Hi Friends! I’d like to introduce myself – my name is Shauna Smith and I’m one of the new faces you’ll see when you visit the Quilted Moose! Debbie was kind enough to bring me on board to mentor me in the long arm, and to help her with the Moose Blog and social […]
Dear Friends, Palooza: noun, Slang. an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance If you attended one of our sessions of Mooseketeers this fall you already know about our Pillow Palooza Challenge. It all started when I saw a post on Instagram @modafabrics and on the Moda blog of some beautiful red and white pillows. The pillows had been designed and stitched by members of […]
Dear Friends, We love it when our UPS driver pulls his big brown truck into the parking lot! And, we absolutely love, love, love the adorable new fabric line he delivered this week. “Thicket” by Gingiber for MODA is a line of black and white geometric shapes along with panels of adorable hand drawn critters. […]
Baby Mooses 2015 was a blast. We had a new crib set, a couple of new free patterns, and of course new baby quilts to show you. The crib set was neutral, and made use of yummy grays in a variety of patterns. Did you notice the crib skirt uses a gradated dot? Debbie and […]
The Jo’s Little Women meeting is Tuesday December 2, 2014 (yes, this is a Tuesday, remember we are closed Mondays in December). We will play the game “Left-Right-Center”, so bring any orphan blocks, strips, notions, etc. that you are willing to gamble with. For “Left-Right-Center”, your items need to be in groups of three because […]
Yesterday was a good day. It was Skinny Bolt Thursday. We got stuff planned and kitted and quilted at the shop. The weather wasn’t cooperating so much but hey, it’s still only early April. It was a good day. Then this morning made today an extremely good day. The Quilted Moose was featured on American Patchwork […]
Last Saturday was our Baby Mooses event and we had a ball! The crib was all decked out with a new baby line called Hello, World by Cori Dantini for Blend fabrics. It goes really nicely with a bunch of Sweetwater fabrics, too. And we didn’t forget the boys! The Oink-A-Doodle-Moo line by Jenn Ski for Moda is […]
Last night was our annual Moosette-Holiday-Get-Together, or bi-annual since we got snowed out last year. Anyway! After reading the posts from the Moda blog’s 12 Days of Joy, we asked the Moosettes to do the same thing; write about joy. Brace yourselves, there was wine with our cookies, so we may get sappy. Debbie: My […]
We have a number of Christmas projects for Mooseketeers this weekend. This inspired one of our Moosettes to start singing Christmas carols while wrapping up the pretty quilt kits (cough, Anneliese, cough). Debbie promptly said, “I can’t handle thinking about Christmas right now!!” So the Moosette decided to tweak the carol. Sung to the tune […]