Come see Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts this Sunday December 29 @ 2pm

 

We are so happy to have Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts back at the shop! Join us this Sunday December 29th @ 2pm. Julie will be introducing her newest Block of the month Park Bench as well as her latest Trunk Show featuring quilts using her new Sidekick Ruler!

Please note that this event has been moved to The Robin's Nest Restaurant in Mt. Holly NJ.

Park your cars at the shop & just walk 2 short blocks to the restaurant! Bring your unbrella as rain is in the forecast!

Demo Day February 2013

We had a rather snowy Demo Day this month! Thanks to all who came out for the fun! We played with the ScrapBuster Table Runner! A really fun way to use up your extra 2 1/2" jelly roll strips. I grabbed some batiks and using the Binding Tool or the Creative Grids Quick Trim Ruler I cut my batik strips 8 1/2" x 2 1/2" and then mitred one end. Next I used some black batiks and cut an 8 1/2" center square and lots of 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" squares. Click on the link above to see a You Tube Video by Missouri Star Quilt Company that will take you through the entire process. Have fun using up your scraps!

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!

Phillies Baby I Do Quilt

Quilters are great baseball fans!  Here in the Philadelphia area we do love our Phillies! I attended the recent Stitich & Pitch game at Citizens Bank Park last month where I proudly stitched the binding on this Baby I Do Quilt while watching the game (Stitch & Pitch Event happens once a year). I had to improvise the pattern just a bit, because this was the very last of my Phillies fabric!  Baby I Do  is a great pattern by Cherry House Quilts & these circles are a breeze with the 6 Minute Circle Technique!  GO PHILLIES!

My Daughter's First Quilt

True happiness is when your daughter finally makes her first quilt!

I think true happiness is watching your daughter finally make her 1st quilt! Ok, so she is almost 24, but she did it! This quilt is a graduation present for her boyfriend John. It is a Turning Twenty in brushed plaids by MODA. The dogs had a big part in the quilt.....they were guilty of eating a block or two!

Spring Quilt Market 2011

Day 3 at Spring Quilt Market, Salt Lake City Utah

I finally caught up with Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts in her booth. A spectacular booth! Julie's quilts were showcased all over the market floor!

A visit with Jo Morton! Her new book , Banner Day will be out any day now! And a new small fabric pallet called Jo's Favorites will be available soon. This collection of red & white prints was inspired after Jo's visited to the Red & White Exhibit in NYC in March 2011.

As usual, bags & purses were a very hot item! I was particularly taken by this new talented designer, Jen Giddens.

Next stop.....home!

2011 Spring Quilt Market Salt Lake City

First Day at Quilt Market in Salt Lake City was a busy day for all of us shop owners! We attend mini classses all day long. Here is Lazy Girl's Joan Hawley with Julie Herman, Jaybird Quilts.





Day 2 at Market the floor opens up to us & OMG ..........it has been wonderful & I am only half way through visiting all the vendors. Shabby Chic with Rachel Ashwell; New stitching patterns from Crabapple Hill; Organic Fabrics; Anna Griffin Fabrics; Cabbages & Roses new fabric line with MODA; Lecien Fabrics; Hot color is grey; Jo Mortons's Banner Day; Groovy Girls Club 2; Jaybird Quilts; New Blocks of the Months; embellish, embellish, embellish.

One more day!

NJ Shop Hop 2011

The 10th NJ Shop Hop is in full swing with lots of happy hoppers making their way to 11 quilt shops throughout the state of NJ!

Our Shop Hop Quilt appropriately titled "The Royal Basket" has been well received and we have sold out of the finishing kits already!

We put the Shop Hop Button pattern into a cute little pillow. The hoppers collect (1) button at each shop.

Cherri House Presentation

Last evening I had the opportunity to attend a wonderful program sponsored by the Philly Modern Quilt Guild featuring Cherri House from Houston Texas!

Cherri works exclusively in solids & that really intrigued me! The picture is of the quilt pictured to the left is City Play from Cherri's City Quilts book. We do have several copy's available at the shop.

I have challenged myself as well as all of you to explore this. Stay tuned for a class this summer/fall where we will explore the endless possibilities of solids!

Lilly & Will Baby Quilt

I am finally ready to send the baby quilt to my nephew in Rhode Island. Baby Allison was born in October, but I just had to wait till Moda's Lilly & Will fabric arrived to put the plan together. I used Bunny Hill's Park Lane Quilt Pattern for the baby quilt, Terry Atkinson's Zippy Strippy pattern for the bag & our own in house pattern for the sweet little bibs! The Folded Star Ornament is a class we offer year around & I thought it would make a nice baby's 1st Christmas Ornament- oops perhaps it will hang on their tree next Christmas!

Holiday Apron

Just starting to work on a few holiday gifts & thought I'd share this one with you. This beautiful pointsetta print came into the shop in early September, but we just didn't know quite what to do with it. I had a sudden inspiration to see it in an apron & viola! It's really sharp looking & best of all it only took about 90 minutes to stitch up! Kits are available at the shop in both red & green accents.

Thanksgiving 2010

Just in time for Thanksgiving!

I finished up the binding on this Happy Holidays Table Topper just in time for Thanksgiving. Looking forward to making one for Christmas! This pattern by Terry Atkinson is so much fun to put together. Its just equilateral triangles that are sewn together, quilted & add binding.

New York City

Yesterday, Veterns Day my daughter Kate & I took the day off to see alittle of NYC! It was a beautiful day! No luck with show tickets at the TKTS Booth, the line was way tooooo long. So we just walked & shopped. Made stops in Soho - can never resist visiting Purl Soho, onto St. Patricks Cathedral, the new Disney Store, Anthropology & ofcourse Macy's! It was a great day!

International Quilt Market Day #3

Today the market floor opened its doors! Wow, miles & miles of vendors or so it seems. Our first priority was to visit Quiltwoman.com & check out Karen's book, Soldiers Pride it's hot off the press! We have just finished up Soldiers Pride as a Block of the Month program at the shop & now it the pattern is available to the entire quilting world!

The rest of the day was what I call

" window shopping". Checking out all the new & wonderful things & deciding what to purchase for the shop. For tomorrow is buying day!

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