Some of my quilts from our quilt show....

Our quilt show last weekend was wonderful.  So many beautiful quilts, most of them hand-quilted.  If you'd like to take a look at what was there, you can check out our In-Stitches Blog.

So, instead of old quilts, I'm going to share some of my own that were in our show. I've designed most of them. My daughter and I joke that we've never completely made a quilt from a real pattern. We just can't do it somehow!

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LeMoyne Star Pinwheel
Debbie MacInnis
Chehalis, Washington
2015
56" x 56"

This first one is called LeMoyne Star Pinwheel and the inspiration came from an 1830 quilt. It's 56" square and I used the Mill Book Series Circa 1852 fabric line from Moda.

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Friendship Civil War Sampler

Debbie MacInnis

Chehalis, Washington

2015

This one is a friendship Civil War Sampler. My good friend Annie and I each made one, both of us making 2 each of half the blocks, and then we swapped. It is based on Barbara Brackman's Civil War Sampler project on her blog a few years back. We've had a great time! If you'd like to see the story of the quilts, you can read about it on our Civil War Quilting Sisters blog.

http://civilwarquiltingsisters.blogspot.com/

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Miniature Civil War Sampler
Debbie MacInnis
Chehalis, Washington
2015
23" x 29"

This may look a little familiar to some of you.  After making the quilt for my daughter-in-law -- which became our 2015 Block of the Week project -- I really wanted to do some "little" work. So I made a mini replica of the original quilt using 3" blocks and identical fabrics. I gave it to my granddaughter for Christmas. Her first words were, "Mom, it's just like yours!" Made my day. The size on this is 23" x 29"

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Little Blue Baskets
Debbie MacInnis
Chehalis, Washington
2015
30" x 30"

This is another "little" that I designed, "Little Blue Baskets." Its inspiration came from a pink and green basket quilt from 1858. It measures about 30" square.

I now wish I had made it bigger, because I love it!

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Colorado Log Cabin
Debbie MacInnis
Chehalis, Washington
2015
72" x 96"

This is my largest hand-quilted effort to date. I made it for my son in response to his asking me if I'd make him a quilt. Of course, I said "Yes!" Especially because I was secretly plotting to make him one, anyway!

I first saw the pattern in a quilt book in 1998 or so. It's called "Colorado Log Cabin." I loved it and really wanted to make one --and it never left my "someday list."

It's pretty big. It measures about 72" x 96". I lived under it for months as I was quilting it!

Thanks for joining us today!

Happy Quilting!!

Up and Running!!

It has turned out to be a red-letter week!

For the past 6 months, Maggie and I have been working on a business start-up, and our website went live last Tuesday. We've been tweaking and getting broken links to work and the like, and having fun with it!

And thinking, “How did we get here??!!”

Back in February, an email in my inbox announcing the sale of an online discount fabric business got us to thinking. At first we wondered if we might want to buy that business, and started the process of working with the seller. But the more we thought about it, the more we realized what we really wanted was to start our own. Thus began our quest for information about online businesses, small business in Washington State, market research, website building companies, and on and on.

What we discovered has conveyed us to this point of actually pushing the “go” button!

Both Maggie and I love quilting. We have been blessed to be part of what we believe to be one of the most amazing quilt groups ever. Kindness, encouragement, and creativity abound and we have reaped the benefits of all of that, and more. You can check out our In Stitches Blog here and see what we mean!

Not only do we love quilting, we love designing. I can't think of a time that either one of us actually used a ready-made pattern “as is.”

We also love reproduction fabrics and recreating traditional quilts.

Add all that to the love of finding a good deal, and a passion for really good customer service, and there you have our business goals:

To provide:

• The highest quality reproduction quilting fabrics
• The most winsome traditional quilting patterns-
• from our own design table
• and from other wonderful designers

• Good Old-Fashioned Customer Service
• Affordable prices with a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

We hope you enjoy keeping up with us here on the blog and that you have fun visiting our website.

We'd love to hear from you!