Quick give away while Mary Ellen is out of town!

Laura here... I'm Mary Ellen's daughter in case you were wondering. Pardon me Kathy for sneaking on the blog but I wanted to do a give away while Mom was out of town ;)

So here it is... I'm giving away a bundle of 6 fat quarters of Little Quilts new fabric, "Little Darlings II" PLUS 1 panel AND a free pattern for 3 adorable projects!

All you have to do to be entered is comment on this post and tell me why you "have to have" this bundle and panel! What are you going to do with it?

Give away starts now and the winner will be selected at random Saturday night. Mom comes home Sunday so we have to be sneaky and have our winner before then;)

Art Gallery fabrics

Enjoy this quilt made from a pattern in the "Turning Twenty  Again" book made with beautiful art gallery fabrics. We love the results you get from simple designs in the Turning Twenty line of books by Tricia Cribbs.  Amanda coordinated beautiful bundles of 20 fat 1/4ths.

Trisha came to Wednesday workshop to use our design wall to lay out "Box of
Chocolates" from the Book "Skip The Borders". A great book with neat quilts!
It's a fast technique - she bought the fabrics last Saturday!
The Trunk Show for will be here only til Monday. Great quilts!

 

SHUT MY MOUTH!!!

Nikki is one of our auto ship customers who is participating in the Fussy Cut Club. She has 106 of her hexies done. They were amazing.  You have to see the TINY hand stitches connecting the blocks.  Unbelieveable.  and guess what?  It is Rocke Science!  That is what Nikki is trained to do for her career.

Cinnamon Stick results

Debbie finished a great quilt top using an Edyta Sitar (from Laundry Basket Quilts) pattern and blocks she received from the Cinnamon Stick exchange we did last year. Fabulous! Just to let you all in on a little secret – Edyta is coming to Marietta in June when she will be the guest lecturer at the East Cobb Quilt Guild. She will also be doing workshops for the guild. Go to the guild website for more details: www.ECQG.com . Edyta will also be doing a meet and greet here at Little Quilts following the guild meeting. Mark your calendars now so you won’t miss the fun! 

Squares, Strips and Rectangles...oh my...

Trisha and friend Beth came with lots of show and tell. Trisha called it "leftover quilt"made with leftover 2 1/2" strips . Pattern from the great book -Jelly Roll Quilts by Pam & Nicky Lintot

 

 

Trisha started her box of chocolates quilt from "Skip the Borders " book - our trunk show. Great patterns in the book.

How Original

Annie is making this flag with repurposed denim jeans and red wools from Little Quilts. Embellished with painted star and wool yarn. Only all natural fibers are used. She even mounted it on a piece of gold wool! Stunning...a great idea!
What a great piece of primitive folk art!

Countdown until tomorrow.  Come to Second Saturday Sampler (9:30 - 11AM) and get our fabric and block instructions for this lovely.block: Aunt Katie's Choice.

stitchery "Celebrity" sighting

Kathy Schmitz stopped in Little Quilts Monday while visiting in Georgia. She loved seeing her Trunk Show prominently displayed. Her stitchery designs are always popular. Mary Ellen will see her again in May in Portland – her hometown - during the Spring Quilt Market.  Can't wait.

Here is a link to Kathy's blog.  Just scrolling alog in it makes me sing the song "Express Yourself"! by Charles Wright/James Brown.    She can help inspire you.

http://kathyschmitzstudio.blogspot.com/

Applique Awesome

Betts from Virginia Beach stopped by and brought her quilt made from the Circuit Rider book. She was looking for a backing. It is all done with invisible machine appliqué. The quilt is 82” x 98”. She has been doing donation quilts for her church for two years. This is her last year so she is donating this quilt as her last one. It was spectacular!

She teaches at the Stitch and Stuff quilt shop in that area. She also brought in this wall hanging made from Edyta Sitar's pattern from her book “Hop To It”.

Better than the lottery!

Staff member, Kathy, presented Kay with our Shop Hop gift basket filled with fabric, patterns, hexagons, and chocolate! Winners of the grand prizes  are posted on the Shop Hop blog.

 

 

 

Winner, Winner....

During the shop hop we had a demo on making hexies. If you made a hexie during the demo you were eligible to win all of them after the event. Kathleen was the happy recipient of the entire bag of hexies and was really excited. We’ll all have to wait and see what she makes.

 

Good Things Come in Small Packages

Allison was here during to Shop Hop to demo making ¼” hexagons. We’ve been following her progress on the blog and love the way her quilt is turning out. She plans on making it queen-size so she’s still got a ways to go!

 

 

Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself

This  Blog post is a copy of a great post by Melisa - from Sweet Home Quilt Shop, that was first seen on the Atlanta Quilt Shop Hop blog. Thanks Melisa!

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If you didn't have the opportunity to participate in the 2013 Shop Hop or maybe you weren't able to visit every shop, we wanted to share each shop's project with everyone. If you recall the earlier post about the new strip program we introduced this year (read it here if you missed it), each of the shops combined the strip sets from all ten shops into their individual projects. I'm really glad I don't have to pick a favorite (although I might be a little biased!) because each one turned out beautifully!

A Scarlet Thread

Georgia Sewing & Quilting

Tiny Stitches part 1 of 2

 

Tiny Stitches 2 of 2

 

 

 

 

Intown Quilters

Patrick's

 

Little Quilts (1 of 2)

 

Little Quilts (2 of 2)

Quilts and Fixins

Red Hen Fabrics

Stitch 'n Quilt

Sweet Home Quilt Co.

Kits are available for some of the quilts, but not all. Call the specific shop if you're interested.

Win fabric

Henry Glass fabrics is celebrating 1,000 'likes' on Facebook. with a drawing for free fabric.  You just need to comment on their blog.  You haven't missed out.  There are still giveaways March 25.26. and 27.

 Each day They will pick a random winner from the pool of people who answer correctly.  Are you in?
http://henryglassfabrics.blogspot.com/

Oh What Fun Party! Note: This is not a Facebook contest. Answer on the blog and answers are primarily from the blog in order for everyone to participate. We will ask you questions March 21, 22, 25, 26 and 27th. Each day we will pick a random winner from the pool of people who answer correctly. You will win something fabulous from the stash room in NYC. Are you in?  Then enter!

Wishing for a close-up

One of our Shop Hop customers, Rachael, arrived in this beautiful knitted sweater-vest. Gorgeous!

How Did She Make That?

One of our customers, Andi, belongs to the Modern Quilt Guild and is working on a RaNae Merrill quilt. Renee will be the program at the October East Cobb Quilt Guild meeting.

Two Hours left to Shop Hop 2013

Wow! What great weather for our travelers and what fun it has been.  More stats to follow but there have been over 800 folks through Little Quilts this weekend by a rough count.  This mother/daughter duo knows how to do things right.

Suzanne and her mom Kathy finished this year's shop hop. In fact they've 'hopped' at all the hops for the past 14 years! They record the date and the miles driven each year on this tote bag, from year one. What a great memory !

 

 

 

Dena finished her Baltimore album blocks she's been working on for years! It's personalized with her own home which she drafted the blocks. Next is a close up of her house block. She'll be putting it on her quilting frame at home. She's a beautiful hand quilter with teeny tiny stitches plus also machine quilts on her Gammill.

Shop Hop Weekend 3/16-3/17 will be beautiful..

Each year we get generous support for our Shop Hop from our distributors. As you can see in our basket, we have lots of fabric and patterns that we use for door prizes. Many thanks to all our sponsors – we appreciate all of you!

 

Welcome to Greater Atlanta Shop Hop

It may be cold outside for the first day of The Greater Atlanta Quilt Shop Hop, but it looks like Spring at Little Quilts. The theme for this year’s Shop Hop is “Quilting…It’s Our Passion,” and we’re passionate about “Hexies and Handwork!” If you examine the flowers growing in our planter, you’ll discover some of them are made of fabulous fabric and large hexagon shapes. Step inside for a warm welcome and many unique hexagon and handwork ideas. You’ll soon be addicted to hexies and handwork just like us!

Greater Atlanta Quilt Shop Hop 2013

Shop Hop starts today, March 14 – 17, and we know you’re not going to want to miss it! 

 The theme this year is “Quilting…It’s Our Passion” and here at Little Quilts we’re passionate about Hexies and Handwork. Our Shop Hop quilt made from the strip sets you can get from each shop just oozes spring with all the bright flowers made from hexagons, ric-rac, and other handwork techniques. When we finished the quilt we had a few strips left over so we added some strips from a Kaffe Fassett flowery fabric and made a jelly roll race! Get the pattern for both quilts when you visit us during the Shop Hop or get a free download on our website.

The Shop Hop fabric this year is so cute with all those sewing implements. We’ve found a lot of fun ways to use the fabric including tote bags, little sewing pouches, even a caddy for carrying your iron to quilting classes or retreats!

 

 

 Mary's great quilt - shown in Reproduction Study Group.  She plans to quilt with 'big stitch' - perfect for that style of quilt. Love those primitives!  See the cat hiding in the corner?

Janet brought in this beautiful Belgian Lace mantilla that her sister-in-law purchased when she was 16 years old in Italy. She thought she'd have it for her wedding veil. Janet's sister-in-law used it 40 years ago, then her three daughter's used it and now Janet's daughter will wear it in July for her wedding. What a wonderful treasure. Janet is making a pocketbook type envelope to put it in when she returns it to her sister-in-law who stored it in plastic!

 

Hexies in Orange

Sarah's ready for sthe Greater Atlanta Quilt Shop Hop - "hexies and handwork" & " Not your Grandmother's Flower Garden" is our theme at Lttle Quilts.

 

Another GREAT SSS quilt!

Janie also used our setting and our finishing fabrics but added a gold inner border to give her quilt a different look. It’s amazing to see what these ladies do with their blocks. Most are looking forward to this year’s project.

Never Too Late to turn a UFO into a quilt!

Would you believe, Joy , on the left, just stopped in to show us her Saturday Sampler quilt from more than 5 years ago.  Libby, on the right, happened to be in the store getting binding for a quilt, when Joy came in. Libby used to design our Saturday Sampler quilts. Joy scalloped the edges in Muriel’s class, and did beautiful hand quilting….it’s stunning!

 

Quilt5

Ellie is our youngest to ever participate in the Saturday Sampler. With the help of her grandmother she used the 12 inch blocks and our setting and finishing fabrics. What a fantastic job she did and she was so proud. So were we all.