Selvages are fun!

 

I first got intrigued by selvages upon seeing a woman wearing a great skirt made from selvages at Quilt Market! After that I started collecting my selvages & my friends started giving me  their selvages and next thing I knew...I had a mountain of selvages to work from! I started small, making a potholder or two, then Sandy Thompson wrote a great book, called Save the Selvages! Ooh, now lots of great ideas! Last Saturday was our January Demo Day at the shop & I needed something to demo! I had stumbled upon this great selvage project & quickly got to work! Click here for a tutorial on how to make this project at The Busy Beans blog. The pillow cover is about 20" x 20" and really turned out to be a fun project!



Selvage Star Pillow





The Village Quilter's Summer Staff Outing

 

A recent staff outing found us at a Phillies Game for the annual Stitch & Pitch Event!

This is an event where all stitchers can bring their work into the stadium & enjoy the game while stitching on a binding or whatever!

Our Phillies quilt is a Baby I Do pattern by Cherry House Quilts!

A Summer Evening with Denyse Schmidt

Philly Modern Quilt Guild  sponsored a special event this weekend featuring modern quilter, Denyse Schmidt. I was able to attend the Friday evening lecture held at the Waldorf School in Philadelphia and although I had met Denyse this past May 2012 at Quilt Market in Kansas City ,  I found this lecture so very interesting & full of things I never knew about her! She is one very talented modern quilter, who's quilting career started alittle differently than most quilters I  know. She started with making high end commisioned quilts in NYC  for several exclusive retailers and that led to her  becoming very well known many  interior decorating & architectural circles. From there her career has led  to designing  fabrics for Westminster Fibers, writing books & several quilting patterns and now lecturing as a Modern Quilter.

Denyse Schmidt, as Andrew  introduced her the room of 51 attendees! 

My Ticket!

 Members of the Philly Modern Quilt Quild made quilts using her fabulous fabrics.

Here is an off centered half square triangle arrangment that really caught my eye made  with Flea Market Fancy.

Ana (left)shows shows her favorite string quilt that used on of Denyse's older fabric lines.

Denyse's latest fabric line Flea Market Fancy, as well as her books & patterns are available at the shop.

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Magical Mistletoe Tour 2011

You are invited to attend the 2011

Magical Mistletoe Tour

Visit these 5 NJ Quilt Shops anytime during the month of November 2011

& get your pattern to make your own holiday strip quilt & don't forget to get your invitation stamped! You just might win a prize!



Our sample is getting there! Just one more row to sew........

Participating NJ Shops in the Magical Mistletoe Tour

Kindred Quilts

Pennington Quiltworks

The Village Quilter

The Little Shop

Quilting Possibilities

Pick up your invitation at any of these 5 shops.

Our latest Strip Club Quilt!

Our latest Strip Club Quilt, Cactus Wreath was revealed in last Saturdays Strip Club meeting at the shop. What a beautiful holiday quilt. Pattern has directions for 3 sizes wallhanging, throw & queen. It takes one of our holiday jelly rolls (precut 2 1/2" strips in reds & greens)

a few yards of Kona Snow and 2 1/2 yards for border & binding! 

NYC

Last week some of the members of my little quilt group & I attended a taping of The Martha Stewart Show in NYC! 14 of us took the train & then took NYC by storm! A great time was had by all!

Martha greeting her audience before the show.

Almost front row seats!

Carrying our Martha goody bags home in the rain.....

Ofcourse we were so close to The City Quilter we just had to stop & say hello!

Here is the cute little bag I just made with a piece of Japanese linen I purchased at The City Quilter!



The Pleated Tote

I met this young purse pattern designer, Jen Giddens last May at Quilt Market in Salt Lake City. I was drawn to her clean lines & designs! I finally had some time to make up a sample of The Pleated Tote pattern & I was so thrilled. Clear precise instructions with great results! I love this bag! I'll be teaching it this fall at the shop!

Let me know what you think...leave a comment!