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  • civil war pink & butternut

    good afternoon! a couple civil war fabric orders arrived this week, and we could hardly wait to fold up some bundles. The pink and cream from Back in the Day by Deirdre Bond-Abel and cherry-picked prints from Butternut & Peppercorn by Pam Buda have been folded and tied into lovely little bundles. Sweet assortments of…

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  • Springtime Sing-Along

    spring is just around the corner and in anticipation we have been filling the shop with all things spring. the soft palette and sweet prints of Songbird Serenade has been a favorite. we just couldn’t resist a quick little project featuring the luscious hanky panel and a little crochet. Springtime Sing-Along features classic 4-patches, a…

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  • pie in the sky & cloudpie

    good morning! i thought i better pop in and give everyone an update. Tilda’s Pie in the Sky and Cloudpie has landed! we have all 28 prints along with precuts, buttons, and coordinating basics… we had some advance fabrics, so i stitched up these big hexies. introducing…Avalon…a magical mix of big hexies, Tilda fabrics, and…

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  • Songbird Serenade

    good morning! i couldn’t wait until next week to introduce you to Songbird Serenade…our newest collection from Sheri McCulley for Poppie Cotton. a lovely combination of springtime birds and flowers paired with a soft and subtle palette of blue, green, yellow, and pink. Reminiscent of the first flowers of spring, the buds on the trees,…

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  • Amelia’s Blues

    good afternoon! hopefully you are planning a weekend that includes a little quilting. we have a couple new things to show you today. first up…Amelia’s Blues…we cherry-picked a handful of prints including lots of low volume…we needed some new Betsy’s Buttercream bundles and had just a couple buttercream and biscuit prints left from her previous…

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  • countryside valentine

    good morning! thought i would pop in quick and introduce one of our newest projects… we absolutely love a good scrappy quilt…i truly believe the more prints you have the better. it adds to interest and the excitement. we pulled 36 different pink, red, and low volume prints to make up our Countryside Valentine projects.…

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  • posie

    good afternoon! if you’ve been patiently waiting for Tanya Whelan’s newest collection, Posie…then you are in luck! it arrived last week, and is just the collection to usher in the wintery days of January. It is colorful and sweet…reminiscent of squishy pillows, breezy curtains and sunwashed porches. Grab a glass of pink lemonade and your…

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  • high volume snow…low volume lovelies

    good evening! i thought i would drop in for minute. i had a half day today…the shoppe closed at 12:30…due to the crazy amounts of snow. it does make for a pretty drive into to work…then a lovely yet snowy drive home. the soft white blanket of snow reminds me of my favorite kind of…

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  • marshmallow world

    this christmas season has definitely been one to remember…we had several (like 4-5) December snow days…can you believe it? then to top things off…Mel and Ty and the kids couldn’t come because the roads were closed down by Dawson. we all felt under the weather over the weekend so i guess it all worked out,…

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  • Twinkle Lights

    good afternoon! we’ve got a little snow which makes the Christmas lights so much prettier! Speaking of Christmas lights i haven’t introduced one of our favorite new Christmas projects. Twinkle Lights…inspired by a vintage quilt we spied in a cottage coffee table book. This little 6-patch block works wonders for the sweet little prints of…

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  • steelworks

    good afternoon! it is definitely a brisk one out there today…i’m thinking some evening cozy stitching is in order this evening. hopefully you will be doing the same thing! as our love of Grey continues to grow and our Beachy in Grey quilt kit continues to be a top seller…we are always on the lookout…

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  • red & white

    as this christmas month sets in…i fall more in love with red & white than any other time of year. i love the crisp white snow as it rests on garland and berries, red velvet bows on fresh green wreaths covered with frost in the morning air and a good red and white bundle if…

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  • tilda’s Hometown & My Neighborhood

    it has finally arrived! Tilda’s Hometown & My Neighborhood is in store… “Hometown… Home is where the heart is, and perhaps never more so now, for many of us. Being a city girl, I once took the leap and moved to the country, the kind of small community where everyone knows each other and the…

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  • snow for days

    it is finally winter…the snow has arrived which really puts us in the Christmas spirit here at the shoppe. the shoppe is always set for Christmas right after Halloween (we always have a spot set for Thanksgiving with pumpkins and sometimes a turkey platter because we love Thanksgiving too!) so we can be prepared for…

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  • snowed in & tree farm

    the shop hop is in full swing…we’ve got hot apple cider, treats, sparkly trees, Christmas music, and a couple new Christmas projects. These two projects both use Merry Little Christmas by Bonnie & Camille. This color palette is a little outside the Sweetwater box…but we love it! it is so fresh and pretty and the…

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  • rendezvous

    Good Evening! We are finishing up some last minute projects for our Hometown Holiday Road Trip which starts tomorrow morning at 9am. Hopefully you can join us for some holiday cheer…we’ve set the shop for Christmas. Our projects are finished…including…Twinkle Lights, Kandii Plaza, Snowed In, Tree Farm, and In the Meadow (which is our complimentary…

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  • jane & izzabel

    good afternoon! hopefully you have had a chance to enjoy the last of the fall leaves…these windy days are sure doing a number on the trees. i do love the sound of the dried leaves underfoot, as they slide across the street, or land on the windshield. we have a couple new things…first off…last Thursday…

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  • frosted

    i know…i know…we are back to Christmas… i really couldn’t wait though…we’ve got lots going on and i didn’t want this frosty favorite to get lost in the shuffle…so i thought i’d pop in and introduce Frosted… Frosted features Noel by Clare Therese Gray, and, simply, we L O V E it! when this collection…

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  • halloween on the porch

    hello stitchers! i’m in a “Hocus Pocus” kind of mood…Winnie just cracks me up! (we are both the oldest so there is that!) the time has come! we’ve transformed the porch into a spooky little alcove…channeling some Gothic romance and mixing in a little farmhouse and cottage style. we’ve got a mixture of Web of…

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  • buttercup & slate

    good afternoon! thought i would pop in and introduce our newest collection…Buttercup & Slate. Corey describes this collection as follows… “With Buttercup & Slate, I invite you to relish those magical, fleeting moments when the warm sunny hues of late afternoon fade to gray and slowly turn to night. There are plenty of flowers, both…

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  • day 12…89 days till christmas

    today is the final day…first i would like to thank you if you stuck with us through the entire 12 days. i love christmas…but i need a little breather…i need to get back to my favorite season. anyways…today i thought i would drop in with just a rundown of our Christmas collections…at the end of…

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