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De-Stash Bash :: Sewing for a Cause!!

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It’s time to DE-STASH! And let’s give to our community while we’re at it.  Crimson Tate is partnering with our dear friend and fabric rep Laurie Voggenthaler to present DE-STASH BASH.  The gang of Crimson Tate and Laurie have cut through our years of stash building and assembled kits to create pillowcases for members of our own community at the Wheeler Mission Center for Women and Children. 

How can you get involved?  Here are the deets:

  • WHO: You and all your sewy pals are encouraged to participate.
  • WHAT: Sewing pillowcases to be donated to the Wheeler Mission Center for Women and Children.
  • HOW: Come to Crimson Tate and make a $12 donation to Wheeler Mission CWC to receive a pillowcase kit.  Each kit includes three coordinating fabrics and a pillowcase pattern. OR Use fabrics from your own stash and  make a suggested donation of $12 when dropping off the pillowcase.
  • WHEN: Return your completed pillowcase donation to Crimson Tate by Tuesday, October 1st.
  • NOW WHAT: Then, join us Friday evening October 4 to celebrate your generosity.

First Friday in October, Crimson Tate will feature

  1. Your cutie-tootie pillowcases lining the cultural trail (weather permitting).
  2. A very VERY important chili cook-off competition between me (Heather) and my sister Tana.  We need the public to decide once and for all WHO MAKES THE BETTER CHILI?!
  3. Beer.  Beer. Beer. YESSSS!!!
  4. Celebrate on Mass Ave with Harvest of the Arts and other retailers and restaurants featuring local artists.
  • WHY: Our dear friend Laurie Voggenthaler came to us with an idea of how she could clear out leftovers in her stash AND make a difference.  100% of your donation goes to the Wheeler Mission Center for Women and Children.  What a lovely way to touch lives as we head toward the holiday season.  And how wonderful that we can hand them not only a generous stack of pillowcases but also cash to support existing programs.  This is gonna be good.

Get down here and gather-up some stash (or get to digging through your own)! And get to sewing.  We’re excited to see what you will create.

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Is that Liberty of London Lifestyle cotton in that kit?! Why yes it is.  We’re not holding back the good stuff in the kits we’ve created!!

“Excuse me! Are you Tula Pink?!” — Quilt Market Review Continues Including Best Quilt At Market, IMO.

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Day two of Quilt Market, I was standing in the aura of Tula Pink, Freespirit Fabrics designer, trying to take it all in when a woman interrupts my Tula Pink coma saying “Excuse me! I’m so sorry.  Are you Tula Pink?” And so it begins.  I’m later to find out that this character that confuses me with Tula is Mary Fons of Quilty Magazine.  We giggle about the incident when a series of events finds me chatting with her after I’ve inadvertently crashed a quilting magazine industry party on the eighth floor of a hotel that is a few miles away from my hotel.  This whole story is way better told in person.

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Tula Pink can’t be stopped.  I am at times speechless just trying to take in the abundance of pattern, color, design, absurdity, beauty, and cohesion that is Tula Pink.  Take a closer look at her quilt market booth.

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Fabric flowers in vases.

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A really great series of pillows.

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As quilts.  As garments.  As home decor.  It all works.

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Holy.  This butterfly quilt was designed by Tula Pink as a block of the month.  You can bet your sweet bippy that we’re gonna do this at Crimson Tate.  It’s absolutely stunning.

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Here’s an up-close look at the quilting.  So good.

But let’s chat about THE BEST QUILT found at quilt market.  It’s this one —>

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I’m angry that I don’t have a better photo of the entire quilt.  I can still hear Tula’s voice as I’m franticaly trying to get a photo of it at her School House chat “Don’t worry.  It’ll be in the booth.  You can get a good photo of it later.” But in fact, I never saw the quilt outstretched again after that moment.  I couldn’t get a full view of it.  Ugh!  But I did get a few close-ups so you can see why it’s so incredible.

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That Angela Waters.  Whoa.  And closer still.

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As my friend Lindsay of Ellesquare says “You drank the Kool-Aid.” And in fact I did.  Coming to live at Crimson Tate in the next few months is not only Tula Pink’s entire line of quilting weight cottons from her collection, Acacia, but also her hand piecing kit that makes this quilt.

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Seen again here along with needlework pillows, also coming to Crimson Tate.

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Boxes of Tula Pink Aurifil thread, both the large and small sizes along with her newest collection of ribbons for Renaissance Ribbons.Image

I have a serious Kool-Aid mustache.  I might have gone a little crazy.  I leave you with a few other random bits that are interesting and all Tula Pink.  Holy mother.

xoxo

Heather

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Boy or Girl?!!

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I’m taking a quick break from Quilt Market recap fun-time to share with you what is happening at Crimson Tate this evening.  Let me tell you an amazing little story about Becky. 

 

Becky came through the door with her all-time best friend Eric wanting to take a quilt class.  Funny.  Smart.  Meant to be friends.  These two were a riot to have in class together. They are both incredibly fabulous and wonderful.  When Becky and her husband Mark found out they were pregnant with their second baby, they decided the best way to find out the gender would be to have Eric and their new friends at Crimson Tate pick out the fabrics for the baby’s first quilt. 

 

So tonight Eric is making his way Downtown to open the envelope, to be the first to find out who’s about to enter the world, and honor this new life with a quilt.  We are going to assist Eric in choosing the fabrics for this quilt and then swiftly package them so there can be no peeking.  The gender will be revealed to Mark and Becky at dinner.

 

What do you think it will be?!?!  We’re so excited and honored to be the firsts to know this baby and thrilled to be a part of this important occasion now and as this family grows.  Love to all!  It’s a great time to be quilting.

Working on Three Twin Quilts for Triplets

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Three grand kids who have a lovely grandmother, will be receiving a twin sized quilt: one for each of them.  Knowing that they are all built from the same DNA but hold individual personalities, we all agreed that the fabrics used in each one should relate but there should be a pop of uniqueness for each one.  Here’s the first.  I’ll let you peek in at more as the tops are sewn together.  I love projects like this!!Image

Modern and Lovely Meets Purple

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While Pantone deemed Honeysuckle as the color of the year, a vibrant rosy pink, all trends point toward the purple side of that color as a stand alone beauty.  There is something about the quietness of pale purple mixed with the vibrancy of fuchsia.  There is a beautiful handholding between calm and energetic.  A perfect combination for a new baby girl would be the strength and delicacy of the color purple.  Deep, insightful, loud, and fun.

Lotta Lotta Jansdotter

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Lotta + Crimson

Who isn’t in love with Lotta Jansdotter?

Wonderfully and excitedly, Lotta Jansdotter with Windham fabrics has produced a beautiful line of fabrics we all keep eyeing up.  In November, the line will be available at Crimson Tate :: Modern Quilter.  The list of notifications keeps growing as we begin the countdown ’til we’ve got a lot o’ Lotta.  Three months and fifteen days.  How will we occupy ourselves until then?