More Projects by Little Quilts using Fun With Sue and Bill

Newest designs from Little Quilts! Preprinted designs with Sunbonnet Sue and her friend Overall Bill combine with coordinating florals, mini prints, and wavy stripes. Perfect for EASY quilt projects for ALL skill levels. Preprinted rick-rack with whimsical flowers and buttons from "Sue and Bill", add to the charm. Combine patchwork with preprinted designs of Sue & Bill with any of the coordinating fabrics.

Here is another beautiful quilt designed by Little Quilts. Easy yet adorable quilt using panel print and pre-printed crazy quilt border. Add rick-rack and turn envelope style. All done without needing to use binding.

Front of Tote Bag Another Creative idea using Fun With Sue and Bill fabric and a

Smart Bag ™ interfacing from Quiltsmart.

Back of Tote Bag

For more info go to: http://www.littlequilts.com/

3 New Projects for Let's Play by Little Quilts

Inspired by a vintage toile with children at play, Little Quilts has designed "Let's Play!" with 3 simple projects. Simple crib quilt can be made with toile as the center and a coordinating inner and out border. Doll quilts or small wallhangings are fast and easy projects. Free pattern with pattern order from Little Quilts. Check out their website: http://www.littlequilts.com/

"Let's Play!"
Scalloped Crib Quilt (39" x 44")

Doll Quilts
15" x 17"

Designed by Little Quilts

Blog from Barbara Jones of QuiltSoup

QuiltSoup News-October 2008
What's New? Bubblegum Basics, Blogs, Doll Dresses, and Aunt Martha’s Tomato, Chicken and Vegetable Soup. http://www.quiltsoup.com/new.html
We are delighted to announce that we have designed a new fabric collection called Bubblegum Basics for Henry Glass & Co. It was tremendous fun to do this collection. We are debuting the collection at Fall Market in Houston and will show you the whole thing when we return. The colors are fun, the patterns are simple and perfect for appliqué and pieced quilts alike. I hope you will like them as much I do. We have designed two free patterns to accompany the collection and I am excited to post them for you as soon as the fabric is available.
Well we finally took the plunge! We are officially blogging. We launched the blog to coincide with Lakehouse’s Designer Dolly Dresses blog-a-thon. Check the blog to find out what we’re talking about! http://www.quiltsoupblog.com/.
We will sneak peek new patterns on the blog first. Hope I can remember to start taking lots of pictures so I can show you lots of stuff. To whet your appetite for the good things to come, here is a snap of a block from our newest quilt “All Dolled Up” made from Lakehouse’s Doll Dress collection. Our Birds and Bees quilt kit has been marked down to $99.99. There are only a few left.
Bad Dad kits are now in stock! Kit includes all the fabric for the quilt top, the binding and the pattern. This cute quilt is perfect for the younger school crowd! If you had one reserved, please email me and we will get it sent out.http://www.quiltsoup.com/patterns.html
The recipe this month is from Martha Burmeister and is for Tomato, Chicken and Vegetable Soup. She said she ordered this soup at a restaurant and it was one of her favorites. She has tried to duplicate the soup in her own kitchen and thinks this recipe does it. We thank her for sharing the results from her “test kitchen” with us. If you are like us, we have eaten our garden tomatoes until they are coming out of our ears…. in salad, BLT sandwiches, spaghetti sauce and salsa and now soup. We have to run out of them sooner or later…I hope! http://www.quiltsoup.com/soup_to_nuts.html.
We have exciting news to share with you when we return from Houston!! Can’t wait to tell you about all the new things happening! Have a terrific month.
Until next time,
Barbara

Introducing...New HG Designer Barbara Jones of QuiltSoup

We are very happy to introduce to you the Newest HG Designer Barbara Jones of QuiltSoup

Her line Bubblegum Basics is being featured at Fall Market

She is featured in this new Australian Quilters magazine.

Check out Barbara's website: http://www.quiltsoup.com/

You can email her at: barbara@quiltsoup.com to get more info on her article for the magazine.

Check back on our HG site to see her latest designs!

Awesome HG Designer Bev Proulx Blogs for us!

School buses pass my house again. The nights are crisp and clear. Autumn is coming!I spent my summer doing much travel involving my grandchildren and other family members. While traveling, I could check quilt shops to see the great Henry Glass Co. fabrics out there. Many great fabrics from our fine designers. Also, I certainly hunted for vintage fabrics, whether yardage, quilt blocks and tops, or quilts themselves. I found many examples! My 1930s collection can never be too large!!

Be sure to check my lines coming in 2009 for some delightful new novelty prints and geometrics. These fabrics spiced up the 1930s general store shelves of our grandmothers' day.I have also been working on original quilt patterns. My "Posies Galore" pattern traveled with me to Iowa for an "Eye for Color" lecture in July. Local quilt stores are providing good feedback on the pattern, as well.

I am including a picture of the pattern cover for all of you to see. I am currently working on another original 1930s pattern, which I hope to have ready to go before my next blog entry. This week I am off to southwestern Minnesota to do a Quilts through Time lecture that covers 1750-1900. It is always a joy to use fabrics, blocks, tops, and quilts from my collection to share information about how unique and impressive quilts were even then.

Today, we are fortunate so many fabric designers keep marvelous fabrics coming so we can maintain the quilting tradition! Have a spectacular September! Until next time, check my "Pocketful of Posies" line. To See more of Bev Proulx's designs go to our website at http://www.henryglassfabrics.com/ and click on her name. Or to get more information about her own quilt design you can email her direclty at bevproulx@usfamily.net.

Wonderful HG Designer KIM DIEHL blogs for us!

Greetings!
It’s beginning to feel the tiniest bit like fall here in Idaho (my favorite season of the year!), and I’m happily back at home catching my breath and fuelling up on coconut mochas after teaching workshops for the Buggy Barn’s annual quilt show in Reardon, Washington. I love those girls! Both Pam and Janet have talent oozing from their fingertips, a quilt shop to die for, and they still manage to be two of the nicest and most down-to-earth people I’ve ever met.
During my visit, one of the classes I taught featured my Country Haven quilt designed using my debut line of fabrics for Henry Glass…somebody pinch me! I can’t even describe what it felt like to see block after block taking shape, with each one just a little different than the last. And for the first time EVER in one of my workshops, everyone got so caught up sewing their patchwork that we nearly forgot (gasp!) to squeeze in the appliqué.

One of the things I absolutely love about quilting is that I always seem to have little snippets and bits of leftover fabric from each of my projects. Do I throw these away? Nope! I always stash them safely in my scrap basket and rescue them for future projects. And because I’m a quiltmaker, not being able to part with 1” scraps of fabric still means that I’m considered to be delightfully normal…right?
Anyway, after finishing my Country Haven quilt I found that I had scads of perfectly good scraps on hand. Being the thrifty and frugal soul that I am, I turned these into a fun little patchwork center, added an appliquéd border, and presto! The result is a quick and easy candle mat that I call “Country Bramble”. This little 18 1/2” square quilt is a perfect way to give new life to your scraps, so I’m passing it along here for you to enjoy, too.
I wish you many happy hours of sewing, and may your seam ripper grow lonely from neglect!
Kim ~
To see more images and information about Kim Diehl and her designs you can go to her own website at http://www.kimdiehl.com/ Her newest line, Country Haven, is in stores now.

We also have a Free Project using this design which you can see on our website at www.henryglassfabrics.com and go to NEW FREE PROJECTS. Have Fun!

Hello from Linda Lum Debono...

Here is a snippet from Linda's own blog. To read more go to http://www.lindalumdebono.blogspot.com/

Oh where have I been?
Hello everyone! Remember me? I am finally back in New Jersey. We have been driving around to all destinations this summer and we got back late last night. My sister and her family are visiting from Toronto the rest of this week so it will be great to end the summer this fun way. To all of you who have commented or e-mailed, I will get back to you soon! I gotta unwind and do a pile of laundry. Before I forget, run over to Bunny Hill Designs. Anne is having a scavenger hunt [so fun!]. The winner gets some of her lovely fabric.
Oh where have I been? Let's start with this last trip. I just came back from a fun trip to do a book signing at Checker Distributor in Maumee, Ohio for their 60th Anniversary Open House. Checker Distributors sells wholesale to those who have businesses in the quilting/needlework industry. What a fab group of people! Everyone from the organization to the shop owners and other designers who came were fantastic. Here's an end cap of designs and fabric from Kim Diehl and my fave group of people, Henry Glass.