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December 27, 2007

Butterflies Sample

Butterlfies.jpg New Painstik project from Nancy Kazlauckas

Pull out your paintstiks and have some fun! Stencil four beautiful blocks and add free-floating butterflies from your favorite print. Create a wall hanging or a 5-sided table topper. Pattern guides you step-by-step through the process of stenciling butterflies with paintstiks and freezer paper stencils. Never used painstiks before? Take our introductory class!

Year-end Clearance Sale

yrendsale.jpg Classroom converted to sale room

We're making room for hundreds of new fabrics. So we moved hundreds into clearance. Sale fabrics are $2.99, $3.99 and $4.99 a yard through Saturday, December 29. Great time to buy backings!

Hoffman Challenge!

hoffmanchallenge.jpg Bundles and coordinates available!

These beautiful asian prints are selling quickly. The challenge fabric is also available in a darker colorway. These peacock prints will make a great One Block Wonder!

December 21, 2007

All Tied Up Kit

Nouveau-quilt.gif All Tied-Up Kit

Featuring Nouveau Riche, a richly colored fabric collection from Timeless Treasures. Make this simple quilt from our pre-packaged kits!

New Kit for Gatsby

Gatsby-Quilt.gifGatsby Kit from Timeless Treasures

This fabric features vintage wallpaper designs updated in modern soft aqua and chocolate. Use this beautiful collection for home decor, a hip handbag or gorgeous quilt. The quilt is available as a kit - see our shop sample!

December 17, 2007

Lonni Rossi's Paintbox

paintbox.jpg Reserve your palette now!

We recieved the new paintbox collection by Lonni Rossi - eighteen colors and textures sure to enhance your palette, or should we say stash? A box of fat quarters will be available for this group, the brights, as well as the next two (mid tones and pastels) being released three months apart. This is sure to be a collector's item. We have limited yardage for serious collectors - don't miss out!

December 12, 2007

Hoffman Challenge

hoffmanchallenge.jpg 2008 Hoffman Challenge Fabric is in!

Visit the Hoffman Challenge website for details on this fabric and the annual challenge. We received the first group of beautiful Asian fabrics from Hoffman and expect the next group - including nine batiks that coordinate with the challenge - to arrive shortly.

 

December 11, 2007

Pro-Stitcher Up & Running!

proStitch_hires5-sm.jpgOur installation is complete and the new computerized quilting is running on our HQ Sixteen! We installed the software and hardware in a few hours yesterday, and had a quilt top completed this morning using repeated block designs. It's very slick.

December 06, 2007

Party Time!

Yum! Fabric that looks good enough to eat.

Or, maybe to eat off of? The new Party Time collection from Makower would make sweet runners and placemats for any celebration. Cupcakes, petit fours, hot chocolate and strawberries. Plus dots and little cherries!

December 05, 2007

Dargate Lavender and Mint, c. 1830

dargate1.jpgNew Reproduction Fabrics Begin Arriving!

One of our core strategies in 2008 is to build and maintain a bigger department of reproduction fabrics. At International Quilt Market, we began by ordering 50 bolts from Windham's various collections due out between now and Spring - including Williamsburg and the Mark Twain collection due in March. Today's delivery included 13 bolts of Dargate Lavender & Mint, c. 1830. Margo Krager has designed this beautiful reproduction collection in a palette that maintains the integrity of both pattern and color of the original designs first printed 175 years ago.

December 04, 2007

Kaffe Fasset's Quilts in the Sun...

More fabric arrived today!

This shipment was from Westminster Fibers and included Carla Miller's Shine collection in red plus her scripts in every color. Kaffe Fasset's new book, Quilts In the Sun, is here, too. We're anxiously awaiting his new fabric - due to hit before the end of the year.