Meet Your Neighbour

This week I would you to introduce you all to Drina Latrace. Drina was born in Fernie BC. She was the last baby born in the old hospital and her brother was the first baby born in the new hospital! How is that for an odd little quip?

She started out in a logging camp called Newgate and then moved around from Lumby, Coldstream, Winfield to Armstrong as her dad's work moved. By her early teens she was attending school in Lacombe AB while her family resided in Swan Lake BC, just outside Vernon. She managed to save enough money to travel back to visit [$5 gas each way] and arrived to find no family in the home! Turns out her family had moved on to Terrace. Drina had moved up to Terrace upon graduation from high school. Her first job was at the Lake Else Hotel where she was employed for 3 months. The best part of that job? She met her future husband Hugh! They had 2 dates and were engaged. Her family was not thrilled and talked them out of an August wedding and opting for a November wedding. After a honeymoon in Pr. Rupert, Drina was then employed with the telephone company where she worked for 37 years.

Drina had moved out to Scotch Creek and decided to take up quilting. She would often go south for the winters to Arizona and learned so much from the ladies there. At one of her first meetings the topic was using your stash. Drina had no idea what a "stash" was and asked for help. Well, being helpful quilters, she went home at the end of the winter with $2500 worth of fabric. Hence a love of fabric and creating was born! Having recently moved she discovered that she has 436 meters of Christmas fabric alone!!!!!

Drina loves the entire process of quilting, from choosing the fabrics, cutting and arranging the fabrics and blocks to the piecing and quilting. She even enjoys the binding!

Drina has all the energy you can imagine, all the community caring and all the passion that quilting can create! I want to thank Drina so much for all the fun, laughter and amazing support you have shown for our shop over the years. You are a woman to be reckoned with!

Quilt Show Apr. 27 and 28th

Quilt show is only a few days away and things are getting pretty darn exciting around here! Our quilt show is a Giant Show and Tell with a community minded atmosphere. There is no judging and no fees to enter a quilt or the show for that matter! Just fun and inspiration for everyone!

Quilt show is right here in the Brock Shopping Center, 1800 Tranquille Rd, with hours of 10 am to 4 pm both days. There are sales and fun events at our quilt shop as well with hourly door prizes and more! Entry into the show is by donation. You even have a chance to win a gorgeous quilt Diana Hewins has made for a door prize in the show! All made from In The Beginning Fabrics by Jason Yenter this quilt is absolutely stunning!

We are still accepting quilts. You can find more information and  the entry form on our website under Events. www.fabricshelf.ca

Batting has Arrived!!

The batting has arrived in the building for everyone who participated in the batting sale this year.

You can stop by anytime to pick up your roll, which will fit into just about any vehicle! Bill even managed to get a roll into his Smart Car!

Drina Latrace

Drina Latrace was in to long arm quilt her gorgeous quilt called "Port City". She used a panto "Mondernish 1" and Glide thread for perfect results! In just under 3 hours Drina was done a heading home to put the binding on! Now that is efficiency!

Great work Drina! Thank you so much for sharing your day with us all!

Patty Eckert

Patti Eckert was in to become certified to use our APQS long arm machine on Wednesday. Patti had a simple Rail Fence lap size quilt to practice on, but it turned out so lovely she will be keeping and treasuring this one!

Sign up today for the Certification course to learn to long arm quickly and beautifully on our APQS Millie machine! Cost of the class is $150 with lecture as well as hands on practice. Also included is 3 hours of rental time on the machine. At $30 per hour, thread included and you can count on Bill or Beth always being available to help, this is a great deal! Give us a call at 250-376-7630 to sign up.

Patty, your quilt looks amazing a we really enjoyed having you here for the day! See you soon.....

Amrita Ollek

Amrita Ollek was in to long arm quilt her amazing half hexi quilt she made in garden flower colours. She used a simple panto with Glide thread for perfect results!

I love seeing the diversity in all the quilts out there...modern, bright, cozy cabin flannels, vintage, ethnic....you name it, we get to see them all! What a great bonus in our shop!

Thank you Amrita for sharing with everyone! Love your quilt and can't wait to see what you bring in next!

Roberta Smith

Roberta Smith was in to show us her completed Poinsettia project she made last fall with Anne Hall! She just loves this project and rightfully so!

A Quiltworx pattern this is a great project as an introduction to their paper pieced patterns as well as being fairly quick to finish.

I just love these autumn tones that Roberta has chosen! She really nailed it with colour values in this project!

Thank you Roberta for coming to show us your quilt!

Lennie is on sale!

Why buy a Lenni? So very many reasons to buy this great machine. Life time warranty, all the features you could ever want in a long arm, support like you have never experienced and a great price point!


Our fun and affordable Lenni is on sale for only $9,300 USD. That is a $2,000 discount.

With Lenni, we have transferred our Millennium know-how to a smaller quilting machine. It is the essence of APQS in its simplest, purest form – a fun and affordable longarm. Everything is designed, engineered and crafted to be approachable, inviting and simple to use.

Don't forget to add a Bliss Track package for only $1,000.
Give us a call at 250-376-7630.
For more information click on the link: https://www.apqs.com/machines/lenni/

Win a Millie

APQS, or American Professional Quilting Systems, is giving away another Millie long arm machine! There has never been a winner from Canada and I say it is time to change that statistic!

APQS is the best of the best in the long arm machine world. Backed by lifetime warranty, unbeatable reviews from some of the top names in the quilting industry, incredible service these machines are wonderful to have! Enter your name every day, but only once a day to win one! Click on the picture on our web site: http://www.fabricshelf.ca

Sewing Machine Repair Date

Hector and Tammy Symes will be here this Thursday April 25th to work on machines. If you have a machine in need of service or repair let us know and we will put you on the list!
Call us at 250-376-7630