this is the prize that you can win if you complete the road trip…perfect for your mantle! the hello, happy, welcome not necessarily Christmas…but it sure does go with the bulbs, bells, and floral.
Christmas has arrived, and sweetwater has been decked for the season.
here is a sneak peak at our soft and sweet porch…
loads of pillows…
each farmhouse sham takes just 1 yard. easy peasy…
coming up next week…i’ll take you through the shop…lots of Christmas…with some dozen plus trees.
also…new projects…
Jane Goes to France, Sugarplum Fantasies, Deer Christmas, Autumn Roads, and i’ve been working like crazy on my Folktale Jelly Garden.
New fabrics that are coming in include: Folktale, Figs and Shirtings, and some Liberty bundles…so much cotton goodness to ease those blustery winter days.
good morning! another weekend has come and gone and the fabrics just keep coming…thank goodness! cuz honestly, it is one of my favorite things!
today we have redwork gatherings…the newest collection from Primitive Gatherings. It is jam packed with gorgeous reds and soft, creamy creams. Lovely for mixing in with your Christmas or civil war.
we’ve put together some curated bundles from the yardage we order…12 fat quarters consisting mostly of the shirtings and a just a couple reds.
redwork gatherings
we have the yardage along with factory cut fat quarter and fat 8th bundles all available in store and online. you can grab your redwork gatherings here.
next up on the agenda…
Jane Austen At Home (i’ve linked it, so you can check out the jane austen collection if you’d like)
Halloween/Autumn projects
Daybreak looks to be on its way in the next day or so (i have been waiting for this for SO long. the colors, the prints, definitely more of a pastel autumn vibe.)
all in good time!
i’d best get back to packaging up the weekend orders.
good morning! It is Thursday and Mel & Ty’s wedding is this weekend! i’ve been at the shoppe everyday…but everyone else has been decorating and putting up chandeliers, stringing fairy lights, hanging lanterns and drapery. Tables and chairs arrive today…golf carts tomorrow, hay bales get put out saturday morning. Lots going on…so be sure to keep in mind we have different hours…cuz there are nails tonight and rehearsal dinner tomorrow…which i guess as a bridesmaid i have to be apart of both.
(fun fact: 20 years and 2 weeks ago on September 5th, 1998 was the last time i was a bridesmaid)
Thursday, September 17th … 10-2
Friday, September 18th … 10-1
Saturday, September 19th … Closed
Normal Hours resume on Monday, September 21st
We have so many new and exciting things…i truly don’t know where to start…
we have Ghouls and Goodies…precuts to jazz up your Halloween stash.
Cross Stitch lovelies from With Thy Needle and Thread, Blackbird, Heartstrings Samplery, La D Da, and Plum Street Sampler along with some new linens…yummy! you can peruse the shelves here. we have a couple new patterns for Halloween…
Ghoultide Greetings and A Ghoultide Welcome…both amazing…both by Plum Street and both would make wonderful additions to your halloween decor.
ghoul tidings
a ghoultide welcome
if you prefer more of an all fall through thanksgiving … Betsy’s Autumn is wonderful (i love her hat and those plump blackbirds!)
betsy’s autumn
If you’ve moved onto your Christmas projects…we’ve still got some yardage and precuts available. grab what you need here. this link will bring up anything tagged Christmas on our sight. Yardage, precuts, cross stitch, thread packs, kits, bundles…you name it!
Mom has Christmas Canning Day all done…this is the 4th time we’ve made this project and every time we do it i like it even more!
hopefully next week things will start to get back to the even keel we are used to. then i’ll have a little more time to write blog posts, catch up on machine quilting, write a pattern or 4, and do a little EPP.
good afternoon! wow has it been hectic around here…between prepping for the shop hop, prepping for the wedding, and prepping for an autumn spent in house…there isn’t much time to sit and take a breather.
first off…the shop hop finished up last sunday and i never even got online to post a pic or 2 of our qm fabrics and projects…
this years fabric is sold out…other than a few panels and a couple kits.
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now…on to the main part of this post…
HONEY BUNS…always a favorite…the younger sister to Jelly Rolls. Sweet little rolls that measure just 1 1/2 inches. Well, Moda has decided that they need a little love. So Labor Day weekend there will be some bun and games…using these little lovelies.
In preparation we’ve stocked up on Honey Buns…cuz generally speaking they are just the cutest little things.
holiday honey buns
we’ve got all of our honey bun choices available online and ready to ship. So grab a honey bun or 2 or 3 or 4 and get pressing. then join moda fabrics…you can get all the info here.
there are so many sweet honey buns that i’m not sure which ones we’ll use…decisions…we are leaning towards Marches de Noel designed by 3 Sisters (of course)…but who knows…
marches de noel by 3 sisters
or possibly Apricot and Ash…
apricot and ash honey bun
be sure to read up on the scoop over on the moda blog…i linked it above…but i’ll link it here again for you.
our porch is nearly done…just 1 more trim piece and lights and a little bit of painting.
right now we are trying to get all of our qm2020 projects out of the way so we can do other things.
with july comes Christmas fabric! usually we keep the Christmas fabric to a minimum cuz it is so time sensitive …but we just couldn’t resist this year.
and lastly…Deer Christmas has been added to the mix. the full collection along with panels, Deer Christmas kits, and bundles.
also…i found enough to make 1 more 8 fat quarter bundle of holiday lodge from last christmas…if you are looking to fill in or missed out on it…grab it here.
holiday lodge
Deer Christmas…full collection in yardage…fat quarter bundles, panel, and the Deer Christmas kits…you can grab the kits here…see all of Deer Christmas here.
keep in mind…we are closed tomorrow July 4th….have a wonderful weekend!
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
