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Tropical III
Hawaiian Quilt pattern,
six blocks.
Regular price: $12.00, for a limited time purchase for just $10.00
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When shopping for fabric, a good place to start is on our Fabric Finder page. On this page you will see a small thumb-nail photo of all our bolt fabrics. Just click on any of them to be taken to the page where you can see that fabric, plus more, and to make your selections. Fabrics are arranged by color, with easy navigation between three pages.
Hand-dyed fabric is all on one page for easy shopping.
Fabric Packs span 4 pages, with easy navigation from patterns to Fabric Packs, and between the pages.
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Here are just a few of the wonderful comments we have recently received from our customers:
"I can't believe how quickly I received this order. Thank you, thank you, thank you."
"Wow! What a fantastic email with so much detailed information - thank you. Thanks for AAA+ customer service."
"I purchased your DVD for our quilt guild - it is absolutely the most well done one I have ever seen."
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"I love your site and recommend it to my fellow quilters because of your low shipping and huge selection of Aurifil thread. When I am looking for something quilty, I always check your website. Thanks for answering my question so quickly."
Now it is time for us to thank you! To all of you who decide to spend some of your time and some of your hard-earned dollars with us, to keep us doing what we do, Mahalo. |
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RETREAT TO THE OREGON COAST!
Summer and Fall are great times to visit the Oregon Coast. Make your plans now to spend time at Nancy's studio in Gold Beach, Oregon, for private applique lessons with Nancy, or for your quilting retreat. Whether you come for one day or several, by yourself, or with friends; you deserve a place to relax while you stitch.
Go to QuiltChong.com for more pictures and information, then call Nancy to book your retreat!
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| Greetings!
 When you travel do you look for quirky, out-of-the-way places to visit? Or do you go to the famous vacation spots? Do you stick to the well-traveled main routes, or search out the blue highways (the thin blue lines on the local map)? While Nancy travels often to teach, she seldom gets to play the part of a tourist. In this issue you will read about one of her rare tourist experiences.
Janice, however, finds that most of her travel is done vicariously through friends. How else would she have found out about The Settlement Centre Museum in Borgarnes, Iceland? Or known that you could eat horsemeat jerky served at a cichetti bar in Venice, Italy? Or discovered Haida Gwaii?
You probably have a unique, little-known tourist attraction near where you live. Have you ever visited it? It's true, we usually only visit the popular tourist sites in our home town when hosting out-of-town visitors. While it is still summer (or winter, if you live further south), why not take a few hours to search out a local attraction you have never seen before? Become a tourist-for-a-day in your town, see something new and be inspired. Speaking of traveling, if you are near London (Ontario, Canada, that is) Aug 8-13, be sure to take in the London International Quilt Festival. Each year this "Festival focuses on bringing the culture and history of different countries/regions of the world to London. This is achieved by having, not only quilts and fibre art from the visiting country, but also the artists who create some of the quilts." And this year the focus is on Hawaiian Quilting! You will see many of our quilts in the show, and Nancy will be there to teach and to show more quilts in presentations. When she is not teaching or speaking, you will find her at the Cotton-by-Post booth, where you can shop for our patterns and videos. What could be better? See you there!
E komo mai!
Nancy & Janice |
| Seahorses | | |
2 Fabric Applique Quilt
"So tiny and colorful!" Nancy had the opportunity last November to visit a seahorse farm on the Big Island of Hawaii. She was teaching Hawaiian quilting to a group of touring quilters and one of their day-trips included a visit to Ocean Rider Seahorse Farm, in Kona.
While at the Seahorse Farm, Nancy was asked to use a net to collect food for feeding seahorses -- tiny, tiny baby brine shrimp. Then she had the opportunity to put her hands in the water, "where I was introduced to a seahorse that curled its tail around my index finger for about a minute! It was such a thrill to feel just a whisper of a touch against my finger."
 Seahorses were once found in every ocean on the planet, but since 1980 there has been a 70% decline in populations. Many species are now extinct, or on the verge of extinction. The decline is attributed to harvesting for the medicine and pet markets, and to destruction of habitat. A wild-captured seahorse may only live for a few days or weeks in captivity. And, since they mate for life, if one of a mated pair is captured or killed the abandoned mate will die soon after. Ocean Rider has a mission "To eliminate the need to take wild seahorses of the reefs by providing home and public aquariums with healthy, eco-friendly, hand-raised, domesticated seahorse pairs to be kept as pets for many years to come."
But not many of us keep aquariums, and even fewer have live seahorses. So what to do when you love these little creatures? Obviously, you make our "Seahorse" quilt!
These little ones come in every color of the rainbow and range in size from one inch up to 13 inches in length. This variety of colors inspired Janice to put together some new Fabric Packs for use with this pattern. But, of course, you also know you can pick any Fabric Pack, or any colors that suit you and your color scheme. 
To find Fabric Packs for this quilt, click here: Fabric Packs .
Visit the Ocean Rider Seahorse Farm website to watch their videos of these charming creatures, to learn more about seahorses and Ocean Rider's efforts to save them from extinction. |
| TROPICAL III | | |
Hawaiian Quilt
Don't let this quilt fool you. When looking at these blocks, keep in mind that the blue fabric is the applique on a white background. Look at the blue to see the appliqued flowers, leaves and fruit.
As with all Hawaiian quilts, you fold the applique fabric like you are going to cut a paper snowflake, cut on the pattern cutting lines to remove some fabric; unfold the applique onto the background, baste and stitch. This pattern is no different. It just so happens that with these designs, the fabric around the edge of the block is part of what you keep as the applique. This pattern is not reverse, it is not harder, or different. You simply do not cut through the applique fabric from the edge, you leave the edges in tact. That's it.
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The picture at the right shows the blue applique fabric, folded in eighths, and cut for the Plumeria design. Nothing difficult, or tricky about it!
The six patterns from the top left are: Angel's Trumpet, Breadfruit, Plumeria, Monstera, Torch Ginger, Orchid. You can use these blocks, as pictured here, with or without sashing between the blocks.
Tropical III. Six 20" blocks. Pattern: Normally priced at $12.00, on sale for a limited time for just $10.00. Buy It Now
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HINT: Alternate Tropical III blocks with the blocks from our Tropical II pattern to create an alternating light / dark look that is stunning. No sashing required.
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OMBRE FABRICS | | Color graded
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You have seen these fabrics on our website and in the stores, and probably wondered "What would I do with that?"
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Well, we have some patterns that work beautifully with ombre fabrics!
Here are just a few ideas and examples. Let your imagination go wild!
Consider these fabrics as backgrounds for any of our 2 Fabric Applique Quilts, or use as the applique for a set of Hawaiian quilt blocks (like the Tropical III set). They also make stunning Quilt Borders & Table Runners, similar to this Crowing Glory.
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TIP 1: From the same length of fabric use the color at one end as the applique on the color at the other end. Get twice the mileage out of one length of fabric. Yes, this works better with some ombres, not necessarily all of them.
TIP 2: Fussy-cut your applique shapes from a single length of ombre fabric to get the shading you need for your applique flowers and other motifs.
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See the different looks you can get with our Garden ombre, using it as the background, or the applique!
 | | 2 Mums, ombre applique |
 | | Two Mums on ombre |
Of course, you can achieve similar effects with any of our 2 Fabric Applique Quilt patterns and ombre fabrics!
Janice can also hand-dye custom color ombres to your specifications. Maybe there is already one waiting for you here! Or place a special order .
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Nancy's Whereabouts:
Go ahead, treat yourself to a class or retreat this Summer or Fall. You deserve it!
Quilt Shows
- August 8-13, London International Quilt Festival, London, Ontario, Canada. Nancy will be teaching, lecturing, displaying our quilts, and selling our patterns and videos. A great opportunity to shop, see our quilts up close, and meet Nancy in person.
- Sept 17-18, Gold Beach Quilt Show, Gold Beach, OR
Classes - Presentations - Events
- Aug 8-13, London International Quilt Festival, London, Ontario, Canada (4 classes)
- Aug 15-16, Friendship Square Quilt Guild, La Habra, CA
- Sept 27-28, Mid-Valley Quilt Guild, Salem, OR
- Oct 5, Puyallup Valley Quilters, Puyallup, WA
- Oct 6 & 8, Block Party Quilters, Issaquah, WA
- Oct 13-15, Salt Creek Quilters Guild, Hinsdale, IL
- Oct 20-22, Sea Island Quilters, Beaufort, SC
Register early for classes. They can fill quickly, or be canceled if not enough people register in advance.
Click CALENDAR for details and contact information.
Looking ahead to 2012:
- January 10-14, Quilting at the Lake, Lake Havasu City, AZ. Registration has begun, sign-up now!
- Feb 19-26, Cruise the Hawaiian Islands with Nancy while you learn to design your own Hawaiian quilt! See our Calendar for the link to C.P. Trips for all the details and to reserve your space now!
Nancy is booking classes, shows and events for the remainder of 2011, 2012 and 2013 now. If you would like her to come to your area to teach, let your quilt shop, quilt guild or show organizer know. Print Nancy's Brochure and pass it along. Be sure to circle the classes you are interested in!
QuiltUniversity.com
If you do not live where you can take a class from Nancy in person, then perhaps a class at Quilt University would work for you.
"No tests. No grades. No Pressure. New classes open every weekend from January until the end of October. Students receive a password to an online classroom with a teacher-led Discussion Forum and Student Gallery. A typical class consists of three or four lessons."
Nancy's next QuiltUniversity.com classes begin:
Janice's next QuiltUniversity.com class begins:
- Sept 23: Photographing Your Quilts
Go to QuiltUniversity.com for details & to register. |
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Thank you for spending a little of your precious time with us, we really appreciate it. Remember to send us your stories, pictures, questions, or suggestions. We love to hear from you.
A hui hou,
Until next time,
Nancy & Janice |
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