Sneak Peek- Farmer's Wife Blocks

These are the first 10 Blocks of the FARMER'S Wife Quilt.

Mary C. came out to cut out her blocks in preparation for the Small Groups meetings at Thread and Bolts next week. After Quilt Guild we now have 18 Quilter's who want to make this fun quilt. More Marti Michell templates and Farmer's Wife Books are on order and should be delivered by Monday, UPS and FED EX are working hard for us.

These are all fairly easy Blocks based on the 9-patch so they can be assembled quickly. Mary cut them out with the Marti Michell Templates and couldn't go to sleep Wednesday night until they were all sewn. Lynn and Mary C. have a few TIPS and tricks to making it easier to follow the book using Marti Michell's Perfect Patchwork Templates.

They are Top to Bottom L-R:

#9-Box, #16-Calico Puzzle, #21-Contrary Wife, #23-Country Farm, #41-Friendship Star, #69-Practical Orchard, #70-Prairie Queen, #72 Railroad, #81-Snowball, and #84 Spool.

Mary C. will have her camera ready on Tuesday to show some of the other color ways that these blocks/quilt will be made in.

New Small groups forming- The Farmer's Wife

I have been busy trying to get things finished and ready for guild and the “Farmer’s wife” groups. There is going to be three at this time

Here is the Info:

January 17^th and then the third Tuesday each month (week after guild)

First meetings as follows:

January 17th (Tuesday)10am to 12noon or 1 (longer if folks want it)

January 17^th(Tuesday) 5pm to 7pm

January 18^th (Wednesday) 10a to noon

I am still ordering templates for everyone and getting things together…. Marti Michell Template sets M & S in Combo are $30. See Contact information to order your sets.

I have to decide what to make mine from or out of so that I can get the blocks made ahead of the group…..

If these times are not acceptable please let me know asap. I am so looking forward to this and a year of getting to know each of you better.

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.

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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!