New Front Door

Things are pretty quiet right at the new building in Port Gamble right now - although we have a front door now in addition to the big sliding door that was the previous entrance to the building. The current tenant in the building will be moving out this month, and then interior renovations will start happening after the first of the year.



This weekend was the Country Christmas weekend at Port Gamble - and the temperature certainly felt like Christmas. We checked out all of the Arts and Crafts booths and displays and also went to look at the looms in the new Ewe Too addition. Heidi, who is the owner to of the Artful Ewe yarn shop for spinners and knitters has just opened a weaving studio a few doors away from her yarn shop. Customers can learn to weave and can rent time on one of the looms in the studio. I hope to eventually set up at least my table loom in the loft of the new building which will be my office/sewing room, but it is nice to know that until I get everything moved I can still get my weaving fix.

The temperature was hovering at freezing for most of the afternoon, which is pretty cold for most of us in the Pacific Northwest so we made our way down the street to the hot cider tent which was doing a brisk business. On the way we admired the lights on the shops, houses and street lamps - is there anything more romantic than Christmas lights on a white picket fence?







Dragonfly

I am getting ready to quilt this little dragonfly sample for the shop. Hmm....the green thread or the blue thread. I am not a big fan of invisible thread but didn't want the thread to shout on this little 18" square wall hanging. So I chose So Fine from Superior Threads. This is a fine polyester thread that blends into the fabric so the result is the texture of quilting without a noticeable line of thread.



This little dragonfly quilt is from a pattern by local quilter Judy Jewel. The dragonfly wings are hand embroidered using metallic sewing thread, and then the dragonfly body is beaded.



Judy was kind enough to give us a dragonfly that she had already embroidered and beaded and all I did was add the borders that the gals at the shop picked out.

Christmas Windows Done

I finally have the Christmas windows done for the shop - and of course they always look better at night.




Mo Harrah made the beautiful sample in the window for the shop from Sheryl Mycroft's new pattern Cobblestone Crows. The beading is really striking and Mo's quilting really sets it off. The wall hanging is all fusible applique (so you can spend your time playing with the beading).



We have had a couple of the Random Threadz pieced quilts by Sheryl in the shop in the past which have featured the Serenity Daiwabo fabrics, but this is something with a slightly different look for her, and we all love it! Barbara spent the afternoon cutting fabric and as soon as our beads arrive we will have kits ready!