Sometimes customers come to New Pieces looking for dots…
Polka dots, and spots, and the usual “I’ll know it when I see it”…
Sometimes customers don’t tell staff what they’re looking for….
but, maybe they find something they love. As they get ready to leave…
they discover a few bolts of dots and spots they missed before…
Come in soon — we promise to have at least a few bolts of dotty fabric for you…
(Psssssst — They’re under the counter by the cash register!)
Alethea Ballard has a thing about chairs, and color and whimsy.
She also has a class at New Pieces next month, November 5th from 10-4.
Working from Alethea’s “book” (a Pattern Pack featuring multiple chair-related projects) and with her assistance, you will learn to create with large scale fabrics and your own developing sense of the whimsical. Alethea’s workshop is not likely to be repeated soon, and is suitable for all levels so please consider making time for it this November 5th.
15 bolts of solid “sheeting” weight fabrics in vivid colors
Plus an adorable selection of “Robot” themed prints, made in the same vivid, low-impact dyes. All these organics are standard 44″ width, and yes they cost a little bit more than the equivalent. Come See!
New this week at New Pieces — more luscious prints from Marcia Derse which work with and expand the selection we already have from earlier this year. Marcia Derse fabrics are commercially printed from her hand painted textiles.
Also from Marcia Derse,
SOLIDS!
We also have received several bolts of her stunning, saturated, solid-like colors that work brilliantly with her prints and with those from the Kaffe Fassett line…. and almost any saturated colors or batiks you have in your stash, or were resisting adding to it…
At this rate Derse could become an adjective to describe intense, slightly edgy, modern quilting fabrics.
Among the bolts of new fabrics that arrived in the Store this week were sets of bolts that cheerfully strain the concept of “solid” color. While a picture is worth a thousand words — no picture can really do adequate service to these fabrics. We encourage you to look for them the next time you are in the Store. They may not be with us long.
There are eight bolts of this clear gem-toned cloth, each with the same, subtle, printed “texture” that lets them perform as slightly more than solid.
There are also 11 new bolts of an amazing fabric called “Lumiere Sateen”. Cotton sateen ombres that glow. We’re speechless.
If you have a project in the planning stage for which you needed “Solids +”, these may be the fabrics for which you were waiting.
The pictures can at least give you an idea…
Wow.
In July and early August you have the opportunity to take two wonderful classes over three consecutive Saturdays: Check out Cindi Cossen’s Jewel Squares (Quik Quilt) on Saturday July 30th, and Rebecca Rohrkaste’s Circles Another Way on July 23rd and August 6.
Cindi will show you how to make a quilt that almost sparkles, using many different fabrics and only one rectangular pattern piece. Quick cutting and sewing techniques will get your quilt off to a fast start.
Join Cindi for this class that is easy enough for beginners and fun for all levels of quilter.
Rebecca will show you free-hand cutting and sewing techniques (no templates, no pins!) that make stunning quarter-circle blocks for your next improvisational quilt.
There will be time to try variations, work on color choices with Rebecca, and begin a quilt top using your new skills.
Our friend Nancy Brown will be teaching her amazing Undersea Class beginning June 12, on five Sunday afternoons, once a month for five months. Looking at the pictures, there’s really not much more that needs to be said. Once you master the techniques, you can do more than you ever dreamed, and this might be your first step.
All 10 of your local quilt shops are offering a “Customer Appreciation” sale this Friday and Saturday:
Quilter’s Quest
Customer Appreciation Weekend
May 20-21, 2011
Friday & Saturday
Regular Store Hours
Ten shops in the San Francisco Bay Area have joined together to show you, our loyal customers, how
much we appreciate you!
Enjoy 20% off on-bolt fabric (half-yard cut minimum), And enter to win a $100 gift certificate at each
shop!
Mark your calendars for this fun-filled weekend
Cornerstone Quilt Shoppe (707) 438-2969
1001 W. Texas St. Ste. A
Fairfield, Ca. 94533
Cotton Patch (925) 284-1177
1025 Brown Avenue
Lafayette, Ca. 94549
Main Street Quilts (925) 372-3700
533 Main Street
Martinez, Ca 94553
New Pieces (510) 527-6779
766 Gilman & 4th St.
Berkeley, Ca. 94710
Picket Fence Quilts (415) 892-8380
6090 Redwood Blvd.
Novato, Ca. 94945
Queen B’s Quilt Shop (925) 9784587
720 W 2nd Street
Antioch, Ca. 94509
Quilt Fans (510) 749-6717
2205 Harbor Bay Pkwy
Alameda, Ca. 94502
Quilted Vine (707) 546-0750
1591 Farmers Lane
Santa Rosa, Ca. 95405
Quiltmaker (707) 252-6793
1275 Napa Town Center
Napa, Ca. 94559
ThimbleCreek (925) 676-5522
1150 Burnett Ave. #D
Concord, Ca. 94520
DANCING SISTAS!
with Pat Dicker — May 15th at Noon
These “Sistas” are just plain fun. Each one is 14″ tall, with limbs you can position and has an exuberant personality that can’t be measured. Dancing Sistas prove the old adage that one can never be too thin, or too richly colored and textured. Pat is a great teacher, and a lot of fun, even without her Sistas.
As of May 3rd there are spaces for two or three more students in this workshop. Maybe its time you made yourself a “doppelganger” or totem figure — Sistas are also flat enough to mail to a love one.
