Winter H2O

After I had all of the blocks designed for the 2015 Row By Row then the fun began; choosing the fabrics. 

Actually, Winter was really pretty simple since it is taken for one of our Monthly Minis. 

I really like this monthly mini so I kept the fabrics as close to that as possible.

 There were just a few changes because of fabric I no longer had. 

Stitching around the applique with a contrasting thread using a blanket stitch really brings out the detail.

In The Beginning

 Here is a sneak peek of our Row By Row for 2015

Quilt Vine will be participating in "Row By Row Experience" once again this year. 

The dates for this Shop Hop is June 21 - September 8, 2015.

If you are not familiar with Row By Row go here to find out more.

The theme for this year is H2O.

After thinking long and hard on this I decided to represent H2O in all 4 seasons.

I am going to share with you my thought process in to designing this row.

Many of you may be familiar with our Monthly Minis. 

I am using the design from the January and November Minis in our row.

For Winter, snow is our H2O.

To use this in our row all I had to due with it was to make it smaller.

For Fall the marsh is our H2O, and I used our November Mini.

To use this in our row I made it smaller, removed the dog, added cattails, and placed the boy in a marsh.

For Spring rain is our H2O. 

I wanted to use a girl in the rain but our 

April Mini just wasn't what I was looking for.

I changed this quite a bit to used it in our Row.

I redesigned this block to go better with the other blocks.

I didn't like the first drawing because I think she needed hair.

It still wasn't what I wanted so I made her rain coat shorter.

Doesn't she look much better.

For Summer the Ocean is our H2O. 

Since I already had two boys, this one needed to be a girl. 

At first I tried a flat hat, a two piece swimming suit, and water wings.

It just wasn't what I wanted.

I changed the hat and the swim suit bottom.

This still just wasn't right, so I got rid of the water wings and added an inner tube.

I thought I would try a one piece suit and I liked it much more.

After the basic design of the blocks was completed then the fun began; choosing the fabric!

Choosing the fabric is fun but also very difficult. 

Last year we made so many kits that we ran out of some of the fabrics and it was troublesome trying to find substitutes. So, while choosing the fabrics for this year's row I was very careful to pick a lot of fabrics that I can reorder.

I have the row completed and I will continue to post how it progressed. 

Some more Show-n-Tell

Here is Show-n-Tell from a few Saturdays ago.

Customers participate in Show-n-Tell for a chance to win a $20 gift card.

Show--n-Tell

I just love it when our friends bring in their finished projects to share with us.

This is Ester's block from the book  "Best Ever Applique Sampler" by Piece O Cake.

Colette had to join in  the fun and make an Elephant Quilt.

Ellen, a relative of Colette's, was visiting from Ireland. Colette just had to get her quilting. Here is her Elephant quilt. She must have used what Colette had leftover. Notice that her Elephant is a little different from Colette's, it has a heart.

Lucille's Log Cabin Quilt. 

See all of those beautiful Kaffe Fassett fabrics that she got at Quilt Vine.

Marlyne's Tiny Treasures.

 Marlyne's paper pieced table runner

 Maylyne's place mats

Many of you may recognize this pattern used here. Chris originally made Chris' Fishes' with this pattern. Chris also taught it as a class here. So we have seen many many quilts  made with this pattern. Well, here is the latest one. Mary made this one with the  Snow Day Fabric.

Lynn's Dot Party Quilt that she made in class here.

Another Lola quilt by Mary.

I love how she used "Sweet Lady Jane" by Jane Sassaman.

 Charlotte's Heart to Heart Quilt.

Christmas in July

This past week we celebrated "Christmas in July," with a sale on everything Christmas.

"Snow Day" by Wilmington Prints.

We have this quilt kitted.

This popular pattern, "Holiday Lights," by Alex Anderson has been updated and re-released.
We kitted it in the fabrics shown here.
We are presently out of kits but we will by making more.

Loris Nebbia, the author of the popular book, Solomon's Puzzle was with us on Saturday.

Loris demoed her Santa and Helper.

We are looking into having Loris back in the Fall to teach a Santa class.

On Saturday we had a demo on how to make this scrappy garland.

The fabric in this quilt is "Holiday Cheer" by Henry Glass. 

We have this kitted in this blue color way and the red color way.

This fabric is "Warm Wishes" by Red Rooster Fabrics. 

We have this quilt kitted.

Here is an over view of all of our Christmas fabric.

On Saturday we also had a demo on this quick and easy Christmas Stocking.

These stockings are a great way to highlight our new ball fringe and new larger rick rack.

Come in and check out all the great Christmas stuff we have in stock.