Newsletter August 10
August 10, 2009
August. In Texas even the word conjures up visions of temperatures so high that you can see the shimmer of the heat waves rising from the ground. So it's nice to have something to keep us busy inside where it's cool! To that end, we have four new fabric lines and four new quilt kits to show you, as well as a replay of an old favorite.
New Fabric
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Patchwork Heritage - This line was designed by Judie Rothermel for Marcus Brothers in conjunction with the Heritage Center of Lancaster County Pennsylvania. Click here to see all the fabrics in this great line. |
Amalie - Reproduction expert, Darlene Zimmerman has decided to design a new 19th Century reproduction line for Kaufman. We think you'll agree that this American Civil War era fabric collection is gorgeous. Click here to see the entire line. |
Hints of Prints - Kaufman also has the Hints of Prints line out. These fabrics work beautifully with the Amalie Collection, or could coordinate with many other fabrics. As the name suggests, there's only a hint of a print in this line, which makes them wonderful to use. To view the entire line, click here. |
Kits
We got some really positive feedback on the way we have our Block of the Month page set up, so we've decided to try something similar with our Kits. You can now find all of our current kits on one page, with links to separate pages for each kit. This will allow you to see the blocks in much closer detail, and to get more information about each kit. We hope this will make your shopping decisions easier, and as always, if you have any feedback on this, or any other part of the website, please feel free to let us know.
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Lee's Lexington - This beautiful quilt was designed by Paula Barnes of Bonnie Blue Quilts. We've used her Beyond Basics line by Marcus Brothers to make it. The kit contains the pattern and fabric for an 82" by 91" quilt top along with the binding. Click here for more information. |
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Regency III - This Regency Stars quilt was designed by Vicki Bellino of Bloom Creek. We've changed the border to use the leftovers from making the blocks. The quilt measures 67" by 74" and features the Regency III collection by Judie Rothermel for Marcus Brothers. For more information on this kit, please click here. |
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For Margaret - We've taken the pattern that we used for our Quilt Sampler quilt and changed it into a wonderful scrappy fall-looking quilt. It measures 92" by 92". Click here for more information about this kit. |
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Autumn Leaves - This beautiful autumn quilt measures 88" by 100". The folks at Thangles designed this pattern and we've chosen lots of different fall fabrics to make the leaves. The kit contains the pattern, Thangles, and fabric for the quilt top as well as the binding. For more information about this kit, click here. |
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Midnight Silhouette - Despite the fact that summer is beating down on us, autumn is not far away. And what is one of the highlights of autumn? Halloween! Because of the number of requests we received, we're bringing back the Midnight Silhouette kit. If you missed it the last time around, this is your chance to grab it! Click here for more details. |
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Halloween 1904 - Blackbird Designs is also giving us a new Halloween quilt! We don't have this pattern in stock yet, but we expect to have it in some time in the next couple of weeks, so be sure to keep an eye on our website if you'd like to get this kit! |
Classes
We're delighted to be able to offer a class for the Civil War Love Letters Quilt. Join us twice a month on the first and third Saturday from 9:00AM-1:00PM. You will be making 5 blocks each class--which means you will finish in a year! Learn paper piecing and color combinations while you share with each other and read some touching letters from the Civil War period.
The book by Rosemary Youngs is required and we will be providing you with paper piecing patterns each class. Mary Jo Montgomery will be teaching. The cost is $15.00 per session.
Here is also list of our other upcoming classes. You can find out information about each class on our calendar.
Advanced Machine Quilting- Aug 15--learn drafting, make templates and doing feathers
Beginning Quilting--Aug 22, 29, Sept. 5th Nine Patch quilt
T-shirt ---Aug 29th - turn your favorite, memorable t-shirts into a memory quilt, a great Christmas gift
Beg. Machine quilting-Sept. 12th-use a skillbuilder panel with different types of quilting
Carpenters Star-Sept.19th-learn the basics of making half square triangles
Frog Pockets- Sept.19th- a cute frog with a pocket on its tummy to put surprises inside
Hand Quilting-Sept.19th-learn the wonderful art of handquilting, everyone should try this at least once
Table Runner-Sept 26th--this is a great quilt as you go, when it's finished you just stitch the binding on.
Pieceful Blessings,
Denice & Staff
Common Threads Quilting
Waxahachie, TX