Beautiful New Fabrics Arrived

Six bolts of beautiful Timeless Treasures 100% cotton quilt-quality fabrics arrived this morning.  When I get a sale, so do you! A beautiful black on black blender, two gorgeous colorful prints and three sweet Tonga Batiks priced to sell before the summer season ends! Stop by to see these bolts ... and enjoy working with nature's beauty as you stay cool indoors...

Timeless Treasures "Electric Trees" and "Garden Sanctuary"

Garden Sanctuary print by Timeless Treasures $7.00  yard

Tonga Batiks by Timeless Treasures, $9.00 // yard

And another bolt arrived ... this one is a panel that measures 36" x 44" and bears the Psalm 23:6 verse ... "Goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life."

Designed by Susan Winget, for Springs Creative fabrics

Come back to this page later today to see the July Block of the Month ... and more information on Quilters' Quarters stock. 

June 2019 Block of the Month at Quilters' Quarters!

I didn't want to post the block until the new Clover tool for making yo yo's arrived at Quilters' Quarters - but now they are here ... and we are half way through the 2019 block of the month patterns and kits! I think you'll like this new way of forming the yo yo's ... I've made hundreds of them through the years ... some for family quilts (my first quilt ever~) and some for Books in Bloom entries ... But here is my favorite so far, made with the Clover tool!

A rusty-looking watering can filled with bright June blossoms,
set on a background of fabric that echoes 1970 kitchen wallpapers!

Clover Yo-Yo Maker
Very clear directions in several languages,
 and free patterns for various yo yo uses!
Less than $6.00 each with your QQ discount.
Only five more of each in stock at Quilters' Quarters.

These are the first six months' QQ 2019 BOM blocks.
Patterns, fabrics, tools for each are available at
Quilters' Quarters in Georgetown, Massachusetts.
Quantities are limited!

Zipper Sale!

Quilters' Quarters is receiving some much needed maintenance this month ... this weekend, a new storm door replaced the old one, which was decaying from the moisture ... and many of you had tried to close it and found it wouldn't line up anymore with the frame.

But new storm doors are no longer made of wood, and some don't have much in the way of horizontal  or cross-cut structure, as the old ones had. So to help myself, and all of my visitors, avoid blindly walking into and through the nearly invisible screen, I've hung ribbons and colorful zippers across the screen, at eye level!

Look closely to see the red white and blue zippers~
on the nearly-invisible screen door.

To celebrate the new door and its 'decorations,' I'm having a sale on 14" nylon zippers ... both the traditional style, and the new 'invisible' style. I'll be helping people find videos on you tube that instruct you in creating 'box pouches' using fusible fleece ... with your choice of a visible or invisible zipper.

The yellow zipper is 'invisible' when sewn in;
the blue zipper is the traditional style.
Both at Quilters' Quarters for 75 cents each!

Quilters' Quarters does not stock the invisible zipper pressser foot, but you can find them for your favorite sewing machine at eBay, Amazon, and in quilt shops that sell new sewing machines.

This is the bottom of the new clip on 
invisible zipper presser foot.

For those choosing an invisible zipper, there is another you tube video that you will find instructive ... and another clip-on "invisible zipper" presser foot that you might or might not have in your collection, depending on the age of your machine. I found some on eBay, for Singer and Brother low shank sewing machines, and for Bernina tall shank as well.

Two coordinating pouches in dark and light
purple prints, made for my granddaughter's
vacation!

Stop in to Quilters' Quarters for help with the directions ... I'm happy to learn with you!

Here are the links:
Zippered pouch bag tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-SsfnXbVrc
Invisible Zipper Foot instuctional tutorial:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ttAN0D1XOI

Stay tuned for the June Quilters' Quarters Block of the Month photo in the next post!

May Flowers

The lilac bush in our back yard in South Boston grew at the edge of the man-made cliff ... hundreds of years of coal furnace ash built up the land behind our two family home, creating a space that measured about 12 x 15 feet and ample room for a five line clothesline, an ash shed for the rubbish barrels, and a lilac bush.  When we moved to Georgetown, we found a similar old fashioned lilac outside the screened in porch, and enjoyed the fragrant blooms each May. The date of blossoms opening varied with the weather year to year, but I planned to carry some of our home grown lilacs as my wedding bouquet ... unfortunately, that year the bush bloomed early and by the thirtieth they had all passed their bloom. My bride's bouquet forty nine years ago, a small white, French family bible covered with trailing stephanotis, was instead a simple one. But every year following our wedding, Rick brought lilacs into the house whenever in May they bloomed, and we enjoyed their beauty and scent for weeks. He could always reach the best blooms at the top of the bush.

Curved blossoms, heart shaped leaves and wooden stems...

This month's QQ Block of the Month honors those lilacs ... The background is a deep blue print that echoes the cool, clear spring skies here in New England;the blossoms are made with Moda marble swirl fabrics, the  leaves and lilac blossoms are fused in place and will be decoratively quilted. The stem is a simple narrow zig zag stitch repeated three or four times. The pattern and various appropriate fabrics are available in the shop upon request.

The shop itself will be once again 'under construction' at times this spring and summer ... old clapboards are sagging, the window shutters are losing their louvers, paint is peeling, the storm door has paid its dues and will be replaced with a newer model, and some windows need replacing.  I had enough of a tax refund this year to do one large project and had two to choose from ... and the shop repairs won out over the new kitchen floor.  Such is life in New England, where one's barn is always prioritized, as it is where one's occupation takes place. One step at a time, one project per year ... eventually it will be as good as a two hundred year old barn can be.

I took my first sick day in five years today ... Grieving my loss of Rick sometimes leaves me without wind. But tomorrow is another day, and things to be done await. I'll be out in the shop at noon for quilters looking for fabric, notions and ideas.

As always, thank you for reading this. Please share the link for this blog with your quilting friends ... tell them of the automatic discounts that increase with time. I look forward to seeing you all. New shipments of fabric will occur in June, August and November ... come check on what's on hand each season!

April Showers!

The April 2019 block of trhe month for Quilters' Quarters is ready at the shop ...  pattern is free, and kit with all materials, including fusibles, is priced at $10.00, less your personal discount, of course.

The raindrops, umbrella and bunny are fused to
the block using Heat'nBond heavy duty.

I've been visited by the salesman for Quilting Treasures, and will have dozens of new bolts of fabric arriving between now and November. Beautiful prints now featurizing the new process of digitized printing ... I was amazed to see the brilliant colors that look so much like metallic shimmers but are actually carefully crafted hues of print that will now fade despite several washings!

Yesterday a friend and I visited the New England Quilt Supply and picked up some wonderful bargain fabrics as well, and added to our collection of more threads and pre-cuts.

And I have restocked the 1/2" Creative Grid Square Templates, from 3.5" up to 12.5" ...  and was able to get a good price on 14" zippers (the ones that can be cut to a shorter length) and will be offering a lesson at the Georgetown Senior Center on making small zippered fabric pouches ... I won one in an Essex County Needlecraft Guild raffle and love it for carrying my quilting  supplies to lessons , and look forward to helping others learn  to make them.

I'm very happy to be presenting the fourth Centenarian Quilt to a woman here in town this week: here's a photo of her quilt:

I was delighted to learn that her first name is Rose!

Remember that all quilters receive at least a 20% discount on all fabric purchases at Quilters' Quarters in Georgetown, Massachusetts! All cash and check purchases get an extra 6.25% discount as well!

Looking forward to spring and more shared treasures ahead!

Happy Pi Day ... 3.14 etc. etc. etc....

The March block of the month is ready and available at Quilters' Quarters ... I could have used a delicious pie for the pattern, but went with the traditional shamrock instead.

This month I'll include a four-inch strip of Heat 'n Bond double sided fusible in the kit. It is a very easy-to-use, non-messy affordable 'tool' that makes machine applique simple and smooth.

Patterns and kits for the January and February blocks of the month are also still available in the shop ... I'm looking forward to less icy roads and sidewalks, and seeing more quilters.  Bring a friend with you!

Another Schedule Change

As February draws to a close this week, March appears to be coming in like a lion ... and that does bode well for April and the potential of lamb-like gentleness... I'm remembering that last year, having been closed for the full winter due to lack of heat, our spring reopening was rescheduled at least three times due to ongoing snowy weather ... right up to April Fool's Day!  But this year there is heat in the shop, and Quilters' Quarters is planning a happy spring sale of light spring colors ...

In the first full week of March, Quilters' Quarters will be opening late on Saturday March 9th as we'll be celebrating Ian's first birthday! The shop will open at 3 pm, rather than at noon.  I thank you for your patient understanding...

The March 2019 block of the month will feature, of course, a shamrock ... stay tuned for photos next week.