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Jun

Kathy from Cottage at Cardiff Farms…

Categories: Quilting and Wool Projects

Now… If you are not familiar with Kathy yet…I want to introduce you….Kathy Cardiff has one of the best decorated booths at Market…It is always perfect and very thought out…She has lots of new items and this time and one of them is a new book of pincushions or as she calls them Pin Pals…We will be offering these pincushions as a BOM soon at Primitive Gatherings so look for this in a future email,….I love to help designers and the best way is to promote their offerings…Her site can be found here: Cottage at Cardiff Farms

How many pincushions do you have? Can you count them? Do you ever have enough? NO!!! They can always be considered a COLLECTION!

If you want to win Kathy’s new book shown here she has graciously given us one to give-away! Tell me how many pincushions you have in your collection so far… and you will be eligible to win this book of pincushions…You have 3 days until June 20th to comment before we pick the winner!

If you think you will not be so lucky and want to purchase her book it can be done here…Cottage Keepsakes

I hope you visit Kathy’s site and see all her other creations…she truly is a talented artist and a good person!

Look for more talent from Quilt Market soon…and more goodies to be given away…

my best…LB

Jun

winner of Heart to Hand…Autumn quilt pattern give-away…is…

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Comment number 54 on Heart to Hand post: Shown below…

Nick picked #54 for how many fish he caught this weekend!!!! Congratulations Nancy!…

Please send me your full name and address info: and we will get this pattern set out to you…

NancyJune 9, 2013 at 5:17 pm

If it is big enough to reduce my wool stash, I need it. Hehehe

Jun

Carol Butzke…coming to Primitive Gatherings June 15th!

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Categories: Quilting

Do you have a quilt that needs to be appraised!!! We bring it in to the shop on Saturday where you will get an expert appraisal done on your quilt or any antique quilt you may have.

Here is Carol’s You Tube video explaining why you should have your quilts appraised! Click Here

Please call the shop and make an appointment for a time when you may bring your quilt in on Saturday!

Jun

Duluth, MN…Chicago, IL…Raleigh, NC…Chantilly, VA…whooops I meant Columbus, OH,not Chantilly,VA?

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Categories: Quilting
Tags: primitive gatherings warehouse, wool BOM, wool kits

Our girls are busy kitting 1000′s of kits for our shows! While we are putting the finishing touches on our June Duluth, MN June 13-15, Show INFOChicago, IL June 20-22 Show INFO & Columbus OH, June 27-Show INFOJune booths…and yes, this 20×20 booth will travel to all of these shows…which is nice not having to set up 3 different booths for all of these shows…We also will be in Raleigh NC June 20-22. Show INFO

I will be working the next couple of days on the NC booth…while the guys pack up/load and then will start out driving and setting up!

Come visit us and we promise to inspire you!!!

Jun

news release from Northwest Suburban Quilters Guild…

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Hey if you are in the area…come to the meeting-June 20th …they are allowing guests to attend…

Happy Summer, Quilt Shops and Guilds, and our local media,

A new season will soon begin for NSQG, and I have enclosed a press release about our exciting new events available to the community. Please share the attached press release with your customers, members and readers.

Editors: please note, if you decide to publish this press release, please notify me so that I may inform our members: jbquiltasaurus@gmail.com.

Save the Date:

Thursday, June 20: Lisa Bongean, teacher and designer of primitive wool design patterns and owner of Primitive Gatherings Quilt Shop in Menasha, Wisconsin, will present her trunk show “Working With Wool,” on Thursday, June 20^th at the meeting of the Northwest Suburban Quilters Guild at Concorde Banquets in Kildeer, IL. Lisa is a designer for Moda Fabrics and a major contributor to “Primitive Quilting Magazine.” Guest cost is $7; doors open at 6:30 p.m. Concorde Banquets, 20922 North Rand Road, Kildeer; 847-438-0025.

Debbie & Ken Wesenberg of “D & K Custom Templates, Notions & Laser Cuts” will be the evening’s merchant

“Our Quilts in Bloom” NSQG Quilt Show 2013

September 20-21, 2013

Prairie Stone Sports & Wellness Center
5050 Sedge Blvd. Hoffman Estates, Illinois 60192

Tel: 847-285-5400

Hours: Fri: 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. AND Sat. 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Admission: $7.00, $1.00 off coupon available at local quilt shops & guild events.

Children under 17 free with adult.

Website: nsqg.net/quiltshows.html

Publicity Tips:

Quilt shops: I hope you have received our yellow NSQG Quilt Show bookmarks to share with your customers. I sent them via U.S. Mail. Thank you!

Check out these promotional websites:

www.quiltinghub.com

www.americantowns.com

Please welcome a new quilt shop into our area:

Quilters Quest

7440 Woodward Ave. Suite M

Woodridge, IL 60517

www.quiltersquest.com

Follow me on Facebook.

Respectfully yours,

Jayne Borgelt

NSQG Publicity Coordinator

jbquiltasaurus@gmail.com

www.nsqg.net.

Jun

this last weekends events…

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I posted a few days ago what I did last weekend while in GA, now this post is what I did this weekend…

Sorting the 3rd weeks Pieced BOW fabrics

Next I had to trace and stitch on the drawn lines….see my line I drew on my sewing machine to help me keep on target…place the corner of the square on the line….

Assembly line sewing is the best…

Add all four corners….

Time to trim…use the rotating mat…but what is even better? Using the whole mat and cutting all the right hand corners then turning and cutting all four again…repeating until you have all for sets done.

Now that is what I call being efficient!! Time to press… and they are all done!!!

Jess wanted me to let you know we have only 10 spots left in this pieced BOW series….Sign up here if you need to click this link…Pieced Summer BOW

Nick and the boys fishing again...Captain Lookout is at the helm...

Nick and the boys fishing in the boat…Captain Lookout is at the helm…

Nick on the dock…

Nick’s Parents came out to fish too!!!

Momma morning dove sitting in the eve trop(?)

Presley & Jeter…being people…

fishing gear…

Sailboat on the lake…I would like to have a sailboat…

Nick and the Boys fishing…

And last…my favorite pic of the weekend…lots of fish caught this weekend…I even wet a line for a bit on Friday…but puttered around mostly…stitching, cooking, taking pictures and whatever else I wanted to do…

Hope you had a nice weekend too! LB

Jun

workin last weekend…

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Categories: Quilting

I have been working really hard lately and it was nice to spend some time at the Lakehouse this weekend …last weekend I was in GA in East Cobb doing a couple of workshops and trunkshows…what a bunch of talented ladies…They have a show coming up this next weekend…I bought $20 worth of tickets for their raffle quilt…so if you are near…or if you want to buy some over the internet…and try to win the quilt instead of me…here is your chance… quilt shown below…Raffle Quilt

This was a very talented group of women…very organized and just genuinely nice women, who love quilting…Here is a few pictures from their show and tell….I didn’t get any names because it was during the meeting and if you want to comment on who is who I can add their names…I would appreciate any help…