Fabric Shopping in Salt Lake City

I so enjoyed a family trip to Park City last month. There were eleven of us, and it was awesome. I wasn't planning on doing any downhill skiing since last year's trip to Steamboat Springs, Colorado resulted in both of my big toenails turning purple, disappearing, and finally coming back months later . . . almost as good as new. In Utah I did a lot of running, enjoyed a day of cross country skiing, and drove into Salt Lake City with my parents to visit one of the fabric stores that Mom and I shopped at during Sewing Summit last October.

Pine Needles at Gardner Village in West Jordan is a super cute shop. Turns out they are about to move into a larger space in the same shopping center. Amazing! I love how they have fat quarters cut of almost all of their yardage.

This saves a lot of time at the cutting table and lets me take home a little bit of so many prints I love. Their fat quarters are $3 each. I wish they were $2.75 like some of my other favorite shops in Austin, but you can spend a billion dollars, fill up a loyalty card and get 10% off of your purchase, so that's something to keep in mind.

I snagged lots of fat quarters along with some yardage. The fabric came in handy for working on rose star blocks while I was on the trip. 

I love a good fabric shop. There's nothing like being able to see it all in person :-)

Can anyone identify the print in the center of this block? I'd love to find more :-)

**Update: The fabric is the "Mumsy" print in Blue from Dear Stella's Lanikai line. Thank you so much to Rebecca at Sew Festive for identifying it!!!

Happy Crafting!

Claire

Raffle Winnings!

I told you about all the fun we had at the Remnans: fiber[culture] Post Quilt Market Soirée last night. The shop owner, Jessica, plans to make it an annual event following spring market, so keep that in mind for next year!

In addition to the celebrations, Jessica had amazing raffle items to win. Check out that spread! I'm excited to report that I won some goodies in the many, many drawings.

I won this spectacular Anna Griffin bucket tote and coordinating zipper pouch. I love the tropical floral laminate and the fact that it stands on its own. I like a bag with structure! The sides seem to have some sort of foam lending the shape. Austin Modern Quilt Guild member, Gina, is a purse and pouch-making pro. She guessed there might be a combination of Peltex and auto ceiling upholstery foam between the laminate and the lining.

I also left with this Liberty corduroy tote in deep fall colors. Folks are pumped about Liberty's upcoming prints after fondling them at Quilt Market. I'd love to get my hands on some, too, but this tote will hold me in the meantime ;-)

Finally I won this beautiful charm pack of Michael Miller's Cotton Couture solids, and they. are. beautiful. I've seen the super cute color card for the solids, but having all of these beautiful colors in 5" squares sitting in front of me in my sewing room is so much better.

Many thanks to Jessica for grabbing goodies at Quilt Market and for reaching out to the great folks in the quilting community to to gather these amazing raffle prizes! I had a blast and look forward to next year!

Remnants: fiber[culture] Partay!

There's a super cool quilt shop in Austin, Texas. Remnants: fiber[culture] has only been open for about three and a half months, but this shop has already changed quilting in the ATX. The amazing and energetic shop owner, Jessica, has kindly hosted the Austin Modern Quilt Guild monthly meetings at her shop. Tonight she threw a fabulous post Quilt Market party where she shared the wealth of goodies she scored in Kansas City raffle-style.

In addition to the raffle, there was quilt trivia, word jumbles, bean bag toss, and quilt pong for extra raffle tickets and prizes. There was also beer, BBQ with all the fix ins', and good times to be had! AMQG members were present along with the Austin Area Quilt Guild. The gals from the AAQG brought their amazing raffle quilt to serve as a backdrop for the festivities. They sold raffle tickets for a drawing taking place in September to win that beautiful quilt.

I'll share my Remnants: fiber[culture] raffle winnings in the light of day tomorrow. I hope your Saturday night was equally replete with beer and quilty awesomeness!

As I've mentioned before, I lurve me some online quilting community. Among the many blogs I follow is Quilting in the Rain. When Jera mentioned she was opening an online store, I knew I had to get in on the action!

I can't wait to start a new project with these Moda charm packs and jelly roll! I highly recommend following Jera's blog and checking out her store! No more junk from Jo-Ann's for me. It's quality all the way.

Junk from Jo-Ann's

Arg! They got me. I went to Jo-Ann's to get some plastic sheets for appliqué patterns, and I thought "Hey! Look at all these great fat quarters all neatly arranged by color. Why don't I just grab some of them for my project?"

This was great in theory. The patterns were very cute. I'll give them that. As soon as I got home and unfolded the fabric, though, it was painfully apparent how low the thread count was. I could totally see my background fabric through the loose weave. Lame.

So, I found myself going back to Jo-Ann's today to return them. I guess these super cute Mary Sorensen blocks will have to wait until I can get some better quality fabric from the local quilt shops. These images are from her site. Don't you love these appliqué patterns? Yup, I thought so. Now you understand why this fabric mishap was so agonizing. Feel free to hop on over to Mary's site and order some patterns to make along with me!