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The ballots have been tallied and the 2015 Quilt Challenge results are in!  Before I show you the winning quilts, I’ll  give you a recap of the contest we run each year. In the spring, we sell 30 kits of …

In last year’s Fall mystery classes, Laura asked the participants to bring in their quilts and quilt tops from past mystery classes.  Unfortunately, I didn’t get pictures of all of them, but I did of a few which are shown …

We had a customer drop by late last year to show us the quilt from the Rat Race class she had taken with Leslie.  This quilt was made as a gift, and no names were to be divulged.  It was …

We ran McKenna Ryan of Pine Needles’ Home Tweet Home as a Block of the Month a couple of years ago.  One of our customers, Pat K., wanted to make hers larger to give as a gift to her sister.  …

Another Stampede winning quilt we current have hanging in the store right now is Myrna M.’s Bali Wedding Star.  This is a Judy Niemeyer pattern.  This quilt glows where the colour pops. I don’t think the picture really does the …

Alison C. took Roxanne Nelson’s Pictorial Quilting and Lorraine Stangness’ Machine Quilting classes at our store since last summer .  She put both to good use and decided to enter her “Ozzie” in the Western Lifestyles Creative Arts & Crafts Competition at the Stampede …

Roxanne Nelson is teaching Pictorial Quilting again this summer at our store and today is the 3rd class where the students are messing with fabric and constructing their pictures.  We had visitors from the previous years’ classes drop by with their works …

Yesterday was lots of fun with the trunk show from Joanie & Kelsey Morrow from The Stitchery in Olds.  Jo came too, and it was a good time.  It was wonderful to see the patterns they designed, and the quilts …

I started this quilt not long after I took my beginning quilt lessons.  I had joined the Quiltsitter’s Club of a local quilt shop here, Quilter’s Cabin (now closed).  At one of the monthly evening get-togethers, they handed out a …

Last night at our Hockey Night in Canada Widows Club, one of our beginner students came in to get caught up on her homework.  She asked if we knew of a quick table topper pattern she could get done in …

The 2014 Quilt Challenge results are in!  And before I tell show you the winning quilts, I’ll  give you a recap of the contest we run each year. In the spring, we sell 30 kits of fabric for the Challenge.  …

Alison Dean Cowitz is artsy.  And she has the confidence and verve to try different things.  No wishy-washy dialogue such as, “Do you think I should?”, “Where will I put it in my house?”, or “The colours just don’t match …