Vendor Booth - Success or Not

Today we had a vendor booth at Frontier Days in Eva, AL.  I didn't expect to sell anything since this was a community festival, not a quilt show.  My goals was to just get our name out there.

Was it a success?  I sold one AccuQuilt GO! Fabric Cutter and a few dies.  I meet some great people and shared some great quilting stories.  Several took business's cards so they can contact me about having their quilt tops finished.  Meet a nice lady that invited me to attend their quilt show as a vendor in Prattville in March 2014.

All in all, I am very proud and consider this day a success!

If you would like to see what we have to offer you can go to www.shop.stitchesnstories.com!

Another Quilt For Brenda

This family has been so blessed.  They found three quilt tops in the attic that grandmother had made (probably early 1940's).  Then they found a whole box...  I've lost count as to how many there are.  :)

Some of them we have given really nice, custom quilting designs and others we went with meandering & stippling.  All are beautiful.

This one was the second with a tag stating they were made with dress scraps from the granddaughter's.

Extra Fabric on The Frame?

I just finished a quilt for a customer (will show that in another post when I roll the frame back).  My customers typically don't get the extra fabric back u less they ask for it or unless it is a lot.  So what do I do with that extra fabric?

Put some mug rugs on.  :). I have a cute quilt that I'm working on and had an extra Dresden plate so I made four mug rugs, each quilted differently.  

These can be sold for a little extra dollars, giving to charity, given as a gift to a sick loved one or given as a gift to a friend.

Just a little something fun to share.

Happy Quilting,

Rhonda

Custom Quilt Design

So I made this beautiful quilt top using the 12" AccuQuilt Mix N Match dies.  The original purpose for making this is to have a sample display quilt for my booth.

I chose to use the bright colors similar to what AccuQuilt using on their samples in order to draw attention to it.

After the top was finished, then comes how to quilt it.  I have watched some of Lisa Calle's videos on QnnTV.com and how she designs custom quilting patterns and so off I went.  This quilt now becomes a dual purpose... AccuQuilt Display and custom quilt sampler.  Now where to start...

Lets take the second block and I'll show you what I did.

Here is the actual block with actual colors.  

I then printed out a copy (or you can print a picture) in black n white so the colors didn't distract me from the design process.  

Using a piece of tracing paper laid on top of the printed design, I was able to do my outline or stitch in the ditch and then fill in each section from there.  Knowing what I know now, I should have done this first page in about four or five pages displaying a different step on each page.

After looking at the above picture, I still had some area that I wanted to add detail to.  So here comes another piece of tracing paper...

The purpose of using multiple pieces of tracing paper is to make changes easily without starting all over.  If I decided the feathers were to much, I would just remove those pages and go back to filling in the blanks on a new page.

So this is where I'm at today.  I will post as I start to actually quilt the blocks and share with you a great new ruler that Lisa designed that I am adding to my store.