Laura Heine BOM

Posted on April 10, 2021 by Penny Haren

BOHO Blooms is a five part block of the month that is just genius! Each part can stand alone or complete them all to create a 70 inch square of work of art! The first four panels measure 25-1/2″ x 41-1/2″. The fifth block – The Butterfly is the center 14″ square that provides the center of this heirloom. Add a border – or borders – if desired to make it fit the space.

Block #5 and Putting it all together:

BOHO Blooms Block #5 Collage Pattern by Laura Heine

Block #1:

Block #2:

Block #3:

Block #4:

The Gypsy Quilter® Appli-Fuse Mats are the perfect companion for this technique.

These mats come in four different sizes – in this case – the bigger the better!

Blocks 4 and 5 are expected to arrive later this month so ask your customers who would like the entire series so you can order them now!

Dance with Atkinson Designs

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Penny Haren

I love Terry’s designs as much as her descriptions: Less hip movement and more strip movement! Scraps and strips will dance together inside the built-in border. Now THAT is a perfect description for a class!

This design can be made with charm squares for a scrappy look. Choose strips or fat eighths for a controlled look as shown on the back cover. Or make two placemats instead of a table runner.

This would be a great beginner class – and is so easy to kit! A charm pack and a yard of fabric will make two! These patterns are due to arrive the middle of April so order them now!

In the Kitchen

Posted on March 29, 2021 by Penny Haren

Kristine Poor of Poorhouse Quilt Designs is an expert on interfacings. Her latest series of oven mitts supports a heat resistant Bosal product that withstands heat up to 450 degrees.

The oven mitts are pre-cut. One package makes a mitt.

Why not start a series of classes on different interfacings? Since it only takes two fat quarters and a package of the lining, it is easy to prep for a class. Kris has a variety of patterns that make great Make It/Take It classes – feature a different product in each class!

All of these items are due to arrive the middle of next month so place your orders now!

Showcase Stunning Fabrics

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Penny Haren

These new patterns by Erin Underwood Quilts are a great way to showcase those fabrics or panels that are just too pretty to cut up! You bought the fabric because you loved it, so why not showcase it in one of these quilts?

Shadow Play is a generous throw at 69″ x 68″. Highlight your favorite fabrics or fussy cut panels to create themed vignettes in this stunning quilt.

Showcase is another option and goes together very quickly

Or Stupendous Strips may be a better option – a great way to accent those border prints. This pattern includes instructions for a baby size as well.

Pompous Panels is a generous 73 inches square. It is the perfect for those panels that need a little bling! Or highlight your favorite applique blocks or fun fabric! A little paper-piecing for the Mariner’s Compass accentuates the circle of blocks nicely.

Want the perfect wall hanging to accent the Mariner’s Compass aspect of the quilt? GPS is just the ticket, measuring 39″ square.

Diamond Peacock quilt uses the Creative Grids 15-degree Triangle Ruler (CGREU1) in combination with paper piecing to create the stunning diamond spray of a peacocks tail.

Show off your love of the majestic Bald Eagle with this stunning wall hanging! Machine applique and a little paper piecing bring this bird to life!

All of these patterns are due to arrive next month, so place your orders now.

Diagonal Seam Tape

Posted on March 24, 2021 by Penny Haren

This notion created by Cluck Cluck Sew is flying off the shelves and we just got in another order so it is in stock!!!

I was teaching a class on Saturday and someone thought that you put this on the diagonal of the fabric – not true! It sticks to your sewing machine – right in front of the feed dogs. The red line aligns with your needle, the blue lines are the sewing lines – 1/4″ away from the red line.

A roll is 10 yards – and since you just need a small piece – it lasts a good long time! When you are ready to remove it, it comes right off – no pesky residue!

Half-square triangles have never been easier – no more drawing lines. But remember, this works just as well when sewing snowball blocks! I can’t wait to try it when I am making my Geese in the Cabin blocks – a Cut Loose Press™ Plus pattern (#CLPPLUS001)!

Adding those triangles to the corners just got a whole lot easier! This pattern showcases the Creative Grids® Log Cabin Trim Tool for 10-inch blocks (#CGRJAW10).

Geese in the Cabin

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Penny Haren

Meet Cut Loose Press™ Plus. This pattern has six full pages – when a pattern is just too good to fit on one page – even if it is front and back!

This Cut Loose Press™ Plus pattern features a technique for making Geese in the Cabin blocks from the log cabin blocks created with the Creative Grids® 10-inch Log Cabin Trim Tool Duo by Jean Ann Wright (CGRJAW10).

We have even filmed a video showing how easy it is to transform a Courthouse Block style log cabin created with the Creative Grids® 10-Inch Log Cabin Trim Tool Duo into an entirely new block. AND, you are welcome to share the video!

Once you have created the blocks, twist and turn them in a multitude of ways to create your own masterpiece. The pattern includes suggestions but there are many more possibilities.

Since all 36 blocks are exactly the same – and the magic happens when you twist and turn them – the yardage requirements are the same for every version!

The ruler and patterns are in stock so order them now and let your customers know. We have already gotten requests from consumers who want to know where to buy!

Bird Brain Designs Gnomes and more…

Posted on March 3, 2021 by Penny Haren

Robin Kingsley of Bird Brain Designs has the most whimsical personality that shines through everything she creates. Her latest pattern: A friendly little Gnome dressed in Red standing in front of his front door to Welcome ALL who enter any time of the year!

And Gnomes in Love for Valentine’s Day or just because Gnomes are sew sweet.

Delicate flowers stitched in Heart shapes make these designs perfect for “Everyday Valentines”! RedWork flowers plus the embroidered mottos are a wonderful gift handmade with love. Enjoy the creating and the giving!

These three patterns are available in machine embroidery versions as well.

Applique Holly Leaves in 2 shades of Olive wool with rich red Berries placed around a slim Gold Oval on your Pin Cushion. What a beautiful gift for the sewer in your life! It might even be for you….

All of these patterns are due to arrive this month so order now.

New from Crabapple Hill

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Penny Haren

Hand embroidery and English Paper-Piecing are the perfect marriage – handwork at its best! Now Meg Hawkey of Crabapple Hill has designed two projects around these two favorites!

The Mystery of Enchanted Hollow is a 9 month Block of the Month series. It start off with the pattern for your first stitchery, directions for English Paper Piecing the stitchery “frames”, and instructions for a pieced mystery block or 2. The quilt assembly pattern will be included with the final stitched block, when the mystery will be solved! The quilt measures 64 1/2″ x 76 1/2″.

The Mystery of Enchanted Hollow 1 Black Cat

Then there is Winter Garden…in Meg’s words….

There’s nothing as full of hope for the future than a garden waiting beneath the snow. It’s time for seed catalogs and pages full of plans for Spring! This contains a tiny bit of colored pencil tinting, dainty little embroideries, some English Paper Piecing, and a bit of easy piecing. You’ll have so much fun stitching the fir boughs!

The detail of the embroidery and the soft colors in the English Paper-Pieced frames are so stunning, I had to show you a sample that highlights the details.

And then there is Daffodil Parade – her newest installment in the Vintage Truck pattern series. March’s flower is the daffodil. This 15-1/2” x 30-1/2” wallhanging doesn’t only have daffodils on the embroidered design… the pieced star blocks look like daffodils too!

All of these patterns are due to arrive this month so place your orders now!

Tabletastic 2

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Penny Haren

This follow up to the best selling Tabletastic by Doug Leko won’t be released until May so I can’t share too much. But I know many of you have developed a table runner of the month class based on the original book – and wanted to let you know that you can continue those classes with projects from the sequel!

The book features 20 new Table Runners and Toppers patterns. Most are designed around pre-cuts so they are easy to kit as well. The book is full color and 100 pages! It comes with a metal spiral binding, so it will lay nice and flat while you use it.

If you missed the original, order it now!

The original is in stock now. The new edition will be available in May!

The Gnomes Have It!

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Penny Haren

Gnomes are not just for Christmas any more! JoAnn Hoffman has created a gorgeous new bench pillow and/or table runner pattern – Gnome is where you park it. Don’t you just love the name???

And look at that detail! Don’t you want to join them around that fire?

This is the second in a series. The first – Gnome for the Holidays – was so successful that JoAnn couldn’t resist expanding on their adventures!

The newest pattern is due to arrive next month – as well as additional inventory on the original – so order yours now! What a great machine applique class!

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