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Greetings!
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"It is hard to be a true individual these days
but it's certainly more achievable if you make an item yourself from scratch,
putting your own mark on it"
Yes, we always say it....the summer is going by so quickly, but it really is. We are still working on adding inventory to our new space (and therefore the website also). We are now carrying all of the Gentle Art Shaker Threads as well as their sampler threads. We are also working on new covers for our patterns.....you can see the work in progress at our blog. The other wonderful thing about summer here at the shop is the number of quilters we get to meet from other places...from all over the United States and Canada as well as quilters from Europe, Australia, and most recently quilters from South Africa as well. Celebrate quilting....grab a cup of tea and give yourself a treat and click on the links below to view come of the wonderful quilts from quilt shows around the world! Piecefully, Kris You no longer need to sign up for our newsletter drawing each month - if you are receiving the newsletter you are automatically included in the drawing. See below for the winner for July.
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| Grunge from Basic Grey |
 Grunge, in the paper art and digital worlds is all about weathered or worn textures that create an atmosphere - and in the world of paper and scrap booking, Basic Grey Design Studio is known for their expert and sophisticated designs and grunge textures. Now, they have created these textures in fabrics, and it seems like every time we go to the shelves in the shop to look for ideas for coordinates for a customer we come back with one of the bolts of these wonderful Grunge textures from Basic Grey design studio. These fabrics are wonderfully dimensional and play well with contemporary prints as well as reproductions and novelty prints. The fabrics have layers of color - the texture is that of weathered, hand rubbed paint. We also have, Fruitcake, Basic Grey's newest Christmas line. The collection features the rich colors and weathered textures we love in the Grunge Basics! |
Quilt Shows Around the World
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 Quilt Show from Germany
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Free Motion Machine Quilting-Beyond the Basics
Instructor: Peggy St. George
Class Fee: $45.00
Thursday, September 30, 10:30 am to 4 pm
This
is a class for those of you who have already taken the Beginning Free
Motion class or already have basic free motions skills and want to learn
more designs and enhance your free motion skills...more info Beginners Sampler Instructor: Lauretta Ehling Class fee: $75.00
Class meets 10 times on Saturdays between Sept.11 & Dec. 18
This Quilted Strait class is for the person who wants to learn to quilt
or for the quilter who wants to brush up their skills. Students will
complete a twelve block lap quilt while learning a variety of quilting
skills and techniques...more info. Spin 4....Add More Instructor: Edna Zebelman Class Fee: $45.00 One Session Class:Sunday, September 19, 11 am to 4 pm Spin
4.....Add More by Edna Zebelman is a construction and design class for
quilter's with quilting experience. Learn to make the 4-patch "spin"
blocks and then design the elements to complete your quilt....more info
Cotton
Theory Quilting II - Two Seasons Table Runner
Instructor: Mo Harrah Thursday, September, 23, 10 am to 6 pm at
Port Gamble
This is the second class for those interested in learning more about the Cotton Theory - you need to have taken the Cotton Theory Introduction class or have completed a Cotton Theory Project. This technique
opens the door for quilters to start and finish their quilts on their
own home sewing machines.....more info
Cubes,
Hollow or Otherwise
Instructor: Maxine Rosenthal - author of One Block Wonder, One Block Wonder Encore and One Block Wonders Cubed
Monday, September 27, 2010, 10 am to 4 pm.
Cubes
are 3-dimensional. They have a front and sides and a back. Or do
they? When they are on a quilt, you only imagine that they have a back,
you only imagine that they have sides. Playing with the imagination is
what makes them look hollow, or open on one side, or sliced almost in
half ......more
Introduction to Cotton
Theory Quilting
Instructor: Mo Harrah Thursday, September 16, 10 am to 4 pm
Cotton Theory is a patented
technique of "
Quilt First, Then
Assemble" developed by Betty Cotton, quilter and author. This technique
opens the door for quilters to start and finish their quilts on their
own home sewing machines.....more info
Wool Workshop
Instructor: Lauretta Ehling
Class Fee: $7.50
per session
2nd Sunday of each month at Port Gamble beginning in May from 12:30 to 3:30 pm (the August wool workshop is August 15th.)
This is your chance to get started working with wool, work on one
of the Wool Block of the Month Projects, finish up old projects, or start a new
wool appliqué project of your own choosing.
...more info
Bind any Shape - Beautifully!
Instructor: Shirley Sandoz
Saturday, September 26, 11:30 to 4 pm
Is
binding your least favorite part of making quilts? Have you struggled
with getting nice square corners? Have you admired those quilts with
scalloped edges but were afraid to try....more info
Cotton Theory Quilting Reversible Jacket
Instructor: Mo Harrah
Class Fee: $95.00
Two Day Class:Thursday, Oct 14 & Friday Oct 15, 10 to 6 pm Quilt
and construct a great casual jacket just in time for fall. The jacket
is quilted and assembled using the Cotton Theory method of quilting... more info Peacable Bear
Instructor: Peggy St. George
Class Fee: $40.00
One Session Class:Saturday, October 16, 10:30 to 3:30 pm Learn
how to make this cute pieced bear using Ruth B. McDowell's freezer
paper method of piecing. Peggy will take you through the steps of this
method which uses a unique paper piecing method...more info Pickle Dish Quilt
Instructor: Peggy Gelbrich
Class Fee: $45.00 includes pattern
One Session Class:Friday, November 5, 10:30 to 4:30 pm We
are lucky to have Peggy Gelbrich teaching in the shop while she is here
for a brief visit in the Pacific Northwest. She will be teaching a
Pickle Dish quilt class. The Pickle dis is a variation of the Double
Wedding Ring. It is also referred to as Indian Wedding Ring. There are a
variety of techniques in making this pattern...more |
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One Block Wonder author Maxine Rosenthal
|  Maxine Rosenthal will be teaching Cubes, Hollow or Otherwise in September at Quilted Strait.
Maxine started quilting about fifteen
years ago. She used to make clothing, but never anything as large or as
time-consuming as a quilt. Maxine did many things before quilting. She
had a career writing computer software, and even took a break from that
to learn furniture refinishing, which she considered a walk through
history. She was commissioned to make a quilt for the movie Grumpier Old
Men, and still has a copy of the check from Warner Bros. But, like
many, her appearance ended up on the cutting-room floor. Maxine started
making kaleidoscope blocks with hexagons and octagons almost as soon as
she began quilting. Maxine resides in Minnesota
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Save the Dates.....
| Save the dates for these great classes coming up....more details to follow
Kim Diehl , January 21st and 22nd, 2011. Kim will teach two projects from her new book due out in October 2010. One will be a wool project and the other will be Front Porch posies, one of her signature combined pieced and applique quilts.
Barbara Shapel, March 24th and 25th, 2011. She will be teaching her thread embellishment techniques with her original patterns.
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Newletter Drawing Winners
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The winner will receive a $50.00 gift certificate to Quilted Strait.
July Winner: Judith Morris
August Winner:
Remember you no longer have to sign up
each time to be eligible for the drawing - if you are receiving the
newsletter you are automatically entered in the drawing.
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Perfect Borders
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Do you know about this? Look what our neighbor Mech Watne does!
Perfect Borders
is a great tool for designing custom quilt borders.
With Perfect Borders, you can design a custom pantograph or border
design perfectly
scaled and sized for your quilt, instantly download it, and print it
right on your own printer. You choose the size and the design and the
website does the rest! No templates or reducing or enlarging images
on a photocopier, and/or "scootching" templates along as you quilt.
With Perfect Borders, you get a design
that's perfectly scaled and sized for your quilt! There's no math!
Use the pantograph on your own midarm or longarm machine or create the exact design you want and send the
pantograph along with your quilt to your quilter.
You can also
transfer these designs to use on your home machine - here some ideas to
transfer your designs and Mech has some more ideas on her website.
- Print patterns directly onto Foundation
Paper. Stitch though pattern and tear away pattern.
- Print
patterns directly onto Water Soluble Foundation Paper. Stitch though
pattern, tear away excess, then dissolve any remaining paper.
- Stitch though pattern with a large needle (no thread). Use punched paper as a pounce pattern....more info
Perfect Borders provides all of the software so all you need is an Internet
connection and a printer. |
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New Fabrics
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Take a look we also have more new Christmas fabrics.......
 Hallowgraphix by Jason Yenter for In the Beginning Fabrics. These prints are just wonderful. I was not going to buy any more of the "graphix" collections from In the Beginning, we have had so many, but I just couldn't resist these wonderful prints. Right now, we have all of the prints in stock, and there is a link to a great free pattern on the collection page as well.  Silhouette from Northcott Fabrics. This is a striking Asian Black and White Group which includes a 2 1/2 inch "stripit" fabric.  Sew Chick from Benartex is bit urba and a bit folk. The tiny
city birds, are great with black and white prints. Think aprons and bags! Nutmeg from Robert Kaufman Fabrics features Autumn prints with an extra splash. Take at look at our blog to see the new table runners we have in the shop from the Nutmeg Fabrics. and more new patterns and kits.... |
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Contact Us
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 Quilted Strait 360.930.8145
32280 Puget Way NE info@quiltedstrait.com
PO Box 306
Port Gamble, WA 98364
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