Seminole Sampler News

Saturday Tid-Bits

Customer Show & Tell. :) This is an adorable variation of the Tshirt Quilt. This lady made the quilt for her daughter,

 mother of the little boy who wore these creepers. Each of the blocks is the front-with-decoration of a pair of creepers/baby pajamas. The center medallion block has the entire baby garment appliqued and quilted into it, for size and total adorability! :) Then she hand quilted the piece! Bravo!!

Another tidbit of 'tell' only for you -- Moda has a new collection of William Morris prints, chosen by Barbara Brackman, that we have ordered in its entirety. I see that some shops have started receiving their goods from Moda -- ours should be coming! :)

Sweetness and Light

Today's goodies are few ... but very sweet. ;) Lots of happiness and cheer here for you!

First, new patterns (I am especially excited about the cell phone pattern -- might seem silly, but I love a well-thought-out design; the pattern includes easy-to-piece foundation material, complete instructions and velcro/buckles for three cell phone cases):

I think this baby quilt pattern is adorable -- and I like the easy-breezy layout:

What could be cuter than a bunny in foliage? I live in suburbia and rabbits are a piece-of-the-wild that I rarely get to enjoy (too many dogs and cats here:):

More bolts of luscious Batik color -- these are my preferred 'solid' fabrics. :)

Finally, if you are a lover of 30's era prints, come in SOON and pick up one of these fat quarter packets from RJR -- 25 fat quarters of cheerful fabric from the Mama's Apron Strings collection:

Bubbly Excitement!

Pardon me, I do hope my fingers can type without stuttering. :) We got the fall and winter Flower Fairy fabrics from Michael Miller today -- my MOST favorite ones (and I do love all these prints:). Glorious!

First, a great issue of Quick Quilts magazine -- I love how perky and summer-y this cover quilt looks -- Go Black & White! :)

Now, before I get to the fairies, let me show some other prints that came in -- also cute and perky (imho:):

We also got some lovely new batiks, just 'cause we gotta have 'em! :) (Remember, batik fabric sale coming later this month):

Ok, ok, here come the fairies. :) First, in all his Autumnal Splendor -- HAWTHORN and friends:

Now, in appropriate beautiful winter colors, we have Christmas Tree Fairy and Court:

Also with this collection came Fairy Frost bolts in Silver, Onyx and Garland (gold) -- very metallic and _very_ hard to photograph well. :)

I am actually contemplating a Christmas quilt (not saying _which_ Christmas it will get done:) with these prints. They speak to me softly but compellingly. Happy sighes. :)

Do drop in to see these goodies! The weather is pleasantly summer-y out and we would be more than happy to help you with any dreams, projects, plans or ideas you might want to execute in fabric. :)

:) Linda

PS. I almost forgot to share this show & tell with you. Ruth (of red crab runner 'fame') made another lovely table runner which she brought in to show us -- on a roll, Ruth! Go, girl! :)

Christmas in July?

Since it is actually July today (I _think_:), I guess I can say that? :) We got a portion of our Hoffman christmas fabrics along with some pretty batiks today. Lovely stuff!!

Remember, we will be CLOSED on Saturday the 4th (day after tomorrow:)!!

Here are the goodies:

Note that the print above is not yellow -- it's gold metallic on gold colored fabric. :)

The print above is another gold-on-gold.

Monday Goodies

 Isn't this a nice table runner? Ruth S brought it in to share with us this morning (Robbyn and Alice I helped her choose the fabrics). She used the red-crabs-on-black fabric (that we no longer have!) to make her version of the Braided Runner. Thanks for sharing, Ruth! :)

Today we got some lovely new prints. We also go two new magazine issues:

I've been waiting for the fabric we got today with excitement (muted -- takes _forever_ for fabric to actually come after we order it, usually:). Paper doll prints are in!!

When I was a little girl, playing with paper dolls of all kinds was one of my favorite pass-times. These prints remind me of how much fun I had (I had pretty much forgotten about playing with paper dolls:). You could make dress-able dolls for a little someone in your life ... or a cute small quilt for yourself to remember happy times. :) Whatever you want to do, do come in to visit with our girlies!

I got the news today that Main Street Quilting in Elkridge will be closing on August 1st. Sad times, folks. This is the _second_ quilt shop in our near vicinity that has closed in recent months. Not to put too fine a point on the matter, but, as you all know, these are hard economic times. If you love a business, better put a little energy into it (and $) to be sure it will last until good times roll around again. <sigh> 

Hugs to all of you. Wherever you are today and whatever you have to do, take at least few minutes (even 15!!) to sew something. It's GOOD FOR YOU! :)

Linda