The Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt Kicked off Today!

Here are some "sights and sounds" from our Sew In Day for the kick off of the first Clue of the Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt she's calling the Grand Illusion Mystery ~ These are the sights anyway, the sounds were of laughter and good conversation :) 

Quilters gathered and played with fabrics, cut, and stitched on the units for the first clue...

 We saw several cool color choices

Here are my fabrics that I'm pulling from for mine.  I got all of my half square triangle units cut out today...

...and I got one of my Broken Dishes units finished ~ only 99 more to go :)

We'll be working on our units this week (Heather even caught the bug and is picking out fabrics to join in and play), and then next Friday, Dec 5th Bonnie will release the clue for Part 2 on her blog.  That's our regular Studio Stitch-In Day at the shop, so come and sew with us!

Enjoy the day!
~ Dawn

Baltimore Block Show & Tell

The Baltimore Blocks for Beginners class with Mimi Dietrich got together one more time yesterday for a little Show & Tell and share their progress.  Here are a few of them, Enjoy ~

 ...It's amazing how different each one looks done in the different prints & styles :)

We are so fortunate to have Mimi come and teach at our shop ~ She is an amazing teacher...and now there are twelve new quilters with a love for Applique :)

Enjoy the day!
~ Dawn

Our First Post Card Party Workshop

Have you heard of Post Card Party?  This week we had our first of several Post Card Party Workshops!  A group gathered in our classroom and Starlyn showed them how to she cut the little "petals" with the Creative Grids Dresden Plate Ruler to make these cute little Dresden Plate units.

She had several to show, and also showed examples of quilts using them.

Everyone sewed theirs together...

Then the students put together some Black Eyed Susan Postcards to swap in the Great Post Card Party Swap :)  Several students took theirs home to finish embellishing, and will bring them back later.

We'll be having several more Post Card Party Workshops in December and January to make other projects to submit for the Big Swap.  Keep an eye on our Events Calendar for upcoming Dates and jump in on the fun!

Enjoy the day!
~ Dawn

Our Row by Row Pattern Now on our Free Pattern Page

Remember our little Springtime Row pattern that was available free during this Summer's Row by Row Experience shop hop?  Well now it's available as a Free Pattern Download on our website :)

 Here are a couple of different versions of our row that customers made...

 ...Make sure you send photos of what you do with our Row Pattern! 

This month at Fall Quilt Market they revealed that the theme of the 2015 Row by Row Experience shop hop will be Water.  I'm sure there will be plenty of really creative rows designed based on water.

...And remember our little "Just Quilt" license plate?  (We do have a couple of them still available in the shop from our last re-order) Well, we saw a sighting of our license plate at Quilt Market...

 This quilt was hanging in the Row by Row Experience booth, I don't know who made it...

...but this was the center block :)

Enjoy the day!

~ Dawn