Happy Monday! Minimalista and Fun & Games are here.

Hi Everyone,

The last week has been crazy. Pacific International Quilt Festival was happening here just 10 minutes from the shop and we had tons of people come over to check us out, which was great! We also got in these two super fun collections:

Minimalista by Art Gallery Fabrics

Fun & Games by Lori Whitlock for Riley Blake

We have a whirlwind week this week with Market happening next weekend. I am leaving Thursday morning so it is full speed ahead for the next three days. Hope you have a super week.

You will see me again soon... lots of things to talk about this week :)

Treasure Boxes Quilt Along and another giveaway

Hi Everyone,

If I get all of my work done early enough today I am going to start cutting my Treasure Boxes quilt Tracey just put up the cutting instructions last night so ... are you gonna get started? I would love it if you added pictures to the Flickr group too... there is a link on the right side of the blog now.--->

We are also giving away this sweet fat quarter bundle of Avignon:

Over at my friend Patti's blog PS. I want to Quilt Too so head on over and enter to win some :)

Have a super Satruday!

An Exciting Announcment...QAL with traceyjay

Hi Everyone,

Here is a little something that has been in the works for the last month or two. One of my sweet friends (who you might know from Moda Bake Shop fame) has designed this super sweet quilt called Treasure Boxes.... wait let me start at the beginning... I have been a fan of Tracey's for a few years now and when she decided to start an Etsy shop to benefit a Mission in Haiti called Heartline (if you have been around a while here you have heard me talk about it) she and I partnered up. We had a little hiccup (happily) when she got pregnant with her daughter and had to let this go for a little while but we are getting it back on track. As you know I support Heartline every month with profits from the shop and that is what made me decide to start the shop in the first place.... fast forward to a month or so ago when Tracey asked if I would like to partner with her to do a Quilt Along to benefit charity... well, of course! So was born the Treasure Boxes Quilt Along:

Here is a picture of one of the quilts she has made with this pattern:

And for this quilt along she will be making it from Out to Sea if you decide to join the Quilt Along there is a special deal for the fabrics to make it. I will let you read about it over here on Tracey's blog

I hope you decide to join us!

In other news Sew Stitchy from Aneela Hoey is in the shop (I will get IRL pictures this afternoon) this is my favorite print (I think) so far:

I also bought all of the Bella Solids that match to make it easy for you to dream up your perfect quilt with this.

I have all of the Riley Blake Small Chevrons in and most of the Medium ... for some reason they didn't send me the red and white... Argh.  And Avignon should be in soon as well.

Have an awesome Wednesday!

Talk soon...

Still Recovering...

Hi Everyone,

You know how it is when you have to come home to get a break from your vacation? The First Annual Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild Retreat was last weekend. I can't say it was really a vacation because I was actually working there too but it was a lot of fun. I can't believe it is Wednesday! I have been so busy catching up the last two days that I barely had time to turn around.

This is the small item I had time to sew there:

It is the top of my Pillow Talk Swap Pillow... the light was not great there so I will try to get a better picture once it is quilted and before I ship it off.

Woodland Tails showed up on Friday... it is so darn cute...

The cheater panels are nice and big a full yard by WOF. What I like about this is there are a bunch of fabrics that don't have pink in them so you can pick and choose and make a boy quilt with them. I am in love with the vine fabric (third from the bottom in the pink and blue stacks and second from the bottom in the green) I want to make something for me with it.

Here are some more pictures from the Retreat.

This is Adrianne our President and fearless leader. She was the first to start up her machine at retreat. She will be my roommate at Spring Market so you will be seeing her again :)

This is the room and those are my bins of fabric for everyone to sort through.

This is adorable Patty she had the first item made. That cute little thread catcher.

Here is Ruth (she was the founder of our guild) hard at work.