Sign Up for Class!

Make this gorgeous quilt in a class on Saturday, April 17 at 9:00 a.m. Learn the step-by-step technique for creating these beautiful dimensional flowers. We always have a lot of fun, great food, and relaxed but thorough instruction time. Sign up early! We have kits ready to go, you'll need to do a bit of cutting before class. The fabrics are simply divine, Moda's Garden Party, and the quilt is elegant! See you there!

SPRING FLING SALE!

Join us for our annual Spring Fling Sale and enjoy some of these luscious new fabrics and patterns. You'll love the darling new hats and patterns from Izzy and Ivy Designs.

The Sale will be held Thursday, March 25 through Saturday March 27. All bolted fabric will be 20% off, half yard cuts or more. Remnants will be half price and we'll have a great deal on selected fat quarters. AND. . . (drum roll) we have lots of new samples created that we'll be teaching in coming classes.

On Thursday evening at 6:00 p.m. we are excited to welcome the designers of Pie Plate Patterns, the Bailey mother and daughter team. They will bring a trunk show of their quilts and patterns. They do amazing things with layer cakes. . . you'll enjoy an hour with them. We will also have yummy refreshments. Please join us!

March Saturday Sampler

It's that time again, another day of Saturday Sampler fun. We have the NICEST ladies that join us. . . one can't help but enjoy the day. We are always glad when the weather cooperates and our "out-of-towners" are able to make it on good roads.

We enjoyed viewing some of the completed sampler quilts from last year. They are wonderful and of course we forgot to get snapshots of the individual ladies and their quilts. We will try and do that next month and post the photos. Many talented quilters shared their projects. We thank each one!

This is the apron block for March. It is hard to see in the photo, but the pockets are dimensional. We needed a little 1930's red in our quilt, so the accent color does that job.

Our western quilt block is a hat. . . every cowboy has a few!!

This is the pieced block we are featuring this month. And oops. . . .forgot to take a photo of the blue color way, that will be posted ASAP. These Saturdays that are "Sampler Days" are so much fun and such a delight to

visit with so many terrific ladies. . . sometimes it's easy to forgot the job!

Enjoy making your blocks and it isn't too late to join the fun and catch up if you missed the first two months. We are happy to mail blocks also. Happy stitching!

February Saturday Sampler Blocks

Here are the blocks for February. We are loving all of them, for different reasons. Following is the purple and green color way. The block is shown in the center, we decided to put ours together using this pattern. We have kits if you are interested.

Betty, who works at Valley Fabric Shop is assembling her blocks with this pattern. (The 9" block forms the center of this larger 16" unit.) We also have kits for this option. Both ways of putting blocks together will create amazing quilts with secondary patterns. Don't you just love being a quilter?!

And here is our western applique block. This quilt is designed with a specific finished quilt in mind. Unlike the patchwork blocks, this quilt will not requre extra design work by the stitcher. AND. . . it will make any cowboy happy!

We love our apron quilt!!!! This month's block is done in green and yellow reproduction fabrics. You can decorate your block as desired, we used a decorative machine stitch. It would be very nice with a little hand embroidery also.

We also shared a couple of wonderful recipes with our Saturday stitchers. A great raspberry coffee cake reminded us of Grandma's baking and we had to throw in a little chocolate toffee for Valentine's Day. All in all, we had a great day. Hope you will join us next month, and bring your finished quilts from last year's sampler. It is wonderful to see the creativity out there, and appreciate what unique quilts our lovely ladies make.

Here are the colors of our kit, and the stitching will be soon finished on this one! Happy stitching!

. . . And we are in Love with the apron quilt. Remembering times of long ago and using 30's reproduction fabrics, this quilt will make us all miss our grandmothers! The first month's block is the full size apron in the top right corner.

Here is the first block for the western quilt. There is just something that feels good about a good cowboy boot. Our quilt will feature boots, stars, horseshoes, hats. . . all things cowboy. Yippee and Yee Haw!