Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Mystery Quilt 2012

Hello Pieceful Stitchers!

Here is the second photo album that I promised.  The quilts pictured below are from my Mystery groups this year.  It is amazing how you can use the same pattem, but the quilts all look so different. 









I am really proud of all the quilts that you guys made this year.  Think about joining our new Mystery Group starting in September.  Sign up at our Anniversary Celebration on August 11th.  We have a quilt show, barbeque and early discount registration. 

Hope to see you soon!
Carrie


Peculiar Challenge Quilts

Hello Pieceful Quilters!


Sorry I haven't blogged in so long - I have found it was easier to put things on Facebook.  I know that not all of you use Facebook, though, so I thought I would put a couple of photo albums on the Blog so that I could share it with all of you.  This first album are pictures from the Peculiar Challenge reveal parties.  If you aren't familiar with the Peculiar Challenge, it is a 4 month challenge we did where we had instructions each month for a different part of the quilt.  The challenge was to take the parts and assemble them into a quilt!  I think that you will agree that the resulting quilts are quite amazing.  Can you figure out what the 4 parts were?



















Stay tuned for another Peculiar Challenge starting in January 2013.  If you are interested in participating, watch our weekly email.  You can sign up on our website at www.piecefulgathering.com.

Thanks - Carrie!

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Pictures from Fall 2011 Quilt Market

I know it has been awhile since I posted anything - it seems to be easier to post things to Facebook.  I have a bunch of pictures from Market, so I am going to post some of them here. 

The first bunch were taken at Schoolhouse, which is kind of a crazy race around from classrooom to classroom to see the latest and greatest products, ideas and techniques.  There are 13 time slots in about 8 hours.  Crazy! 

This first group of pictures is from the schoolhouse that Betsy Chutchian & Carol Staehle presented with most of the quilts from their new book, History Repeated.  If you have been to the shop recently, you have probably picked up this great book!  The book is about a group of women that call themselves the 19th Century Quilt Divas.  What they do is exchange blocks to make quilts based on antique scrappy quilts.  Below you will see some of the blocks with the resulting quilts, and more beautiful quilts from this book:



Quilted Crow Girl, Leonie, helping Betsy.




There's Leonie, again!









Edyta Sitar showing some drop-dead gorgeous quilts.  Fun and cute as always:

Edyta's new fabric line - beautiful!
Froncie Quinn is coming out with a line of fabrics based on the quilts of Florence Peto.  Here she is at here Schoolhouse demonstration:



Lynn Roddy Brown - Martingale Author.  Talking about some of the quilts and techniques from her new book. 
 Notice how arranging the same pieces in different ways can make completely different blocks





Jo Morton featured some quilts from her new book, Prairie Flowers revisited:

 The bigger version.  Katie will be doing this one for her next wool BOM. 

Look at all the people at Jo's Schoolhouse!


Moving along to the main part of quilt market....



Believe it or not, we were sucked in by this adorable little dress and ended up buying some Anna Griffin fabric.  We think it will make some beautiful quilts and matching accessories.  Here are a few pix of the stuff we bought in their booth:


 We bought a lot of this line - isn't it pretty?

 The other quilted crow girl, Diedre.  This was their booth. 

Katie picked up the pattern to do this great tabletopper or wall hanging.

This is Kaye Moore.  We liked her wallhanging, among other things.  Maybe one of our staff will pick this up as a BOM?

We fell in love with this pretty line at Marcus.  I was impressed with all the cool things they did with it.  Inspiration!






 Our friend Renee Plains at her Schoolhouse, showing all the cute things from her new book.  They always look so much cuter in real life!
 And at her booth - we will definitely be kitting the great quilt behind her.

Some of the stuff we picked up from Valdani.  On the left is the new silk floss.  Very pretty!

 And here are a couple of examples of embroidery using this new product:


 

Some new friends from Ireland!  Button Tree Farm...
 And their wonderful Irish wool.  We might have gone a wee bit overboard ordering their wonderful wool!

Check out the wonderful colors in the Primitive Gatherings newest line, Seasonal Little Gatherings.   
 And, this interesting little line appeared without warning. 

We are still not really sure when we are going to get any at the shop.  I think the fact that fat quarters showed up at Sample Spree is a good sign.  I will just keep holding my breath!

Hope you have enjoyed the show. 
Happy Quilting - Carrie