WHAT'S NEW
Here's the Highlights!
- COUPON SALE. May 23, 2008.
Come and pick up a Coupon for the SALE!
- Backing Sale. Stop by on the first Saturday of each month. Receive a 30% fabric discount, when you bring your finished quilt top to Windy Moon Quilts for "show and tell". We LOVE to see your creative work, so on the first Saturday of each month, receive a 30% fabric discount on fabric backing for your "show and tell" quilt top.
- SEWTIME SHOWTIME SPECIAL!.
Brother * Featuring the Innov-is 4500D sewing and embroidery machine and the PR 620 embroidery machine. Both machines come with a Flat Screen 19" Color TV that also plays DVDs. The PR 620 6 needle embroidery machine (truely a business in a box), also comes with the 7 piece Fast Frame hoop system! Come in today for a test drive, and yes we have layaway and financing programs!
- Creative Quilters of Nevada
Presents "A Garden of Quilts"
May 17 & 18, 2008
10:00 - 4:00
Senior Center 9th & Sutro Street Reno
Featured Quilter is Joyce Soule
- Reno Rodeo
Join us all for the Wildest Richest Rodeo in the West
June 19 - 28, 2008
More info at RenoRodeo.com or (800) 225-2277 for tickets!
- Closed
Mother's Day, May 10
Memorial Day May 26
Father's Day June 15..
- Windy Moon Quilts now offers machine quilting service for your quilts. If you have quilt tops waiting to be quilted, please bring them to the store for a consultation and pricing.
- Gift Cards are available at Windy Moon Quilts.
- We are Reno's authorized Janome and Brother dealers. Come in and check out our NEW sewing machine.
What's New
- My Photos to Throw. Turn your favorite photo into a 50" x 60" or 60" x 50" tapestry throw. Purchase "My Photos to Throw" and follow the instructions and your woven keepsake will arrive in approximately 4-6 weeks. You can have your throw woven in color or black and white. Come see a sample of a woven throw at Windy Moon Quilts.
- New Quilts for 2008. Our staff has been busy creating a grand selection of quilt kits for 2008. New fabrics, new patterns - so many to choose from. Visit Windy Moon Quilts to see projects for your sewing creativity in the coming year! Check them out!
- New Fabrics. Look at the fun new fabrics:
- The Wizard of Oz
- Quilting Treasures has purchased the license to the classic, Wizard of Oz. A favorite movie now in fabric! Join Toto, the Tin Man, Scarecrow and Dorothy in this wonderful fabric reproduction. Call us at 775-323-4777 to be notified when the fabric arrives in our store.
- Maywood Studios presents "Bull"
- It's rodeo time and the bull riders take the arena, saved often by the antics of the rodeo clown. Great coordinating prints make it so easy to "put the pieces together". www.maywoodstudio.com
- Clover Magnetic Pin Caddy. Plastic, magnetic pin caddy, with a cover for storage, not only holds your pins, but aligns them across the center groove, making for easy pick up.
- Mary Ellen's Best Press. Make ironing a breeze by using this lavender scented starch that doesn't clog, flake or leave a residue. Great for applique. And for delightfully scented fabrics and clothing, fill your iron with lavender linen water.
Quilt Tips
Hints & Tips
Remove marks left by blue and purple markers with hydrogen peroxide. Test first on a sample piece of fabric.
When it's time to wash a quilt, use unscented, liquid, color-free detergent to wash your quilt, and refrain from using any detergent that contains a fabric softener. Fabric softeners and the scents and dyes in regular detergents can damage the fibers in the fabric and so should be avoided. Never use bleach on your quilt! This will certainly ruin the color and will also damage the fibers in the fabric.
Orphan Blocks?
If you have an assortment of orphan blocks left over from long finished projects, why not turn them into mini-pillows? Just cut batting to fit each block; then quilt the block. Use another block or solid square for a back, sew 3 sides, turn, stuff and hand stitch closed. Mini-pillows can then be put in a basket for display. Larger ones make nice car-travel pillows or bed accessories. Mix 'n match is fun.
Old Fabric Put to Use
If you have fabrics you know you'll never use in a quilt project, try combining them to make pillow cases which can also be used for storing and transporting quilts. They make great re-useable gift bags, too, when you sew a ribbon tie in one side-seam.
Look for more Quilting Tips.
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