Newsletter

July 5, 2018

Enjoy 194 new fabrics, added in the past 2 weeks!

Christmas Delivery

Create your own special delivery with Christmas Delivery by Carta Bella for Riley Blake Designs featuring trucks, packages, and snowflakes.

Blueberry Park

Colorful daisies on a white or color background would add a wonderful pop to any project. By Karen Lewis for Robert Kaufman

Beautiful batiks that gradate from light to dark, from selvedge to selvedge. This 25-piece collection has a rainbow of colors to choose from, and the variation within each fabric provides an even wider selection of color choices.

Cluck Moo Oink

Spend a day at the farm with Cluck Moo Oink from Camelot Fabrics.

Australian Aboriginals Fabrics

M&S Textiles Australia proudly features traditional designs by Australian Aboriginal artists. Most of the Aboriginal designs printed by M&S Textiles have a Dreamtime story to tell, which is the way of living or a philosophy of living.

White Christmas

White Christmas by Zen Chic is the perfect collection for decorating your home during the winter holidays in a stylish modern way.

Precuts and Kits available!

Celestial Winter

Settle down for a long winter's night with a quilt made from this bold collection by Jason Yenter for In the Beginning Fabrics

90" Wide Cuddle Fabric

Cuddle up in a quilt backed with this soft and fuzzy Cuddle Fabric. By EE Schenck. 100% polyester, 90" wide.

Hearthside Holiday

Celebrate the holidays with farmhouse style and rustic elegance. A mix of plaids and reindeer, trees and greenery make holiday décor simple. By Moda. 100% brushed cotton.

More new fabric collections in the shop:

108" Vintage Holiday, Game On, Sound of the Woods 4, Winter's Grandeur 6, Holiday Flourish 11, Two by Two, Lavender Story, Starlight, Flutterby, Poetry in Motion, and Sweet Thoughts

It's a Bolt-Load Sale!

1,000 brand-new "short" bolts of fabric arrive at the shop next week, and our Bolt-Load Sale begins next Friday at 10 am!

Sale runs July 13 - 22

Purchase full bolts in plastic (2 - 8 yards/bolt) for

$6.84 per yard!

All fabric is current and represents the end of bolting runs - no flaws or problems, just small bolts at a great price for you!

Perfect for quilt backings, charity quilts, or adding to your stash at an unbeatable price

Sorry, these are not offered online, so plan a trip to experience this HUGE sale! After the sale, the remaining bolts will be delivered back to QT Fabrics so you can only get them while they last!

Row by Row 2018 is here!

Did you know that 10% of your purchase price of our kit is donated to the Go Red for Women campaign of the American Heart Association We've raised $300 already -Thanks!

The complete Raleigh / Cary group quilt!

Featured Classes

Check out all of our exciting offerings online. Choose to sign up online or in the shop, and we'll even send your supply list via e-mail. We also have two loaner sewing machines for you to borrow, free of charge, courtesy of Bernina World of Sewing.

Advanced Beginner's Quilt Class with Rosi

Starts on Saturday! 7/7

This class is designed as a follow up to the Beginning Quilt Making class. It is also a great class as a refresher if you have been away from the art of quilting for awhile. Instructions will cover completing a more advanced quilt, based on the Christmas Treats pattern.

How Can You Resist Me? with Kathie

July 21, 10:30 am - 1:30 pm

Learn the basics of applying different resists to fabric and then adding color. We’ll use Wax, Gutta, No-Flow, and a few others that may surprise you. This class is for beginners ages 16 and up.

Cell Phone Clutch Class with Julianne

July 16 or 28th, 10 am - 12 pm

Create 2 Cell Phone Clutches in this class. The pattern is required and comes will all the accessories. Bring two 1/4 yards of fabric to make one for yourself and one for a friend.

Free Lecture

Ever wonder how quilting fabric is made? Join us for "The History of Fabric" Friday, July 13th at noon. Register for this free lecture now!

Register here

Longarm Quilting News

Orders are currently at a 5-week turnaround, and we look forward to making up even more time, now that we are two-machines strong! Many thanks to Angela at APQS for helping us keep Betty and Wilma quilting along happily!

We have a couple of new blog posts, giving you some helpful tips:

Quilt borders that don't make waves

Quilt backs that make our longarmers smile

Avery's 8th Annual Ice Cream Stand was a hit!

She has raised $600 for Smile Train so far this summer!

We still have ice cream in our freezer, so come hungry the next time you shop.

Thank you for your generosity.

Do you Google to search for new places to visit when traveling? Do you rely on ratings to pick your destinations? We would appreciate your positive reviews to send quilters our way! Thanks!

Show and Tell

Did you know that we have a Show and Tell page on Facebook, just for showing off what you've created?

This gorgeous pin cushion quilt is by our talented shop staff member Sue Dressler!

Find the pattern for this beauty here!

Meeting Center

Our Meeting Center is ready for your group! Quilt related or not, the space is available for rent. Lots of great amenities, and a very reasonable rental price make this a great spot for your next event, whatever it might be! All of our classes also take place in this roomy space.

Learn More

Thank you for voting us Best Fabric Store of the Triangle! We are honored to have won, and know that we have the best customers!

Dates to Note

July 13: Join fabric representative Mark Economy for a free talk on the history of Cranston Print Works, a 200-year-old fabric company that brings us Quilting Treasures fabric and Ink and Arrow fabric. Register here for the 12:00 pm presentation.

July 13 - 22: It's a Bolt-Load Sale! One thousand brand new and current bolts of fabric are arriving, all at less than $7 per yard!

July 26: Quilt Carolina Shop Hop begins for 2018 with Terrific Thursday!

August 1: Our Second Annual "Challenging Fabric Challenge" will begin, and bags will be on sale! Last year, all of our bags sold out in a few days! See our blog posts from the first challenge here.

Free Pattern

Baby Blocks are a fun afternoon project! Find Pixie Dots and Little Buggers in the shop, to make your blocks look like these!