Amy Butler Visit & New Tilda Book

There are a few tickets left for the Amy Butler visit on the 11th August. A great opportunity to meet this outstanding designer. Contact the shop for details. Tel: 01207 565728

Now in store the new Tilda book Sew Summer Homestyle. It has over 50 projects & already I have made the jewelery mannequin, a seahorse, and a scarecrow.

The Fat Quarters are at Pins and Needles April 2009

Today we have set up for the show opening tomorrow. When we were asked to co-ordinate the classes in the Sew Central to Life Area & the Quilt Exhibition we agreed but never realised how much work was involved.
Thanks to lots of help from Gen Davidson, Deborah Collins, Debbie Johnson, Bonnie McKerracher, Emma Rae and of course David Tremble we would never have been able to walk out at 8pm tonight.
This is the first time there has been a quilt competition & the first time I have been involved in organising one & it has been a huge learning curve.
The quilts are all fantastic and from such a wide range of people. We have schools involved, beginners and people with lots of experience. It is always amazing to see peoples work on display and a pleasure & an honour to be involved.
Tomorrow juging will be taking place and we have Rosemary Allan the keeper of the quilts at Beamish Museum and Bonnie Mckerracher from Scotland who have the unenvieable task of making the decisions.
I will post the results and some of the photos so watch this space.

New Tilda Fabric in store

All of the new Tilda fabric has now arrived in store check it out is fabulous.
Also I have a limited stock of the Homespun Magazine 9.4 which included a Tilda article & pattern to make a Kangaroo & Joey.
Stocks are limited and are on a first come basis, so don't miss out.

Sew Pretty Homestyle Summer by Tilda

We have just heard from our Publishers that Toni Finnegar has signed the contract for her new book Sew Pretty Homestyle Summer.
I have seen the proof pages and it is definitely the best yet, if that is possible. It is packed with projects from start to finish. Once again you are taken around the home & here are projects for each room.
The book is due to be published in English & be ready for July 2009, and is priced at £12.99, however once again we have the opportunity to receive our books as early as June.
We are taking pre-order now and will reduce the price to £12.45 for each book ordered. P&P will still be charged.A deposit of £5 is required to pre-order your book & the remaining £7.45 will be charged when the book is posted out.
The front cover will be differant to the one shown for the books in English.

Snowman apron

The Snowman Apron panel arrived late on Friday & I could not wait to get it finished. As I was out celebrating my birthday on Friday I had to wait until saturday but I finished it within a couple of hours.

Annette than convinced kim the apprentice who works next door to model it for us. Lets be right she looks far better than me. Thanks Kim.

Also can i take this opportunity to thank everyone who has continued to support us over the last 9 weeks since out flood. We are still not sorted out completely but we are hopeful to be finished by Christmas. The shop is fine it is behind the scenes where the problems are.

Also if you are at Harrogate in November come and say hello we are on Stand 570 in Hall C.

New Tilda Fabric has arrived in the shop

This week we see the arrival of the latest range of Tilda fabric, ribbons & stitcheries. Check out the website for further information.

'Quilt for a Quality of Life'

The quilt was on exhibition this weekend at The Fat Quarters 1st show. It was made up of a number of blocks that were sen by people who took part in the workshops in the Sew Central to Life area at The Pins & Needles show in Newcastle in April.


The quilt was fantastic & Jennie Rayment our special guest this weekend kindly made the draw.
The Quilt was won by Mrs Teasdale who I have just phoned & she is calling into the shop this week to collect it. She has also agreed to let us borrow the quilt again in order it can be displayed at the 2009 Pins & Needles Show.
2nd Prize was a large bundle of Moda fabric value approx £100 & this was won by Liz Bangs who lives in Cramlington.
3rd Prize was a Sewing box which was won by Janet Davidson from Prudhoe.
4th Prize was a set of Yo-Yo makers & they were won by Margaret who we are trying to track down at the moment.
Congratulations to all the winners & a big thanks to everyone who took part in the making of the quilt & buying the raffle tickets.