Jo Morton Little Women Mini Nines

Here at Little Quilts, the Jo Morton Little Women ladies have been stitching away on the Mini Nines pattern:

Little Quilts' online Jo Morton Little Women club members received this pattern in their February shipment. See website for details.

Table Runner Sample using the Wizard of Oz fabric line

Isn't this a clever way to showcase the just-out Wizard of Oz fabric? A perfect marriage of themes. Both pattern and fabrics available at Little Quilts.

See What's New at Little Quilts

This little wall hanging using the new Little Quilts fabric is called "New Twist on Sue"! Pattern for that and the little pillow below plus fabric are being sent out to all Little Quilts Sorority members: see the Little Quilts website for information.

Moda's "At Water's Edge" by the incredible Blackbird Designs has been flying out of the store; hurry in and make your selection from this wonderful line.
Little Quilt's immensely popular Second Saturday Sampler 2008 began this past Saturday. Don't forget to come in and get your first block kit, $6.00. Bring in your finished block each month (see website for details, oh, and don't forget to sign up for the regular newsletter if you aren't already) and receive the next month's block kit for free. The blocks you see above are the alternate colorways that are offered this year for the block: patriotic, batik, and Kaffe Meets Feedsack.

If you are doing the monthly Nutcracker applique patterns (mentioned in previous post), don't forget your teeth! Teeth kit above is available and will be enough for all of your little Nutcracker's teeth for the year.

There is so much more to tell you, but that's enough for this post! Check back for more news.

Little Quilts' Applique Block of the Month Begins: Nutcracker!

Little Quilts begins a Classic Nutcracker Applique Block of the Month pattern this very month; the first month's kit and pattern are available Saturday, February 9th, at Second Saturday Sampler. Our own Kathie West's sample above is on view in the shop. Patterns are $5.00 each and include a history about that particular Nutcracker and a recipe. The kit comes with the background, applique fabric, and pattern $10.00. There is an embellishment kit available for $10.95 that includes gold and silver floss, gold and black beads, a watch, coin, and key buttons. Our Nutcrackers have teeth cleverly made from a piano keyboard fabric. This fabric is 1/3 yd. at $3.50 and will make all your "teeth". The coordinating patchwork block pattern, see above, is $1.00. See website as well.

Paper Piecing Class about to begin at Little Quilts

“Storm at Sea” Doll Bed quilt made by our paper piecing teacher Debbie Prah that shows how small one can take paper piecing. Read about Debbie's Miniature Paper Piecing class, located on the Little Quilts website Classes page, in which you can learn this Tiny Technique and make a sample like this:
There are still spaces available for the class this Sunday, February 3rd. Call now to sign up! A fun class...you’ll learn a lot!

"Friends" Quilt and Cover Story Panels

One of our first patterns, and probably one of our favorites, “Friends”, has been reprinted (LQC3). The quilt shown is made with the “Sues” from our newest preprinted panel from Henry Glass fabrics. This quilt measures 16” x 22”. We’ve combined the patchwork made from coordinating fabrics from “Fun with Sue” and rather than appliqué each 5” block we cut out 6 blocks and framed it with patchwork.

See the Little Quilts website to order the pattern and the fabric.

Thimbleberries' Cover Story panels ($12 each) with coordinating fabrics are also available:

Happy New Year -- Ring In the New...

with a brand-new year-long Folk Art Stitchery set from Kathy Schmitz:
Starting Monday, January 7th, the Ring in the New! stitchery patterns will be available. $25 pre-pay for all, pick up once a month. Your kit includes background fabric, card to make the stitchery or frame as is in a 4" X 6" frame (we have the perfect choice for $3.00 each). In the January kit will be a mini version (1" x 1 1/2") of all 12 designs on cardstock that you can cut apart and put in a brass frame that is wearable (available for $5.50 each; see above). The Finishing Kit of the same black fabric as shown in the original (and the background sashing squares) is available for $11.95.

Don't miss a wonderful new class at Little Quilts: Voices of the Past is a new women’s history study club: learn about famous women and the role they played in history. The class includes a pattern for a quilt named in honor of a famous woman, plus smaller quilts and other projects. You’ll learn techniques to make your patchwork easier. Each session will include an interesting visit to the past, perhaps some poetry, other craft, clothing…even food. Read about Little Quilts' Voices of the Past class here. Here are the class times:

Martha Washington

Fri. Feb. 22, 10am – 12:30pm

Thurs. Feb. 28, 6:30pm – 9pm

Helen Taft

Fri. Apr. 18, 10am – 12:30pm

Tues. Apr. 22, 6:30pm – 9pm

Coming in June: Betsy Ross on Flag Day

**Update: The classes listed above are filling up fast, so an afternoon class may be added. Check with Mary Ellen at Little Quilts (770) 578-6727 or TheShop@LittleQuilts.com .

Look at this beautiful quilting. It is a detail from one of two quilts in the current Little Quilts trunk show. The quilts are here in the shop for you to see and below is the pattern book for them:
Here is the full-size quilt: These quilts are made from jelly rolls. Another heavenly quilting detail....
and the full-size view of the second quilt in the trunk show:
See you at Little Quilts!

Tidings & Tales - New Kit, Panel, or FQ Bundles

Greetings, all. Now available at Little Quilts are fabrics from a line called Tidings & Tales:

This fabric line includes two different panels. One is for a child's fabric book (9.40 per panel, shown below right) and the other panel (below, left) can be used in a small storybook quilt called "Gram's Fairy Tales" (kit $54.95, panel alone $10.00, also 6 fat 1/4s for $15.95).

Here is the design for the storybook quilt, pattern included with kit purchase:

and a detail from the quilt panel (isn't the artwork wonderful?):

and here are two nicely-dressed frogs hastening off to ..... live happily ever after ....

Show and Tell Jo's Little Women Club

Christmas Shopping at Little Quilts

Are you like this little lady who wondered how to find decorations for her house this Christmas? Well, she went to shop at Little Quilts and this is what she found...

She was quite taken with the cheerful red and white Christmas throw ($40) and the matching Christmas tree skirt (below, $45)...



She also noticed the very Christmasy bucket with cardinal that is laden with greens ($24.98) and handsome feather trees scattered through the Little Quilts shop ($28.95)...

...and she went home to tell her friends about the wonderful Christmas finds at Little Quilts...

Christmas Is Coming to Little Quilts

Be sure to stop in at Little Quilts to see what has arrived with the Christmas season. There are wonderful ornaments, delightful primitive ones shown above on this particular tree, but there are more! Below and to the left is a wonderful quilt made from the book Positively Pineapple by Possibilities; the book is available in the store for $21.95. To the right is a quilt made from the book A Cozy Quilted Christmas: 17 Projects to Decorate Your Home. The book is available for $28.95; Little Quilts has also gotten kits together for you for $32.95. Little Quilts has just what you need to get in the holiday spirit.


This Little Quilts member of the monthly Wool Works class is showing her wonderful buttonholed wool pennies bedspread:

Isn't it stupendous?

It's amazing how much you can get done while riding in a car if you keep at it! Class members work on various wool projects of their own choosing. This particular wool pennies pattern is from the book Modern Primitive Quilts, which is available in the shop.


This charming book, Mother Earth and her Children (a quilted fairy tale), is also available in the shop (autographed copies) for $17.95. Written more than 100 years ago, this is a hardcover collectible, pass-down-for-generations type of book. It is an imaginative tale about Mother Earth and her children and what they do during each season. The illustrations are from the Houston Best of Show award-winning quilt. Lots to look at and talk about as you read along with a child.