Whimsy Cottage Blog

So Much, So Much!

 

It's been over a month since my last post and there's much to tell.  Personally, I've moved and have been working  with contractors, landscapers, furniture deliveries, etc. not to mention unpacking;  but this is a much better house for me and I'm loving designing and decorating it plus the neighborhood is wonderful.  And, any day I'll be gone for a couple weeks to my daughter's in Portland to help after the birth of my first grandbaby, due yesterday.

Storewise, there's even more going on.  I don't remember when we've gotten so much new fabric in so short a period and it's all fabulous!  Above is fabric by Bigfork Bay Cotton Co., whose patterns we carry - they're those great crow/chicken/rooster wallhangings.

Please mark your calendars for June 25 - 28 - for the Wasatch Front Shop Hop!  This year's theme is "Once Upon a Time" and each shop has adopted a fairy tale and will make a corresponding quilt - the complete pattern for which will be given to each Shop Hop participant.  So, find a gaggle of friends and someone with a car big enough for everyone and set aside a couple days to visit all 15 shops!

The kits for the Autumn Quilt are ready - $110 plus $24 pattern -picture is under Quilts.

" Midwest Modern" by Amy Butler arrived this week - softer than her other collections.

"Rhapsody" is great colors and has a retro feel - altho' lots of these fit right in with other lines.

This is Brookfield Court, designed by our own Dana Baker.  It measures 25" x 38" and we made up kits that cost $35.  It started with a mini pack of 3" squares that Moda sends with our notions orders - I gave one to Dana and she came up with this - and we made it up again in fabrics from Whimsy.

And, here's Phoebe - another pattern from Melly & Me - that darling company in Australia - we got lots of other animals, too - a giraffe, frog, cow and ?  Fish - there's a fish pattern.

And, last but not least, and the earliest to arrive is Ginger Blossom, which we got in March.  Another new group is "Shiki", by Kumiko Sudo, a true pastel group that is so versatile - baby quilts, backgrounds for applique or piecing...but my pictures of it are gross, so I'll try again in my next post.  Pray for Spring.

Hope Springs

  Life has been crazy - the store's been busy and my other life has been busy with the move to a different house.  But the thing that's making the biggest impact on me is the weather.  The snow's almost gone.  It was 55 degrees outside when I closed the store at 5:00 today AND it was still daylight.  So instead of working or packing boxes, I drove home, loaded the dogs up and took them for a walk at the park.  I've forgotten this is possible...that the days DO get longer and warmer and snow-less. I feel rejuvenated and the dogs are beside themselves with glee.

Many fun things are happening at the store.  All those orders I placed at the Houston Market in October are showing up.  I love when I open a box and am happy with what's inside.  It does happen that I open one and wonder what I was thinking to have ordered such bizarre stuff...  So, here are pictures of wonderful new fabrics and trims.

This is ric rac made from gathered bias - and it comes as just plain double-fold, bias trim, too.  We have both.

This is Prince Street - made from the City Girl collection by Benartex.  We've kitted it - including pattern and binding, it costs $40.

And these are gorgeous, giant prints -

Ginger Blossom is a wonderful collection from Michael Miller - very retro and in great colors.

And, it appears I didn't take a picture of my new 30's bolts - there are 5 or 6 of them.  I don't really do 30's, but these made me laugh.  They're traditional designs, but HUGE - like Aunt Gracie on steroids.  Come see.

Even Newer and Pretty Things

Bags, Cow Girls, Gorgeous Classroom (says webmaster) and a trip to the City Center...

New Fabrics

Moda zaza's, Wizard of Oz and some Valentine's goodies...

What's New at Whimsy

Let's see... two new fabric lines, City Girl by Benartex and Gardenia by Linda Lum Debono for Henry Glass, plenty of fun Melly and me patterns, and a gorgeous applique quilt called Enchanted Autumn that could very well become part of a block of the month program...Stay tuned!

Fall Market in Houston

Welcome to our new blog!  I've procrastinated for 2 years about a website and now, along comes blogging, making my web decisions easy - woo hoo!

Market was great - I brought back at least one of each pattern and most books and notions that I ordered - and they'll be at the store on Halloween.  As always, any fabric I ordered won't be here for months - but it's always like Christmas when they do come in.

I'll take pictures of our new quilts and post them here, again by Halloween - we have four to show you, and three will be kitted.

Happy Quilting and here's to blogging - hope I can figure this out!  Nancy