Holiday Sales!

Just wanted to let all know this month we have 3 holiday sales lined up!

Black Friday, or for us..Fabric Friday..all our in stock fabric will be 25% off!

Our hours are extended for Fabric Friday only… 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.!!

Small Business Saturday or Supply Saturday for us 🙂 all supplies and notions, i.e. rulers, thread, cutting tools and mats, patterns… 20% off.

And Cyber Monday or Maker Monday!       all our pre made, hand made items on sale for 15% off!    Note cards, embroidered items, Hand sewn items, and crocheted items! Wonderful!!!

We would love to see you!

Our first quilt class

Just wanted to share our first class, technically Victoria taught a table runner class but this jelly roll race class was our first quilt class!

We had the ladies bring their sewing machines and scissors and their jelly roll..(a.k.a. 2.5 inch wide strips of fabric 44 inches long.)  

Each one was racing  to get a quilt top done.

And everyone save 2 finished their top.  The two ladies that wanted a larger top, ran out of time..Here are some of the ladies finished tops! We are so happy for them!

Aren’t these beautiful???

 

 

We had a good time and we hope to have more fun classes coming up.  We have a list of classes on our website 

 

Grand Opening!!

We have been working at getting acclimated in our new shop.  We have set our Grand opening date for next weekend!

The girls have figured out some make and takes for anyone who would like to do that. And we have door prizes and 2 themed raffle baskets. Both will have sewing goodies and other fun things in their theme!  We will draw winners Monday morning and you can pick up your basket any time after that during business hours!

There will be snacks, water, coffee and tea.

Sign ups for classes.. and 10% off everything in the store..

So bring a friend and come see us! We are looking forward to a fun weekend!

First days of brick and mortar business..

We had some good first days of our store being open.

We met new people, some from nearby and others from farther away.

Supportive friends stopped in for a visit..and even an opening gift! Sew sweet!

We had technical difficulties from our card reader. But we got some internet help and hope that is fixed!

We will be open again this Friday, Saturday, and Monday.. Having our Christmas in July Sale!

We have a google business page with our hours… Look up Pomegranate Place Ltd. ….it feels more and more real each day.

Still stocking our shelves and working out kinks before our grand opening..

Date to be announced!

A little sneak peak of our shop!
I am so thankful to my Father for this miracle!

Come in and see us! We would love to chat a little!

A new venture

An update from our sewing business.  Over the last 10 years my daughters and I have sewn and sold designer cotton and other fabrics on line through the Etsy marketplace.

This spring we purchased a house with a shop on the property and we are in the middle of remodeling and getting ready to open a quilt shop!  We are humbled and excited! Humbled because we see this is bigger than us, way bigger!  And excited because, well, it is exciting to do a new thing, providing we have the energy and stamina to walk this big new thing.

So, updates will be coming and we hope to open some time this month!

We will be opening in process, so please as we move forward excuse our mess!

Here is our new logo:

 

Pomegranate Place Ltd.

Where there will be fabric, design, creativity, and friendliness 🙂

 

 

Comfort of Psalms Quilt Kit

Instructions for assembly of Scripture Quilt Kit sold in Etsy shop: Pomegranate Place.

Kit contains:

Pre-cut designer cotton pieces

Comfort of Psalms quilt panel

Pre-cut sashing and binding fabric

Backing fabric

*  For outer sashing and to make binding. This is a link to a tutorial on making bias binding but the principal is the same for non bias quilt binding. Make your continuous length attaching pieces together with 45 degree angles. Then follow folding and ironing instructions in tutorial.

For Quilt Blocks…

First cut your Comfort of Psalms quilt panel according to markings on panel.

Below is a diagram of pieces

Key:  LS=Large Scripture square, SS=Small Scripture square..Pieces A, B, and C.

Begin by sewing 16 quilt blocks as shown in the diagrams below..

Note: large scripture block assembly is used for 4 blocks that have no scripture. For quilt blocks, the C piece replaces the LS square.

• Thus you will be constructing 6 large scripture blocks with LS piece. And 4 with the LS piece replaced by C piece.
• And 6 small scripture blocks … for your total of 16 blocks

Large scripture block

 

small scripture block construction

 

After making 16 blocks, referring to main quilt picture.

Layout for arranging blocks

After assembling 16 blocks build your rows by adding the short sashing pieces in between each block.

Add 1.5″ sashing to the right of each quilt block.  Then lastly add 1.5″ sashing to the left of each block at the beginning of each of the 4 rows consisting of 4 blocks.

blocks assembled to rows

When 4 rows of 4 blocks are assembled with sashing proceed to assembling rows vertically to finish quilt top..

Sew WOF 1.5″ sashing to top of each assembled row. On the bottom row of 4 blocks sew 1.5″ sashing to the bottom also totaling five – 1.5 inch WOF sashings added to quilt.  Then sew rows to each other using finished quilt picture below as guide for placement.

Main quilt picture..rows assembled

For border sew WOF 2.5 inch pieces to the top and bottom of assembled rows.

For side border, stitch 3 WOF pieces together along 45 degree cut just like bias binding as shown here.  Then attach to one side using as much length as necessary. Use remaining  piece for the quilt border on other side.

For back of quilt cut two 6.5″ WOF pieces. Sew together with 45 degree angle. Cut rest of backing fabric down center fold.  Sew  6.5″  piece in between two vertical stripe pieces for back.

backing layout

Make quilt sandwich with your preferred quilt batting, quilt as you like, bind and you are done.

*Happy Quilting~

God Bless You!

 

Quilting, memories saved..

This month we have been on a new adventure..

A dear friend of over 30 years who is now in her 80’s invited us to help her restore a quilt that is over 120 years old.  It was raveling because of the age of the fabrics.

This amazing quilt was hand done by her father’s mother..Back in those days her grandmother embroidered her children’s initials on separate blocks.

She also embroidered flowers on many of the squares. On one square there are little chicks. The whole quilt is pieced in the crazy quilt fashion and the pieces are ALL hand embroidered together.

Being a seamstress I noticed how well these fabrics have held up for over 120 years!

Very well made, high quality fabric.  The main fabrics that seemed to be in tatters was a black velvet that she embroidered some of her children’s initials on and a cream silk piece, where only the warp of the weave was left in tact, there was no weft or latitudinal weave left on that cream silk, interesting…

Also, being a needlewoman, the intricate embroidery stitches, and the variety of stitching, this dear woman was clearly a detail oriented woman. And a patient woman..she literally worked this quilt in patience.  She also was an industrious woman, this quilt was stitched on many a day and took many hours.

Being a mother this quilt speaks of a mother’s love for EACH of her children, how each is special and unique..This quilt is a treasure to my dear friend for many of these reasons on top of it’s visual beauty…

Another project she enlisted us to do was a little dutch girl quilt that her mother appliqued.  Many of the blocks were done by her mother and she enlisted some other women to make more to be enough for a quilt.  This quilt, we will stitch together with sashing and will put a back and then I will machine quilt it.

We are in process on this quilt, but it will be a precious memory of her mother to her.  She also mentioned to us how some of the fabrics she recognized from her childhood as her mother’s aprons and a neighbor lady’s aprons! How fun is that!

It is a joy to work on these because of their history and the love that is sewn into them.

It is also a joy to bring joy to our dear friend! She is a treasure to us! We love you Mama A!!!