NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON
QUILT SHOP HOP
8th ANNIVERSARY

"A Quilt Loop"
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
October 1, 2 & 3 2009
9:00 AM to 8:00PM daily

The quilt this year is designed by:
Exclusive design by The Fabric Patch, created just for the NCW Shop Hop!

A different block at each shop and we have 10 shops

Grand Prize: A Pfaff, Fast Creative 2.0 Sewing / Embroidery Machine and Gift Certificate from shops in the NCW shop Hop (Total value $3,700.00)
1st Place: Gift Basket, and Gift Certificate from shops in the NCW shop Hop, plus One night lodging at Mrs. Anderson’s Lodging House in Leavenworth, WA. (Total value $900.00)
2nd Place: Gift Basket, and Gift Certificate from shops in the NCW shop Hop, Plus Free Gammill appt. in Ephrata, WA. (Total value $700.00)
3rd Place: Gift Basket, and Gift Certificate from shops in the NCW shop Hop (Total value $550.00)

Click here for a list of shops that are participating!

Feathered Star Class

This Friday starts a new series class here at the Attic Window. Claudia Olson is teaching the Feathered Star class and her quilt sample is hanging in the Attic Window. It is a beautiful quilt. What will be interesting to see is how many people will go with her ideas on setting the stars or what they will create on their own.
We have been given our cutting instructions for the first month's center star and also the paper piecing patterns for the center. This way when we get to class, we can focus more on the designing and less on the time consuming grunt work.
As usual, I am already behind the curve. Wilma has finished her center star and her feathers. Yesterday, she and I went shopping for fabric for me. I have just not been motivated to create this summer and am not sure that using my amber colored batiks is where I want to go. But, not sure what else I would want to work with for the next few months. It is so hard to find darks and mediums. You know how it is, sometimes a fabric reads as a dark the next time it reads as a medium depending on where you use it.
It is almost dinner time and I still have not done any sewing today. I did get some quilt show business taken care of and some kitchen work, so haven't totally wasted the day. Just feels that way. Tomorrow and Monday I hope to get my paper pieced center star done. I think I am at the point of just doing it. The fabrics are beautiful batiks, mostly Hoffman, so hopefully I can't mess them up too badly. Fingers crossed!