Serious about Christmas fun!!

Hmmm... perhaps you think it's too early for Christmas??? We are not yet celebrating Christmas, but we are preparing for Christmas in July!!

The entire new Nancy Halvorsen (from Art To Heart) Christmas range is now in store and online.

Last year the fabric range was almost gone by September, when most people really started to look for their Christmas prints.

Make sure you get in early. There are 36 prints, plus the panel (shown at the top of the screen)...

We wait in eager anticipation for Nancy's new book which will feature projects made using all of these fabrics.

Watch this space for updates!!

Please don't drool on the quilt

Our quilting interests tend to cycle... sometimes we just want to hand sew, other times we want to follow a pattern without having to think too much, and yet other times we want to let our creative juices flow... uninterrupted, without thinking too much.

That's why this project feels just right for me at the moment. You can sit down to machine piece the silks together.

Then carry the blocks around and enjoy embellishing them at liberty... or select designs to replicate or alter...

This is a customer show and tell piece.

The silks glow and shimmer. It eminates warmth. And makes me feel cosy.

Now, I just want to sew! sew! sew!!

We love picking fabric

Oh yes, we love picking fabric. Exactly the right prints for these house appliques were found on our shelves. Would you believe they were purchased on Sunday, and we were lucky enough to see this cushion on Tuesday? It's beautiful. The designer (as you can see, she is not pictured) will soon be releasing the cushion as a pattern. Thank you for sharing with us.

hexagons - more English piecing

Larraine is a regular participant in our sit and sew sessions Wednesday afternoons.

We have been watching this hexagon quilt progress, since its inception.

We can't wait to see it quilted Larraine!!!

How special is that???

Simone is a slave to English paper piecing. Totally addicted.

She came along to UFO classes with quite a number of projects that were almost finished. This quilt features fabric from her Nan's stash. I have identified some of the fabrics as genuine pieces of 1930s fabric. How special???

This quilt is now totally complete! Quilted by Wilma at Deep Creek Quilting.

Thanks for sharing Simone. You can join us to obtain help on your project. See UFO classes on the class list at the side.

Yes, you can do that!

When this customer came in to look for fabric to make into a bag as a gift for a friend, she never dreamed we would help her to mix together William Morris fabric with Kaffe Fasset prints!!

It's just another example, of "Yes, you can".

We love choosing fabric - there are just so many possibilities!!

Show and tell

Kellee comes to our beginners quilting classes.

Look who stowed away in her bag!!

As a collective of crafting women, I am always amazed at what we can make while actively learning another craft. So many people are talented in scrapbooking, crochet, knitting, dressmaking.... it is such a pleasure to see people grow in the area of quiltmaking too.

Thanks for sharing your show and tell.