yuletide

good morning! we hope you are having a wonderful monday. we had a wonderful weekend…gabby turned 1 on saturday.

gabby-goo is 1

she didn’t even mind the unicorn birthday hat!

lots of fun christmas fabrics are arriving in the shoppe…today i have the Yuletide collection. these prints speak to the old-fashioned christmas…large sprawling holly with berries, small poinsettias, plaids, and a gorgeous low volume font print featuring Fa La La and who can pass up a rosy red toile.

yuletide…10 fat quarters

you can grab your yuletide bundle here…and yardage here.

we also have Trés Jolie that literally arrived like 10 minutes ago (the full collection), Deer Christmas will be arriving later this week (full collection)…Deer Christmas moda kits will be arriving later this month. Also arriving later this week some more Minick and Simpson…to fill out our Minick and Simpson…planning on a couple more Rockets’ Red Glare kits…

lots going on as we get ready for the quilt minnnesota which starts on July 31st…mom is cutting our project number 1 today!

have a safe and happy monday…hopefully i’ll be back later this week with some more goodies!

–april&mickey&gabby

ps…this weekend would have been our final show for june…we would have been in Omaha for the weekend…however, we will be busy working on fun new projects to bring with us in 2021…we will see you Omaha ladies in June 2021.

santa claus lane

good morning! we are nearly done with our expansion…still a few details to finish up then i’ll take you on a tour…promise.

but in the meantime…the shoppe is back to normal hours…10ish-5ish m-f and 10ish-3ish sa…so you are more than welcome to pop in and see it for yourself.

while we’ve been working with power tools not needles and rotary cutters…our Christmas orders have been arriving…lots and lots of Christmas…cuz you know…we had all these June shows lined up. well, we all know how that turned out…but at least people are safe…in the end that is all that matters!

today i have our new Santa Claus Lane Collection by Melissa Mortenson of Polka Dot Chair. This collection is just yummy! It looks like all those pretty sugar gum drops mixed with buckets of cotton candy, and then drizzled with some gold glitter. Anything that looks like cotton candy is a winner around these parts…

Our Santa Claus Lane bundle features the cotton candy colored prints from this collection with a couple reds for good measure.

Santa Claus Lane

also…there is a little gold metallic in a couple prints…like that top pink print with the gold trees…the ideas are just swimming on how we will decorate the porch for Christmas this year. plus we’ve inherited some trees along with decor…but more on that when it gets just a *little* bit closer to Christmas.

these prints are also good fussy cut for my Christmas hexie quilt which i am diligently cutting hexies for…and more on that soon!

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i have started my grey hexie flowers and have 2 complete flowers with white…this shot is from a couple days ago…

grey hexies

i will be working to get this done by the end of june…i really need an EPP finish…it feels like it has been forever.

i’d better get back to it…have a safe and happy tuesday!

and remember…to treat others how you wish to be treated. right now that seems more important than ever.

**happy stitching**

-april & mickey & gabby

ps…also…other new goodies include Nancy’s Needle (civil war collection), Yuletide (christmas), Glad Tidings (Civil War/Christmas) and All Hallow’s Eve by Fig Tree…i’ll be getting those online as soon as i can…

memorial day weekend

good morning! happy memorial day weekend! hopefully all is well in your neck of the woods…it has been crazy around these parts.

lots going on…which is why i’ve been absent for the last little while. trying to catch up on bundles, working on a few new projects, Quilt Minnesota has arrived (along with most of our exclusive grouping of coordinates), Christmas fabric has been showing up on our doorstep along with lots of new notions, some patterns, and a few other things that we cannot wait to share with you!

today though i have some new bundles of Christmas…(i realize that it is still may…but these are so gorgeous that you won’t even mind…promise!)

first up is Christmas Traditions…featuring stockings, red trucks, pine trees, sleighs, snowmen, and snowflakes…lovely colors of snow, mint, evergreen, coal, and berry. for more pictures of the fabrics…check out my latest instagram post…you can see some fussy cutting action!

Christmas Traditions

it’s hard to pass up a good Jo Morton so this collection was a must! classic old christmas colors of turkey red, poison green, gold, brown, and cream make this grouping both christmas and civil war…but mostly perfect for mixing in to your civil war stash. i love the top floral. this entire collection is arriving this week! right now we do have bundles ready to ship!

glad tidings

i have a Christmas Hexie project in the works…inspired by @sew_what_becca over on instagram. i’ve been fussy cutting up a storm over here and once i get a sense of size i will be offering starter kits but more on that when i get that far.

grab these bundles over on the website…christmas traditions here and glad tidings here.

now back to Sweet Magnolias…which i wasn’t really sure about…but it is growing on.

happy stitching!

–april, mickey, & gabby

happy 2020~

good morning!

mom and i would like to wish you a merry christmas, a happy new year, and a 2020 filled with stitching, laughter, friendship, pretty fabric, conversation, and at least one finished project.

we have big plans for 2020…lots of quilt shows, a couple shop hops, lots of new fabrics and bundles and precuts, a list of great new projects we want to get started on…spring (new year’s) cleaning, rearranging, adding in some Yarn, and lots of other great new things!

after a year full of ups and downs…

Kandii passed away in May…Milissa and Nick (my cousin) married just a couple weeks before Braxton arrived in June…Mom and Dad were in a fender bender in Yellowstone which resulted in Mom and I taking a trip out in July to pick up the car…Gabby picked Mom in August

Dad getting back to work after the accident and getting back in the swing of things.

Kittens coming and going…

Max and Brutus getting sick right at the end of the year…with Max having to hit up the vet yesterday…THANK GOD we started 2020 with a win…just old dog stuff which can be taken care of with a little Prednisone. He is on the mend. Brutus doesn’t let much faze him…he was back at it within a couple days.

Then Mel and Ty had a gas leak on New Year’s Eve Eve so they spent the night.

New Year’s Eve was spent at home…watching Netflix…excited for a new year to start.

our Inventory Reduction sale runs through midnight tonight…so if there is anything you’d like…be sure to pop over to the website and check it out.

sale includes brand new yarn, brand new fabric, books, yardage, precuts, notions, thread, and kits. there are some exclusions…

happy 2020!

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memoirs

good evening! the day is winding down around here…just doing a tad bit of tidying and tying up a few of our newest Low Volume Christmas bundles (you can grab one of them here) they have been very popular it is hard to keep them in stock.

our memoirs order has arrived along with precuts and has taken up residence beside our silver tree and the Urban Farmhouse collection.

Memoirs is classic, wintery. Deep gold nearly brown, patina, indigo, rust, porcelain, and silvery grey remind me of Grandma. The cozy tones of her old davenport, her tasseled pillows, worn draperies, and knickknacks.

memoirs

we have yardage and precuts available and a project percolating…check out the selection here.

New projects will start making their appearance quickly after Christmas…right now we are finishing up our (mostly) Homemade Christmas gifts…which is what i will be doing tomorrow…ALL. DAY. LONG. –since i haven’t started a single gift yet.

anyways…i’d best be off…dinner with Monica tonight…we are thinking burgers…

happy stitching!
–april&mickey&gabby

Christmas Low Volume + Melany Square

Equals a whip creamy-peppermint swirly-vanilla cream-frosty wonderland…

Melany Square uses the Christmas Low Volume bundle and classic squares for a truly Christmas delight!

Melany Square

Melany Square

Melany Square

Melany Square

We do have Christmas Low Volume Bundles left…you can grab one here.

If you have your own bundle and would like to make the Melany Square quilt you can download it here.

that’s all for me today…now time to head home for some hot coffee and a little evening television and probably a little EPP!

-april&mickey&gabby

christmas flash sale~

good afternoon! our December yarn order has arrived and it is in store now…however, that is not why i’ve popped in today!

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mom and i have decided to run a Christmas FLASH sale this weekend online (and instore if you pop in and nab a bit o’christmas).

30% off all christmas stuff…including all Christmas kits –Country Lodge, Sleigh Ride, Stepping Stones, Sweet Christmas–bundles/precuts, all CROSS STITCH kits/books/patterns (say what!!!???), EdMar Christmas embroidery kits (OMG!), basically if it has christmas in the name it is part of this flash sale!

christmas collections that are included will be…

sweet christmas

swell christmas

snowberry

holly woods

once upon a memory

holiday lodge

merry merry snow days

good tidings

petite maisons de noel

merry merry snow days made into stepping stones

country christmas

christmas

sleigh ride

christmas

be sure to pop over and fill your cart with all the goodies you need to finish up those projects…sale goes live at midnight tonight! website is linked…here.

happy stitching!

april&mickey&gabby

ps…our new yarns are online…more on those next week!

simply vintage and a low volume christmas

good morning! hopefully you are getting all geared up for thanksgiving! we’ve been working on a few things around here along with some shopping. we’ve decided all homemade gifts this year, so that has been fun and i can be pretty crafty if i wanna be.

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we’ve been loving this retro christmas vibes we get from mixing Sweet Christmas and Merry Merry Snow Days with the remnants of Swell Christmas and Good Tidings. Lots of sweet little prints. i’ve taken all my favorite low volume prints from the 4 collections and added in the house print from French General’s Petite Maisons de Noel. The culmination of the 18 different prints is practically magical. pretty whites, beiges, creams, greiges mix with any decor whether it is classic reds and greens or a more pastel, cottage style christmas. pair this bundle with your favorite collection or add to your christmas collection for a future project.

christmas low volume

Christmas Low Volume mixes the best holiday low volumes to bring you a gorgeous grouping of backgrounds to use in all your holiday sewing.

we have limited quantities…nab your bundle here.

simply vintage winter 2019

grab your copy here.

i couldn’t resist a quick pic of both.

simply vintage and christmas low volume

i’m taking some shop pictures once we have a half done project all finished…then i’ll be back with info on that lovely along with a full album of the trees, the new collections, the yarn (and the new Market Square bag tina finished) along with some old favorites…

happy saturday! have a wonderful weekend!

–april&mickey&gabby