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We hope your Holidays have been delightful; of course they have kept us all too busy with cooking, cleaning and wrapping gifts. It’s time to get back to the fun things we enjoy doing, Quilting!
There are lots of new things happening this year at the shop. Have you had time to check out the new website? We have modernized and with that, we are now able to give you an up- to-date look at what’s going on in the shop; new classes, new kits, fabrics, books and patterns and so much more. Let us know what you think!
New Block of the Months for 2012
We have several new block of the months that will begin early this year. Merry Merry Snowmen, My Favorite Things, Block of Seasons, and for the Kaffe Lovers, a new Kaffe Quilt is coming soon.
Merry Merry Snowmen
This 10-month block of the month program will begin in February of 2012. Each month you will receive the pattern and fabrics to complete that month’s block. The final month will include borders and binding. Fabrics will be from the Rouenneries Deux collection by French General. An embellishment kit including embroidery floss and buttons will be included with the block of the month. Cost is 23.95 each month.
Block of the Seasons – 4 Small projects – each quarter will bring a new, pre-selected wool kit based upon the upcoming season and pattern. Framed wall art, pillow, wall hanging or table topper. Construction is based primarily on hand work with either wool felt or felted wool and perle cotton or floss. January’s project will begin with a pillow, a palette of soft creams and pastels reflecting a pale winter landscape. Winter Blooms – $23.95 includes fabric for pillow and wools and floss to complete the project.
My Favorite Things
My Favorite Things starts this month and continues through December. Each month you will receive two blocks. The cost is $14.95 each month and does include binding. The book, Some Kind of Wonderful, is sold separately.
My favorite season is Fall. I love the colors, the leaves, pumpkins, Halloween and Thanksgiving. It’s also my favorite time to quilt and embroidery. When I can put the two together, that is even better. I was hooked when I saw Crabapple Hill’s “Calendula” and “Which Witch’s Boot”. Both quilts use pieced blocks, coloring with colors and embroidery.
Calendula Patterdrip’s Cottage
Which Witch’s Boot from Crabapple Hill
And to stitch up all your pretties try Cosmo floss.
Pumpkin Crazy from Need’l Love’s Falloween book.
PS…We are leaving for market tomorrow, so watch us on facebook, we will have lots of new goodies coming soon.
This fun new Block of the Month is from the book Some Kind of Wonderful. The new series will begin in January. I thought it would be fun to show you bits and pieces as Debbie begins her stitching journey on this twelve month block of the month. More details are sure to come as she stitches her “Favorite Things”.
What’s next, blue jeans, a daisy or maybe the sun?
This is a beautiful book full of many new projects. The magical world of Hatched and Patched designer Anni Downs will not disappoint you. Whether you love applique, patchwork or hand stitchery, you will find the perfect project just for you. Besides the quilt Debbie is making for the block of the month, the book includes a simple daisy quilt, a pieced quilt, a sewing case, a stitched purse, a tablerunner, a needle book and pincushion, a travel document holder, a shoe bag, a punchneedle door hanger and an eye mask.
Old Blue Jeans
A big Thank You to all who participated in the “Golden Ticket Bus Tour” .
The bus leaving at 7:00 am Friday morning!
Mauri and Debbie, bus hostesses at 6:00 am the morning of the bus trip. They look so ready…would love to have seen them later that night.
The Elves have been busy!
…and with fall in the air, we have been busy making lots of new models, we hope you will find something that catches your eye. Kits are available for most of these quilts. I love this quilt, “September Song” was pieced and quilted by Mauri Richey, using the Fat Quarter Fashionista pattern. These fabrics, from the Joel Dewberry – Heirloom collection are reminiscent of a late fall afternoon.
McKenna Ryan’s Home Tweet Home is featured at the top of this picture. Patterns and kits are available. From right to left, “Summer House” is a Kalidescope using Moda’s Summer House fabrics. Treasures & Tidbits from Robert Kaufman, features Piece O’ Cake fabric and the pattern Off the Rail. LouLouThi fabric from Anna Marie Horner is using the pattern Off Track.
Wonky Fall Foliage
These cute quilts were designed by Sandra Workman and use wonky log cabins, hexagons and wedges along with embroidery & applique.
Wonky Wildflowers
Giraffes in the Forest, Squares All Around, Party Girl and Sunkissed are great quilts for the baby or small child.
Happy 23 years to Oklahoma Quiltworks!
We are very greatful to our wonderful customers for the support they have given to us. Please come and celebrate with us on Thursday, September 8 and take part in our annual Anniversary Sale. Save 20% discount on most items. We have so many new items and fabrics for you to choose from.
Coming Soon – Curio from Basic Grey
The antique mall awaits with a plethora of pleasures to be discovered, all in Curio. A mixing of soft petal pink, cameo blue, and antique mahogany becomes a study of timeless treasures found. From classic lace doilies to fine bone china, the collection of shabby chic vintage collectables is chock-full of quaint, estate quality design and fine, traditional detail.
New Flannels by Primitive Gatherings
Yes, we finally have a break in the weather – Yeah! It’s in the mid-70′s and low 80′s. What a relief from our 60+ days of 105° weather and not too soon to start thinking of cool days ahead. We have just received some wonderful new “Wool and Needle Flannels” by Primitive Gatherings. Yummy soft flannels with the look and feel of wool.
FriXion Pen
Have you tried the new Frixion Pen? Quilters are raving about this new pen that can be used on fabrics. FriXion Ball Erasable Gel Pen allows you to erase and rewrite repeatedly without damaging fabrics. The special ink formula disappears with erasing friction of rubber tail plug eraser on the pen. Erasing leaves no residue or debris. Watch this video on utube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAfzQpAPUTY
& get you into the mood for fall!
I’m sitting here watching the birds swarm the feeders after a long hot summer. The leaves are already turning gold…not sure if it is from the heat of summer or the beginning of a new season. Fall is one of my favorite seasons. I love the warm summer days and cool evenings. It is also is a time for me to start thinking of what projects I can work on as my time outdoors becomes shorter. Here are just a few projects that might get you inspired.
I’m seeing Pink Elephants and It’s Not Even Noon! Debbie took an old pattern, “Take 5″, to make this adorable quilt filled with all the things we love, Pink Elephants, dots, circles and bubbly!. We have a kit available for this project.
Just in time for Halloween, “Scribble Monsters” from Clothworks. This easy weekend project will remind you of being a kid again. The fun characters look like they came right from a coloring book. We have a kit available for this project.
These fun pillows were made by Barbara Chaffin. The book Scandinavian Stitches offers over 21 projects for every season! I love the house and laundry on the clothesline. Barbara Chaffin will be teaching this fun class this fall, “Pick a Pillow“.
One of our customers, Linda Gaither, made this cute Monster Pillow. The pattern “Little Monsters” from one of my favorite designers, Don’t Look Now , includes directions for several different monster pillows or a full size quilt.
“Come Fly with Me“ strips and flying geese. Verlinda made this during a weekend trip to Texas. A kit is available for this project.
“Weekend in Paris”, “Babette” and “Margeaux” created by Mauri from the pattern “Bloom”. Mauri will be teaching a class for “Blooming Possibilities ” this fall .
Sandy Clapp made this fun quilt, “Year at a Glance”, from the book “Big fun with a little fabric”. The quilt features applique, piecing and embroidery. A kit is available for this quilt.
“It’s Jungle Out There” and “Hoo’s In the Forest”, made by Peggy Nasson – fun new baby quilts for any child.
We will have the pleasure of having Cynthia Regone as a teacher on Friday, September 30th. She has been featured in Fons and Porter’s Love of Quilting, Quiltworks Today, and various other magazines. Cynthia lectures and teaches throughout the United States; her specialty is using unusual combinations of color and fabrics. Her quilts have a distinctive appearance and have won many awards. With her first book “Colorful Quilts” being published in 2008, she has been very busy teaching, lecturing and producing new designs.
The quilt she will be teaching is 1000 Pyramids. When Charlice saw this beautiful quilt while on a family reunion trip, she fell in love with it, what a beatufiul quilt.
1000 Pyramids will be offered this fall at Oklahoma Quiltworks. This is a one day class offered on Friday, September 30th from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. The cost of the class is $45.00. Call the store to sign-up now or sign-up online after August 15h by logging onto our website at www.okquiltworks.com.
One of my favorite new designers is Australia’s, Kellie Wulfsohn, from Don’t Look Now! Her modern patterns give a new meaning to raw edge applique. The bright colored fabric choices make each design bright and cheery. Her machine quilting is to be envied by all of us who wish we could machine quilt using our household machines and her quilting method.
I picked “First day of Christmas” as a starting point. I found the pattern easy to understand and the raw edge applique quite simple. Of course, I sent my pillow top out to be quilted since I know I am not at that level of quilting.
 
Her new patterns are fun and whimiscal.
The Animal Alphabet would be great for any young child.
White Christmas!
“Memories”
Look at the background, she took her favorite nursery rhyme stories and photo copied in black and white and printed on “Printed Treasures”. She then sewed the sheets together to use as a background for her applique. What a wonderful idea. I don’t think I will use Fairytales, but I do have a couple of books in mind that I will play around with.
I’m definitely going to do “From the Heart” and have traced all my patterns for “Oh Christmas Tree”.
“Oh Christmas Tree!” I have also seen this done with a Red Background, just stunning!
If you are interested in reading more about Kellie, go to her blog at Don’t Look Now
We had a great week, especially with seeing all our wonderful friends and quilters who stopped by the shop on “The Road to Oklahoma Shop Hop” . I had just finished hanging the blocks for the new “Merry Christmas” Block of the Month, when who should appear, but Amy herself. She and her mom were doing the shop hop, how fun! Thank you Amy, for dropping by and posing with our blocks. Carolyn will be sad that she missed seeing you, but Amy loves your fabric choices.
The new 6-month Block of the Month starts in July and includes fabrics for the blocks, sashing and borders. The cost will be $18.95 each month. Sign-up here!
Carolyn is making the block of the month and having so much fun picking fabrics and making these blocks. Can’t wait to see the completed quilt.
The Penguin
Gingerbread Man
Mr. Santa
Mrs. Santa
We want you to join us for the Golden Ticket Bus Tour through quilt shops in Texas/Oklahoma/Kansas/Missouri September 23, 24 and 25, 2011.
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This Week’s Tip Perfect Borders - Measure through the middle of your quilt both horizontally and vertically when cutting borders for quilts. Then ease your borders to the sides and tops. This will prevent your quilt from having waffled edges.
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