Unusual fabric find
#61
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: northern California
Posts: 1,098
Yes! I was there because I was staying overnight with a woman who was doing an incredible "spirit" quilt (mixing northern elements with human aspects). I was so impressed that I went into the quilt store where the owner? talked to me about quilting, which I was becoming intriqued with. I bought a book of baby quilting, read it many times but used it as a springboard of inspirations.
There is also an awesome shop on a back street in the town of Kenai (I think all the streets there are "back streets." We go up rather regularly (our son lives there) and I always am amazed anew at that quilt shop. Near the airport. Looks like a windowed barn. Great helpers inside (which includes the clerks and the other shoppers). Also, lots of Alaskan and NW native design patterns.
There is also an awesome shop on a back street in the town of Kenai (I think all the streets there are "back streets." We go up rather regularly (our son lives there) and I always am amazed anew at that quilt shop. Near the airport. Looks like a windowed barn. Great helpers inside (which includes the clerks and the other shoppers). Also, lots of Alaskan and NW native design patterns.
#62
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: northern California
Posts: 1,098
Yes! I was there because I was staying overnight with a woman who was doing an incredible "spirit" quilt (mixing northern elements with human aspects). I was so impressed that I went into the quilt store where the owner? talked to me about quilting, which I was becoming intriqued with. I bought a book of baby quilting, read it many times but used it as a springboard of inspirations.
There is also an awesome shop on a back street in the town of Kenai (I think all the streets there are "back streets." We go up rather regularly (our son lives there) and I always am amazed anew at that quilt shop. Near the airport. Looks like a windowed barn. Great helpers inside (which includes the clerks and the other shoppers). Also, lots of Alaskan and NW native design patterns.
There is also an awesome shop on a back street in the town of Kenai (I think all the streets there are "back streets." We go up rather regularly (our son lives there) and I always am amazed anew at that quilt shop. Near the airport. Looks like a windowed barn. Great helpers inside (which includes the clerks and the other shoppers). Also, lots of Alaskan and NW native design patterns.
#63
My lqs is about $10-$11/yd - so the prices aren't all that shocking to me -- I wouldn't spend that kind of money for a dragger for the kids - but for a quilt I expect to use in 15 years, sure. I was looking at their kits - they seem to be fairly reasonably priced for the most part - and they are gorgeous.
#64
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: currently central new jersey
Posts: 8,623
Originally Posted by jaciqltznok
if you really want to SEE Alaska..skip the cruise..all you see are the shops owned by Columbian drug lords, run by high schoolers and retirees who just want to make a few dollars during the summer...AK is nothing like those port towns...
fly into Anchorage and take the ferry to outer islands, or the train up to Denali...SEE Alaska the way it was meant to be seen...Naturally...
fly into Anchorage and take the ferry to outer islands, or the train up to Denali...SEE Alaska the way it was meant to be seen...Naturally...
when most people go on a vacation, it's a vacation. they want to see as much as possible, inland and oceanside. they don't necessarily want to move there. and what's wrong with making a few dollars during the summer?
#65
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Vancouver, WA
Posts: 272
Originally Posted by MYWR
Just came home from a short Alaskan Cruise and found the best quilt shop in the tiny town of Skagway AK. They have fabrics kits, boolt, special cuts of fabrics I have never seen befoe -- good quality and good prices as well
They have animal prints - bears, moose, whales etc - wooded scenes - birds - northern lights and for those of you who also knit and crochet - alaskan yarns
check this out: www.quiltalaska.com
www.changingthreads.com
their fabrics are high quality and not real pricey (1/2 yd for $5.25-$5.50) and they have some unusual kits as well. They ship USPS - what a great surprise I came home to !
They have animal prints - bears, moose, whales etc - wooded scenes - birds - northern lights and for those of you who also knit and crochet - alaskan yarns
check this out: www.quiltalaska.com
www.changingthreads.com
their fabrics are high quality and not real pricey (1/2 yd for $5.25-$5.50) and they have some unusual kits as well. They ship USPS - what a great surprise I came home to !
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