Be @ Home Featured a Barn Chick

One of our Quilt Barn Employees was featured at Be@Home's Best of the Web. You can check out Tara and the other featured blogger's  here.

Here is what Be @ Home says this Best of the Web is about: This week we really have some great features including sewing, knitting, inspiring illustrations, family friendly foods, rediscovering your creative side, and of course incredible hand made books and greeting cards.

This post of quilting advice and tips was really great.

Be sure if you visit this site leave Tara a comment and let her know you like her feature!

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Thanks to everyone who takes the time to fill out this survey.
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Bosal Batting

Some of you may know this already but I wanted to shout it out, "The Quilt Barn is now a Bosal Distributor. We think this is pretty exciting news.  Let me tell you a bit about this batting:

Bosal is a made in the US product.  
It is a high quality batting that we have competitively priced (even priced against box store coupons).
It comes in poly, 80/20, and all cotton.
It comes in 4 different weights; Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.
Sizing includes crib, twin, full and queen.

These prepackaged battings are now in our etsy store and with a special promo shipping price, 5.10!


We have samples made up with these battings so come in and see and feel the difference.

The Quilt Barn also has batting by the bolt (9 yards per bolt) and by the yard.
My new favorite by the yard batting are wool and bamboo. The wool is devine.
Long Arm quilters get special pricing for the 9 yard bolt. As us for details.

Father's Day Apron Class

Lori came up with a great class idea, a Father's Day apron. It is a fun and simple project suitable for any sewing skill level. And not just for Father's Day either. You can make this apron for anyone, even your self.
Wouldn't it be cute with that tool fabric and a wood grain pocket? Is Dad a football fan? We also have BSU and ISU fabrics.

When: May 24 6:30-8:00
Where: The Quilt Barn Classroom.
 Cost: 10$ and includes the apron pattern. Sign up to reserve your spot
What to bring: fabric (1.5 yards of 60" wide home decor fabric for the main and 1/4 yard if wanting contrasting fabric for the pocket) for the apron, thread, scissors

Fresh Cut Love

I am always drawn to Heather Bailey's fabrics. Her newest line, Freshcut, is so light and happy. Maybe it's because I have 3 girls that I see her fabrics and all the possibilities for them.
 Like that stripe. Oh, that stripe. Swoon. I think it needs to be a skirt.  Four of them. My eldest daughter might object to the 4 of all all matchy matchy but I bet my youngest 2 would be on board.

I also need to make a quilt with this line just so I can use the stripe as a binding.
You can find Heather Bailey's blog here. There is also a sweet, free quilt pattern from Heather here.

You can find Freshcut on our etsy store.

Apron Strings with Reunion

Lori is the wonderful quilter behind this fantastic quilt. She used Sweetwater's pattern, Apron Strings. The fabric is also by Sweetwater, Reunion. 
You can also find this line here on our etsy store.

Today was a very busy morning getting etsy and web orders assembled and shipped off. I love being so busy sending you fabric. Thanks so much for all of your support.
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Advanced Beginner Quilting Class

We have a new Quilting Class starting up May 7. We will be making a Pinwheel Sampler. This is an advanced Beginning Class.

Dates: May 7, 14, 21, 28
Time: 5-7 PM
Where: The Quilt Barn Classroom
Price: 40$
Come by the store, sign up, purchase your pattern and pick out your fabrics.
You will need to bring: pattern, fabric, thread, rotary cutter, ruler, cutting mat, general sewing kit.
You can bring your own sewing machine or try one of our Janome machines.

Papillon Broken Stars Quilt

I am a big fan of 3 Sisters and their Papillon fabric line doesn't disappoint.
Amy Macklay let us hang her Broken Stars quilt in The Quilt Barn as a display.

She used the pattern Simple Stars Beautiful Quilts by Debbie Maddy for Calico Carriage Quilt Designs

Amy did a great quilting job and the pattern really compliments the quilt. This finished size is 98"X108", a queen.

You can find a kit at our etsy store

Remember This Quilt?

 Remember this quilt? The kits sold like crazy. So we bundled up some other flannel colors and have 4 new kits in store, in the webstore and on etsy.

The orange and grey is my favorite. You can find it in our etsy store.

Green and tan. Etsy listing

A mustard and slate blue here .

Plum and tan/brown here

We know a lot of you are looking for masculine quilts and, I think,  this fits the bill.

Chevron Sampler Quilt

 Heather, and the rest of us here, fell hard for the Cotton Chevron Fat Quarter Bundle by Riley Blake. However, what to do with it? No surprise Heather came up with a fantastic new pattern for it. Isn't it awesome!?

The zig zag binding really compliments this quilt. We last saw this signature quilting on this quilt. 

She used a black and white chevron by Robert Kaufman for the binding.
We have kitted a few of these up if you would like to make one too. You can find it on our etsy store or in person at The Quilt Barn.

Love it Heather! Another great quilt and pattern. This one is called Chevron Sampler.

If you would like to add this quilt to your pinboard on Pinterest you can find it on our Quilt Barn Board here.

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