Day 4

Today’s new fabrics are from the Kimono collection from Makower

Tomorrow’s fabrics are something a little different……….

Day 3

Just a little collection today……………of cute little froggies from Makower.
The main print is a label print

with some equally cute frog co-ordinates.

Check back tomorrow for another new collection!

Day 2 of the Fabric Upload

Just a small collection uploaded today and for the next couple of days.
Today’s collection is Sentiments from Makower featuring a cute centre panel which would make a great cot quilt together with some useful co-ordinates.

I have also uploaded  a free pattern, my Centre Panel quilt design, that can be adapted to use this and many of the other full width panel prints that I sell.
Here’s the link to the page

Until tomorrow!

Joanna x

Lots and Lots of Fabrics!

Well there will be come Christmas Eve!

I’ve been a bit remiss in uploading the newest fabrics in the last month or so and in this season of goodwill I ought to put that right. And so over the next five days there will be a new collection of fabrics uploaded to the website every day.

Today’s collection is the wonderful Patina Handpaints from Robert Kaufman.

Many of you may have seen the first few fabrics at the Festival of Quilts but a few more have arrived since then including the Autumn colourway above which has a fantastic electric blue with rust.

I love to make quick and simple quilts from fabrics and this is the quilt I have designed with just one of these fabrics.

Mitring the corners in the border really frames the quilt. I have to confess like most of my samples, I haven’t quilted it yet
*mental note to self “must do more machine quilting”

See you tomorrow!

Joanna

Almost there………….

It has been a busy few weeks since the Festival of Quilts ended in mid August and there have been so many fabric deliveries not only just before the FoQ but also since then……….its going to take me a while to get all the fabrics up onto the website !

New collections in stock include:

Jewels of India

La Scala

Radiance

an Oriental collection from Makower

In the meantime I have moved house which meant not only moving my son and me out, but also ALL the business! They say getting divorced and moving home are two of the most stressful things you can do………I kind of did them at the same time!!
I am still trying to find homes for everything but will try and take a photo of the fabrics in their new home soon. I have also been catching up with my editing work which is why I may have seemed a bit quiet recently!

I have a few local events next week where I will be taking my fabrics and threads

Sat 1 Oct – Area Day at Kislington with Philippa Naylor AND Ferret

Tues 4 Oct – Market Cross Quilters near Toddington

Thurs 6 Oct – Log Cabin Quilters, Langford, Beds

Take care

Joanna

FoQ Setting up and Day 1

Arriving at the NEC, all you have is your space.

This is the scene after I have unloaded everything from the van.

Even though I know roughly where I want to put everything, it still takes several hours to put the stand together until it looks like this!

I’m really pleased how it all went together this year and I managed to get all the new quilt kits out on display.

Day One
It has been such a busy day today! However, as I am in one of the last rows of traders it is always a slow start before the customers start to filter through………so much so that you start to doubt if anyone will stop and buy anything………..but filter through they do and at times today it was very hectic! Whenever Mum came down to my stand to relieve me for a swift toilet break………i was too busy to be able to leave the stand!

The best selling fabrics today seemed to be the new Florentine collection from Robert Kaufman, as well as Imperial Collections 6 and 7 and of course King Tut threads were as popular as ever.

Looking forward to seeing what tomorrow will bring!

Festival of Quilts Build Up

So! It is finally here….well almost!

The last couple of days have been making sure everything is ready for the show. The cutting of fabrics is done, threads topped up. Leaflets and patterns printed.
On Monday I picked up the van. It’s a little bit bigger than the car I usually drive and of course has a much higher driving position.

Its going to be interesting when I adjust back to driving the mini again next week!

Yesterday was packing the van day. It took me a while just to get these big items in the right order.

There is a  certain skill in packing a van and getting everything positioned so that it doesn’t rattle or move around too much as you are driving. I guess I will see in a few hours whether I mastered that skill or not!

 
I did have a little helper with me as usual………

Although I’m not sure him climbing and getting stuck up a tree was the kind of help I was after!!

More pics and postings as the show progresses, including putting the stand together today :o)