Day One - Greater Atlanta Shop Hop 2011 "Tour of Homes" - the Beehive

We are a Buzzzzzin' at the beehive.  I know some of you live too far away to make it so I will bring us to you!

Front Door Greeting

 Amanda - wearing our Queen Bee Crown, Janice, Mary Ellen and Millie

If you can come and see us - we are open Friday(tomorrow) and Saturday 9AM - 7PM and then Sunday 1PM - 5PM.  No stingers...just honey.

"It is an honor to be nominated..."

...but seriously...we want to win!

Get ready, get set, VOTE!!! SewCalGal blog is awarding the Golden Quilter Awards 2011. Little Quilts has been nominated in the Best Quilt Store category and our near and dear Mary Ellen Von Holt has been nominated in the best teacher category. You can vote by leaving a comment. We want to win. Why not!? I think we are the BEST!!... Click the link and vote before March 31st.
http://sewcalgal.blogspot.com/

Extraordinary Scrap Quilts

Caption 1: Ursala is the queen of our scrap basket! We love all of her quilts and this one is no exception. She collects scraps from the basket, takes them home and sorts them into colors, and when the stacks get big enough, she turns them into spectacular scrappy quilts. Maybe we should all start looking at our scraps a little more carefully!

Another project from Ursala using just scraps from the scrap basket.

Patriotic Tabletopper

Madeline just finished this table topper from the pattern Pinwheel Parade by Silver Thimble Quilts. Very patriotic!

New Jo Morton fabric

Hmm, I know this fabric looks familiar but there is just something about it...
It is fabric designed by Jo Morton but exciting...it is laminated!  Karen made a placemat using two of the fabric options.  It is very drapey.  Not stiff at all.

Think lunch boxes, raincoats, tablecloths, baby bibs, outside seat cushions.
Also, just in...
Toasty and Lumenarias.  Megabundles available. $42.95 and $34.50 respectively.

March 2011 Sweet Sixteen Applique Block of the Month

OOO Baby! this one is gorgeous!  If you love it as much as I do, you can still sign up /get in on this block of the month kit/pattern.  We even enlarge the patterns to full size for you.  Go to the Little Quilts website to order.

NEW NEW NEW Little Quilts designed fabric from Henry Glass

Liberty Ridge - Hurray for the red, white and blue
 Megabundle $39.95. Flag panel $6.65 per panel.

Free project download at www.henryglassfabrics.com.  Includes an American flag panel, and looks like this:

 

Fantastic Plaid Scrap Quilt

Marg was in several weeks ago picking out homespun fabrics and just look what she did with them! She used the pattern Shadow Plaid. Love it!

Pennies from Heaven

The ultimate wool applique quilt from a book called Pennies From Heaven by Grethchen Gibbons.  Gorgeously made by Sandy Brannon.

Atlantic Flyway Quilt

Marshall finished another top! This time he used one of the Deb Tucker rulers and one of her patterns. Great wall hanging, Marshall!

Quilting Makes the Quilt

It will always be summer at your house if you have a bright and cheery wall hanging like this one hanging! Pat got tired of making sampler blocks for a quilt so she used the blocks she had and came up with this design instead. As you know, quilting makes the quilt, and hopefully you’ll be able to see some of the beautiful hand quilting on this one – beautifully done!

Redwork Alphabet

Judy brought in this adorable redwork alphabet quilt. Too cute!

Baltimore Album Under Glass

Here is a way to truly enjoy your quilt piece and know it won't fade or need washing, pressing etc.  Terry S. took her masterpiece block to a professional framer.  The glass is museum quality.  You cannot even tell it is there.  It blocks 97% of UV rays and is ultra non glare..  Zoom in on the details.  Gorgeous!

Second Saturday Sampler 2010-2011

Show and Tell for today at the 2011 first session of the Second Saturday Sampler was inspirational.  2010 Second Saturday Sampler Quilts.  One customer, Julie B.  added more blocks of her own to make a queen size masterpiece.  Nancy C. redrafted the blocks to be 3" (NO JOKE!!) the quilt looks full size in the picture.  Trust me, the blocks are 3".
If you like what you see and wish you could have made these quilts, you can start with the Second Saturday Sampler 2011.  If you are a local customer, you can still stop in and get your first block for $6.  Make the block, bring it on March 12, between 9:30 and 11 and get the next block for free.  Out of town customers, sign up for autoship on the website and participate from afar.

3 inch version

Bee of Extraordinary Influence Quilt

It is an honor to show you this customer show and tell original.. It is to be a gift for her child's teacher.   Anna Maria S. used Photoshop and "cartooned" the photos of the children.  Then she transferred them to fabric. 
It is titled "Bee of Extraordinary Influence".  Isn't that the truth about what teachers can be? 
The design is remarkable and the quilting is inspired.

It's a good day when...

We love to see your finished projects here at Little Quilts and this particular day brought two great quilts to share!

Our favorite customer from Sarasota was passing through and stopped by to show us her finished quilt called Cherry Delight. The pattern is from Alex Anderson. Great job, Sue!

Dena also stopped by with her latest creation. She used a pattern from the Anka’s Treasures book “On A Roll Again” and William Morris fabric to make this beauty. Love it!

Civil War Tribute Block of the Month 2010

Ring the bells and wave the flags, Mary is the first person to stop by to show off her Civil War Tribute Block of the Month quilt top and it is absolutely stunning – way better than the picture!!! It’s the first one we’ve seen finished and it is magnificent. As you can see, it’s a very large quilt -almost 108” square and Mary did a beautiful job piecing it. Way to go, Mary!

A finished Second Saturday Sampler 2010 6" version

Really!?  Already put together.  Barbara S. brought her Second Saturday Sampler 2010 show and tell today.  She plans to have it quilted and bound by the end of the month.  Inspirational.

Long Road Home...

...is the name of this fantastic scrap quilt.  It is made from a Bonnie Blue pattern by Sarah.  She used 146 different fabrics - 31 shirtings, 25 neutrals and 90 medium to dark scraps.  A great result!



2010 Block of the Month

To prove we like it ALL..here is a photo of a show and tell from another shop (Patches and Stitches) 2010 Block of the Month Quilt made by Anna.