Fabric Friday!!

Good Morning my B -E – A UTIFUL Quilting People!!!

I hope your day is as beautiful as these fabrics we just got in!

Pirouette by Verna Mosquera for Free Spirit Fabrics

Pirouette

 

Somerset by E. Vive for Benartex

Somerset

Ticklish by Me and My Sister Designs for Moda

Ticklish

 Chloe by Color Bakery for Windham

Chloe

Salt Water by Tula Pink for Free Spirit Fabrics

Salt Water

Sakura Park by Sentimental Studios for Moda

Sakura Park

Rebecca by Mary Koval for Windham Fabrics

Rebecca

Ocean View by Paul Brent for Moda Fabrics

Ocean View

Cruise Blvd by Sheri McCully for Riley Blake Designs

Cruise

Have a great day!

Kate

Fabric Friday!!

Valentine’s day is right around the corner, does everyone have their valentine ready?? Here’s a little fun fact about Valentine’s Day: As you might know it was named after Saint Valentine, but did you know there are 3 St. Valentines? The first Valentine, Valentinus, was a Roman priest who preformed marriages in secret when it was outlawed for soliders. The second comes from a letter, written by a man in prison, to his sweetheart signed “From your Valentine” and the last Valentine was a Roman holiday called Lupercalia, to celebrate the Roman god Faunus, the god of agriculture and the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.

This is my valentine to you…be mine?

 Serenity by Bo Bunny for Riley Blake Designs

 

Incense and Peppermint by Robyn Pandolph for RJR Fabrics

Socky by Whistler Studios for Windham Fabrics

 

Little Matryoshka by Carly Griffith for Riley Blake Designs

 

Apple Jack by Tim and Beck for Moda Fabrics 

From your valentine,

Kate

 

Mail in Machine Quilting Miracles

I am excited to share this picture with you all today.

2 Customer Quilts
2 Customer Quilts

Aren’t these quilts gorgeous?  We loved them the minute we opened the box they came in from a customer to be machine quilted.  In the box was a letter from the quilter explaining that she had taken these two quilts in to be quilted at her local shop and was turned away.  Her local shop said that they were unable to quilt it, because “they just weren’t straight enough”.

Can you imagine … gorgeous quilts like this being turned away?!  Now, we have seen some pretty rumply quilts in our day, and neither of these were bad at all.  We’re not going to say that we make magic happen with every quilt, but with some effort most things can be quilted.  Don’t get discouraged if your project isn’t perfect; most quilts are just fine, and remember, the results get better with every quilt!

When we machine quilted these quilts, we just loved how they turned out and so did the customer.  We absolutely love quilting the amazing things you send us.  There’s nothing better than opening up a box with someone’s unique creation inside – it’s such a great part of our day!  If you haven’t already checked out our online machine quilting section you really should by clicking here. We are continually updating our patterns that are available and will increase our batting options in the future.  If there is something you’d like, but you don’t see it give us a call.  We just might be able to help.

Hope you get lots of quilting done this week!
Have a great day.
Sarah

Precut Standardization is here!

We’re always getting phone calls and e-mails from you, our beautiful, lovely, patient, loyal, good-looking really good looking, wise customers.  You offer us many excellent suggestions and ideas (and thank goodness you do because we definitely don’t know it all).  As much as we can, we try to incorporate these suggestions into how we run our shop.  That is why we are pleased to announce the standardization of precuts!

As you know, MSQC carries a very broad selection (and growing) of precut fabrics from a bunch of different fabric providers.  The confusing part is that these companies all do the same precut sizes in different quantities.   Take charm packs for example; Riley Blake puts one of each print from a fabric line in their charms, so you could get 22 pieces … or 24 pieces …. or 27 pieces … etc  (you get the idea!)  Moda always puts 42 pieces in their charm packs, even if they have to double or even triple some prints.  Some companies include a flat 40 pieces (with some duplicates).  And other companies do it other ways.  Many of you commented that it was confusing when you watched a tutorial that used a charm pack that included a certain number of squares, and then bought another charm (more suitable to your taste and style) which included a different number of squares.  This also made it hard to easily compare prices of charms, to tell if you were getting good value for your money.  The same went other precuts as well.

So what we’ve done, as much as we can, is standardize the number of pieces that come in precut fabric bundles.  We thank our wonderful fabric providers, most of which have agreed to custom cut for us to make this standardization possible.  Here’s what we decided on, with your advice in mind (each precut lists the standard number of pieces it will include):

  • Charm Packs (5” x 5” squares) – 42 pieces
  • Layer Cakes (10” squares) – 42 pieces
  • Jelly Rolls (2.5” strips) – 40 pieces
  • Turnovers (6” half-square triangles) – 80 pieces
  • Honey Buns (1.5” strips) – 40 pieces

Remember, companies call the exact same precuts by different names (eg – 2.5” x 44” strips can be called jelly rolls, design rolls, rolie polies, roll-ups, stone-strips, etc), so always look for the measurements to ensure you’re getting the correct item!

A few things to note:

  1. This standardization is only starting to happen with newer lines coming out, so you will still see precuts available with a variance of pieces offered inside (our older inventory).
  2. Although most companies are on board with this change, not everyone is, so you should still check to see how many pieces you are getting when you buy a precut.
  3. Since many fabric lines have less prints than the number of pieces included in a precut, many prints are doubled or tripled.  We will be as specific as possible in our description to advise on the composition of what is inside.
  4. Some precuts (like fat quarter bundles and RJR Twice the charms, will still usually carry only one of each print from the line).

In case you’re curious, the reason we chose 42 pieces for the 5” and 10” squares, is because then you can make projects that are 6 x 7 squares, plus with the extra couple of prints, if you don’t like a few (and don’t want to use them in your quilt), you have more remaining squares to work with.

We hope that this change will benefit you, and look forward to implementing even more of your brilliant ideas in the future.  Thanks for being the best customers in the world!  We couldn’t have come this far without you all 🙂   Happy quilting!