Christmas Open House

Saturday November 22

Cookies and Hot Cider all day

"Adore Him"

New Christmas Mini is now available

Demos at 10am and 12pm

All of the Demos will presented both times.

Attend a demo and be entered to win the kit for

"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" pillow

Christmas Fabric and Christmas Kits on Sale

Discounted 20% Saturday Only

Shop Samples on Sale

Previously Used Shop Samples will be discounted Saturday Only

Christmas Wish List

Fill out your own Christmas Wish List.

Everything on the Wish List is discounted when ordered before December 6, 2014

Demos at 10am and 12pm

Yo-Yos

We will handing out a free pack of pre-cut circles 

Triangle Frenzy Runner 

Super Simple Christmas Stocking

with free handout

Christmas Placemat

with free handout

Floor Mat

with free handout

Many Christmas and Winter patterns in stock.

Hope to see you at our Open House!

Pandora

We just got this fabric in last week. It is Pandora by Timeless Treasure.

Two of our regular girls, Margaret and Earleen fell in love with it immediately and had to make a quilt. We did not have all of the fabrics to make the pattern that went with the fabric so we changed it up a bit and made it larger. We are offering the pattern free with the purchase of fabric.

Margaret liked it so much that she made another in purple.

Some new Batiks that came in last week.

More new fabric. The top 3 are from Art Gallery and the bottom 2 are from Robert Kaufman.

Wedding Quilt

On October 4th a nephew of mine got married. Of course I wanted to make them a quilt. My initial thought was to ask them what color they would like it, but on second thought I decided against that. I know how my color taste has changed over the years and I wanted their Wedding Quilt to be timeless. So I decided to go neutral. I also needed this quilt to be a simple pattern since I started it about 2 weeks before the wedding. With it being a simple quilt I could let my quilting make up for that. I had never made a Carpenter Star before and that seemed to be the perfect solution.  

I looked at some pictures of Carpenter Stars on-line and then came up with my own pattern. Since we have an AccuQuilt Studio at the shop, I decided to begin with 10" squares. To keep it simple I made my half-square-triangles using the Missouri Star Quilt Company method that can be viewed here. I used wool batting so that the quilting would really show up. 

I love pieced backs and decided to add some Tula Pink Foxfield for a little pop. I now think that was a very big mistake. The quilting on the back would have looked so much better if I had just used the one fabric. 

I did sit down and tried to figure out the quilting before going to the machine. This was actually a first for me. I usually load a quilt and then decide what to do with it. This really made the quilting much less stressful.

I do most of my quilting free hand, but here I did do a little marking and used some curved rulers.

I even marked my feather stems, which I don't usually do.

I have had several requests for kits for this quilt. 

I just might be doing that.

Around the Shop

I was updating the website the other day and took some new pictures around the shop.

 We have this pillow kitted.

Terra Australis 2 just arrived.

A new shelf for our pre-cuts.

A new tiered basket for the pre-cuts.

I love this baskets that holds a few bolts of fabric.

Pre-cuts always good on the cake stand.

Autumn Blessings on the front door. 

New Arrivals on the window seat.

I love this stairway.

The view when you come in the front door.

"Jimmy" looks great on the railings.

Quilt Vine's Monthly Mini and Holiday Mini samples and kits.

Our Monthly and Holiday Mini Patterns.

Rick Rack in Candy Jars

Notions wall.