Friday, March 16, 2012
And we have a winner!
We have chosen a random winner from the comments made on our Batik post of March 12. Sharon H (post #5), send us your mailing address and we'll send you a group of batik fat quarters! Send to teribackdoor@indy.rr.com
LOVE red fabrics!
We've picked a quilt out from the English Paper Piecing book using Jo's Variety fabrics. It will be twin size, perfect for a dorm or guest bed, or for a sofa throw.
Have you ever seen our signature fabric? We fell in love with this Kansas Troubles fabric from Moda a few years ago, and purchased an entire printing. We've used it for block of the month borders, First Saturday quilts, quilt backs, and more. It's got great colors, and best of all, it turned out to be a good investment! With the price of cotton fabric reaching and exceeding $11-12 a yard, this fabric is just $9.75! Give us a call if you want some for your current projects.Thursday, March 15, 2012
English Paper Piecing
Pictures from top to botton: We couldn't settle on just one project, so we've started several! Linda is giving some of our girls tips on how she's made the Baby Pentagons in the book.
One of the best parts about English Paper Piecing is how portable it is--and you can look for adorable tins and boxes to carry your pieces around!
These blocks are made with 5/8" hexagons.
The Baby Pentagons are going to be made with reproduction fabrics, mostly Jo Mortons.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Just Spooling Around
Terri Degenkolb is the very talented force behind whimsicals fabrics and books. We have her newest, Just Spooling Around, as well as the fabric she used, Heart Strings from Red Rooster. Heartstrings has a soft taupe, rose, and teal palette with hints of modern design. We have some of the quilts from the new book--check us out at the shows this spring if you live far away!
Monday, March 12, 2012
Batik Heaven
We get new batiks every week, and we thought you'd like to see what our batik shelves look like right now! They are packed, and there's even an entire section of light batiks, which are hard to find!
We love batiks for their rich colors and designs, and how well they blend together. Feel free to mix them with other fabrics, too, like Edyta Sitar does.
Comment below and tell us what your most recent batik project was (or what you hope your next batik project will be) and win a packet of batik fat quarters!
Monday, March 5, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Finishing Edyta's quilts with a bang!
We have lots of samples in the shop, so we often have to layer them up! Here's our Eldon quilt, covered with a Tree Farm quilt, then topped off with Jolene's Star. The Tree Farm quilt was made after we hosted a Triangle exchange based on Edyta's Friendship Triangles book premise: we had people get our fabric strips or use their own, then everyone used Edyta's newsprint Triangle Exchange paper to make all the triangles exactly the same size. You received back the same number that you brought in, and we ended up exchanging over 22,000 half-square triangles!
Jolene's Star pattern includes the templates, and you can make the table topper shown, or expand it into a large quilt. We used the same tan fabric for the center trianges, and similar shirting fabrics for the stars. This helps keep the quilt from being too busy. We used traditional and reproduction fabrics, but it would look great in brights for a birthday celebration, or thirties or daiwabos for a completely different look.
Now that you've seen our week of Edyta's quilts, BECOME A FOLLOWER ON THIS BLOG to be eligible to win one of one of Edyta's patterns! We'll draw a name from the list of followers on Monday.
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