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When I was going to Glengarry Elementary school, Petra invited me after school to see her father’s entomological collection. Peering at wooden cases of dead bugs under the dim basement lights, I was slightly repulsed, but fascinated. The butterflies in …

Jan T., a participant in our Block of the Month of the 100 Modern Quilt Blocks from 2013-2014 graciously sent me pictures of her finished quilt.  I asked her if I could post them to which she so eloquently replied, “Sure …

FriXion pens have been sold by many quilting stores as the answer for marking your quilts.  I never trusted them; never sold them; and am very thankful that someone – Jenny Lyon – took the time and did some serious …

Myrna is an instructor here at the store, who is an afficionado of Judy Niemeyer patterns (aka, Quiltworx).  So much so, that she has taken many classes from Judy and completed 9 of her patterns.  Well , 10, now that …

Sandy W. brought in her Inner City quilt to show the students in Kim’s most recent class what she had done with the blocks. As you can see, she floated hers on a background, instead of bordering straight to the …

First of all, you’ll need to watch this four-minute video to understand my comments that follow:  Creative Bug’s Kaffe Video In this video, I found many of Kaffe Fassett’s ruminations resonated with me. Particularly his reference to textiles, “The only …

My last post generated an inquiry as to whether waste water is treated when printing fabrics.  I don’t know the answer to this, and can only imagine that it is entirely dependent on the country where the fabric is being …

Over 2013 to 2014 we ran the 100 Modern Quilt Blocks by Tula Pink as a Block of the Month here at the store.  Each month, for ten months, customers were mailed or picked up their package of 10 blocks.  …

I have been meaning to write this blog post for years now, but something else always trumped my time.  Usually something that was a little more “pretty”.  You see, the fabric I am about to tell you about looks like plain …

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 …