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  • nancy’s needle

    good evening! thought i’d pop in…see how you are doing. we are powering through…staying busy. Reorganizing, amazon ordering, bingeing shows, stitching, dreaming up new DMC thread tins, packaging orders, and hoping for some warm spring thunderstorms. *** we’ve also been busy getting new fun goodies online, whipping up new bundles (tonight i’m doing a low…

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  • bon voyage

    good evening!  no…we are not going on a cruise… we did, however, get in the newest Tilda collection, Bon Voyage.  Inspired  by ceramic and bits of pottery from distant shores…it includes the prettiest tile prints along with flowers and amazing perfect-for-fussy-cutting prints. we have the entire collection along with precuts…ready to ship! mom is already…

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  • stay home quilt

    we hope you are having a wonderful weekend!  mom and i are busy tidying and painting and raking and cozying up with our newest (completed) project. mom’s been eyeing up this quilt she saw in the Romantic Prairie Style book for quite awhile and trying to find just the right fabric to bring it to…

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  • scrappy star-a-day

    good morning!  i’m working away at my star-a-day and couldn’t resist putting together a couple 9-patches.  oh goodness…i’m in love with them and want to spend every waking moment whipping up these tiny darling stars. i’ve spent a few days chain-basting diamonds…look at that overflowing tin…(and that cottage hearts pillow…i’m all heart-eyes!) 3 inch squares…

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  • home-bound reading

    good afternoon!  working from home this afternoon…the windows are open, the soft wind chimes outside the window, the overcast sky.  we have a winter weather advisory that starts this afternoon…so mom is outside tidying up some of her flower beds before the rain comes. we have some new books that have arrived…perfect reading material while…

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  • working from home

    good evening!  i’m sure you are very tired of hearing about all the news-stuff… well…i have some good news!  we are working from home…we’ve set up a desk in the sewing room…right next to a window that’s been open all day long.  i get a little fresh air, the sound of the wind chimes, and…

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  • quiet cross stitch

    it would appear that life will be generally slowing down for awhile. there seems to be no better time to take up a new hobby or return to a favorite. i love handwork. i always forget how much i enjoy cross stitching until i am doing it. then i just want to cross stitch every…

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  • make your house a home

    good afternoon! we hope you are having a wonderful weekend. our Medford Quilt Show has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic so mom and i will be hanging around the shop for the foreseeable future (hopefully when we start airing out the house and do all that spring cleaning stuff we can get back…

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  • springtime sashiko

    happy spring! with the days now getting longer, spring forward, and some sunny days…it sure feels like spring is on the way. i haven’t seen a robin yet…and we know they get snowed on at least 3 times. mom and i are busy getting ready for our Medford show next weekend. the storefront will be…

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  • paris apartment

    good morning! mom and i are back from bemidji. we had a wonderful time teaching Brazilian Embroidery, catching up with Bonnie, and kicking off our shows for 2020. we’ve been getting the shop switched around to showcase some of our favorite collections…right now…we are falling in love with Rue 1800. Soft, gentle, sweet, summery…perfect florals,…

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  • february favorites

    we’ve been getting in fun, new things this february. i thought i would share a couple of my favorites… right now i am really loving this new book by Linda Collins and Leah Zieber…Treasure Hunt This book is fantabulous! Lovely, classic quilts with their antique inspiration. I like that they keep close to the original…

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  • mid-february

    well, our plans this week have been upended! Mom and i came to work monday…it was a long weekend and mom is still feeling a bit under the weather so we did some planning, she did some sewing, and i did some online work. well, yesterday early morning i came down with a stomach bug…which…

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  • rue 1800 and lancaster

    precuts have arrived…. introducing Rue 1800…a sister collection to both Poetry and Porcelain…classic seaside inspiring colors including robin’s egg, dove, porcelain, and rose. Rue 1800 is 3 Sisters spring 2020 collection and though it embodies all of their classic 3 Sisters-ness…it is also it’s own vision. The rose is a little pinker, the robin’s egg…

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  • happy valentine’s day!

    we hope you have a wonderful Valentine’s Day! a few of my favorite Valentine’s Day pictures… don’t forget …15% off over on the website through tomorrow. our sale includes… Beachy in Grey kits Lucy Block kits (how about this for a little throwback!) Bundles, precuts, charms, cakes stars in the garden do you remember when…

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  • be mine…a sale celebrating our LoVE of all things fabric-y

    valentine’s day is just around the corner…plus we have a wedding on saturday…which makes this the perfect time to celebrate our LOVE of fabric, epp, quilting, yarn, knitting, crochet, cross stitch, sashiko, Brazilian embroidery, wool, and all around craftyness! we will be running a BE MINE sale over on our website…15% off…starting February 12th and…

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  • spring romance and cottage hearts

    i’m heading out the door in a few minutes but thought i would pop on and give you a quick peak at our valentine window display. spring romance in shades of red is perfect for this time of year…classic and pretty. Red is so versatile and we just had to add in a little bit…

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  • tilda’s happy campers

    our happy campers yardage has arrived and it is every bit as summer-infused as we imagined it to be. soft honey hued prints cozy in next to pink and rose, blue, eggnog, green and teal…luscious florals, gingdots, paisleys, and mosaic type prints remind me of summers spent in flower gardens, dreaming of a vintage camper…

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  • amelia in sugarcreek

    i’m heading out the door for an afternoon with Mel and Braxton and shopping and Panera (if you have’t heard…Bistro French Onion soup is back!) thought i would pop in and wish everyone a happy February 1st! Can you believe january is already over and we are 1 month into 2020 already. Dad’s surgery went…

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  • finnegan again

    just finished up cutting and bundling fat quarter and fat 8th bundles of the entire Finnegan collection. (we had all of them left shockingly enough…however, some are mighty skinny now!) if you missed out on adding the Finnegan collection to YOUR collection…we have a very limited number of in-house cut fat quarter and fat 8th…

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  • happy campers

    good morning! Precuts for Happy Campers, Tilda’s newest collection, have arrived and with it hopefully some warmer weather! color fat quarter bundles, rolls, charms, and fat 8ths and BUTTONS to jazz up your bags, Tilda dolls, pin cushions, pillows, embroidery projects… i pulled a couple product pictures from Tilda’s World and truly wish i had…

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  • bramble precuts

    bramble cottage…which is FULL of pastel, Easter-egg toned florals, checks, dots, and more florals is out and the precuts have arrived….FINALLY! We ordered in all the bramble precuts: fat quarters and fat eighths, layer cakes, charms, mini charms, and jelly rolls and honeybuns. lots of different sizes…all perfect for a sweet little table runner, an…

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