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Breezy Color Absorber

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I am so excited that I finally got this product in!  I have been using color sheets when I wash my quilts for the first time.  I always had to buy them in the USA but not anymore.  IF you are afraid of colors bleeding, just throw a sheet in your wash...the proof is on the sheet!

 
Inspiration...

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Flannels have arrived!

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Wishes by Sweetwater for Moda

comes with many patterns to choose from

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Little Black Dress 2 by Basic Grey for Moda

this collection has the classic elegance covered. Greys, creamy neutrals and bold blacks all in beautiful designs.  The entire collection is in store now.

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Honky Tonk by Eric & Julie Comstock for Moda

comes with many patterns and  precuts.

I hope that this inspires you to get busy in your sewing room.  If not, come see them in person.  Pictures never do justice but it is a start.  Happy Friday!

New Arrivals!
  Good evening! It is a cold one once again.  I love winter but these deep freeze temperatures are getting to me.  I guess complaining will not make it any warmer so if I keep myself busy, maybe I won’t notice it.   There is a bit of truth to that…we are watching the houses of friends and family that are on vacation.  3 of them!  So with all this snow…we have been shoveling.  Hardly noticed it was a whopping -24! I wanted to let you know what is arriving mid week! Little Black Dress was such a hit when Basic Grey came out with it last winter that they decided to bring it back as little Black Dress 2!   ANYTHING you will make out of these prints will be a guaranteed hit!  I am bringing in the whole entire collection including the grunges that coordinate. I also have a few precuts left. image    image   Honky Tonk by Eric & Julie Comstock are great prints as well.  11 bolts of this fun country collection as well as layer cakes, charm packs and some great patterns to go along with it. Wishes by Sweetwater is another collection in this shipment.  Sorry I have no picture right now.  But you will not want to miss this out on this one!  18 bolts together with some patterns and precuts. Lastly….. 9 bolts of Michael Miller flannels!   I will post pictures when I unpack them! ...here is some fun stuff!  We got a puppy!  lol  His name is Mister and he is so well behaved!  Our kids are really missing the animals from the farm so this was a little bit mean, but fun. image  So come stop in this week!  Shari    
for the love of binding!

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Binding is something I love to do.  It is that final thing to complete a  quilt...just before the washing...just to see it pucker.  So when my quilter brought me 3 quilts she had finished, I knew just what I was going to spend my next day doing.  Binding!  I used to hand stitch it all until recently I learnt (or should I say became brave enough) to machine stitch it.  It takes some practice but stitching in the ditch looks quite elegant.  This collection by Basic Grey called Little Black Dress 2 is supposed to be shipping out today or tomorrow.  That means by next week I should have it out and ready to talk you into taking it home.  Weird, I know, but people tell me that fabric talks to them. (it talks to me too)

Happy Monday!

Little boy I know not of....
This quilt is for no one in particular.  I usually have a sense of who I am making something for but not this time.  I was inspired by a customer.  She asked me to pick colors for a quilt she was making for a baby boy.  She showed me the pattern and I was to choose colors.   Months after she was gone I thought to myself, that seemed like a neat pattern to do.  So picking similar colors, I started cutting.  I was really happy I did that because sometimes patterns ask for too much fabric.  I don't like to buy extra and have to do another project when I am done the quilt, just to use up the scraps.  Some scraps I don't mind.  But not so much that I can nearly make another blanket.  So I always encourage people to 'make sense' of the pattern by doing some math and then you will know just how much to buy.  But I love the quilt....and hopefully when I become great Auntie for the first time this March, it will be a BOY!

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