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29 Jun

2009 NQA Show in Columbus, Ohio.

Here are some photos from the 2009 NQA Quilt Show in Columbus, Ohio.  We really enjoyed this show and met so many wonderful people there.  I cannot say enough about NQA.  This group is wonderful and bent over backwards for all of the vendors.  The National Quilting Association was a joy to work with and I look forward to returning there next year.  If you would like to learn more about NQA  you can visit their website here:  The National Quilting Association

If you would like to view the photos we took while at this show - follow this link —–  2009 NQA Quilt Show in Columbus, Ohio.

Or feel free to enjoy the slideshow here:

2009 NQA Columbus Quilt Show

29 Jun

2009 Minnesota Quilters Guild show in Duluth

We’re back from 2 back to back quilt shows. One in Duluth, Minnesota and one in Columbus, Ohio (which I’ll post about later!)

Here is a link to my webshots album where you will find the photos from the Duluth, Minnesota quilt show. - just click here ——Minnesota Quilters Guild Show.

Or - below is a slideshow!  Enjoy!

2009 Minnesota Quilters Guild Show in Duluth

29 Jun

Sale Fabrics listed on site!

Well, we are gearing up for all the new fabric lines that are coming in over the next month or so - plus getting ready for 2 more quilt shows so we’ve moved some fabric to the “Sale Bin” here!  Next on our journey will be the Quilters Hall of Fame quilt show in Marion, Indiana - we had a great time here last year and look forward to going again this year.  Click here to read about this show —- Quilters Hall of Fame Quilt Show.

After that we are on our way to Knoxville, Tennessee to be apart of the first ever AQS show there!  I love that area and cannot wait to go.  Click here to read about this show — AQS Knoxville Show. When we finish with these 2 back to back shows, we are taking a little Rest and Relaxation in the hills of West Virginia, so at the end of July - we will be “missing in action” for a bit!  LOL

Over the next few weeks we have a few lines of fabric coming in that I’m so excited to be getting.  Today we received our “re-order” of the Bonnie Blue Neutrals fabrics that everyone is really enjoying and the blacks from the Bonnie Blue Basics line that are very hard to keep in stock because they are such great colors.  Plus - we received 2 more bolts of that wonderful Aged Muslin that we cannot keep on the shelves (this is the fabric that we used on our stitchery table runners!) and you can find that fabric here —- Aged Muslin. A few weeks ago we received our shipment of Seneca Shirtings by Jo Morton - talk about yummy fabrics! Plus - we got a pretty good selection of Gathered Over Time which is designed by Julie Hendrickson - owner of JJ Stitches in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin - this fabric is really awesome too!

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Above is one of the fabrics from the new Jo Morton line called “Crimson and Clover” - this is a beautiful line of fabric that is arriving in July.

We also have:

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The Regency Collection III coming (shown above)!

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and we have Colonial Christmas coming (shown above)!

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Plus we have Vintage Muslin coming in (shown above) and that should be here next week.  We are using this awesome fabric in a new quilt design that should be ready soon!  Thanks to The Quilt Merchant of Winfield, Illinois for “turning me onto” this cool fabric (PS - they have oodles of this fabric in stock right now if you are searching for it and are just desperate like I was to get my hands on some!  LOL) .  They took one of my quilt patterns and “re did” it in this Vintage Muslin and fabrics from the Civil War Dressing Gowns Two fabric line.  Let me tell you - the quilt they made is to die for (much, much better than my original - no joke!)  You must see it - if you live in the area of this shop - go check it out.  If not they will have the quilt at the Long Beach Quilt Festival next month in California! Maybe Docia will take a pic of the quilt and post it on her blog if we bug here enough!  LOL (hugs Docia!)

 

Don’t forget to check out the following lines of fabric on our website that are now on sale and ready to visit your quilting stash!

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Kansas Troubles Classics Homespuns

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Wildflower Serenade II

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Kansas Winter

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Huge selection of Solid fabric

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I’m waiting for my photos to upload to my webshots album right now - so I’ll have another post really soon that will give you links to view pictures from the recent quilt shows we attended!

02 Jun

New Models For Upcoming Shows!

Hello World!  It’s been awhile since I posted anything - and yes, I have tons to show you from this past Quilt Market in Pittsburgh, but first- I just had to show you 5 of our recently finished models that will be shown at our upcoming shows!

 

The first four below are designed by Kathy Brown of The Teacher’s Pet, there is a link below each photo that will lead you to her website where you can order patterns for these awesome goodies!

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Above is Split Decision

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Above is Road Block from the book Jelly Roll Quilts

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Above is Cross Ties from the Book Jelly Roll Quilts

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Above is Strip Center

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And then above we have Petit Fours from the Moda Bake Shop blog - a free to use pattern!

 

If you want the pattern for any of the above pictured item - visit the links below each picture (now keep in mind - a couple of these patterns are hot off the presses and not shown on the website just yet - email The Teachers Pet at theteacherspet@hotmail.com and let them know you want the pattern if it’s not on the website just yet and Kathy will hook you up!)!  We’ll have plenty of kits for each at the shows!  We hope to see you in Duluth, Minnesota next week at the big quilt show!  After that we head to Columbus, Ohio for the big NQA quilt show!

 

I’ll do my best to post a few more times between now and when we leave, I’ve got lots of pics to share from our trip to quilt market and Lancaster, Pennsylvania!

22 Apr

Amish Quilt Auction

The weekend before last, I was able to visit Amish country in Shipshewana, Indiana.  That Saturday was the Spring Honeyville Amish Quilt Auction.  Wow - what an experience that was. I really enjoyed seeing an actual auction and viewing the majority of the quilts available.  I say “majority” because I had a little mishap on the Interstate that morning getting to the Auction in the form of a flat tire.  A flat tire I could not change myself because the car jack that is supplied with my vehicle is a piece of garbage!  LOL  I ended up contacting a towing service (read between the lines here - this added an extra hour and a half to my delay) and they came to my rescue.  So - I was late - very late in getting to the auction.

All in all, it was a fun day. The quilts were gorgeous, but the winning bids on everything I saw were way to low for the quality of the quilts.  That was a little sad.

I visited Lolly’s and Yoder’s quilt shops while there and some of the other stores too.  Enjoy the slide show of a few of the quilts from the auction below!

2009 Amish Quilt Auction in Shipshewana, Indiana

And if you would rather view each individual picture instead of watching the slide show, here is the link:

2009 Honeyville Quilt Auction, Shipshewana, Indiana

21 Apr

2009 Chicago Quilt Festival

2009 Chicago Quilt Festival

Well, we are back and survived the 2009 Chicago Quilt Festival! (I missed all of you in the past few months by the way - I apologize for not being a good blogger - just had a tons ‘o stuff going on!)

 

Chicago Festival was great, tons of great people, lots of good vendors and of course beautiful quilts!

 

Enjoy the slide show above of the quilts that I took photos of at the show. If you would rather visit my webshots album and look at the pictures individually here’s that link

2009 Chicago Quilt Festival WebShots Album

 I have to keep this “short and sweet” today.  I’ve got 3 weeks until I leave for Quilt Market that is being held in Pittsburgh this spring and I’m a sewing fiend right now!  The fabrics are flying, the sewing machine is humming and the printer is spitting out pattern covers and intructions!  Wish me luck!

 And good luck to all the vendors down in Paducah this week! And for all you attendees at this show- have fun!

 

04 Feb

Heritage Quilters Guild Merchant Mall Crawl

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Well, above is a little advertisement for my local quilt guilds shop hop that we have coming up very soon!  If you are in the neighborhood, stop by and see us!  This show will be the kick off for the new year for me and I’m looking forward to it.  I just wish it would warm up a bit here - it’s so cold outside and I dread packing and unloading the trailer to get all the goodies to the show!!!

In other news - Charleston V is here! My Fed Ex man made me very happy yesterday and appeared with the boxes containing all 19 pieces of this awesome collection!  Yum - more pinks and browns!

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I kept myself busy the rest of the day yesterday preparing the fat quarter and fat eighth bundles.

 

23 Jan

Quilting, reading and nursing a cold

 

I just finished reading “The Quilter’s Kitchen” by Jennifer Chiaverini.  What a quick read.  This new book has several recipes in it also that I just might have to try.

 

Next, I’m moving on to this book:

 

 

which is “The Hiding Place” by Karen Harper.  I’m about 1/2 way through it and it’s pretty darn good!

 

And after waiting 2 1/2 weeks (yep, thank you postal service for taking so long to deliver this book to me) I will be reading this next:

 

 

The newly realeased “Wanted” by Shelley Shepard Gray.  I’m such a sucker for amish books, I tell you - and this one is hot off the presses.  My Mom is sending me “Marley and Me” now that she finished with that, so that will be added to the pile also!

 

Why so much reading lately you ask - I’ve caught the dreaded winter time cold and it’s a got me feeling yucky.  I’ve had it slowly coming on for a day or so now.  I wish I could survive just one winter season without getting sick like my dear hubby - but it never fails.

 

On a better note, I’ve been scrap bin diving.  My scrap bins were over flowing again, so I was able to cut bits and pieces here and there for about a 1/2 day and made a nice dent there.  I added a ton of fabric strips to my stash for those string quilts that I always have going here and there.  Plus, Kathie Holland had 2 awesome quilts in recent past issues of American Patchwork and Quilting magazine that I have my eye on making!  Below is one of the quilts -but there is another of her designs that I cannot find a picture of - or (and this is the worst part - I can’t remember which issue if was in either) she had another string pieced type quilt with gorgeous read fabric - it had vertical rows of strip pieced fabrics alternating with red fabric strips.  OMGosh - it was just a yummy quilt, so Kathie if you are reading this - please help my feeble, stuffed up with a cold brain and tell me which issue that quilt was in!

 

Charleston V fabric collection from Marcus Brothers should be on it’s way within the next week or so if all goes well.  They are processing orders right now, so hopefully we will have that gorgeous pink and brown fabric in our hands soon.

 

 

 

Also coming is Moda’s Kansas Troubles Classics Plaids collection.  We have the line of yummy homespuns coming and I’m so excited to start mixing those in with some of my projects.  I love homespuns so much and can’t wait for those bolts to arrive.  I have wool project ideas mixed with homespuns popping up in my head!  I’m getting the itch to play with some wool!

 

 

And - keep your fingers crossed - the Aged Muslins should be here with in the next week or so also.  I checked on that fabric for everyone yesterday also.  2 of the 4 shades of Aged Muslin are finally ready to ship out to us. Thank goodness!  We’ve only been waiting almost a month!

 

 

Sounds to me like the end of next week or early part of the following week should be a blast around here with all the boxes coming in!

 

Oh - and more ecology cloth is on the way also - didn’t want to forget that also!

 

Don’t forget the fabric sale on our website is coming to a close very soon.  January 31st will be the last day for the sale and then we start getting down to business and cutting up the remaining stock for our upcoming quilt shows (the first one is at the end of February!)  We gotta get to work on making all those fat quarters and fat quarter bundles everyone enjoys so much.  Plus - I have to make room on the shelves for all this new fabric!  This is going to be so fun!

 

Oh - and I’ve had a couple questions recently wanting to know if we are going to get more Bonnie Blue fabrics back in stock.  The answer is yes - all the pieces we sold out of are currently on order and we should see those starting to come in over the next week or so also.  This fabric line will be printed for awhile longer yet and it is just such a great line of fabric, so we are going to continue to carry it as long as it’s available!  We’ll be putting fat quarter bundles, fat eighth and fat sixteenth bundles back on the website as soon as we have the entire collection back in stock!

 

Well, I’m off to start the day.  I’ll be cooking some homemade chicken noodle soup today and snuggling under a quilt reading and hand quilting while I nurse this yucky cold.

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