Whats Hot from the Cloth Shop 2nd September 2011

Friends..................

This year we won't be seeing our friends at The Hamilton Craft Show - we are missing you all. However we will see you at Calico Christmas in Albany on the first weekend in November.

Last year we had a fabulous rertreat at Oreti Lodge on Lake Taupo with Leanne Beasley and Rosalie Quinlanhttp://rosaliequinlandesigns.typepad.com/ - in August Rosalie had surgery for cancer and will start chemotherapy soon - we send love and our very best wishes to her.

Badges of Honour - Cathy Bell is a textile artist from Chrischurch - she used to sell her work at The art Centre, but as it was destroyed in the earthquakes she can longer do so. We are selling her bnadges for $15.00http://www.clothshop.co.nz/index.php?page=new

Saturday Strippers - tomorrow - two free sessions!!

Margaret Morrison called in to the shop recently to see if we had heard of the Disappearing four patch - she seen it made up and thought it would b e a perfect thing for Saturday Strippers - we agreed - and tomorrow we are going to show you how it's done.It's fun and although we made it up using 5" squares, they do startr life as a 5" strip!

This month Saturday Strippers will be at the usual time of 8.30 - 9.30 - we will be repeating the demo between 1.00 and 2.00. There is no charge to come to either session - we would love to see you here!

Badges of Honour

Saturday Sampler tomorrow

Tomorrow is Saturday Sampler Day - it is time to collect Block seven - next month it will be time to pick up your last block and then Revealing day will be on the 10th November - on that day we willl have all the quilts made up into different settings, and we will have patterns and a limited number of kits available.

We have chosen to use one of our "Quilt as you go" methods for the Tropical Cocktail selection -tomorrow we will show you how to do it -and in November at Revealing Day we will have one of our settings done in our Quilt as You Go Method.

New Fabrics!

We have had lots of new fabics arrive over the last week or two - we have put some of them on our Really New Page

Christmas Fabric designed by Leanne Anderson

This is the cutest country range of fabric and the really cute thing is the little book with the Christmas Story, told by everyone in the manger, which is called The Great I am. There is also Christmas stocking in the same design. These fabrics are deisgned by Henry Glass and if you click on the link below you will see what they have done with the book.

Fabrics from Japan

This photo is Deb who came to a bag class at The Cloth Shop last weekend - she made a bag using one of the new fabrics from Japan.

New Yo Yo Patterns

We have all the latest yoyo patterns including the latest release -Christmas reindeer, santa and the snowman. They are great fun to make - easy - great for children to make as well. the perfect project to stitch whle you watch TV or go to your stitching group. We also have the yo yo makers in stock to make the process easier.

New Books and Magazines

The latest issues of Fons and Porter, Quilting Life, American Quilter,Quilting Arts, Homespun, Cloth Paper and Scissors have all arrived in the last few days.

http://www.clothshop.co.nz/index.php?page=new our favourite of these new books called The Art of Embroidery - a beautiful wire bound book with details of every embroidery stitch and embellishment you could eimagine.

Kaffe Fasset's new book called Quilts in Sweden,Sewn Toy Tales by Melly and Me, Pretty little pincushions, Socks Appeal by Brenna Maloney - these are all new and are really good.

If you are want to place an order

New Baby quilt kits

We loved these lttle kits - they are cot size and come with fabrics for the front and the back of the quilt. They are $64 each. The one we have pictured here is made up wth a teal plush fabric, lemon dotty flannel, orange satin and the cutest little yellow ducky flannel for the centre of the quilt and some of the outside squares.We have basted it together with wool batting ready for quilting. Our wool batting is marvellous - it is prewashed and preshrunk and is 2.5 metres wide.

The other kits featured have trucks and cars on them and have stripes, dots and red plush.

All What's Hot from The Cloth Shop are on our web page

Christmas Decoration Class with Adrienne Walker

Customise your class

Last weekend Rachel and her friends came to The Cloth Shop and made an Easy Peasey bag. They emailed us and said they would like to come together and make a bag, we sent them pictures and suggested a day. they confirmed their bag and the day and it was all on.

They were thrilled with the results - so we were we.Rachel has made her bag using one of the nee linen cotton mix fabrics from Japan and the black grommets

Happy Creating!!

Will you be watching the Rugby World Cup - the best part will be the National Anthems - love them!! The rest of the game is a good chance to catch up on some stitching!! I will be making something from this new book by Jacqui Nicholls called Simply Rouge. I will use this new linnen fabric from French General.