A fun and easy way to make pillowcases for everyone on your holiday gift list. This tubing technique will hide all those seams.Fabric requirements: 1/4 yd for Sleeve, 3/4 yd for body and 1/8 yd for accent piece.

When the kids were little we gave presents in pillowcases, I figured I spent the same amount of money on gift bags, tissue and string and it all got thrown away. A pillowcase they kept and used over and over again.

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So I had a little snafu with my measurements, I’m renaming this block “Colorado on Steroids”! No, really, our second block is “Colorado Beauty”.

Marc and I were married October 21st, 1989. We went to Colorado for our honeymoon.

Colorado Beauty is made up of 16 half square triangles. Here’s a quick and easy way to make this 2 color block. Click here for the instructions.

Helpful tools:

• Fons and Porter Mechanical Marking Pencil
• Neutral Aurifil Thread
• Clover Glass Head Pins
• Bamboo Stiletto
• Gotta love that 3 1/2″ square!

The larger block will be saved for a later project. Hmmmm …

In raw edge applique, you will trace, cut, fuse and stitch to your background. It really is that simple. Having and knowing your tools really makes this technique quick and easy.

In honor of Christmas in July, a quick and easy project.  This advent calendar kit includes panel and border fabrics for $22.50. Backing and binding $14.99 . please chose from green or red backing/binding.

Join us on Saturday, June 12th, for our closing the Store Front Auction. The auction will start promptly at 2:00pm and end at 5:00pm. We’ll be auctioning books, patterns, notions, fixtures, and what ever is left in fabric.

Week 3, and it’s a short video. Not a whole lot of time this week as we were busy with the North Carolina Quilt Symposium. This video shows setting your stitches and how to press out getting a flat seam. I normally use a very hot dry iron. The video has been uploaded to Vimeo (posted below) and YouTube.

We’ll soon be receiving selected bolts from the Folklorica collection from In the Beginning Fabrics. A fantastic new collection designed by Julie Pachkis.

We received some new flannel by Maywood Studio – Shadow Play.

We just received some fabric from the Lizzie B Cre8ive: Whimsyland collection from Henry Glass. We also have a free project available too: Walkin’ in Whimsyland!

We just received selected bolts from the collection Hydrangeas & Raspberries  by Holly Holderman for LakeHouse.