If you liked Sheila’s Halloween House, you’ll love her “Gingerbread House” for Christmas. All the charming details are up to you, but the pattern with instructions is here for you to download for free. This is the perfect thing to make for a small gift or the cookies you bake. Christmas is coming!
Susan & Marilyn, Flying Geese Fabric
Busy, busy, busy are we around the shop! Demo Day is here and we have been working on it most of the year. There are over 20 new projects to share and we’ll give you most of the patterns you’d like to make for free if you come in to the shop on Saturday, November 10, from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. It’s a fun day for us and we’d like to share it with you.
Susan & Marilyn, Flying Geese Fabric
Isn’t Halloween Fun? If you came by the shop during our Spooktacular Shop Hop this weekend, you got our cute owl pattern from the really cute free Halloween quilt pattern by Pearl Pereira on the Red Rooster Fabric website. (We did get permission to use it for the Hop.) Our Barbara made three great projects with the owl. There is a table runner, a placemat and a pillow and you can download the pattern here if you missed it. We also thought you might like to see the photos for reference. Hope you all have a Happy Halloween. We are celebrating it all over the shop!
Susan and Marilyn
Flying Geese Fabric
Halloween House Gift Idea
Our dear Sheila Cautillo is at it again. She just designed this adorable little Halloween House that you can fill with cookies or candy and give as a gift to a friend or keep for yourself.
The pattern is here for you to download for free. There are designs for every side of the house and the pipe cleaners look like a lightning strike. It is just so, so cute. You can see it in the shop if you drop by.
Happy Sewing,
Susan & Marilyn
Flying Geese Fabric
Marilyn and I ordered the new book “Sunday Morning Quilts” because we loved the fresh and easy quilts in the beautiful photographs. One Sunday morning I decided to actually read the book and felt totally inspired by its young authors, Amanda Jean Nyberg and Cheryl Arkison, to tackle my fabric and make some quilts.
Although I consider myself an organized person, my quilt stash at home needs attention, and this book spoke to me in a way no other book on organizing has. They not only teach you how to cut up your leftover fabric, but how to put it together to make new “fabric.” It is all so clear, simple and truly inspiring. Why didn’t I think of this?
Happy Quilting,
Susan
Our congratulations to Quenta Hatch of Brea who won our $300 shop basket from this year’s Quilters Run and Karren Mitchell (pictured here), who won the $50 gift card for guessing the Mystery Book, “Murder on the Orient Express.” It is always fun for us to be able to surprise the lucky winner with the news. We also want to thank all of you who participated in the Run this year. The shops have already begun work on next year and hope to make it even better than before.
Susan & Marilyn
Flying Geese Fabric
Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of the wonderful quilters who brought us their beautiful work to display last Saturday.It is always such a nice day for us at Flying Geese when all of you meet your friends and come to spend some time admiring each other’s quilts.
The staff enjoys making special treats for our guests, putting flowers on the tables and turning the classroom into a temporary tearoom.
The favors given were cute little pouches with a red raspberry herbal tea bag, and a red or white zipper pin made by students at Emerson Middle School as a thank you for the fabric and yarn donated to them by our customers for their fiber arts classes.
Our red & white gift basket was won by Ardelle Stenson. Congratulations!
We hope to see you all at our annual Tea again next year. If you had to miss it, be sure to put it on your calendar when we set the date next Spring. As Susan’s sister Anne would say “It’s a Lovely Lady Day.”
Susan & Marilyn
Flying Geese Fabric
We had such a good time at our Red & White Tea on Saturday, May 19, in the shop. It is always a fun time for the staff and customers of Flying Geese. We bake our favorite goodies and decorate the classroom like a tea room. Of course the main thing is the beautiful display of quilts made by our teachers, customers and staff. This year the theme was Red & White quilts, and our talented quilters once again, out did themselves.
We would like to share the free pattern for our red and white yo-yo quilt, designed by Sheila Cautillo.
Click on this link for the directions to make the Yo Yo Quilt.
Click on this link for the layout for the Yo Yo Quilt.
If ever there was a “Go To Girl” Sheila is it. All we have to do is mention that we need something in the shop and her creative wheels start turning.
This quilt has been hanging in the shop for a while and people always stop to look at it and comment on how cute it is. She made most of the 216 yo-yos while on a cruise, sitting by the pool. As she sat there, she noticed a woman across the way, also making yo-yos for a project. Of course they ended up chatting about quilts and quilting.
Isn’t it amazing how as women, we are able to connect in so many simple yet miraculous ways?
Happy Quilting,
Susan
Have you ever had an antique quilt or piece of vintage fabric with those brown age stains that just ruined the pristine look of what otherwise would be a real prize? I recently found a bag of 30′s butterfly blocks at an antique store in Old Town Temecula, but the blocks had brown age stains. I have more than 30 blocks, enough to make a quilt, but they needed some cleaning.
I know Retro Clean is a safe and effective way to bring hand washable textiles (i.e. vintage linens, quilts, clothing and laces) back to a state free of brown age stains while leaving the fabric with renewed color and vitality. I cleaned my blocks with Retro Clean, and as you can see from these before and after pictures, Retro Clean truly worked to bring back the vitality to my beautiful butterflies.
Happy Quilting,
Marilyn
If you are looking for a fun quilt kit, we have the answer using the new Alexander Henry Africa Collection part two. Land of dense forest and burning deserts. Home to the world’s last great herds of wild animals. Take a safari through this collection of African ethnics, inspired by the cultural wealth of this vast and colorful continent. Printed on 100% premium cotton.
We have both the book and quilt kit available to make this adventurous quilt. Who do you know that would love this quilt?
