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QuiltFest (July 29-31) Registration is now available online and by telephone.  We are getting lots of interest in our classes this year.  Melinda Bula, award winning quilt artist will be doing a one-day and two-day class.  Debbie Caffrey, will teaching her “worms” aka jelly roll classese and a Mystery.  Pat Speth will be working with Nickel size squares (5 inches); and a two-day French Braid class with Jane Hardy Miller as well as a quilt from her yet-to-be-published book.  Also we have a Storm at Sea, a Crazy Quilt, a Hearts and Gizzards, Raggedy Edge reverse applique  and lots more. 

We are also ready for spring!! See our fresh fruits and veggies display.  Come on Spring!!

Yep, I wound up in Washington, D.C., this weekend for a conference and a historic snowstorm.  Enjoy these pictures of 30 inches of snow on Saturday and beautiful sunshine on Sunday.  As you can see, my friend Pam and I went prepared — never leave home without that featherweight and rotary cutter, etc. — and boots, gloves . . .  

Traveling home from Jonesborough last evening in the snow storm took 3 hours (9 miles); today, the snow is beautiful, especially from the cozy warmth of the inside looking out, although MacTavish and Chelsea love the snow from the outside.  The shop is closed today; I am going to catch up on sewing projects.    Shop Holiday hours — closing 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 24, and re-opening on Monday, December 28.  Shop Online!

Joen Wolfroms’ two-day color class and three-day design class are now over.  What an inspiration and great teacher is Joen.  Her amazing Three-in-one Color Tool is a must for those of us color challenged.  She challenged all to find that idea spark and shared techniques to create that special piece.   The Historic Jonesborough sunset was an appropriate introduction to Joen’s lecture on color and design on Thursday evening. 

Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably assisted with 30 diamonds projects.  Wow, are these gorgeous. 

Here are some pictures from today’s Diagonal Madness workshop with Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably.  The color and design of these 30 projects were outstanding.  Kaffe finished the day with a critique of each participant’s design board.  They were all awesome and amazingly different.

Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably arrived yesterday for a book signing and lecture and workshops today and tomorrow.  More pix later — what a “dynamic duo” and what glorious color and design inspiration.

Mary Lou Weidman taught a “Story Quilt” class at our shop last spring.   Linda Kaiser, holding her autographed copy of the new book, is shown with Mary Lou at Quilt Market in Houston last weekend.  Linda’s quilt, “Zelda” ( a fortune teller) is featured in the book.  Way to go, Linda!!  The book should be arriving in our shop in the next few days.

The quilt pictured on the right is one of the entries in the Houston Festival competition.  Imagine stitching all of these tiny hexagons together in this intricate structure. 

QuiltFest 09 has come and gone; here are some pictures of a few of our instructors — Louisa Smith, Mary Stori, Susan Cleveland, Alice Kay Arnett, Debbie Maddy, Jo Morton and Sue Nickels.  Participants, please send me images of your projects as you get them completed and I will post them here.

That was the slogan for our booth at last week’s Quilt Expo in Knoxville, TN.  Sponsored by AQS, the show was the first for Knoxville.  We featured all Kaffe Fassett designs and quilts from his latest book Country Garden Quilts.  We exhibited 12 of the quilts from the book.  We even used one of our Kaffe quilts as a “rug.”  The most fun we had was convincing shoppers it was “okay” to step on our quilt.  We had scotch guarded it and put a rubberized mat underneath it.  We invited visitors to take a ride on our “magic carpet.”  We finally had customers sitting on it going through our fabrics and our kits.  Enjoy these pictures.