New is fun, fun is good!!

This week coming is chock full of fun stuff. Tuesday is Art Club, Wednesday, Summer Houses begins, Saturday is Crazy Quilt Club and Shadow Applique on Tisket a Tasket. With all these classes and the more than 2 dozen new fabrics that arrived here this week, I hope to see all of your smiling faces come through my doorway. If you need the supply list for Shadow applique, email and I will forward it and the pattern to you.

I want to direct your attention to the right hand side of this message, You will see some new page titles under that heading More Information. These are click able links to pages dedicated to one specific thing that is happening here at VFS. You can easily move back and forth among them and I hope that you will check them out. I am working on a gallery page for your projects as well. You just have to bring them in for the class example program and give me permission to post them.

This week the special is 10% off Everything but the Kitchen Sink fabric line by RJR. These super fun and cheerful 30's prints are perfect for the newest Scrap Therapy pattern, called Doggone Scrappy. It is a Scottie dog block with a postage stamp sashing. The wonderful people at Quiltsmart have a pre printed interfacing for the pillow turn applique method so it is super easy to get this pup to behave. I have a four block version that went together in a snap currently in the front window.

Lastly, I wanted to share a website with you that has a wealth of images from the International Quilt Festival, Chicago. Once you are at the site, click on Special Exhibits and you will have a weeks worth of inspiration. www.quilts.com/sqf10/enVivo Prepare to spend some time with this. I think it is supposed to be rainy most of the weekend so you wont have to feel guilty for not being in the garden. Once you are all inspired, come on in and between the new workshops getting started this week, and all the new fabrics, we can make your inspiration into a quilt. See you soon.