I Spy Quilt

This cute I Spy quilt was made by customer Janice Schaag for her sons Ethan and Jason. The quilt was hand pieced and hand quilted. Janice finished it just in time for the cold weather and the boys are already having fun cuddling up in it and playing I Spy! If you'd like to make an I Spy quilt, we have a bag full of perfect fabric scraps at $.10 each.

Visitors at Little Quilts

Bobbie Mosher, from Almond, North Carolina, visited Little Quilts today. Her Show and Tell, shown below, is a 25th anniversary quilt that she made for her daughter Kathy and son-in-law Bob Lemen of Marietta. Bobbie, a member of the Cherohala Quilt Guild in Robbinsville, North Carolina, won a blue ribbon for this quilt at the Stecoah, North Carolina Fall Festival.

Mary Ellen is going to visit the Cherohala Quilt Guild in June, 2010, to give a lecture and class.

Applique with Amy Butler

Joey Helmke is one of our customers who is fairly new at quilting. She loves the Amy Butler fabrics. This is her first applique quilt called "Big Birdie Blocks". She came to pick out her backing and binding and to leave it here for our longarm quilter. Good job, Joey!

Tanyard Creek Line in "Josephine's Sampler" Quilt

Little Quilts staff member, Linda Rice, has made Lori Smith's (From My Heart to Your Hands) "Josephine's Sampler" quilt using "Tanyard Creek" fabrics -- which is Little Quilts' newest fabric line.  Isn't it gorgeous?  Tanyard Creek is a wonderful reproduction line, with good saturated colors and shirtings; cheerful and versatile.

The quilt is 59" x 74"; kits are available for $78.95:

Happy Birthday Little Quilts

Dear friends,


We have made it another year! Thanks to all of you we have enjoyed celebrating our 11th anniversary of the store's opening. It has been fun seeing everyone - both old and new friends of Little Quilts this past weekend and Monday and Tuesday. A special thank you to Chris Ison one of our customers who remembers the anniversary each year with a special Fall arrangement. We appreciate your business and encouragement and plan to continue to offer the neatest fabrics for all interests, great classes and the best service in the years ahead.

The Staff at Little Quilts

Birthday Girls at Little Quilts

This group of ladies came in today to celebrate three birthdays. From left to right: Sarah Rhodes, Kathleen Hartz, Anne Kreamer,Lisa Spears,Diane Prible, and Marianne Ellis. Anne, Lisa and Diane were the ones with the birthdays. After visiting us they were off to have lunch.

Come celebrate your birthday with us and receive a 25% discount off any one item. Could be loads of fun!!

Christmas Tree Skirts

Mary Ann Eubanks did these tree skirts from a pattern by Silver Thimble, "Slice of Christmas". You have the option of two tree skirts when you use this method. Mary Ann donated one to The Trinity School in Cartersville and our longarm quilter donated her time for the quilting and the binding.

Girl Gang

These four ladies got together to do a project and this is the results. They used a pattern from Threads That Bind called "Stitch 'N Stuff Cat".Pictured from left to right: Fran House, Nancy Perkins, Mary Anne Jernigan, and Paula Wexler.They all said that it was loads of fun. They are also in a class here that meets once a month and are known as the Girl Gang. Fran House is their teacher.

Special Visitor to the store! Who could it be?

Mary Todd Lincoln showed up at Little Quilts this morning

and will be here again this evening for a class.

There is still space available in tonight's class. The costume is fabulous. You really need to see this one. Muriel does an excellent job making her outfits for these classes. She also gives a little history lesson along with great tips for making the quilt and she includes treats with recipes from the past. If you miss this one it will be repeated after the first of the year.

Need a project for all those fabric scraps?

We all have more scraps laying around than we know what to do with right?  Well now you can use them to turn an ordinary strand of twinkle lights into a festive piece of garland you can hang year round!

Supplies

Strips of scrap (cut 2 1/2 inches wide x 6-8 inches long)

1 strand of holiday lights

strips of ribbon, lace, ric-rac (optional)

All you do is tie the strips around the strand wires in between each bulb.  We tied 3 strips in between each bulb to make the garland in these pictures.  We used all the new Tanyard Creek by Little Quilts fabrics for this strand.  This was such a fun and easy project to do and would make any mantle smile!  You can even make these as last minute holiday gifts for your friends or neighbors!

We also used scraps of ribbon, lace and ric-rac that we had in our stash pile; we thought it added a little something extra to the lights twinkling through.

Mary Ellen has a new helper at the store

Mary Ellen's grandson, Liam (age 7), was so excited he had a day off from 1st grade!  Mary Ellen's daughter, Laura, brought him to work with her today and the boss put him right to work!  Liam was busy preparing Circuit Rider Blocks of the Month. 

Liam worked very hard for about 15 minutes and then asked "Nana" if he could take a break and get a piece of chocolate!

Coming Soon.....

Blog Give Away + "Tanyard Creek" by Little Quilts = One Very Happy Blogger

Check back soon.... you never know when we may be having another giveaway!!!

NEW LITTLE QUILTS FABRIC JUST IN!!!

We are proud to present the newest fabric designed by Little Quilts ~ "Tanyard Creek"

Rich colors of green, bronze, red, blue and gold. Shirtings too! This is the first in a series of fabrics branded under the title of "Reflections of the South". (Great! That means there will be more.)


Tanyard Creek - designed to represent a deep southern tradition of connecting with the past remembrances of treasured historical events and family history.

Free quilt patterns available at Henry Glass Fabrics Wish there were kits? Guess what?! We have kits!

Hospitality ~ Pineapple applique wall hanging.

The pineapple is a symbol of hospitality and a warm welcome for visiting guests.

All fabrics, kits & bundles are available in the shop and on the website.

Tanyard Creek ~ a clever use of the stripe fabric in the sashing.

A Clever twist on The "Hospitality" Pattern

Look, the Pineapple is made out of wool and embellished with a feathered embroidery stitch. Then it is finished into a pillow with a flange. Cute!

New Fabric "Wiscasset" by Polly Minick & Laurie Simpson for Moda

These are classics.There are so many fabrics we had to split them into two megabundles A and B. $55.50 each.


If you look closely, you can see charm packs and jelly rolls too. We love this fabric and you will too.

Entire line is here! AND a four quilt trunk show.

Kits available while fabric lasts..for the Stars and Poppies Quilt. 52" X 60". $74.95, includes binding. Pattern sold separately.

A unique version of Les Fleurs du Jardin

A different version of  Les Fleurs du Jardin done by Judy Gray in her colors.
Wanda started teaching this year long class last month.  If you have experience in applique, you can still join.  They meet the 2nd Sunday of each month.  We'll help you pick your fabrics.  The pattern is available for $55.00 for you out of towners.

So Many Baskets... What's the Madder"

A story of a neat quilt. This quilt was started by Jenny Michael, a long arm quilter from California in 1997 for a P & B Madder Challenge using their fabrics. She got tired of making 4" baskets, so put the project away. She remembers commenting 4 more, 4 more, 4 more! She missed the deadline for the contest. She finished parts of the top. Jenny showed the blocks to her friend Robyn Thornton who loved it and asked to see it everytime they visited. Robyn wanted to "just take it home and enjoy it". The quilt top went back and for the between the two homes for 10 years. The final quilt had not been sewn yet. Two years ago Jenny gave Robyn the top and leftover fabrics for her birthday and said "Figure out the pattern and make your own!". Robyn was talking to another friend Cathy Skarshaug, and she thought Robyn would not be able to figure it out so they contacted another quilting friend and teacher Kathleen Crittenden. Robyn says Kathleen brought her 25 pages of instructions that looked like a doctoral dissertation. Jenny and Kathleen helped Robyn with the central feathered star. Roby contacted Mary Ellen at Little Quilts to help provide the perfect dark chocolate fabric to finish it. Robyn says the quilt is now 'back home with Jenny to stay'! It's grand how quilters stick together and support each other's projects. It's a beatiful top soon to be a beautiful quilt!