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Quilt Corral Oct 2024 Newsletter


 

Howdy Quilt Corral Friends!

Welcome to River Run, a north valley shop hop. Visit all 10 shops now through 6 pm on Oct 5.

We have lots of new quilt kits in stock so we're featuring a bunch of them in this newsletter.

Upcoming Events:

Naughty or Nice: Enjoy two days of Christmas sewing. Save the date: Dec 6-7, 2024. Limited to 24 participants.

Ten Item Tues: Tune in with Carol for Facebook Live most Tuesdays at 3:00 pm. Ten minutes. Ten items (or more).
Check out the weekly list on the home page. 

River Run Shop Hop: Oct 3-5, 2024  Northern California's fall Shop Hop includes 10 shops in the North Valley.

Quilt Rush: Save the Date! April 10-13, 2025


Block of the Month: 

We are still accepting sign ups in both our new BOM programs. These programs just started in Sep so it'd be easy to catch up!

Growing up on the Ranch  is made with a plethora of western prints in a palette of red, blue and cream. Includes embroidery, fusible applique and piecing.

Finished size is 72" x 76"

Sign up fee: $30

Plus $18.99/month for 8 months.

Click here to sign up.

Time For All Seasons BOM

Designed by One Sister, we've used warm reproduction prints that lean toward the primitive style set against multiple greyish/blue backgrounds. Each month for 10 months, you will make a combination of pieced and appliqued blocks with a touch of embroidery. Our sample was made using fusible applqiue.

Finished size: 58" x 72"

Sign up fee (includes the book) $32 

Plus $12.99/month for 10 months.

Click here to sign up.

New Fabrics!

Toscana blenders by Northcott. These beautiful blenders have a suede-like look to them. We have a nice selection of colors that go with many of our current fabic collections. 

See all of Toscana here. 

 

 

Concrete Jungle by Hoffman

Ok all you fans of Laura Heine collages! Look at these lovely prints Carol found with bright colors and surprises hidden in the jungle! Click each image to shop.

Featured Panels!  

Home on the Range

Look at the great quilt Carol made with the Home on the Range block panels! You'll need two panels in matching color to make a similar quilt. We are sold out of the rust, but still have a few of the panels with the cream background and the burlap background. 

Click here for the cream panel. 

Click here for the burlap panel.

Click here for the Cowboy Up quilt kit.

Click here to see all of the Home on the Range collection.

 

Call of the Wild Panel

Just in! A beautiful digital printed panel featuring the Scottish Highland Cow. We've paired it with the Briarwood pattern to make a wallhanging with a statement! See below for more Highland cow items!

Click here for the panel.

Click here for the Briarwood pattern. (Note! We do not have the bear panel pictured in the Briarwood pattern.)

Ponderosa Western Kit

When you start with panel blocks and use strips to accent them, the work goes quickly! Make this quilt in time for Christmas for your favorite lover of all things western!

Click here for the quilt kit.

Click here to see all of Ponderosa (what we have left of it anyway!)

New Kits!

Hometown Holiday Decorating the Tree Quilt Kit

Barb is currently working on this sample and happily reports that most of it can be cut out using your Accuquilt! The cheerful ornament quilt is made with Lori Holt's Hometown Holiday fabric collection and comes packaged in a keepsake box with dividers for storing ornaments when you take the tree down. Makes a very generous 80" x 86" sized quilt, large enough for a bed! Limited edition. When they're gone, they're gone!

Click here to shop.

Home Town Holiday Christmas Runner Kit

Also by Lori Holt and also made with the Hometown Holiday fabric collection, make a 27" x  57" table runner (or bed runner!) featuring Christmas sweets! Comes in a beautiful keepsake box.

Click here to shop.

Peter Rabbit Book Adventures Quilt Kit

Licensed by Riley Blake, choose your version of this charming kit. The basic version includes the pattern and fabric to make the 60" x 67" quilt. The deluxe version comes packaged in a keepsake box (perfect for storing dolly dresses later on!) and includes a copy of the Peter Rabbit book as well as the pattern and fabric to make the quilt. If you'd like backing in a coordianting fabric, we still have most of the collection in stock. 

Click here for the basic kit.

Click here for the Deluxe Kit in the keepsake box.

Click here for the stuffies panel. (Make them, then gift them tucked inside the keepsake box!)

Click here to see the entire collection.

Jingle Bells Panel Quilt Kit

A panel plus 5" squares of charming retro prints means you'll make this holiday quilt in not time!

Click here for the quilt kit.

Click here for the Jingle Bells panel.

Click here for the Jingle Bells fabric collection.

Cattle Call Wallhanging kit

Back in stock! It's your chance to get this popular 40" x 45" wallhanging kit! We've been sold out for ages but now have it in stock again.

Click here for the kit.

Click here for the pattern.

Click here for the mini coos pattern.

Click here for the Highland Cow stuffie pattern.

Focus on handwork

Wooly Rounds By Red Button Quilt designs. We've shown this pattern before but now have samples on display at the shop. Choose either version - the wall quilt or the table mat. The pattern includes the tiny buttons for one of the two options. Not shown, but also a possiblity is to make the circles as coasters or tiny 4" candle mats. Scallop edges too much for you? The pattern also includes instructions for making yours with a straight edge.

Click here for the pattern with the set of tiny buttons.

New Notion!

Zipper Trio Frustrated with not finding the right size zipper for your project? Try a package of Zipper Trios! Three colors of 4.5mm zipper tape with a set of zipper pulls. Cut to size, then add a zipper pull! We have them in several colors. Each trio includes 3 yards of zipper tape per color and 8 zipper pulls. Perfect for bag making, especially when you need several matching zippers in the same or different sizes, or a very long zipper. 

Click here to see them all.

New patterns!

Sweet tooth Candy Pumpkins

Sew this row by row quilt in time for Halloween! Start with the pattern and a fat quarter bundle then add your own background - make it scrappy and use up lots of leftovers background bits and pieces, or use one background throughout, like we did. See this stunning sample on display at the store!

Click here for the pattern.

Click here for the Fat Quarter bundle. The pattern uses a FQ of every piece in the collection!

Click here to shop all of Sweet Tooth.

Back in Stock!

Silk Glasshead pins by Clover. We love these fine pins. The glasshead means you can press over them without melting a pin head to your iron. These pins sell out quickly so if you've been looking for them, grab them while you can! 

Click here to shop.

June Tailor Project Bags Zippity Do Done

If you took Barb's recent class and were disappointed that the project bag kits sold out so quickly, we have them back in stock! Choose from white zippers or black zippers. 

Click here to shop.

Easy Go Wallet Bundles

If you've been waiting for the Easy Go Wallet Bundles - we have them back in stock too! 

Click here for the pattern and hardware.

You'll also need a 10" zipper and a 20-22" zipper. Consider a zipper trio and cut your own! Click here for the zipper trios.

Veteran's Quilt Project

Our Veteran Quilt Project continues thanks to Tammy of the Willows VFW Auxillary for taking over when Susan moved. Congratulations to the recently honored Veterans of the Month, Dick Carrier and Lucas Corriea. 

 We welcome donations of completed blocks, quilt tops and quilts in patriotic or outdoorsy/farm themes. Thank you for supporting our veterans!

Keep on Stitching!

Carol and Barb
 

If you've missed any of our previous emails or just want to check a past email for something specific you can view them here in the newsletter archives.

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