Minnapoli/StPaul quilt shops
Dottie Stelmacher
I am going to be visiting my son, who lives in Burnsville. If someone
can recommend some good quilt stores to visit I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Dottie
Please reply (and post if you want) because I don't always have the time
to check the newsgroup.
DDuperault
In article <Dqou9...@midway.uchicago.edu>, Kate Baldwin
<ak...@ccp.uchicago.edu> writes:
>I have a bunch of plain flannel scraps, some pretty good sized, and
>I am wondering what's a good block pattern to use them in. I have
>thought of using them with fairly large applique shapes, like hearts
>and swag borders, but has anyone had success using them in a pieced
>block? I'm afraid that the perpendicular lines would interact oddly
>with a lot of the blocks I know.
>
>
These days that's called "adding interest" with "creative use of texture".
I've seen some wonderful pieced quilts with plaids, but I know the look
doesn't appeal to everyone.
Dawn
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DMOscarson
Here are my favorites:
Wayzata Quilting Emporium
927 East Lake Street
Wayzata, MN
(612) 475-2138
(Wayzata is a west suburb of Minneapolis)
Country Needleworks
3924 Cedarvale Boulevard
Eagan, MN
(612) 452-8891
(Eagan is south of Minneapolis, across the MN River -- right next to
Burnsville.)
Rosemary's Quilts & Baskets
103 W Central Drive
Braham, MN
(320) 396-3818 or 1-800-688-3818
(Braham is about an hour north of Minneapolis)
There are a few more quilt shops in the phone book, but the ones listed
are ones I am familiar with first-hand and they're all nice shops. I have
lived in the Twin Cities area all my life and now live in Isanti (20 min.
south of Rosemary's shop in Braham). There is also a really fun place
near Little Falls (about the middle of the state) called Gruber's Market -
6,000 bolts of fabric, all wonderful.
I've only been quilting for 6-8 months, so I haven't checked out all the
Minnesota shops -- yet. However, I have been sewing for 35 years, so I am
all too familiar with the rest of the regular fabric stores. Let me know
if you want more info.
Debbie Oscarson
Isanti, MN
Your Name
There is a nice quilt shop called the Cotton Patch in
Owatonna MN - about 45 minutes south of Burnsville
on 35. It's located downtown and open from 9:00 to
5:00 Mondays - Saturdays.
Sarah Rambacher
I'm in the middle (well, closer to the end...finally!) of piecing a bow
tie quilt in plaids (the homespun/woven in type). I personally think it
looks pretty good, but I very carefully chose the fabrics, which I think
helped keep it from going wild. There are 5 plaids, one beige/tan for the
background, then one tan/blue, one tan/red, one green/tan, and one
red/blue/green/tan.
I also tried to keep the scale close but not too close. (If that makes
sense!) Another thing that probably helped is that the plaid is woven in,
not printed, so I've tried hard to stay on the grain and so the pattern
comes out pretty straight.
Of course, you could go for double wedding ring and not worry about too
many straight lines! ;)
In article <4m6vrq$6...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, ddupe...@aol.com
(DDuperault) wrote:
--
Sarah Rambacher
sram...@mitre.org
Judith Lang Shalaby
>Wayzata Quilting Emporium
>927 East Lake Street
>Wayzata, MN
>(612) 475-2138
>(Wayzata is a west suburb of Minneapolis)
>
>Country Needleworks
>3924 Cedarvale Boulevard
>Eagan, MN
>(612) 452-8891
>(Eagan is south of Minneapolis, across the MN River -- right next to
>Burnsville.)
>
>Rosemary's Quilts & Baskets
>103 W Central Drive
>Braham, MN
>(320) 396-3818 or 1-800-688-3818
>(Braham is about an hour north of Minneapolis)
>
I would like to add the name of a quilting fabric store that I just
discovered (lots and lots of fabric)--it is in Apple Valley and very close
to Burnsville--well worth the visit:
Fabric Town
7655 148 St
Apple Valley, MN
432-1827
Also is a great store in St. Paul for fabric called Country Peddler--I
personally think they have the best fabric selection of all (although
Fabric Town might be in the running for that):
Country Peddler
2230 Carter Avenue
St. Paul, MN
646-1756
Enjoy!
Judith
DDuperault
In article <srambach-010...@srambacher.mitre.org>,
sram...@mitre.org (Sarah Rambacher) writes:
>I also tried to keep the scale close but not too close. (If that makes
>sense!) Another thing that probably helped is that the plaid is woven
in,
>not printed, so I've tried hard to stay on the grain and so the pattern
>comes out pretty straight.
One piece of advice I have heard is to mix up the size of the plaids, to
have big ones and little ones, and to forget trying to keep them on grain
because it is nearly impossible. You can get wonderful "texture" this way.
(Not that what you are doing is "wrong", I'm sure your quilt looks great,
but there are some different approaches to working with plaids.)
Keith Gelder
My all around favorite place in the twin cities is Fabric Town in Apple
Valley. It's just a few miles east of the Burnsville Mall exit off I-35.
Another neat place I haven't seen mentioned is Glad Creations. The address
is Bloomington Ave. South. I feel like I never am able to see all they
have however, since they have much more fabric than shelves and it's hard
to see and get around.