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FREE PATTERN: Dream Boat

Source: FREE PATTERN: Dream Boat

Check out this beautiful quilt from our friend, and talented designer Wendy Sheppard!  Wendy is showcasing this great quilt on her blog, Ivory Spring.  Using the Dream Boats fabric collection by Janet Broxon for QT, this nautical themed quilt is just fantastic!   I can almost smell the sea air and feel the breeze… it’s lovely!

We put the FUN in Fabric!

Have you seen the Find the Panda craze?  It’s just that – a bit crazy!!!  Here’s a link to it in case you haven’t seen it… PANDA!

We have our own version of this puzzle in our Ink & Arrow designs.   Hidden inside each fabric is a little motif!  Look for an I&A, Ink & Arrow (words) or  Arrow motif  in our fabrics!!!  WHY????  Well,  it’s a little something… something… just to make it extra FUN!

Take a peek at these fabrics and see if you can find the hidden icon?

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What’s even more fun??? How about making an I spy project?!?!?!

How about a shirt that has a pocket featuring the hidden icon – see if anyone notices?  Or, a quilt with the hidden icon here and there.   Just have fun with it and remember that there are no rules, just great fabrics!!!   We hope you enjoy…

Also feel free to stop by our website, inkandarrowfabrics.com and submit a photo of a project you created with our fabrics!!!

 

 

100 Years of Beauty & Adventure

Our National Parks is a collection of fabrics designed to help celebrate 100 years of these beautiful landmarks!  With more than 275 million visitors every year,  National Parks are  where people discover nature, spend time together as families, and enjoy the amazing beauty of our country!

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Click above to go to our Website with all the fabrics!

This collection is heading to your favorite shop for February 2016!  There are so many possibilities when creating with these beautiful fabrics!   What a great way to bring the outdoors inside!

Just a few ideas… sleeping bags, tote bags for camping gear, place mats for the picnic table or maybe even a great camp shirt!

We’ve compiled a listing for you – no matter where you are in the United States, there is a park within driving distance; How cool is that?!?!?    Click here for a PDF download of the National Parks by State… Maybe you can take your favorite Boy or Girl Scout?!?!?!


There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

                                                                                               ~ Lord Byron


 

Until next time…Use QT to create something that is fabulous…something fantastic… something FABTASTIC!

 

 

 

Hello…

How could we resist this?  I mean, our new collection, Talk to Me  is arriving in your favorite fabric store right now!!!

It’s super exciting and we want to celebrate with one of our favorite versions of this most appropriate song!  Adele’s Hello!  (The Quirky version ;))

I was at a local flea market a year or so ago and a little boy, aged 8-ish, saw a rotary telephone.   He turned to his mom and said “What IS that thing? It looks like a phone but what is THAT?”  as he pointed to the rotary dial.   I aged a good 15 years that moment!  🙂

Nostalgia is alive and well.  What is old is new again!   We can appreciate the kitsch of rotary phones, typewriters and television sets in this fantastic new collection from Alicia Jacobs!  How divine!  I just adore the colors and the nod to retro communication devices!!!  One day, in the future, there will be a fabric collection with smart phones and laptops and flat screens and we will laugh and remember how silly it was to use those!

Until then, enjoy this ensemble of fabulously fun fabrics! Click to view the whole collection on our website!

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And… if you have a minute, check out this video of  “How to dial your phone by Bell System’ from 1954”  It’s over 9 minutes long and I umm, well,  I watched the whole thing 🙂    Love it!!!   Click on the phone below!

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Speaking of Lazy Little Lazybugs…

What a whirlwind!  The new year is upon us and it’s already mid January!  Can you believe it!?!?!?!?  We hope you had a relaxing and fun-filled holiday season!   Time to get back into the swing of things.

We are excited that our designer, Desiree Designs, will be attending the Road to California Quilt show!   January 21-24 in Ontario, CA.  We are proud to be Ruby Sponsors of this quilt show and we know it will be an awesome event!

For more information, check out the Road to California website.

Desiree Designs will be showcasing her fantastic art and patterns in booth # 1924-1926, if you are in the area, swing by and say hello!!!

Lazy Little Ladybugs is Desiree’s most recent collection.  Look at these adorable fabrics! What a great fabric line for your favorite little ladybug!

Click on the image below to see the rest of the collection at quiltingtreasure.com!

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“The Ladybug wears no disguises.
She is just what she advertises.
A speckled spectacle of spring,
A fashion statement on the wing….
A miniature orange kite.
A tiny dot-to-dot delight.”

J. Patrick Lewis


Until next time…Use QT to create something that is fabulous…something fantastic… something FABTASTIC!

A little bit of City Life chic!

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izzy and ivy logo update_FINALThanks to our fantastic friends at Izzy & Ivy Designs for showing us all that you are never too young to be a chic fashionista!

Look at this gorgeous girl! Love Love Love the jacket and dress patterns from Izzy & Ivy created with our City Life collection of fabrics.

I’m a tad envious of the way she’s rocking this outfit…  Oh, to be a young starlet again 😉  (like I ever was one…. but, I did think I was a “Solid Gold Dancer” – if you don’t know what that is, honey –here you go… You’re welcome.)


 

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Ready for the board meeting, darling!
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My assistant can schedule our appointment…
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Strike a pose…
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I…can’t…even…

Find Izzy & Ivy’s  Pippa Jacket and Evie Sun Dress patterns available in PDF format.  Stop & explore their other awesome projects available!


City Life is now available in shops!

Check out our City Life  &  other awesome fabric lines on our NEW website!!!

 www.inkandarrowfabrics.com

 

 

 

 

 

Winners!

Hi Everyone!  WOOHOOO!!!! WINNERS!!!!

Thanks for commenting and entering the contest for last minute Christmas gifts!

Our randomly selected winners are….. (drumroll….)

Janie, Carol N. and Anna Lutz-Brown.  I’ve replied to your comment and asked you to send me an email qtblog@cpw.com with your address so I can ship the prize!!!