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Wow, the weekend retreat is woefully over, but the fun lives on in the photos.  Here’s a catch-up of Day 2-4 of the customer retreat out at North Bow Lodge. To start with on Friday, Alice finished her quilt using …

It’s our first day here at North Bow Lodge and in the first hour, Cindy P.  stole the show and gets full bragging rights for the rest of her life with this jaw-dropping piece of air-brushed art: Have you figured …

Yesterday we hung Maureen Wood’s quilts and boy do they look fabulous!  They are all Judy Niemeyer designs, and Maureen is a certified instructor coming to our store to teach this June. On June 13 & 14, she is teaching a …

The great reveal. Perhaps you’ve seen this quilt on the cover of The Canadian Quilter or American Quilter magazines.  Or have you read an article in the International Festival Quilt Scene or Bird Talk?  Maybe you even seen it live …

Here’s looking at you babe. Do you recognize the quilt this is from? Or know who the quilter is? Linda (I’ll reveal all later, but take give me your best guess now – serious and funny!)

I’m not here for every phone call.  I’m loving the notes left on my desk right now.  Thanks to everyone who takes the time to provide feedback.  It is always appreciated by myself and the rest of the staff.  …

Each May we sell fabric kits to our customers for our annual Quilt Challenge.  We limit the number sold and for the past 4 years this number has been 30.  Each kit has a variety of prints, but every kit …

Each year the store sponsors the Festival of Quilts’ dinner at the Wainwright Hotel at Heritage Park.  I absolutely love going to this dinner, and am actually giddy driving there.  It’s a night of wonderful food, quilting friends, special speaker, and …

Some of you have actually caught me at the store in my new black plastic dress, faintly Gaga-esque and therefore, oh so stylish.  And since  the paparazzi didn’t show up to take pictures, you kept on your best poker face and …

Back when I took up quilting, I was using invisible nylon thread in the top and cotton thread in my bobbin.  Invisible thread solved the issue of what colour to use for quilting on the top side, and hid any …

I had heard through the grapevine about this woman, but today I received a link for the video about her by the Texas Country Reporter.  Check it out here on youtube...

A great introduction to Bargello is making a pattern that is, essentially, bargello-by-the-block.  And in the case of our Bargello Table Runner and Placemat’s class, that is what you are doing.  These are designs from the book, Twist-and-Turn Bargello Quilts by …