James T. Kirk meaning anything to you?

If so, wait til May 9th 2009 !

Here’s a sneak peak of some of the new fabrics collections I have on order and will be arriving in early 2009. These are my favorites, look at all the blues!!!!

Moda: Turnovers and Sweet Rolls. The turnovers are sized to work with Moda’s layer cakes.  Sweet rolls are 1  1/2″ x 44″ strips.

Hoffman: Willow (fabrics with item numbers PN026 - PN034)
from McKenna Ryan new collection.  
The quality of this fabric is soooo different then most fabrics because it’s like a fine cotton and feels like silk!

Clothworks: Blue Palace  
by Johnny Karwan from Clothworks. This collection is all blues!

Northcott: Krakow by Mark Lipinski.
These fabrics are based on the beautiful, traditional designs found on my collection of vintage Polish stoneware pottery .

Houston 2008!

I couldn’t go to Houston Quilt Market 2008 this year, but  my friend Tammy Harrison (BOM QUILTS) was going and said she could do some searching for me and could take pictures for new fabrics and patterns. She is very familiar with my taste because she designs patterns (Quiltalicous)  for me using my fabrics. She also was a walking advertisment for her new Quilt Dash.

Moda Fabrics

 My sales rep: Mark P.

Nice purse Mark!  It was made it using the new “SWEET ROLLS”

Objects Of My Desire
by Sandy Gervias

In The Beginning Fabrics

ROCKET SCIENTIST 
by Keri Beyer

I am looking for fabrics for girls over 10 years old and thought this one would be fun!
The collection has 19 prints and a very cute free pattern.
Delivery: December 2008

Northcott

Krakow by Mark Lipinski
His new collection is inspired by Polish pottery!

and here’s Tammy and Mark:

MSU’s Javon Ringer for Heisman Trophy winner!

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 WHO HE IS:
Javon Ringer   

As the presenting sponsor for the Heisman Trophy, Nissan has the privilege of casting one official vote for the winner of the Heisman Trophy. They represent the voice of the college football fan and invite fans to make their vote count on ESPN’s website.  

The athlete with the most votes from fans will receive one official vote in the Heisman Trophy selection process. Heisman Trophy Winners are determined by votes from 924 electors representing sportswriters and broadcasters. 

 You can vote as much as you want every day! Javon was added to the list late so he needs all the votes we can give him to catch up. Please send this to as many Spartan friends as you can.

It was gorgeous out today and a great time to go the farmers market with a bright blue sky, no wind  and it was even warm out!
This is the time of year for all the wonderful fall fruits and vegetables - apples, squashes, pumpkins and bees.
  I thought I would share my trip there with you to our
Muskegon Farmers Market:

Don’t you just love gourds!

Weird! I never knew that Brussel sprouts grew like this:

Fun pumpkins!

Gigantic and little!

 There’s always friends to visit with!

 Every kind of apple that grows in Michigan was there!

This will make a lot of “cabbage rolls”

On the trip home I was treated to some fall color!

Never forget.

Last spring I picked up the collection Floragraphix II in blues and greens.  This time I choose the reds and greens in the Floragraphix III  fabric collection.  Both are goregous quality fabrics in rich colors and prints! 

 Here is the introduction from the quilt book FLORAGRAPHIX III by Jason Yenter from In The Beginning Fabrics  and about his new fabrics Floragraphix III. 

Where doesn’t the time go?  It seems like just yesterday I was designing Floragraphix I, and now we are introducing Floragraphix III and have also debuted the first Wintergraphix collection.  I have really enjoyed this series, and am already working on Floragraphix IV and Wintergraphix ii.  Time does fly when you’re having fun!

In Floragraphix III, I have played with the concept of time passing. You will find clock faces, antiqued picture frames, and my favorite print: the one that looks like layers of old wallpaper, featuring bouquets and birds.  It is very exciting combining different elements to create the desired overall look.  It can also be really challenging to get a pleasing repeat that can actually be printed.  It is so tempting, and it would be a lot easier, to create a single picture by using each element just once…make a nice collage, put a frame around it, and be done.  But we are making fabric, not pictures, and all the elements have to work together, and be able to be repeated again and again for the length and width of the cloth.  I spend hours on this - especially on the prints that feature large motifs - trying to get everything to work together and flow nicely.  It’s a great feeling when it all comes together, and even greater when I get to see what people do with the fabric!

 I have used very subdued colors in this collection, for more of an antique effect, and colors that I think will look good in  people’s homes and as clothing.  A warm and rich palette, with a few pretty light prints, will make your projects glow.  The quilts in this book show off some of the possibilities for using these fabrics.  As I always say, don’t be afraid to change the patterns you rind here, add something, take something away, use different combinations of fabrics - do what pleases you and your senses!

Jason Yenter 

Kaye England of Kaye England Publications,  sent out a call for help for other not-so-fortunate quilters who lost everything in the flood:

QUILTERS HELPING VICTIMS:  We are keeping all the flood victims in our thoughts and our good friend Jill Reicks at Pine Needles Sewing Center in Cedar Rapids Iowa has agreed to be a clearing house for donations to assist those that lost everything.  We ask you to look about your sewing space - what do you have too much of, too many of, or just things you don’t use?Consider those that lost everything and we would ask you to send anything you are willing to part with to Jill.  She and her staff will make sure that all of these items fall in the hands of those that need them most.
 
After this event, I looked about my sewing room and wondered what I would do if everything in it was lost.  I would hope my first thought would be that all people were safe, but I would be very sad to loose all of my goodies.  It is a good chance for us to “play it ahead” and share with those that have lost everything. If you have anything you wish to share, books, threads, needles, patterns, notions or????
 
Then send to:
Jill Reicks
Pine Needles Sewing Center
1000 Old Marion Rd NE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402

Thank you

Here is a preview of the new collection coming in June:

 PIGTAILS AND PIXIE DUST

by Kathy Brown from Troy/Riverwood Fabrics.

  I love the panel and think it really captures the spirit of today’s girls! I know my granddaughter is into sports, flip flops and high heels! The collections consists of 25 prints in red, yellow, black, white, blue & green.

New rates went into effect: May 10, 2008. Here are some of the changes:

USA:

1st class mail small patterns (old $.57 new $.66)

1/2 yard: (old $1.50 new $1.66)

Flat rate priority envelopes: (old: $4.60 new $4.80) - Boxes (old: $9.15 new $9.80)

Canada: Flat Rate priority envelopes: old: $9.00 new $9.95

World: Flat Rate priority envelopes: old $11.00 new $11.95