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Quilted Strait
Port Gamble, Washington
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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"
There are still some openings in the Kim Diehl classes at the end of January. She is teaching her signature machine applique technique and also teaching a wool class. The class fee includes a copy of her new book, Simple Graces. Join us at Port Gamble for a Country Christmas December 11th and 12th. Craft Vendors, food, hayrides, and fireworks on Saturday! You can stay to see all of the wonderful Christmas lights too! Online shoppers! Don't forget the Blowout Sale on our website at the end of December. Sale prices available online only! See below for more information. Piecefully, Kris |
iPhone quilting app
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Free Quilting App now available from Robert Kaufman fabrics for iPhone, iPad, and iPodtouch.
Calculates borders, backing, binding, pieces per yard and best of all, calculates that pesky set in triangle calculation.
Click on image for more information,
App for Android coming soon!
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Hand Quilting
Instructor: Lauretta Ehling
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Interest in hand quilting is a longstanding a abiding interest that goes beyond the need for fastening together the three layers of a quilt. Hand quilting connects us with the history and tradition of the quilt. This is your opportunity to learn the tricks and tips of this time-honored technique, and
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Front Porch Posies Quilt
Instructor: Kim Diehl
Saturday, Jan, 22, 2011, 10 am to 4:30 pm
Kim's workshops are project-based rather than technique-oriented, which means that you can apply everything you learn toward making your own beautiful version of the featured quilt, rather than finishing the day with only a small technique sample. Ideal for learning Kim's easy invisible machine appliqué technique, this lap-size quilt combines simple yet striking patchwork with gently curved vines and colorful appliquéd posies. Class time will begin with the center patchwork portion of this project, and then you'll learn Kim's tips and tricks for easily centered appliqué designs, more.... Bittersweet Briar Wool
Instructor: Kim Diehl
One Session Class: Friday, Jan, 21, 2011, 10 am to 4:30 pm
Spend the day with Kim and learn just how easy it can be to work with wool when you create this tradition-with-a-twist quilt. Black and green cotton prints pair beautifully with an assortment of richly-hued wool appliques, and the result is simply stunning. What's more, Kim will share her tips and tricks for perfect design layout more... Cotton and Wool Log Cabin
Instructor: Lauretta Ehling Begins Monday, January 24, 2011
This beautiful Log Cabin Quilt designed by Lauretta Ehling features a Wool Applique and needle felted center surrounded by traditional Log Cabin Blocks. The wool center background is colored with Tsukineko inks and the cabin and surroundings are appliqued and needle felted. more....
Beginning Machine Quilting
Instructor: Peggy St. George
One session class: Saturday, January 29, 10:30 am to 4 pm
Learn the basics of machine quilting, using your walking foot from this accomplished and experienced machine quilter. You will learn by hands on practice with a small quilt top ...more
A Fresh Approach to Quiltmaking
Instructor: Pat Oden
Saturday, Feb. 5th, 10:00am to 4:00 pm
EXPLORE INNOVATIVE WAYS TO CONSTRUCT QUILTS. LEARN STRIP PIECING AND RECONSTRUCTION, HOW TO CUT STRAIGHT AND CURVED LINES AND USE FREEFORM SHAPES IN A DESIGN. CREATE YOUR OWN COMPOSITIONS, APPROACHING QUILTMAKING INTUITIVELY, EXPANDING BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL DESIGNS. GIVE YOURSELF A FREEING, FUN EXPERIENCEDesigning Quilts
Instructor: Maggie Ball
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Learn to use the critical elements of design to your advantage, from choosing fabrics to completing successful quilts. Take the mystery out of color and understand how to use value, scale and appropriate proportions to enhance the design of your quilt. Simple exercises more....
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| New Fabrics | 
A Morris Tapestry from Moda Fabrics and Barbara Brackman reproduces the graceful patterns of William Morris and his design partner John Henry Dearle. Their Morris & Company created the design revolution known as Arts & Crafts style at the end of the nineteenth century. Morris and Dearle's printed fabrics were often inspired by woven tapestry design, handcraft surviving from centuries before the advent of factory-made cloth.
Laura Berringer's big, bold flowers on these soft Blooming Beauties flannels are perfect for year-long enjoyment, in quilts, loungewear, and fun room accessories.
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Featured Teacher
Kim Diehl
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Kim Diehl
With just the third quilt she'd ever made, self-taught quiltmaker Kim Diehl entered and won American Patchwork & Quilting magazine's "Pieces of the Past" quilt challenge in 1998. This win took her life down a new and unexpected path, and with her fourth quilt, Kim began publishing her original designs. In the years since her challenge win, Kim has seen her work published in numerous national and international magazines.
With her new-found hobby quickly blossoming into a career, Kim realized that she needed to complete her quilts more quickly to meet her ever increasing deadlines. Although she loved using traditional needle-turn methods to hand stitch her applique designs, Kim began experimenting with invisible machine applique. She soon developed a technique that enabled her to machine-stitch her appliques in a fraction of the time, and she was delighted to find that they had the appearance of being hand sewn -- Kim has seldom needle-turned a seam since! In 2004, Kim began partnering with Martingale & Company to share her "tradition with a twist" quilting designs and time-saving techniques through her books. To date, she's authored several titles in her best-selling "Simple" series, with her newest and fifth book, Simple Graces was released in October of 2010.
Kim makes her home in scenic Idaho with her family, and her frequently-spoiled little dogs. She loves all things creative, whether experimenting with new recipes in her kitchen, rescuing and refinishing antiques desperately in need of a little TLC, or smelling her way through nurseries while looking for the perfect rose -- at last count, she had forty!
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Save the Dates.....
| Save the dates for these great classes coming up....more details to follow
Barbara Shapel, March 24th and 25th, 2011. She will be teaching her thread embellishment techniques with her original patterns.
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The Sewing Machine Song
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You NEED to know about the Sewing Machine Song! |
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Cross Stitch Stocking of the Month
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Cross Stitchers ...sign up now for the Cross Stitch Stocking of the Month. These little 3" x 5" Stockings are irresistible. Each month you will receive the pattern and linen for a new stocking.
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| Article Headline |  Wool Workshop
Second Sunday of Each Month from 12:30 to 3:30 pm
Instructor: Lauretta Ehling
The Wool Workshop is your chance to get started working with wool, work on one of the Wool Seasons Quilt, learn to needlefelt, or work on a wool appliqué project of your own choosing. Whatever you choose to bring to class you will have the advantage of Lauretta's wool appliqué expertise at your disposal. She will be at each session of the workshop to advise, on instruct or to lend color, embroidery and embellishment advice and to offer troubleshooting help. Give yourself a Sunday afternoon to work with your wool, enjoy the camaraderie of working with others and take advantage of Lauretta's vast wealth of experience working with wool. Beginners Welcome! |
Gift Certificates - The Perfect Gift
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Don't Forget !
You can order a Gift Certificate
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The Quilt Index - the Ultimate online Quilt Show
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 The Quilt Index is a central online resource that incorporates a wide variety of sources and information on quilts, quiltmakers and quiltmaking. The index includes - images and information on privately held quilts compiled by state and regional quilt documentation projects in the United States and internationally;
- images and information on quilts in museums, libraries, and private collections;
- images and information on quilt-related ephemera;and
- lesson plans, online exhibits, journals and essays.
This website currently features images and information, provided by an array of contributors on thousands of quilts from documentation projects, museums, libraries, and private collections. You can search for quilts by era, by collection, by style and technique or by pattern.
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Online Sale
|  Website Sale!All fabric on the website at least 20% off during the last 5 days of December
Free Shipping in the US for orders over $75.00
Additional savings on Seasonal fabrics Civil War Reproductions
Serenity Diawabo and more!
Sale prices available online only - not available at our shop in Port Gamble shop.
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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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