From Duxford to Southwold

Well this time three weeks ago we were setting up at Duxford for the Spring Quilt Festival and this afternoon we’re setting up for our latest pop up shop at Soutwold.  It’s all go!  Thanks to all our lovely customers who came to say hello at Duxford.  As always, it was great fun meeting you all, seeing what you’re making, and generally having a good time surrounded by fabric.  We’ll be back in November.

Janet & Louise at Spring Quilt Festival, Duxford, March 2013

Thanks also to Nicola who took the photo and lent us her amazing (and much admired!) quilt made with Mango Salsa pre cuts that you can see in the background.

As many of you already know, we’re off to Southwold again this weekend for another pop up shop.  We’ll be in The Cygnet Room at The Swan Hotel from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st March from 10.00am so what better way to spend some of your Easter weekend than having a look at our fabrics.  Let’s face it, the weather is not shaping up to be particularly spring-like but once you’re in our fabric room you’ll be transported to another dimension never mind another season!

We’ll have our Simply Color quilt there – this lovely blend of green, plum and grey proved a huge hit at Duxford – so much so that we only have a few fabrics left but plenty of Moda Bella Solids to go around.

Simply Color quilt

And we’ll also have a new collection from Benartex called Casablanca.

Casablanca from Benartex

Well worth a look so see you there!

Happy Easter!

Janet & Louise

It must be Spring…

…because this time next week we’ll be in the middle of our third (and final) day at the Duxford Spring Quilt Festival!  Here’s a sneak peek at some of the fabrics and items we’ve made (and are making!) that we’ll have on display.

Fabrics are clockwise from top left – Kate Spain’s Cuzco, Lily Ashbury’s Gypsy Girl, Dianna LaFerry’s Feathers and Fancy and Simply Colour by V and Co.

Janet’s made an amazing table runner from these little babies…

otherwise known as a Moda mini charm pack or candy pack – 42 2.5 inch (approx 6.5 cm) squares of Chateau Rouge goodness and no, it’s nothing to do with wine, although it sounds as though it could be!

PLUS we have another shipment of Moda scrap bags in!!  These are very popular and rightly so as they are excellent value and contain at least 1/2 lb (approx 227 g) of fabric strips, usually from the same collection but sometimes a mixture.  We don’t put these on the website so you’ll just have to come along to Duxford to check them out for yourself.  See you there!

Janet & Louise

The February fabric sale continues…

A couple more fabrics collections, both from Paintbrush Studio,  have been added to our February sale – take a look

Spice of Life

and Tiffanie’s Trove

(Thanks to Anne for her image of the quilted netbook sleeve in Tiffanies Trove blue flowers.)

Both these collections are ideal for quilts, bags or items for the home such as cushions.  Take a look at the rest of the fabric in our February sale here.

And don’t forget to book your tickets for the Spring Quilt Festival at Duxford – see you there!

Janet & Louise

Chilford quilt festival

We’ve just realised it’s been 4 weeks since we were at Spring Quilt Festival at Chilford!! It was our second time as exhibitors and so we were able to relax a bit more and enjoy meeting everybody and chatting to the other stand holders.  Hello to Ann at the Suffolk Sewing School and her team of helpers who very kindly gave us a hand with the finishing touches to our stand.  We kept the same layout as November with our frame for hanging fabrics on as it seemed to work well, but we displayed different collections and made up some examples to show off the fabric.  We were pretty pleased with the result!

Chilford March 2012

We also learnt a little more about the place called Glen Roy in Scotland from which our business takes its name.  Geography and geology lesson in one!  Even though it was hard work (and despite a couple of medical emergencies!) we really enjoyed being at Chilford and getting to know our customers.  We’ll be back in November if you want to come and say hello!

Happy Easter!

Janet & Louise