Lise McDevitt

Lise McDevitt was in to long arm quilt her beautiful quilts this week. She chose to work with the computer program for those perfect results and the end result was just stunning! 

Lori Dewart was on hand to help her to choose her patterns, threads and to operate the computer. 

I love them both equally but the red houses quilt really touches my heart. No idea why.....I have never lived in a red house, never even been to one and don't remember seeing one ever, but I am sure I would love one if I saw it. 

Thank you to Lise for sharing your talents with us all!

Anne Lewis

Anne Lewis was in to pick up her quilt she had us quilt. We have a lot of quilts come through our door and see lots in blue/white, black/white or red/white combination but not many in green and white. 

This quilt really caught the attention of all of us in here because of the unusual colour combination and the pattern was just perfect! Lori Dewart did the quilting in a computerized edge to edge design called Asian Lily and it was just gorgeous!

Remember that you can bring your quilts in for us to quilt. The cost is $.03 cents per square inch. Take the length and x by the width x .03  and you will have the cost of the quilting done by us. We are at a 1 - 2 week turnaround currently.

Thank you so much Anne for sharing with us all!

Joy Parkes

Joy Parkes was in to long arm quilt her gorgeous floral queen size quilt. I just love the colours in her quilt and she did a great job of pattern and fabric choices.

Joy chose to use the computer to quilt her quilt. The design she chose if called Busy Bees and it was perfect for a garden themed quilt. With Glide thread for ease of use she had a perfect finish to this pretty quilt.

Thank you to Joy for sharing with us all and giving us new ideas as to what to do with our florals and border prints.

Drina Latrace

Drina Latrace was the winner of the $50 Gift Certificate for the month of March! 

Drina didn't even make it back out of the shop before it was spent! LOL she chose some gorgeous fabric from Northcott called City Lights. You can find the fabric in the shop and on line at http://www.fabricshelf.ca

Congratulations Drina on your win! Thank you so much for all your patronage to our shop..... you are amazing and we are so lucky to have you!

Workshop at the Shelf!

This is just so over the top exciting!

For the first time since the whole Covid put our world on end last spring we are looking at having a workshop June 4,5,6 and 7th.

Prism Table Runner (22” x 65”)
A new design from Quiltworx, you will learn foundation paper strip piecing techniques for lone star diamonds and also striped borders along with the use of cutting templates, smart corners, and TRP lines.

Two day Prism Table Runner class (Friday 4th and Saturday 5th June):         

$130 + taxes + pattern or kit (including pattern)

2 kit choices will be available, and colours will be published soon.
Max. 10 people – very well space out, about 10ft apart with your own table.

UFO days with Anne

You can choose between:

3 day UFO:   Saturday 5th, Sunday 6th, Monday 7th June        $125 
(4 places only)

2 day UFO:   Sunday 6th and Monday 7th June                        $100
  (10 places)

1 day UFO:  EITHER Sunday 6th or Monday 7th                       $60

Your project for UFO MUST be cut out and started.  It can be either Quiltworx or Jacqueline de Jonge.

You can sign up in the shop, call us at 250-376-7630 or you can sign up on line at http://www.fabricshelf.ca

And Bill Goes on the Road Again

Bill will be heading out on the road again May 1st to May 12th. He is headed up the Cariboo as far as Prince Rupert.

Again he is doing services on the APQS machines and helping you all out. Price of a service is $200 with the number of clients all sharing the mileage. So the more clients the better for everyone.

Safety protocols will be in place with masks and distance please.

If this fits into your schedule please give me a call at: 
250-376-7630 or you can call Bill 250-318-1499. 
Email is also an option at info@fabricshelf.ca

Machine Repair every Wednesday!

Reminder that Hector and Tammy come every Wednesday to drop off and pick up machines for servicing.
We are looking for another 5 machines this week. They have a trailer so have the room now to transport more machines! 

You can drop your machine off any time at the shop before Wednesday noon for them to pick up. You will get your machine back the following Wednesday.

The same great service by the same great people at the same great price!

Give us a call at 250-376-7630 or email me at info@fabricshelf.ca

Alaska 2022

Yes we are going to Alaska in 2022 on a quilting cruise. How exciting is that? Anne Hall and I are hosting this fabulous trip and garauntee some good times, quilting, good food and spectacular scenery!

This is of course all dependant on the Covid situation, as we take your safety is of first concern for us. All precautions will be taken to have fun, enjoyable but safe vacation. We have a limit of 20 students in order to keep distances.Only 2 spots left so give a call soon!!!

The project offered is gorgeous! Called "Mermaids Tale" you can make this one as a 68" x 68" or extend it to a 99" x 99" queen quilt. You also have the option of doing the Poinsettia project which you will probably be able to finish the top on the cruise! That would be cool! Next you also can choose to do a UFO! You will need it to be a Quiltworx or Be Colourful project, and Anne will help you get through the project!

This all sure makes it sound pretty darn exciting! You can find all the details at Anne Hall's website : http://www.sewpeaceful.com

Framed Floral by Princess Mirah

From Princess Mirah Batiks comes this great pattern you can make in all those yummy batiks you have stashed away!

Project would look great in any colour way and should be relatively easy to make larger if that is what you need. As many of you will know we have a large selection of batiks in the shop right now so take a look on the web site for some great batiks at some great prices http://www.fabricshelf.ca

This is confident beginner project so no tricky parts, just good basic quilting skills. check out the free download: http://www.batikbymirah.com/download/project-sheet/Batik-by-Mirah-free-project-preview-Fall-2013-Framed-Floral.pdf

Getting our quilting act together!

If you are anything like me you struggle to keep organized to get your quilting projects started and finished. I tend to have far larger dreams than what is actually reasonable. And of course another box of fabric arrives and I want to sew with that fabric! lol

Brother Mike has found a great article on streamlining your quilting. The tips are great and I think if I can focus long enough to actually do as it says I could be all organized and sort of like Martha Stewart. Have a read and see if any of their ideas could help you too in being more streamlined with your quilting!
https://www.arabesque-scissors.com/articles/streamline-your-quilting-aka-how-to-get-more-done