New books in store

Direct from the USA every month - we receive brand new release books, and sell them at excellent prices.

Fresh Fabric Treats by Moda Bakeshop Designers.

7 quilts, accessories, bags etc - 16 projects in total. Use your favourite Moda bakeshop cuts (jelly rolls, charm squares, layer cakes etc).
French Braid Transformation by Jane Hardy Miller - the stunning 3rd installment in the french braid frenzy.

Fat Quarter Winners by Monique Dillard. Okay, so you collect fat quarters... or you bought a pack of irresistible fat quarters - now what do you do with them?? You cut them up without wasting a skerrick, by following Monique's instructions. 11 quilt patterns for under $2.50 per pattern - can you beat that value?

New from Piece'O'Cake designs - Fresh Picked Posies. These patterns are so liberating... perfect for beginning to applique (because who can tell if you there is a mistake in these free-form designs???)

Create an "almost-Amish" look with Kim Schaeffer's Quilts From Textured Solids. 20 projects combining tone on tones and textured solid prints in modern tones - piecing and applique projects.

Laura Lee-Fritz adds another book to her machine quilting repertoire: 250 New Continuous-Line Quilting Designs.

Domestic machine quilters (and mid-arm and long-arm quilters) will love these designs - add interest and focus to your quilt - quilting really does make the quilt. The designs flow in a continuous way to prevent the need for thread cutting and ending off.

Time to learn

There is always time to learn something new - just because the school holidays are coming up, doesn't mean we should relax our brains too much!!

Okay, maybe you don't have much to do with the school holidays these days... check out our new "text books"!!

Show Me How to Machine Quilt by Kathy Sandbach.

If you have quilt tops galore and no time to mark them, you've come to the right place! Kathy takes the frustration out of machine quilting and makes it fast, fun and productive. The book includes step by step instructions for every stage of the quilting process with a troubleshooting guide.

Star Struck Quilts by Barbara H. Cline.

Mix and match stars and centre blocks to make 27 different quilts!! Build your star-making skills. Start out with simple patterns and move to complex patterns as you learn (and if you don't make them, how will you learn!!) Learn to create perfect 8-pointed stars that lie flat. Barbara will show you how to achieve the fine workmanship found in the quilts in her Mennonite community.

Tile Quilt Revival by Carol Gilham-Jones and Bobbi Finlay.

Versatile applique quilts inspired by 19th Century Tile Quilts. Big applique sections to show off your Kaffe Fasset and Amy Butler prints. Choose your favourite method of applique: raw-edge, fusible web, needleturn...6 projects ranging from traditional to contemporary...

You know, these books are better in person than on the screen. Why not pop in and have a look at these stunners??

Quilting - hand or machine

What do you want to know about quilting? Check out these books:

Alex Anderson's book will show you her tried and tested method of hand quilting.

Would you like to practise (and use) some continuous-line quilting designs with your free-motion quilting foot? Mindful Meandering contains 132 original designs. You don't need to worry about marking your quilt first - just mark dots in a grid and free-motion the rest!!

How about geometric designs with very little marking? It's easy! One Line At A Time shows you how to make easy geometric designs - you won't believe how these just come together by stitching one line at a time. The book includes "inchie tape" - sticker grids so you don't need to mark the quilting lines!! VBG.

Jean and Gloria

Jean and Gloria - why does that sound familiar? Oh yes, Gloria Jean - the coffee chain. This is Jean holding her latest creation. Jean was inspired by the newest Gloria Loughman book - Quilted Symphony - to make this piece. Jean seemed to make it in record time - now that is enthusiasm. I think we are all the same when we get excited about a project.

Jean said that batiks are perfect for this raw-edge free motion applique as they hardly fray at all.

We have around 20 different batiks in store - we try to keep that many all the time. Do you feel inspired?

I do, thank you Jean.

Hot off the press!

Just in time for Christmas - it's the new book by Australian author Margaret A. Rowe.

Have you read her first book "The Maria Challenge Quilt"?

Fiction written about quilters and their lives, intertwined with real history. (The quilt guild guest speaker tells the story about of the work of Elizabeth Fry on a convict ship as she taught the women and girls to sew and quilt so they wouldn't have to sell their bodies when their prison time was through.)

The novels are self-published and self-promoted, so you may not have heard of these books yet.

We welcome the second novel by Margaret "The Elizabeth Challenge Quilt". Four friends who share a love of patchwork and quilting continue their quilting journey through life, and are challenged again by their Quilt group to create a quilt following certain rules. Their challenge stems from the story of Australia's first lady - Elizabeth Macarthyr and the birth of the wool industry.