Fabric Sale

Thursday December 15th through Sunday December 18th

Noon to 7 PM daily Or by appointment

Thread and Bolts

326 Newtown Road

Walla Walla, Washington

(509) 526 3873

Go Cutter Available for in-store use. Many dies available!

Over 1 500 yards of fabrics have arrived in last two

weeks please come and see the new fabrics!

Expanded neutrals section . Flat folds for children.

New Product fabric lines from Freedom Fabrics, Red

Rooster, Blank Textiles and more. Large selection of 108" wide backing fabrics.

ONLINE ORDERS Welcome with Paypal. See tab at the top of the BLOG for Contact information.

Quilting still available through December 18th drop off Return Delivery in time for Christmas 2011

Christmas Quilt show

It's really not a hard choice of which Christmas Quilt to enter in the Christmas Quilt Show at SEW CAL GAL's Blog.In the newly re-modeled Thread and Bolts Quilt shop it is hanging waiting for December to come. It is here now and TONIGHT this quilt will FINALLY be put on the King sized Bed and used all of the Christmas Season. This quilt is also called Lynn's Recovery Quilt. It was made in 9 months time after rotator cuff surgery. Mary C- from the Quiltingrandma blog showed me the Sylvia's Bridal Sampler Book and I had to order it and start this quilt. I chose Nancy Halvorsen's Christmas Line of fabric and out of necessity had to be creative in using several different backgrounds when I saw that my chosen background was not available anymore, it was a Northcott fabric that I only had about a yard and a half of. Mary made her Pastel SBS along with me. We joined the SBS off-line Yahoo group and checked off all the monthly challenges along with our own challenges. Mary always chose the easy blocks, I would challenge her to make the Paper pieced or harder blocks. We even went to Tri-Cities to take an applique class for a couple of them. E-4 Indiana Rose was the Nightmare block that had to be made at least 4 times... It has been shown at a few quilt shows and on the Thread and Bolts Blog before. It was the Peoples Choice Winner at Fall Trends in 2010 at EE. Schencks in Portland. There are pictures of my excitement at winning HERE.
Click on Over at the SEWCALGAL'S blog to see all the pretty quilts there.

NEW This Week

New Panels have come into the Thread and Bolts Quilt Shop recently.

A Panel for the Man in your Life. Say the words to the Tune of "My Favorite Things"

from the Sound of Music...

A Panel to remember the good old days of Sewing Machines long ago.

This line is called Mrs Sew and Sew

A Noah's Ark Panel that just needs a few borders to finish it off nicely for the New Baby.

The top two Bolts go with Noah's Ark Panel. Aren't the Lambs Cute in Pink and Lavendar?

"Baby and Me" panel by Leann Anderson. There are a few companion prints that go with it.

The verse around the edge reads as follows:

As I Lay You Down to Sleep,

I Pray My Little One to Guard and Keep.

I Pray That You Won't Grow Up too Fast.

For This Precious Time Will Have to Last.

I Pray for Safety When Away From me,

When Riding Your Bike or Climbing a Tree.

I Pray You'll know I Loved You From the Start.

You Stole My Breath and Jump Started My Heart.

I Can't Wait To Teach you Your ABC's.

I Look Forward to Talking About the Birds and the Bees.

When I First Saw your Precious Little Face,

I Prayed Your Life Would be Touched by Grace.

As Parent with Child, Each Day I Knew,

My Mind Would be Filled With Thoughts of You.

I Pray You'll Know How Much You are Loved,

You Truly Are God's Gift From Above.

Cute animals to go with the Panel above.

A Daisy Kingdom Panel Book that could be a cute Nursery Quilt.

Below are some cute Kid Prints, Trains and Paper Dolls are fun for Boys and Girls.

The Tone on Tone in White and Cream have expanded!

These Cowboy Pillow Panels would make up Quick for the Cowboy in your life. Some have the Companion panels for a Fast Quilt.

More Cowboy Prints to use with the Cowboy Panels

After the Remodel- OPEN HOUSE

The remodel of the Thread and Bolts Quilt Shop is finished and it looks WONDERFUL!
Many bolts of fabric have been added in the past week and the shelves are full of fabrics just waiting for customers to come and buy. Pictured below are a few of the new fabrics on the shelves.

Great Selection of 108" wide fabrics to finish your Quilts

Marti Michell and Jackie Robinson's Roses fill this set of shelves

Fabric Freedom

Novelty panels and coordinating prints to go with them

More Notions and Quilt Books

Pre- Cuts available NOW

Thread and Bolts Now has the "GO" CUTTER and multiple Dies to use with your Purchased fabric. More Dies are on the way from the WAREHOUSE. Come play with us!

Thread and Notions

The NEW Cutting station with rulers close at hand to use

Thread and Bolts has many fabrics that aren't anywhere else locally! More is on it's way, including Caroline's Collection from Red Rooster by Jennifer Chiaverini.

Sneak preview- Remodeling the Shop

Where Mary's Design Wall used to be is now covered with shelves of FABRIC!

This is just a sneak peek of the changes being made in Thread and Bolts Quilt Shop.

Jerry has been BUSY getting more shelves built to remodel the Shop.

Fabric stacked above shelves temporarily, the old shelves are getting a face lift too.

This is the newest fabric this week.

Mrs Sew and Sew line by RJR.

A Red Rose by Fabric Freedom of London, England

Hopefully by this time - next week, you can get a peek at the Thread and Bolts Quilt shop!

SURPRISE from Trends!

Today Mary came out to get her quilts that came back from Trends. They sent two boxes, we sent only one. The first one we opened thinking it was Mary's 2 small quilts held the "HAPPY BIRTHDAY quilt we had made for Trends and...This basket full of Surprises!

See the nice wrapping? It came with a sweet letter too. Inside was a selection of Fat Quarter bundles and some fun Books. The pair of scissors on the lanyard is on top.

Mary didn't want to count it on her Stash Report so it's all Lynn's!

Trends Weekend--Fall 2011

Happy 50th Birthday to TRENDS...

On display at Trends this past week-end was the Birthday Card we made for the Event. Placed in a visible spot as you enter the Warehouse. Also displayed were two of Lynn's recent quilts, pictured below, the Pink and White one is now our first Pattern! We saw many people taking pictures of it and sold a few patterns. Lots of Networking goes on at Trends.

Saturday night was the Birthday celebration for Trends. We didn't win the Big Prize but...

Lynn was the LUCKY birthday Prize winner at our table. Contents of the box didn't get pictured.

One of the highlights of going to Trends is the reunion Lynn has with her sister. This year her Sister did the 5K for Breast Cancer on Sunday before coming to Trends.

More of the week-end events are detailed at Mary's BLOG.

New Product at THREAD and BOLTS!

This is just a sample of what came home with us from TRENDS. The Warm and Natural Batting has been re-stocked!

More bolts were recently added to the Red Rooster "ALOHA" fabric line by Jennifer Chiaverini.

Contact the Shop by e-mail: Lynn @ Threadandbolts.com for Longarm Quilting Quotes, online ordering and Pattern sales.

A Bouquet of Friendship

The Raffle Quilt inspired Bouquet of Friendship Quilt Pattern has been published by Lynn and Mary this week and is ready for purchase. We are dreaming of it in more colorways and backgrounds- even a totally scrappy one would be fun! Many Thanks to Becky at Wilson Designs, and Tara at Copier Specialists! Mary's Sample Quilt and patterns are available this week-end at the Walla Walla Valley Quilt Show at the STASH booth . Patterns are also at Quiltmania in Richland and Janean's Bernina in Pasco.

New Stuff at the Shop!

New Fabrics coming in a the Quilt shop...

This Panel just arrived at the shop last week! Look at the border and read the cute sayings all around. There are many more fabrics that go with this Panel at the shop. Come and See!
Lynn has some ideas in her head and will be working up a Demo quilt to have to Display at Trends next Spring. Trends for Fall is coming right up and our Quilts will be there. Pictures will be posted at the event. Lynn has 3 Quilts and Mary has 2 quilts to send out on Friday. The theme is HAPPY 50th Birthday to Trends. We are working on a "Secret Project" to also send with our Box of quilts. Stay Tuned to see that BIG Reveal!

Lynn continues to accept Customer Quilts. These two were sewn together and quilted in one day. She did a MINI Stipple on them and it took over 8 Hours and the customer was happy. Cute pinwheel pattern.

Quilting, Quilting

This is the back of a quilt with some pretty feathers quilted on it. This is the "Feather Ramble", I think.

Lots of Customer Quilts have passed through the Thread and Bolts Quilt Shop lately.

This quilting pattern is "Simply Whimsical"

The Cowboy Boot Quilt has the feather pattern that looks like 'tooled leather'.
You can see the pattern closer-up below.

This Mosaic Tiles quilt was a Mystery made by Lynn back a few years ago with A Pocketful of Mysteries Yahoo group. It is a Dorothy Young design. The dark blue fabric has 'snowflakes' on it so that is what got quilted all over. This is the first personal Quilt in a long while that Lynn has had on the Longarm.
The Yale Blue thread shows the "Snowflake" stitching really well on the quilt.
Here is the look at the back of the quilting. The thread just disappears and the snowflakes show.
Because the quilts leave as soon as they come off the Frame, the photos don't always get taken.

Contact Lynn for a great deal on Computerized Quilting.