We are proud to be Americans and at this time of year, we have President’s Day as a national holiday to celebrate our country’s history and honor our forefathers! February 22 is George Washington’s birthday – our first President of the United States and an icon of our American … Continue reading Long May She Wave… Happy President’s Day!
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?
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!!!
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!
Thanks to our fantastic friends at Izzy & Ivy Designs for showing us all that you are never too young to be a chic fashionista!
One of my favorite things, besides fabric (of course) and print/pattern (of course) is color.
I remember opening up my new crayon box and sitting there studying the crayons as if they were color chips. I didn’t dare use my favorite colors, and, ummmm, every color was my favorite! 🙂 Fortunately, I was lucky enough to have multiple sets of crayons. There was one that was dedicated for “show only”. Kind of like your mom’s “good scissors” that were only for fabric. I still think twice before using my scissors – every time!!!
Things haven’t changed much, I still love staring at color and I found my niche working here! I’m so lucky!
So…when I saw this collection of “basics” or “blenders” by Dan Morris, I immediately fell in love. This is my visual Ode to Scrollscapes and I hope you enjoy it!
Below, I took samples from the fabric to show the variations within the selvedge to selvedge repeat! So many great options. It’s really a bunch of fabrics in one!
I’ll be back next week to talk a little more about colors, color stories and how to pick the perfect palette for your next project!
Next week, I’ll announce a new contest where you could be the winner of a fat quarter of each of these colors! Come on back, we want to spoil you with fabulous, colorful, Scrollscapes fabrics!
~ Mattie Stepanek
I am thankful for… so many things. I make it a point before I go to bed each night to think of something I was especially grateful for that day. Of course, there are days of sunshine and days of shadows, but there is ALWAYS something to appreciate.
The above designs are from our “In Bloom” collection by Dan Morris. I love the rich, vivid colors and the beautiful flowers. Color and pattern are some things that always bring me Joy, I hope you find joy in the little things today and always… Happy Thanksgiving!
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
We have the perfect collection for those of us who are in denial that winter is coming… Floral Fantasy! Think Spring and sophistication. Pretty colors, on-trend watercolor styling, it’s just the touch of hope we need to remember that the flowers will bloom again! In stores now so add it to your stash, or better yet, create something vibrant and fresh while sipping hot cocoa – a nice distraction.
TRAVELING TUFFET ALERT!!!!!!!
The Tuffet is on the move! Our mini-tuffet is off on her journey from Quilt Market in Houston! First stop was the Shipshewana Fabric Show in Shipshewana, IN. Our friend Brenda from Sew Creative Threads is holding our mini-tuffet. The Ombre Scroll Stained Glass Quilt is featured on the wall.
Next stop: Our Traveling Tuffet made her way to Trevathan’s Sweep & Sew Shoppe in Hillsdale, MI. What a fun shop window featuring QT’s Janet Wecker Frisch collection “Letter Stitch” .
Patti, is shown here in front of the great window display.
In stores now, our new collections, Heads Up by Studio 8 and For Love of Country by Dan Morris for QT. Take a look, there are a lot of great creative possibilities! See the full collection and patterns by clicking on their names above.
This picture is a bit blurry. I apologize. I was so excited to meet our friends Sharyn and Lori, I took this photo too quickly and well, you get the (fuzzy) picture 😉
This is Sharyn Cole (pictured on left), our friend and designer of the Tuffet. Lori College (holding the mini tuffet on the right) is Store Manager at Thimble Pleasures in Chapel Hill, NC and is friends with Sharyn.
Sharyn made these amazing tuffets for us out of our new Ombre Scroll fabrics we launched at Quilt Market in Houston. The mini one was made just for us and we fell in love immediately, how can you not?
A tuffet is an upholstered stool, like a small ottoman. They are so chic!
Sharyn’s passion is making tuffets. She started her own business called “Tuffet Source”. Her imaginative creations are lovely. I cannot get over the different variations of tuffets in her gallery. It is kind of amazing to see! I hope you stop by her site and check it out, I will put her link at the bottom of the blog. Her passion shines through in her work. It is always so wonderful to meet someone who enjoys their work so much and is so generous to share their creativity and passion with others. THANK YOU SHARYN!!!
In our office here, we have to say TUFFET with a loud and proud voice! When I first spoke with Sharyn on the phone, my co-worker noticed I was yelling TUFFET with such gusto and excitement. It’s kind of the only way to say it now… Anyway, we are super excited, can’t you tell?
Finally, before I go, I wanted to let you know that we are going to be following our
“Traveling Tuffet”
on her adventure around the country. Our regional sales managers will take turns hosting our very own mini-tuffet and it will be exciting to see where the journey takes her. Stay tuned… find out where she is heading next!!!
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
On the QT 