10/1/2025

Without a new owner, the QAN will shut down to everyone beginning 10/1/2025. All listing content will no longer be available, viewable, or billed. The only things that might prevent the shut down is either a sale of the QAN or a massive attempt by all quilters to improve the free and member listings to 100% listed (as seen in the first paragraph). If ALL shops, museums, online shops, brands, services, and quilt guilds are listed on the site worldwide; the QAN will continue. To accomplish this every quilter will have to make sure that ALL their local quilting resources are listed. If any one anywhere is not listed, tell the listing owner via phone or email to get it listed or the QAN will cease to exist. We have been stating this over and over that the QAN is only as accurate as you make it. If you do not make it accurate, then your community QAN will be leaving you on 10/1/2025 because you did not want to share your local resources with the quilting world.

How we will determine incompleteness and decide to shut down

Any one of the following will consistent with incompleteness:

• If any one of you reports via email to quiltinghub@gmail.com a listing that is not listed and it is still not listed by 8/1/2025
• If less than 50% of the existing quilting shops (and online shops) are not member listings.
• If any one quilting related brand (you might find in a quilt shop or online shop) is not listed as a member listing that quilt shops can click they carry as a brand in their shop.
• If any one quilting service provider is missing from listing anywhere in the world.
• If any one quilting museum is missing from listing anywhere in the world.
• If any one quilting guild or group is missing from listing anywhere in the world.
• If any one meeting for quilting guild or group is missing from listing anywhere in the world.
• If any one quilting show is missing from listing anywhere in the world over the next 3 years.

How to prevent shut down:

• If you detect any missing or incorrect information, contact the listing owners and get them to add or correct it at once. Do not delay. Do not assume someone else will report it or fix it. For errors, the easiest thing to do is to click “No” next to ‘is this listing accurate?’ on the quiltinghub.com website of that listing. The sister sites do not support error reporting. You must be a registered user to report errors so that your name will appear in the report to the listing owners and they can tell it is real.
• Buy the QAN way before 9/1/2025