Fabric Therapy Anyone?

Quilters are generous with their quilts, their time and their materials - we appreciate hearing about all the great contributions and gifts our customers share with others, and we really enjoy seeing our customers share the gift of learning to sew and quilt with others.  We hope your new year provides lots of opportunities to share and promote the joys of fabric and quilting!  

We want to give a big shout out to all of you who are so generous with your time and materials as you contribute to so many worthy causes and provide quilts to friends and family both in need and in celebration all year long.  Quilts certainly make the world a better place! 

Here is a quick recap of some of the community activities we supported in 2016 with our store projects and quilts:


The La Conner Quilt and Textile MuseumBlaine Fine Arts AssociationThe Firs KidsCampfire Samish and Camp KirbyMoonlight Quilters GuildLove Inc of Whatcom County

We have been adding to the shelves and trying to carve out some time to stitch up some fresh samples, some how with our extra snow days I seem to be further behind than ahead!  We hope you have had a chance to catch up and get organized, meet all those new year's resolutions and move right on to starting something new?!

Baltimore Blues by Barbara Brackman for Andover

Garden Notes by Kathy Schmitz for Moda

We know we're quilter's and not photographers - these prints below really are deep black!

Lampblack designed by Kathy Hall for Andover Fabrics

We have been expanding our selection of knits - and there are some amazingly great patterns for both children and women's clothing that you might just want to give it a go!  A simple receiving blanket with a bias trim edge is a very handy gift for summer babies too!

Stella Knits 60 inches wide 

Please stop by soon and show us what you're working on, what you've completed ...or what you have planned for 2017!  

What are you working on?

Do you make an effort to document, photograph or otherwise keep track of your creative efforts that get disbursed throughout the year?  It's easy to forget all the projects we've accomplished once they are out the door and on their way to new homes.
Several of our customers stay busy all year long contributing to several causes near and dear to their hearts as well as gifting quilts to family and friends.  A few of our customers are dedicated contributors to Linus Quilts, and we know of many who participate in providing quilts of all sizes and colors to various military, hospital and health care related purposes.  A big shout out goes to all of you who are so generous with your time and materials to contribute!  Quilts certainly make the world a better place.

Here is a quick recap of some of the community activities we supported in 2015 with some of our store projects and quilts...

The Blaine Fine Arts Association
Campfire Samish and Camp Kirby
Love INC of Whatcom County
The Firs
La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum
United We Dance
Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association

And sometimes...we just take time out to make other stuff too!  Here are some photos of recent activities at the shop and customer finishes.  Keep up the great work everyone!

We had a full house on Sunday for valentine stitching - the valentines and chocolate were flowing along with the creativity!

The following photos are from prior tuffet classes we've held, there are no two alike!  We have another class coming up this Saturday so we'll see what new color combinations come together.

We hope you're enjoying some sewing time with these rainy days!  Spring is around the corner, and we've got some fun activities planned so watch for more updates soon.