Hello everyone,
I hope you are all enjoying the wonderful gift of beautiful weather "Mother" bestowed upon us today. See good things do come to those who wait.
Well, classes are going very well at the shop and I am just sending a reminder about a few up and coming classes with some beautiful new faces sharing their expertise with our customers.
Leading Lady Pleated Wristlet by Jessica VanDenburgh
Cost: $35.00
Date: Saturday, March 19, 1-4pm
First we have Jessica VanDenburgh with her "Leading Lady Pleated Wristlet". Jessica has been designing and teaching for years now and we are very pleased to welcome her to our teaching staff. This new design is perfect for the girl who likes to carry just the basics...and a bit more. This versatile wristlet can be used as a clutch or wallet by simply removing the detachable loop. This session includes learning how to sew a zipper in a bag...Jess's easy peasy way.
Morning Glory Raw Edge Applique by Cheryl Bloomer
Cost: $35.00
Date: Thursday, March 24, 6-9pm Kits are available for class or general purchase.
If you have been in the shop lately, you have had the pleasure of seeing Cheryl's great "raw edge applique" art pieces. She has taken several patterns and added her own magical touches to each one to create such pretty one of a kind pieces. Start with one of her kits and embellish to your hearts content. Morning Glories bring in spring with these beautiful blooms that are simple and sweet.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Your Sewing Machine by Linda Denner
Cost: $35.00
Date: Saturday, March 26, 12-3pm
In this class, you will learn the setting and preparation for perfect satin stitching and buttonhole stitches for applique. Also, when to use stabilizers, how to use decorative threads and embellishments, and how to get your $199 machine to behave like an $8,000 model. Bring your manual and unidentified presser feet for questions. Some machine quilting will be covered.
NEW THINGS AT THE SHOP
Kate Mitchell from Berkshire Quilts has graciously dressed our shop with some of her personally designed quilts. They are lovely and we have the patterns by Kate for your to purchase. Also keep in mind, we have scheduled a trunk show by Kate during this year's SHOP HOP.
Sue Pritt creator and designer of Sweet Seasons Quilts, has new patterns available for her spring collection and her new pocketbook/bag designs. Her patterns are now available at the FG.
Jess VanDenburgh has samples of her reversible bags in sizes S,M,and L on display at the shop with patterns available for your purchasing.
Our own wonderful Miss Patty has whipped up a darling little bag made with grommets. Easy and Fast. Kits and patterns available.
Just a reminder, we are still doing our Applique Club every second Wednesday of each month. With all the bad winter weather and cancellations we were unable to meet when scheduled, so please take note that we are still up and running this club.
April Class descriptions coming soon.
Have a wonderful weekend....go to your local quilt shop....Flying Geese Fabrics
Mardi
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit
Welcome March! Yes that wonderful first day of March when even as temperatures barely reach out of the twenties, hope springs forth and just for a moment we feel the rebirth of earthsong and human spirit.
Hello all my friends, it has been a while since I took pen in hand. A long winter for us all and so much "feeling" under the weather has kept so many of us too "cooped" up for too long. I myself have been waiting to "awaken" again and feel the breath of spring flow all around me and get my creative juices flowing again.
New fabrics at the shop are brightening up our shelves and displays, along with new patterns for spring projects and classes to get you out of the house and into that freshening up mood. A new spring coverlet or maybe a pretty bag are just a few of the projects we are offering in our new classes. A fast and easy landscape wall hanging might just be that special piece you need for that wall you've been wanting to hang something on, but couldn't decide what it should be. Let us help you and it will be done before you know it.
New fabrics at the shop include: Moda's Dominique II. A French patchwork quilt from the 1860's inspired the fabrics of Dominique II. This beautiful quilt appeared to pay homage to the traditional quilts and tapestries designed to grace the stone walls of European residents. The fabrics display the French love of a floral garden with sinuous botanical blooms and tranquil garden song birds. The collection boast two outstanding paisley prints: a Jacobean floral paisley and a tossed seed paisley foulard. The classic paisley floral stripe provides a dramatic appearance. Rich and timeless colors imbue this heirloom collection of fabrics. Precuts and bolted fabrics available.
Moda owner Mark Dunn may not make quilts, but he certainly appreciates them. Twice yearly he selects an antique quilt from his substantial collection and reproduces its fabrics for his Howard Marcus lines. The proceeds from these fabrics, know as "Collection for a Cause," benefit charities that touch Moda customers and employees, including breast cancer, juvenile diabetes, Alzheimer's, Quilt of Valor, and more. Beautiful fabrics created in the true spirit of quilting. This year the collection we are featuring is called "Faith". Beautiful browns and pinks in yardage as well as precuts. Hurry in because these won't last long at all.
Moda's French Pom Pom Paris is here. In her seventh collection for Moda, Kaari breaks into beautiful colors of the French garden. Kaari walks you through the romantic floral garden with the pastoral scenes. Blooms and butterflies abound in the Chapeau de Napoleon. Peintres shows Arts and Crafts at its best with the classic Stawberry Thief in rose hedge. Felicite Perpetue offers a most beautiful floral column stripe. The floral continue to woo with Louis Gimard and Plantier. The coordinating pieces are simple and elegant. Precuts and yardage available.
Don't forget to sign up for Shop Hop. Dates are May 19, 20, 21 and 22. This is the weekend before Memorial Day. Bags and passports are now on sale for $5.00. Don't miss the chance to visit all eleven shops for fun, games and great prizes.
Hello all my friends, it has been a while since I took pen in hand. A long winter for us all and so much "feeling" under the weather has kept so many of us too "cooped" up for too long. I myself have been waiting to "awaken" again and feel the breath of spring flow all around me and get my creative juices flowing again.
New fabrics at the shop are brightening up our shelves and displays, along with new patterns for spring projects and classes to get you out of the house and into that freshening up mood. A new spring coverlet or maybe a pretty bag are just a few of the projects we are offering in our new classes. A fast and easy landscape wall hanging might just be that special piece you need for that wall you've been wanting to hang something on, but couldn't decide what it should be. Let us help you and it will be done before you know it.
New fabrics at the shop include: Moda's Dominique II. A French patchwork quilt from the 1860's inspired the fabrics of Dominique II. This beautiful quilt appeared to pay homage to the traditional quilts and tapestries designed to grace the stone walls of European residents. The fabrics display the French love of a floral garden with sinuous botanical blooms and tranquil garden song birds. The collection boast two outstanding paisley prints: a Jacobean floral paisley and a tossed seed paisley foulard. The classic paisley floral stripe provides a dramatic appearance. Rich and timeless colors imbue this heirloom collection of fabrics. Precuts and bolted fabrics available.
Moda owner Mark Dunn may not make quilts, but he certainly appreciates them. Twice yearly he selects an antique quilt from his substantial collection and reproduces its fabrics for his Howard Marcus lines. The proceeds from these fabrics, know as "Collection for a Cause," benefit charities that touch Moda customers and employees, including breast cancer, juvenile diabetes, Alzheimer's, Quilt of Valor, and more. Beautiful fabrics created in the true spirit of quilting. This year the collection we are featuring is called "Faith". Beautiful browns and pinks in yardage as well as precuts. Hurry in because these won't last long at all.
Moda's French Pom Pom Paris is here. In her seventh collection for Moda, Kaari breaks into beautiful colors of the French garden. Kaari walks you through the romantic floral garden with the pastoral scenes. Blooms and butterflies abound in the Chapeau de Napoleon. Peintres shows Arts and Crafts at its best with the classic Stawberry Thief in rose hedge. Felicite Perpetue offers a most beautiful floral column stripe. The floral continue to woo with Louis Gimard and Plantier. The coordinating pieces are simple and elegant. Precuts and yardage available.
Don't forget to sign up for Shop Hop. Dates are May 19, 20, 21 and 22. This is the weekend before Memorial Day. Bags and passports are now on sale for $5.00. Don't miss the chance to visit all eleven shops for fun, games and great prizes.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Reminder
Goodmorning everyone,
This is just a reminder that the house class scheduled for Sat. Feb 5th at 10am is cancelled. We are being cautious with the weather prediction. The store is open for regular hours both Saturday and Sunday. The beginner machine quilting class with Linda Denner has been postponed also, but I believe it is to be scheduled for Sunday the 6th. Please call the store to confirm.
There is an error also in the directions for the Saturday Sampler cobblestone block.
Please call the store to get the corrected information.
Thanks,
Mardi
This is just a reminder that the house class scheduled for Sat. Feb 5th at 10am is cancelled. We are being cautious with the weather prediction. The store is open for regular hours both Saturday and Sunday. The beginner machine quilting class with Linda Denner has been postponed also, but I believe it is to be scheduled for Sunday the 6th. Please call the store to confirm.
There is an error also in the directions for the Saturday Sampler cobblestone block.
Please call the store to get the corrected information.
Thanks,
Mardi
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Happy Groundhog Day....Spring just around the corner
Ok!! I will buy into that one. Spring is only 47 days away, so literally it is right around the corner. With so much beautiful winter weather gracing our homes and yards and the trees dripping with crystal chandeliers who could possibly be in a hurry for spring? All this weather has slowed us all down. Mayhaps we should take the opportunity to do just that and nestle down into our sewing rooms and sew, sew and sew somemore. What feeling of accomplishment we will have if we don't let the winter weather consume our every thought. If you're a snow bunny then this is your year...enjoy...I wish you all the fun you can find. If you are yearning for spring, change your screensaver, buy a daffodil at the grocers, bring in some branches from the early spring flowering trees and force their buds, or pick out your prettiest spring fabrics and grab your simpliest quilt pattern and go to work. In no time you will be singing and happy and so pleased with how winter has given you this slow down time and captured you in your homes. Then just look at the beautiful quilt you started and are almost finished piecing or appliqueing. Be happy, don't worry, Mother Nature may teach us harsh lessons, but she always comes through with a change for the better. Be blessed, be safe and be happy for the next 47 days...or maybe more.
The shop is on winter alert so please check before venturing out to make sure we are open. We will try our hardest to be there, but we will be careful too. If you are scheduled for classes this week please call the shop and if you cannot reach me at the shop, you can call 956-1677, it's my cell. With the storms approaching and unpredictable, we may postpone the Saturday Sampler block classes on Thursday and Saturday.
Thank you and please...safety first
Mardi
The shop is on winter alert so please check before venturing out to make sure we are open. We will try our hardest to be there, but we will be careful too. If you are scheduled for classes this week please call the shop and if you cannot reach me at the shop, you can call 956-1677, it's my cell. With the storms approaching and unpredictable, we may postpone the Saturday Sampler block classes on Thursday and Saturday.
Thank you and please...safety first
Mardi
Sunday, January 23, 2011
SUNDAY
Burrrrrrr! Sure is cold outside, but thank you for braving the cold and coming out to our sale. We moved a lot of fabric today. People sure seemed happy with their purchases and happy to shake off "cabin fever". Me too, I stopped by the shop at the end of the day and was so amazed at how much fabric and other goodies were gone. Of course there are still some goodies and fabrics left on sale so if you missed today's fun, you are sure to find something at a great price to tickle you pink when you do stop by.
Now there is all the new fabric ready for anyone craving spring to get started. So pretty in pinks and baby blues, flowers and fun brights. Lots of new batiks and bali pops along with charm packs and layer cakes and jelly rolls. Great dessert choices for all those watching their calories. And like the desserts we make from sugar and spice and everything nice, these creations will make us feel yummy all over and over again without ever feeling guilty about "having" too many sweets. Oh how sweet it is and spring is only 2 months away, so get started and be ready. Put on your Easter Bonnet caps and think Spring. Can't you just see those soft spring colors splashed across your bed or the back of a white wicker rocker. Maybe a baby is coming and you want to give a special quilt as a gift. It's the time to start...let it snow and give you time to cozy up and snuggle in with your quilting projects for the rest of the winter...start with us at Flying Geese Fabrics, where inspiration starts at our door.
Til we stitch again my friends,
Mardi
Now there is all the new fabric ready for anyone craving spring to get started. So pretty in pinks and baby blues, flowers and fun brights. Lots of new batiks and bali pops along with charm packs and layer cakes and jelly rolls. Great dessert choices for all those watching their calories. And like the desserts we make from sugar and spice and everything nice, these creations will make us feel yummy all over and over again without ever feeling guilty about "having" too many sweets. Oh how sweet it is and spring is only 2 months away, so get started and be ready. Put on your Easter Bonnet caps and think Spring. Can't you just see those soft spring colors splashed across your bed or the back of a white wicker rocker. Maybe a baby is coming and you want to give a special quilt as a gift. It's the time to start...let it snow and give you time to cozy up and snuggle in with your quilting projects for the rest of the winter...start with us at Flying Geese Fabrics, where inspiration starts at our door.
Til we stitch again my friends,
Mardi
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Sunshine
It's a beautiful morning here in Albany and the sun is shining bright. What a way to start the day. Here at the shop Linda Denner will be conducting her "Quilted Sweatshirt Jacket" class from 12 to 5pm. Even if you didn't sign up for the class, stop by and watch all the fun the students are having as Linda gives them extra tips on embellishing and making there jackets a "one of kind" beauty. The pattern comes in a book with several more jacket designs and you may just find yourself wanting to make this cute, any season, jacket for the spring from some of our brand new "Spring" fabrics. Moda is here and pretty as ever.
Don't forget tomorrow...."BIG SALE" day on Sunday, January 23rd, from 11am to 4pm. There will be selected bolts of fabrics, lots of them, for $3.00 a yard. Fat quarters will be $2.00 each from our pre-cut inventory.
Today if you should stop by the shop, please give a warm welcome to our newest "flockette", Leda. She will be gracing the shop on Saturdays with Kathy and we are so happy to have her.
Also there is time to sign up for the Cobblestone Cabins Saturday Sampler for 2011.
Due to the late arrival of the blue fabric we postponed the January start date and moved our first dates to February 3rd and 5th. You'll love this 40" traditional wall hanging done in your choice of red or blue. It's the easiest, but sweetest Saturday Sampler we have ever done...and all blocks are the same.
We are working on classes as I write this blog. I promise, they will be worth the wait. Thank you again for your support and kindness.
Stitch by Stitch...til we meet again,
Mardi
Don't forget tomorrow...."BIG SALE" day on Sunday, January 23rd, from 11am to 4pm. There will be selected bolts of fabrics, lots of them, for $3.00 a yard. Fat quarters will be $2.00 each from our pre-cut inventory.
Today if you should stop by the shop, please give a warm welcome to our newest "flockette", Leda. She will be gracing the shop on Saturdays with Kathy and we are so happy to have her.
Also there is time to sign up for the Cobblestone Cabins Saturday Sampler for 2011.
Due to the late arrival of the blue fabric we postponed the January start date and moved our first dates to February 3rd and 5th. You'll love this 40" traditional wall hanging done in your choice of red or blue. It's the easiest, but sweetest Saturday Sampler we have ever done...and all blocks are the same.
We are working on classes as I write this blog. I promise, they will be worth the wait. Thank you again for your support and kindness.
Stitch by Stitch...til we meet again,
Mardi
Friday, January 21, 2011
Friendly Friday at Flying Geese
Today's thoughts settle on "Balance".
The Universe,
like bellows,
is always emptying,
always full.
The more it yields,
the more it holds.
Tao-te Ching
Here is a simple exercise:
Visualization for Balance
Close your eyes for a moment. Feel and hear your own breath. Now you are centered within yourself. Imagine yourself quilting at a lovely, rhythmic pace, not too fast or slow, but smoothly, responding to all parts of your quilting, yet mindful of the whole. Speak in your own way to your intention, to allow all parts of the quilt to give their perfect gift to the whole. View each step you take in quilting with compassion for yourself and your quilt. This will lead you to understanding why you created your quilt.
The Universe,
like bellows,
is always emptying,
always full.
The more it yields,
the more it holds.
Tao-te Ching
Here is a simple exercise:
Visualization for Balance
Close your eyes for a moment. Feel and hear your own breath. Now you are centered within yourself. Imagine yourself quilting at a lovely, rhythmic pace, not too fast or slow, but smoothly, responding to all parts of your quilting, yet mindful of the whole. Speak in your own way to your intention, to allow all parts of the quilt to give their perfect gift to the whole. View each step you take in quilting with compassion for yourself and your quilt. This will lead you to understanding why you created your quilt.
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