Our 4th Annual Advent Calendar Sale!

A calendar with the numbers 1 through 2 3 on it.

It’s that time again! Our 2024 Advent Calendar Sale starts at MidNight! And no, we’re not selling calendars! This sale will work just like an Advent Calendar does! It’s fun, it’s easy and its a great way to stock up for those projects you might be planning to take on during those cold, dark upcoming…

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Our 2024 Holiday Bag Sale

Studio Kat Designs

Our 2024 Holiday Bag Sale Starts Monday! Even the most confirmed “Bag Addict” (of which I am one), can only house but so many bags in her closet, so…. once per year (or so) we throw open our closets & offer you some fantastic deals on sample bags that will no longer be traveling with…

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the December ’24 Eye Candy Showcase

A collage of different bags and purses

As you probably know… there’s no other post I enjoy more than our monthly “Eye Candy Showcase! So I’m thinking, why not shake things up just a bit w/a BIG change for this, the last “Showcase” of 2024? And because there were SO many AMAZING bags shown in 2024, I looked back over them to…

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Quilt Market & Festival ’24: My Favorite Quilts

A painting of a tea pot and other things in a frame.

So… the competition quilts at Quilt Market & Festival were truly fantastic! It was a marvelous collection but I had a very hard time finding time to wander among all of the possibilities due to my illness & the need to be in communication with the authorities back in North Carolina due to my Dad’s…

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Seen at Show: Quilt Festival ’24

A collage of women in different outfits and bags.

So… even though I’ve been in business for 20+ years, I still get a BIG kick out of seeing our customers carrying bags they’ve made from our patterns! And what better place to “spy” these customers than at a retail quilt show, right? And you know what? we “spied” THIRTEEN of our bags “walking the…

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Quilt Market & Festival ’24: the Recap

A woman standing in front of a table with fabric.

So… we’ve been participating in Quilt Markets & Festivals since 2008, but this year’s Quilt Market & Festival was definitely the most unusual & personally challenging we’ve ever taken part in! And here’s the deal… the problems we were presented with this year, had nothing to do with the dynamics of the show, and everything…

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Quilt Festival ’24: Something New!

A table with many different bags and purses

So… the thing that makes planning so difficult for Quilt Festival, is that it comes right on the heels of and, in the same facility of the Quilt Market. Quilt Festival is of course, a retail show, but Market is strictly wholesale, our ONLY wholesale show of the year. And the thing is… I generally…

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the November’24 Eye Candy Showcase

A collage of different bags and purses with the words " the november 2 0 2 4 eye candy showcase ".

As you probably know… there’s no other post I enjoy more than our monthly “Eye Candy Showcase! What fun it is see what our customer’s create using our patterns! take on our various designs! This month we have eight fabulous bags to show you, so what are we waiting for… Let’s Get Started! Beach season…

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Quilt Market ’24- What’s in Store?

A table with several bags of different designs.

So… we’re less a couple of days away from the 2024 version of the International Fall Quilt Market and just so you know… I can’t believe that this will be our 17th straight Fall Quilt Market, (not counting 2020 & 2021, the Covid years, where Quilt Market was cancelled 2 years in a row). And…

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PPC32: Owls in Disguise?

A close up of the front of a purse

So… If you’re following along on the progress of this design, you might remember from our last post, that as pleased as we were with that sample, there were still quite a few smallish-type changes I felt were called for! The result is presented at left and if you compare this photo with one from…

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