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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!

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…

edie gottschallMay 11, 2013 at 10:32 am

Hey Everyone….

I am happy to report I only have 1 more thing to do before I leave for Market…and that is to design a little 18″ quilt for Moda School House and then a Blog Hop in September…but I have been, under the gun, so to say for some time…it feels pretty good to be almost caught up…but then there is that 300 yds of new fabric sitting on my table…so you kind of get the idea…but that doesn’t have much to do with this coming market….I will be posting my new wooly things starting on Monday so you can see what our new Spring Market designs are…and maybe order one or two if you really love them!!!

I also want to say that I find that when I teach some of my student are too stessed out about not doing it right, or not having the same thread I list…here’s the thing…some of the threads can be used on more than one color of my wools…if you have a wool piece you are going to stitch and you don’t have the same number I have stitched it with, look at what you do have and run a thread of it across your wool…if it looks good use it!!!  If you don’t have anything that will work…then order exactly what I used….

I also give you layouts and tell you to use a light table to get exact placement…I rarely have exact placement in my blocks…I lay my shapes down…if they look good I fuse them…If I am having trouble and things are not working I will use the light box to place them with a little more accuaracy…

Now our new SBOW will have a word “inked” in on it…we will need the light box for that if you want it to look like the fancy typed word….but what if you wanted to draw your own word in your own handwriting?  I say go for it!!! Handwriting is going to be a lost art soon…

Please leave a comment on this post, let me know your thoughts, what your are working on, what you might like to do in the future…just anything you want to say… and I will pick a winner for this pack of Frixion pens…they are great for marking and they iron away…I used the green one in the SBOW freebie to mark my stems…I will also try and bring some goodies to give away from Spring Market…

In this post I want to share some of YOUR creations from our designs…thank you for sending me your projects…Please enjoy and remember quilting is supposed to be fun!!!!!!!     LB

PS…Cindy B…are you available for alterations on my Mother of the Groom dress?…I know I need to order one yet, but just want to make sure the offer still stands!  I know I only have less than 2 months but I have been busy!!!

SBOW 2012
Set in Cream
Connie Spaulding

2012 SBOW with red centers…click to see photo…do not know why this is viewing this way…
Alice Borge

Debbie Brandenburg…
leftovers from Pieced SBOW…pieced with some left over Laundry Basket blocks

Liz Armstrong…
her version of 2012 freebie..