Let the Buying Begin

Tomorrow I start the buying process again. It always amazes me that Christmas fabric buying starts in January. I have seen a little of what the trend is and it is elegant. Not too much whimsy this year. Lots of metallics and deeper colors. What will I buy? I guess we will find out tomorrow. I will let you know what I see and what I ordered.

Color Wall

My husband Lee, has been working hard on getting new shelving in the store. Today he finished the color wall shelves. It looks so great. Now all the color wall fabric is off the floor and easy to get to. I think when you see it, you will love the change. It also gives me an idea of what colors we need. Ok so we are really good on turquoise. Not that there is anything wrong with that . I think we are a little shy on the pink side of the color wall. However there is pink in a lot of the collections.

Tomorrow I am off to pick up more fabric in Portland. I am also expecting a big shipment from Blank Textiles this week. At least now I have a bit more room to put things. It always so much fun when the boxes arrive. We have grown from 700 bolts to 2100 bolts in 6 months. Yippee.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!
I hope that your day is filled with lots of love and warm moments.
See you soon.

More Fabric

This week we have another 100 bolts in the store. Love U from Moda, American Patriot from Marcus, Enchanted Rose by RJR, Veranda from Maywood, Metro goes Au Natural, and Dolce by RJR. We are really stacked and I will be glad when I can get some more storage into the shop.

The borders for the next block of the month arrived. Carol Nelson and I had to make some changes(for the better) with the coloring. I think all the 2nd Saturday folk will love this quilt. Can't wait for everyone see it. Carol will be working on it. I think we will have it in shop sometime in January.

Tonight we had our shop Christmas party at Olive Garden. We had so much fun. Always great to be with everyone.

2nd Saturday

We are all ready for 2nd Saturday. New class list will be out and put up on the web. I am so excited. There are a lot of new teachers. New classes that are completely new to The Cotton Patch. There will so many fun things to make and to learn.
Errin Rissberger's sample block for the wool block of the month will be shown 2nd Saturday. I know that it will cause a lot of ooo's and aw's . It is truly beautiful.
Carol has the new counter block of the month. It is so cute. Each month there will be a block that is geared toward that month. January is a snowman. Carol always does a great job.

Fun, fun, fun...... lots of new stuff.

Diane

The new block of the month writing is complete. Yahooooooo. Can't wait to see it in fabric. Now to watch The Big Bang Theory.

200 bolts? Who ordered all this?

Wow! 200 bolts this week. I love the UPS man! I have to say it was a challenge to get all of the fabric put away. The good thing is that we keep clearing bolts and that makes way for new. Thanks to all the customers for helping us out.

We also put up a bunch of new quilts. Carol Nelson finished Birds and Bees. We had 5 kits this morning.. now we have 2. It is a darling quilt. Black and Tan.

Loretta Orsborn stopped by and brought in class samples for Playing with Textures and the Tuffet class. That's right I said Tuffet. It is so cute. A foot stool that is upolstered in patchwork. Loretta always has such great ideas.

I am putting the finishing touches on the new class list too. We are going to have so many fun classes after the first of the year. Way cool!


See you next time,
Diane