The Ultimate Shop Hop!

What are you doing Halloween weekend? Want to see five great quilt shops? Want to be driven to all of them, put up in a hotel and fed???? Shop till you drop?

Join us for the Spooktacular Bus Tour Oct 30th, 31st and Nov 1st. You'll visit 6 great shops - QP is one of them! - travel in a luxury motor coach, stay at Hampton Inns and be fed too! What a great weekend!

Visit these great shops:
Endless Mountain Quilts in Tunkhannock, PA
Calico Gals in Fayettville, NY
Mill Creek Sewing & Fabric in Erie, PA
The Quilt Company in Allison Park, PA
Quiltmakers Cottage in Hershey, PA
and Quilting Possibilities in Forked River, NJ


We have 7 spaces left. Call the shop to register.

Home again from Quilt Market in Houston. I can't decide if I need a vacation or if I'm too revved for one! Quilt Market is a brain drain - there is so much to see, so much to do, so much to take in - and only three days to do it all!

They're turning the old parking lot in front of the George Brown Convention Center into a gorgeous park. Karen and I walked it in the 90 degree heat with 95% humidty - very sticky!

Here's a bird's eye view of the market floor. Then Karen & I snuck inside with our vendor badges minutes before the opening.

The crowds waited impatiently outside the doors.

And then they were opened & market was on! The lady in the front booth was still using her ladder to put up last minute touches.

This is a kit that will be coming in February, depending upon the rainy season in Bali where the batiks are made. It is GORGEOUS!

Here's Karen Snyder's fabric display in the Timeless Treasures booth. (she was sewing the buttons on the red one the night we all got there!)

These two lovely ladies are my fall market roommates - we did manage to get some sleep.

This is a block of the month that will start in March 2010. I saw it the first day & promised myself that if I still loved it on Monday, I would buy it. I liked it more every time I saw it, so I ordered it!

And Jessica Hudson, a long time customer, had a photograph in an exhibit entitled "Eye of the Quilter". Congratulations Jess!

More pictures later, I really should be doing paperwork . . . .

To Market, To Market!

This is a bird's eye view of just part of last fall's quilt market in Houston. Each booth has all sorts of neat things for quilters & there's about three football fields of them - it's AMAZING!

I'm heading to TX this morning for this year's version and I can hardly wait! Going to market is one of my favorite parts of owning a quilt shop - seeing everything that's new, meeting up with national teachers and spokespeople, hanging out with friends - what could possibly be better????

Ok, opening all the boxes when they arrive of all the stuff I bought at market comes close!

I'm hoping to post pictures while I'm there - stay tuned!

Winner!

Barbara is our winner of our Fat Quarter bundle. I've emailed her the good news! Thanks for everyone's comments. We'll do it again soon.



Here's Barbara's comment - Fall is my favorite time of the year. The colors are so great. I really like your log cabin pumpkins. It has inspired me to go get the fall decorations and start putting them out!





Debbie

Fall Colors & Projects Part 2

Jeannette reminded me I'd forgotten to post about this fall project! We're kitting this for Quilt Magazine and it's been very popular - not sure why I forgot to post it! It's on our website too. I pieced the middle and Judy appliqued the borders - after a bit of mumbling about my pressing abilities . . . LOL

Thanks for reminding me Jeannette!

Fall Colors & Projects

Growing up in New England, I was spoiled when it came to fall colors. I grew up with vivid oranges, bright reds, yellows and greens and if you looked real hard, there were definitely purples in there too. The Jersey Shore doesn't have the vivid leaf colors of New England but we do have the orange pumpkins and there's something about those freaky looking gourds that I just like! Fall colors are definitely my favorite colors (my "good" livingroom carpet is a burnt orange . . .)

So I have to limit myself to a couple of fall projects every year & I need to limit the number of orange bolts of fabric I bring in since I seem to like orange much better than most of my customers. This year I found a great brown and green fall leaf print and did up a simple lap quilt showing off the fabric. This quilt will coordinate really well with my "good" (read children not allowed in there when they were growing up) livingroom just like the green and orange one I did last year. I'm going to run out of furniture to put these lap quilts on pretty soon.

I also have too many fall table runners for the number of tables in my house, but that didn't stop me from making this one this year. I saw the fabric and bought multiple bolts. My shopowner friend BrendaLou from Scottie Dog Quilts bought the same fabric and made the same table runner as a sample for her shop - another fall fanatic! I really thought I was making this as a gift for my Mom but somehow I don't think she's going to get it . . .

She's probably not going to get this one either . . .

Judy made this one & I am lusting after it . . . .

There's something about the colors of autumn that just warm me inside. Maybe it's because fall leads up to my favorite holiday - Thanksgiving. I like the garish colors of Halloween too, but those warm, vivid colors of fall just do it for me.

How about you? Are you an fall color fanatic? If so, check out the fall section of our website, we have just the project for you!

Leave a comment on this post before Oct 5th & we'll draw a winner for a fall fat quarter bundle!

Sewing Furniture Event In The Lobby

We have sewing furniture! Well ok, we've always had sewing furniture on display but this time we've taken over the lobby - yes, the bed is gone for the moment - and put five pieces of Koala Sewing Furniture on display.

The cabinets are made in the USA just outside of Chicago and I have to say, they are GORGEOUS. Peg came in today and remarked on the Cadillac sewing furniture in the lobby!

One of the nice things about Koala is you decide what you want - they have 8 different finishes, all different sizes of cabinets and you decide if you just want the base, or add side wings, or a back that folds down? Drawers? Shelves? YOU decide.

Stop in & see for yourself! The holidays are coming, it's time to get rid of the computer table that works, but not quite, the door over two filing cabinets that's bowing in the middle, the kitchen table . . . .

Koala has made these beautiful cabinets & we're proud to bring them to you. Stop in & see for yourself!