Posted in 2010 Anniversary Open House, Patterns, Products on Jul 26th, 2010 No Comments »
Annie Unrein of Patterns by Annie is demonstrating at the Checker Open House. Â She has been working with Texture Magic since it’s creation, and has designed some exquisite patterns using this product.
Item #TM18 Â Retail $11.99
Texture Magic is an interfacing type product that you stitch to the wrong side of your fabric. Â When steam is applied [...]
Posted in Books, Patterns on Jul 26th, 2010 No Comments »
I love Susan Nelson’s patterns. Â She designs and writes instructions that are easy to follow and provides everyone with instant gratification. Â Her new booklet – that includes four different patterns is no exception.
Matchmaker is a fun concept. Â This idea happened by accident. Â Susan had made a quilt that cooincidentally had pairs of blocks – with [...]
Posted in Notions, Products, embroidery on Jul 26th, 2010 No Comments »
Transfer-Eze is a new product that eliminates the tedious task of tracing an embroidery design onto a background fabric. Â The product consists of a thin film that is backed by a freezer paper backing. Â It can be run through a printer so embroidery patterns can be transferred right onto the film side of the Transfer-Eze.
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Posted in 2010 Anniversary Open House on Jul 19th, 2010 1 Comment »
Quilt designer and author, Karla Alexander has written several books for Martingale including Stack the Deck; Stack a New Deck; and Color Shuffle. She also designs patterns under the name Saginaw Street Quilt Company.  Karla is part of the design team for Creative Grids – and has designed four rulers for them. She teaches all [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Jul 19th, 2010 2 Comments »
Five Inch is a Cinch – and Pat Speth will show you why! Â For those of you who weren’t around back then, Pat was the creative genius behind the five inch square craze. Â The companies that produce them can call them anything they want – but originally, Pat called them “nickels”, and let’s give credit [...]
Posted in Clover Needlcraft, Products on Jul 19th, 2010 No Comments »
Nancy Zieman has combined forces with Clover to create a series of marking tools that I love! Â She must have had those of us who need reading glasses in mind because each marker has two tips – one is thick and the other is thicker. Â That means even those of us over 50 can see [...]
Posted in Products, Rulers on Jul 12th, 2010 1 Comment »
June Tailor has come out with two new slotted rulers to make your life sew much easier. Â Place these slotted rulers over your fabric and cut through the slots – the no math alternative to cutting fabric!
The Shape Cut Sprint is large enough to cut 12 1/2″ at one time – the equivalent of 5 [...]
Posted in 2010 Anniversary Open House on Jul 12th, 2010 1 Comment »
We are just having too much fun planning this Open House so we decided to expand on the success of last year and expand our selection of presentations on Sunday. Â Checker wants to give you the skills you need to be a successful business! Â This event is all about education.
Presentations on Sunday, August 22, 2010 [...]
Posted in Creative Grids Rulers, Templates, Uncategorized, long arm products on Jul 12th, 2010 1 Comment »
Design Builder fabric panels make a training class more effective because the fabric is very realistic.
Posted in Books on Jul 5th, 2010 1 Comment »
Nancy’s new book – Fusible Magic – brings the fun and ease of scrap booking to the quilting world. Â The book includes nine projects and 100 of her favorite blocks to get your creative juices flowing!
repare the fabric. Â She has also created a series of acrylic templates so the shapes can be traced directly onto [...]
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