The Quilter's Faire ~ A Unique Fabric and Quilting Boutique

Well thanks to you all we had a great open house this past Saturday.  Four lucky winners; 

Mary Hilz won “Baby Love” fabric collection

Glenda Pauly won the “Lake House” fabric collection

Michelle Rancour won the “Atmosphere” fabric collection and

Dottie Hansmeier won the “Bliss” fabric collection. 

We sold lots of music quilt raffle tickets…but have more …so if you were unable to come to our open house stop by as we will be selling tickets until April 27 or until we sell out.  Our goal is 500 tickets at $2.00 each.  All net proceeds will go to The Desert Hot Springs High School Band.  

Thank you all again for your help with our open house and charity raffle quilt.

We have it on display…we hung up yesterday and already have a positive response….I just can’t thank all the wonderful generous ladies who volunteered without question to put this quilt together to help out the Desert Hot Spring Music / Band Department – Thank you Jeanne, Judy, MJ, Sheila, Earilene and Billie - thank you all.  We will start selling tickets on Saturday – we have 500 tickets and 1 month to sell them all…so if you can come on by Saturday we’d love to see you.

Our open house date has been set for Saturday, March 27th were we will be raffling off a music themed quilt to benefit the Desert Hot Spring High School Music / Band Department.  We expect to have the quilt back from the machine quilter any day and will post a picture as soon as possible.   We think it’s pretty great. 

We have some new fabric arrivals, Wild Rose by Marti Mitchell – beautiful, just beautiful.  Black, White, Pink, Yellow and Green, roses, strips, plaids, polka dots – yum.

                                                                                                   Twelve Moons from Robert Kaufman gold, brown, green, and blue with two Asian panels and coordinates truly elegant.                                                                                                                                                                           

Garden Song by Nancy Halvorsen soo many wonderful colored coordinates to go with the panel, blues, greens, yellow, pinks, plaids, dots, swirls…we have made a “sampler’ quilt using her panel and some classic blocks to suggest just one way to use these wonderful fabrics.

I am happy to report that we have received and have the entire “Outback” collection designed by Jinny Beyer for RJR fabrics…and talk about swooning!  The fabric has bold colors set on dark background which is oh so dramatic and the movement of the designs…well words just won’t do it justice.  This is a must see and you can view the collection by going to the RJR fabric website or by going to the Jinny Beyer web site.  She has created a free pattern in three color ways that are all equally beautiful.  We a frantically working up a sample in the “blue” scene and every-time we make a cut in the fabric we just say yum!  Truly beautiful fabric.  But isn’t it all? 

We have also created a beautiful quilt using the “Beach House” collection designed by Robyn Pandolph for RJR which is currently featured in several of the current quilting magazines. The wonderful aqua, cream, peach and yellows really lend themselves to a dreamy soft cuddle up kind of quilt.  We can almost hear the ocean birds and waves as we imagine settling in with a good book on a breezy day with this quilt by our sides.   Stop by the store to see the articles and gaze upon the soft colors of this wonderful fabric line. 

Newsletter update …we are getting very close to completion of the newletter function of our web site.  So to all of you who have been kind enough to sign up on our web site and in our store please stand by; just as soon as the newsletter is up and working I will be sending you a welcome and what’s new email…but until then I hope you all stay contacted with us through our blogs! 

Happy Quilting!