A little cat and mouse?

More pincushions have been turned in! You still have a couple more days to participate in the swap! These two are both by Nancys as it happens!

Here are a couple others recently turned in:

Linda upcycled this old bed spring into a Spring Flower!

These Mandy made from felting colorful wool Roving

And this Cathedral Window pincushion was turned in by Cathy!

This week we received a shipment of fabric from Moda called Sew Stitchy and can you believe it had fabric with pins printed on it? How cute and fitting for our swap!

The whole line is adorable here is a focal fabric with hexagons printed on it:

Here are all the bolts from the line we received:

 But we also have charm packs:

 

and  Jellyrolls for this line!

 We just had to snap a shot of our cutest customer yesterday....

 while mom and Grandma discussed fabric options he made himself comfortable in the batiks. 

Don't we all wish the men in our lives were so comfortable in fabric stores............alas!

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 Today we received a cute line from Studio E, they are a smaller fabric company but they sometimes hit the mark pretty well, like with this line:

Cute focal prints

Check out the little messages on the squares:

 

 love

 dream

 create,

 believe,

 give

and hope

Also some cute coordinates:

Quilt Across Texas is going strong! We sold out of our quilt kit but the pattern is still available for anyone interested and we still have a couple of Nancy's adorable Tablerunner kits available:

We are stocked with charm packs for the shop hop too! See you soon. Remember we are open Sundays through the month of September.

Open House and more news!

Just a reminder that our open house is Saturday from 9:30-2:30 and the store will be open until 4:30pm. It is traditionally very busy before 1 pm and then things settle down a bit, if you are looking to time your outing for thinner crowds.

Open house is the day when all our teachers are invited to come in with their samples and show off the classes they are offering at our shop in the coming months. It's like a quilt show out there in the classroom and we have refreshments and snacks too!

 In the shop there is a store wide 25% off sale- fabrics(1/2 yard cuts or more), precut fabrics, notions, thread, and patterns! 

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Quilt Across Texas starts on September 1st. 

This is a teaser - Deb made this Mondo bag from the Quilt Across Texas Jellyroll we'll have for sale starting September 1st. If you are interested in this bag, Dolores is also offering it as a class!

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The pincushion swap has been receiving some interest and you still have 3 weeks to turn yours in! 

By Rhonda

By Rhonda

We have two turned in already! (see the pictures above) Rhonda used her embroidery machine for these and they are both nice and heavy filled--with ground walnut shells and made of wool.  We now have ground walnut shells available at the shop.

I also noted, around the store, we have several patterns for pincushions if you are someone who prefers to follow a pattern rather than invent one yourself! Check these out:

Or look online! Tons of tutorials, ideas etc... Mandy even has a whole board devoted to pincushions on Pinterest! You can link to Deb's and see what she is pinning too! 

Apples, Pears and Cherrywoods?

Tasty Pincushions....

Your new local distributor for these....

and much more to come!