Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day!

    Jan 24th is Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day! It's an idea put together by FabShopHop people to celebrate our local quilt shops!
Several bloggers have been asked to profile their local shops, why they love them, why our LQS are important to the quilt/sewing community, and all the other fun things that they mean to them. You can find the list of blog hoppers here.




 My local shop is Hyggeligt (think Google it with and h) Fabrics, which is located in downtown London.

 For those that are local it's at 515 Richmond, in the plaza, you have to go through the walk way in the middle to find it. She's just moved down a unit into a much bigger space so there will be lots and lots of new fabulousness to come!
There is even a great space for a classroom!

 Hyggeligt is owned by Chantal, who is a really fun person, and she turned her love and collection of Kaffe Fassest fabrics, along with lots of other great fabrics like Liberty of London, Free Spirit etc, into an uber modern shop.
I know it may sound odd that my favorite shop is uber modern in focus, because I'm not really a modern quilter. I love bright fabrics, I like some large prints, but I do lean more traditional in the sense my quilts tend to have designs, or symmetry or whatever else you want to throw in there for your personal definition of modern vs
traditional.



 Along with cottons Chantal has a growing selection of voile (so incredibly soft!), velveteen, Dupioni silks, and organic fabrics.


 



There is also a huge collection of the gorgeous Oakshott Cottons from England. They have such a shimmer, depth and elegance, but are still easy to work with. 

  I love the amount of colour in her shop, I love that she carries Aurifil thread (which is actually how I found her shop), I love the patterns & books she carries (both clothes and quilts), I love that she will pretend to care what I say as I talk her ear off for an hour or two, I love that she's put the effort into founding a Modern Quilt Guild in the city for all of us who don't fit the traditional guilds,and in general I just love going in an soaking up the creative, bright and friendly atmosphere that is Hyggeligt Fabrics.

What is your favorite shop? What makes it special?

Blogathon Canada is a go!

It's time! Sew Sisters Blogathon Canada is starting today! We're starting out on the West coast with BC bloggers, Felicity Quilts and Cathy at Blueberry Patch! Go check them out, they will have some links to other BC bloggers as well as giveaways!



For my day I've chosen a EPP (English Paper Piecing) starter kit giveaway!

The gals have been very generous for all of you! There is a thimble, charm pack, papers, glue pen, and needles! So make sure to come back on Saturday for the giveaway post and a whole list of fellow Ontario bloggers.

Blogathon Canada!

 

I'm very excited to have been asked to participate in a blog hop featuring all Canadian bloggers!
In the crazy big blogosphere we often forget about nationality and most of the time that is a good thing but every once in awhile it's awesome to celebrate our own country!
 I'm a very proud Canadian so am very honoured to asked to participate.
 Sew Sister's, a shop in Toronto came up with this fun idea to have host bloggers (like me) and take a virtual tour of Canada via Canadian bloggers.

Here's how it works:
Each day host bloggers will introduce themselves and their work on their blogs. They will include links to more blogs from their province so you can visit those blogs as well. The two host bloggers will also host a giveaway of some of their favorite goodies from Sew Sister's quilt store and you will have a chance to enter two giveaways each day for five days and three giveaways on the last day!

The schedule is

Monday, November 19 BC Felicity Felicity Quilts Monday, November 19 BC Cathy Blueberry Patch Tuesday, November 20 NS Jeanette STAMP * STITCH * CREATE Tuesday, November 20 NB Holly Through My Window Wednesday, November 21 AB Shena Apple Pie Patchwork Wednesday, November 21 SK Patti Retired to Quilt Thursday, November 22 QC Marika Live, Laugh, Love... Sew Thursday, November 22 MB Heather Church Avenue Quilts Friday, November 23 YT Vivian Quilting Under the Midnight Sun Friday, November 23 YT Janet Caribou Crossing Chronicles Saturday, November 24 ON Cathi Quilt Obsession Saturday, November 24 ON Cara Cara Quilts << me!! Saturday, November 24 ON Kaye Miss Print
Make sure to join us! And a big thank you to Sew Sisters for coming up with this great idea!