Wonderful Wednesday #4

Hello Everyone,

Today marks the LAST day of my 10 Year Anniversary (in business) celebration! Every Wednesday for a month, I have been giving you little specials in my online store for things like this...

and this...

But today, you have the opportunity for a SITE WIDE sale!! FOR TODAY ONLY you may take 20% off your entire purchase by using the code wonderful20 at checkout. Excluded are kits and books (everyday 20% off retail).

Thank you everyone for you support and kind thoughts!

Click here to start shopping....

P.S. Don't forget to enter The EDGE Ruler giveaway, by clicking here.

Until Next Time...

Wonderful Wednesday #4

Wonderful Wednesday #3

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to Wonderful Wednesday #3!! This time I want to show you my friend Karen's quilt, (which is truly wonderful), that she brought over to me to do the quilting. No, it is not yet quilted. When it is, I will make sure I show it to you. I am thrilled with this quilt because it is one that I have actually been longing to do.

This serves as my inspiration for our ALL day sew-a-thon on Saturday, just Karen and I!! Yippee!! I am so excited. Anyway, check out this fabulous quilt...

Quilt skillfully made by my talented friend Karen.

All the swirls in the middle, purple, black and white are appliqued. So, of course in my version, I will be machine piecing! I will be using the templates from the Sue Ross BOM that I really never started... shhhhh don't tell anyone. So yes, I already have been giving this quilt (Karen's) some thought.

Karen used a mix of patterns from Piece O' Cake Designs to create this quilt.

The spikes are paper pieced from scraps. This I will do in the same manner. I will be using Karen K. Stone's book for this one. My friend Karen, did some gorgeous applique on the borders.

Mine will be minus the applique. I absolutely love applique, but it is something that I just don't have the time for right now. I hope that I will at some point in my life though. My border will be paper pieced as in Karen K. Stone's book. Love the look!

So yes, I will be starting a new project on Saturday with Karen and I am just way too excited!!

Something also to be excited about is that today is Wonderful Wednesday. You know what that means, something special in my shop is on SALE!! All patterns are 20% off!! Just use the code patterns20 at checkout to get the discount. Click here to look at all the glorious patterns.

Another thing to be excited about is my friend Pat Sloan! Well, her new rulers, but you should be excited about Pat too.

Anyway, stay tuned next week for a unique experience filled with recipes, fun stories, and wonderful rulers. But best of all one lucky person will walk away with a COMPLETE SET of Pat's new rulers. You heard that right a COMPLETE SET!!! How exciting is that??

There are several bloggers in on the hop, I am one of them. Later on this week, I will post the schedule. But Pat may have it posted today. So, stop by and say Hi to Pat and tell her I sent you.

Until Next Time...

Wonderful Wednesday #3

Quilting in NYC, Part 3 .... The Fabric

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to the final chapter in my NYC adventure. Of course there was a little fabric shopping involved. I am sure that many of you are saying "What could Jackie possibly need when it comes to fabric, she owns her own shop?" There is always some fabric out there that a girl just has to have, right??

I have always loved silk dupioni and started a very small collection a few years ago. My trip to NYC gave me the chance to add. Just take a look at these jewels.

Gorgeous bright and iridescent colors sitting atop a black dupioni. Victoria took us through the garment district and let me tell you, you can get silk dupioni at wonderful prices. So I took advantage.

A closer look at these juicy colors. Victoria's perfect description for these.

Another view.

One thing you must know about silks, really any kind, is that they tend to ravel and fray quite a bit. So what I recommend is backing them with a very lightweight fusible interfacing before cutting into them and handling them over and over for piecing. This should eliminate some of the fraying.

However, my buddy Karen decided on the ride down that she was going to start a collection of all her stray threads. So on the way home, on the train, she took her scissors out and gave my silks a haircut and put them in her handy dandy zipper bag to add to her collection.

Of course, I had to add to my black and white stash too.

Speaking of adding to the stash, today is Wonderful Wednesday!! And as promised, for today only, you may take 15% off ALL Westminster Fabrics in my online shop. Just enter the discount code westminster15 at checkout. Click here to start shopping now.

There were 54 NEW Westminster Fabrics added to the shop yesterday!!!

Until Next Time...

Quilting in NYC, Part 3 .... The Fabric

Wonderful Wednesday

Hello Everyone,

For the month of September, during my 10 year celebration, I thought I would have a regular feature on my blog called Wonderful Wednesday.

I thought in the post I would share some things that make my Wednesday Wonderful. Then at the end of the post, I would make YOUR Wednesday Wonderful!!

The first thing that makes my day wonderful would be my kitties.

Here you can see Rolo modeling his favorite quilt, freshly washed and warm from the dryer. He loves this.

Here is my Beanie keeping me company while I am reading blogs and doing some computer work. She loves to keep me company and is often my studio cat.

Little Pavi getting a breath of fresh air. He loves watching all the critters and happenings outside the windows.

What do we have here? Two special bundles sent from my friend Stephanie!! A total surprise. They will be given to a wonderful group of ladies who put together preemie quilts for 2 local hospitals. This year one of the hospitals have a need for 600 little quilts!! Thank you, Stephanie for your thoughtfulness.

NOW for YOUR piece of goodness. For TODAY and TODAY only, you may take 15% off any pre-cut fabrics in my online shop. That means fat quarters, half yard bundles, jelly rolls, charm packs, etc!! Just use the code bundles15 at checkout to get the discount.

By the way, the kitties helped me pick today's dose of goodness.

Have fun and you can start shopping by clicking here.

Until Next Time...

Wonderful Wednesday