Clearance Sale starts this Thursday!

It is that time of year again for all of our brick-and-mortar customers...

Our Midsummer's Clearance Sale starts this Thursday at 10:00 am.

Lots and lots of our fabrics will be on sale at just $5 a yard.

There will also be books, patterns and kits available at quite the discount.

(Sorry, internet customers... I won't be able to include you in the sale this time around, because all of the fabrics that will be on sale are not even up on our site, but you will have your moment in the sun soon, I promise!)


XO,

Rhea

PS... that photo above is a picture of my little sister Johanna at Pemaquid Point from a shoot we did earlier this summer for the new Quilt Shops of Maine brochures. The quilt is by one of my students, Kim Thompson, and the pattern is called "Lucky Stars" by Terry Atkinson. Isn't that quite the composition???

Wedding Watch: Invitations Done!

I finally, finally, finally got my invitations out the other day...

I am such a nerd that I sent one to Oliver and myself because I wanted to know what it would feel like for all of the other guests who will be getting one in the mail.





















Being a fabric store kind of gal, I really wanted to incorporate fabric into the wedding as much as possible, so I "borrowed" a favorite image from Laura Stoddart (for personal use only, Laura... please don't sue me... I'm your biggest fan!!!) and added some text in Illustrator, then printed the finished file onto muslin sheets.


























Next I zig-zagged the muslin to a card stock backing and then did a little more zig-zagging at the bottom to really show off the variegated thread I was using.

I left the edges with long threads hanging out and I purposefully didn't make the zig-zagging too "perfect."

Hopefully this will let my guests know that they are in for a very laid-back, casual-type wedding.





















The ceremony and reception are being held at the Jordan Pond House in Acadia National Park.


I figure now that President Obama has been there they are probably ready for Ollie and me.



In other wedding-y news, Jessica is getting married today.

Remember when she got engaged???

(I do.)

I must say she got some guh-LOR-ious weather for her big day.

I am going to wear my Museum Tunic to the ceremony this afternoon... yay!!!

Congratulations, Jessica and Jon...

I am very happy for you both and hope I get a similarly glorious day when it is my turn!

XO,

Rhea

Requiem for a fat quarter set...

Sad but true...

You are all gone...

You were nice while you lasted Milk & Honey fat quarter set and I will miss you very much...

But now you have moved on to that great sewing studio in the sky...

And Arizona, and New York City, and Quebec, and Kentucky, and all those other places we sent you...























We will have to see what I can come up with next to top you...

Farewell, Milk and Honey...

I will never forget you!

XO,

Rhea

Back from the show

Another year, another quilt show done.

We are back and I am Ex. Haus. Ted.

Lots of trips back and forth to Augusta.

Lots of lugging things around.

Lots of schmoozing.

Lots of selling.

Lots of meeting up with people I only see once a year.

(You know who you are!!!)

And for all my complaining and exhaustedness, I have to admit that I kind of enjoy doing it.

But Mom and I are by no means what you would call "show people."



The booth looked like this:









































There you can see my La La Log Cabin quilt in the background.

Yes,... I finished (with a LOT of help) my La La Log Cabin.

The free patterns are finished as well.

Those of you who placed orders over the weekend (and from now on) will have a free La La Log Cabin "pattern-ish type thing" included as a free gift with your order.

Here's a close-up of the quilt where you can see Barbara's lovely machine-quilting:



















So, now that I have shown you what the booth looked like...

Here is what the shop looks like today:














































I don't know what it is about a messy shop that makes people want to visit us but I am going to remember that this is a good trick on slow days.

If you are one of the people who visited us over the weekend or today I am so, so sorry.

And now I believe you are all caught up with the Quilt Show.

In other news I find the new Iphone commercials really, really annoying.

Also I am the proud owner of a brand new really kick-ass eyelash curler and mascara.

I have the next two days off (thank goodness) and will probably spend them chillin' like a villain.


See you again soon!

XO,

Rhea

Off to the Quilt Show

As Ed would say:

The reeaallyy big shoooow!

























See you there???

To answer any lingering questions:

:: The shop is OPEN during the show (but I won't be there).

:: Sewing Lounge WILL HAPPEN during the show (but I won't be there).

:: SouleMama giveaway THIS weekend (I won't be there, either).


Wish us luck!

XO,

Rhea

Milk & Honey

Get them while you still can!

Milk & Honey Fat Quarter sets are now up in the shop.

























They contain a lovely mix of cotton/linen blends and double gauze by Heather Ross, organic sheeting by Cloud 9, and quilting weight cottons from Amy Butler, Anna Maria Horner, Liberty Arts, Denyse Schmidt and more.

The prints are just the right amount of vintage-reproduction florals and modern, whimsical designs for that totally schizophrenic look I love in a quilt.


























Personally, the Milk & Honey fat quarter sets are one of my favorite kits I have ever put together.

(Toot, toot!)

They would make a great La La Log Cabin quilt.

Or an extra-large Turning Twenty quilt.




There is a giveaway happening next weekend over at Soulemama for one of these little babies.

After the giveaways the kits never last long, and it is quite the production to make more, so if you would like one of these Milk & Honey kits it would be advisable to pounce.

And these are going to the Quilt Show with me next weekend which makes them extra-vulnerable to selling out.

(Usually we come back from the Quilt Show and all that is left in the shop are some tumbleweeds blowing around)

See you soon and if you are planning on coming to the Quilt Show do drop in and say helloooo!

(Say it just like that, too!)

XO,

Rhea

The dorkiest thing I have ever said...

So, here's a quick little post for you.

You know how I have been working on my La La Log Cabin and desperately trying to finish it in time for the quilt show?

You know how I said I needed 56 squares and I was almost done with them all?

Well, on Monday I did finish all 56 of my squares and I put the quilt squares up on the design wall and rearranged a bit (I am nothing if not a champion re-arranger) but something was not quite right.

Something wasn't doing it for me and I was really upset because I feel like this quilt is my baby, you know?

So it occurs to me that I have the quilt set 7 blocks across by 8 blocks down, for a large, fat rectangle.

(Here comes the part where I say something dorky... I HATE when people say stuff like this and yet here I am saying it on the internet for all to read...)

I'm looking at this rectangle-y quilt and looking at it and looking at it and it occurs to me:

The quilt is TELLING ME that it wants to be square.

It DOESN'T WANT TO BE a rectangle.

Isn't that the dorkiest thing ever:

"The quilt is speaking to me!?!"

Wha???

(Whew, feels good to get it out, though.)

So, what did I do?

Spent my days off coughing up 8 more squares at the 11th hour so I can set the rows 8 by 8.

Now I have 64 squares to sew together and then it's off to be machine-quilted and the I have to bind it.

If you see me at the quilt show (which is in exactly one week, by the way) with this quilt finished it will be

A) A miracle

and

B) A good opportunity for you to tell me that you like the square-y-ness of the quilt and that I am not a huge dork.


XO,

Rhea