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  • Wild Oats & Honey | Jill Shaulis & Julie Letvin

    good morning! Wild Oats & Honey is exactly as you imagine it to be…a soft beige, cream, and soft golden hues. Perfect backgrounds or use in washed out blocks for a vintage looking quilt. we have some fat quarters cut and ready to go…here…and yardage. ** a few things to keep an eye out for……

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  • garden party | sheri mcCulley

    good morning! January seems to be slipping away from us! we are thinking of springtime around here…it helps that our spring collections have started arriving! first up…Garden Party…a colorful mix of pastel shades in blush, sunshine, and sky and the prints are just as lovely…strawberries, garden tools, and flowers. perfect prints for porch pillows, picnic…

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  • winter palette

    good morning! hopefully you have had a safe and wonderful weekend! the weather around here has been snowy and chilly. temps have been below 0 with windchills at -35…makes for a weekend inside. stitching and sipping and streaming and simmering. the outside winter palette this weekend is reminiscent of a current collection that we’ve had…

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  • snOw…

    good morning! we hope you had a wonderful weekend! we spent yesterday doing a shop rearrange. it was time to move some furniture and change out the last christmas quilt, so, of course, it called for a serious floor move… while we were doing that…we came across a kit that i thought we were sold…

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  • 2024

    good morning! how are we at the end of the first week of the new year and i have totally dropped the ball. it has been a couple weeks since i popped in. So first…Happy Holidays! we hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a safe and happy New Year! it has been flying by…apparently! we’ve…

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  • simply sweet embroidery

    good afternoon! we hope you are having a wonderful December. we’ve had some fun orders come in…a couple new collections (Dinah’s Delight and Cottage Charm) but today we are introducing a sweet little embroidery book. Simply Stitched…featuring 64 miniature hand embroidery designs by Kathy Schmitz. Settle in this winter with some hand embroidery. These sweet…

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  • december blizzard

    good afternoon! we hope you are having a wonderful December. we have been busy doing some Christmas stitching, cutting bundles of new fabrics, and rekitting some of our favorite Christmas quilts. we’ve been able to re-kit our December Blizzard with Christmas Morning and Christmas Eve prints. Lovely and rich and perfect for Christmas. we have…

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  • hints of prints (Flowerhouse 30s) | Debbie Beaves

    good morning! happy December! if you do an advent…then you’ve opened (or will open) your first day. we’ve gotten each other advents so it will be a little different this year. we haven’t gotten all 24 so as we go we will keep filling the container. my first day was a vintage black and cream…

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  • American Gatherings II | Primitive Gatherings

    We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We had some family over and celebrated with a big dinner and then a Christmas Crafty Charcuterie. The shop is decorated for Christmas…so i’ll start posting pictures of the trees and the projects next week as we settle in for the lead up to Christmas. We have a…

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  • etchings | 3 sisters/howard marcus

    good morning! i have finally gotten Etchings online. it has been a whirlwind around here…between ordering fabrics for next year, bringing Christmas to Sweetwater, the shop hop, trying to catch up on our machine quilting, and finding room for new collections as they arrive, Etchings has been on my to-do list for a little while…

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  • first snow

    good evening! things are wrapping up here as we near the end of the day. i thought i would take a moment to pop in and introduce a new project… First Snow…features some washed-out grey/greige/cream stars and some sweet winter-inspired embroidery. I love a good snowfall. The crisp white snow, glistening flakes, and how the…

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  • christmas stripes

    we are 2/3rds of the way through our 8th annual Hometown Holiday Road Trip. we’ve gotten the shoppe all set for Christmas…lots of trees, white lights, and Christmas projects. i’ll be doing a reel and posting some shoppe pictures as we get further into the season…right now though, i thought i would share a quick…

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  • english garden | laundry basket

    happy belated halloween! thought i would drop in this morning and introduce Edyta’s newest collection, English Garden. this collection is full of scrolling vines, florals, tonals, and stripes…perfect for cozy winter quilts and projects. you can find English Garden prints and bundles…here. i love this collection paired with eggplant purple silk flowers and pastel pink…

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  • picnic | tanya whelan

    happy wednesday! thought i would pop in on my day off and introduce the newest collection to arrive in the shoppe. Picnic is tanya whelan’s newest, dreamiest collection. lots and lots of roses, in soft shades of green, pink, white, and aqua…she even added in some scrumptious cherries. the addition of the green gives it…

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  • raspberry parfait

    we are on the tail end of October…how did that happen? we are gearing up for our Hometown Holiday Road Trip…planning out our Christmas trees, finishing up a few holiday projects, and making space for a few new collections that are heading our way in the next couple weeks. we’ll introduce all the new projects…

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  • storytime 30s | RBD Designers

    you read that right…our 2nd collection of 30s has arrived and we’ve been working to get the section in tip-top shape. we are still working on some new bundles of the the nursery rhyme prints and i still have a couple grandmother’s flower garden quilts to quilt up…but the fabric is set and our new…

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  • ellie | brenda riddle designs

    happy friday (the 13th!) Today my neice, Izzy turns the big 1. i apologize for the delay in introducing Ellie…it has been a busy week… introducing… Ellie by Brenda Riddle Designs…a classic Brenda Riddle palette that can be mixed and matched with previous collections. Or pull color stories for a seasonal project. i’m drawn to…

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  • winter projects

    autumn seems to have arrived. a frost warning last night and a brisk morning to start off the first full weekend of october. i love to stitch in the season…whether it is cross stitch or English paper piecing…i think it gives another layer of the magic. whether spooky or joyous…it makes the process extra special.…

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  • gingham

    good afternoon! we are slowly adding in some halloween bits here and there as we head into my favorite month. even though we are getting into sweater weather, pumpkin spice, and brisk evenings…we are still drawn back to the pastel, cottage prints. Ellie, Brenda Riddle’s october 2023 collection is hitting the shop next week…precuts will…

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  • hibernation | tilda

    good morning! it is a happy day around here! hibernation, Tilda’s autumn/winter collection, has officially released. this wonderfully cozy collection is full of snoozing critters, lovely florals, the prettiest colors, and the best blenders. a grouping full of autumn tones of pecan, sage, eggplant, lafayette, hibiscus, hazel, and plum. a palette that is rich yet…

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  • sample shirtings | paula barnes

    we are always looking to expand our shirting prints, so when we saw this little collection of shirtings by Paula Barnes we knew we needed it! introducing Sample Shirtings by Paula Barnes. a dozen delightful little prints. we put together fat quarter bundles (here) and fat 8th bundles (here). Tilda Hibernation is on its way…

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