tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26648461233249313572011-09-12T05:53:07.410-07:00A collection of quilting wisdom from Jerry Stube, owner of, Quilters' Quarters Inc.Jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04204537153595361242noreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664846123324931357.post-62915495039009137932011-08-23T19:47:00.000-07:002011-08-24T05:21:15.329-07:00

The last time I wrote, I told you there were woman who inspire me and I want to continue with the introductions. This time I want you to meet Vicky. She is married to a farmer and has a young son. Vicky is a very happy woman and seems to be always on the upside of life. I simply cannot remember a time when she was not happy. Her son is just a darling child who has learned that when he

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I have long been inspired by other women. Women who seem to accomplish much more than I can even dream of, women who just keep doing when others give up, women who are just amazing. Miss Lucile is one such woman. I don't think she will be angry when I tell you that Miss Lucile is 92 years young. I say young because she really is young in heart and mind.Lucile lives alone, not in my town, but a

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Here is our new Generals' Wives Block of the Month. I designed this 12 month program to be a satisfying experience and yet not require so many hours that you do not feel you have time to make anything else. If you are like me and most of my quilting friends, you want to work on more than one quilt at a time and the Generals' Wives will fill one of those slots. The blocks are 12" finished as are

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Christmas is the season of much joy and giving. Even if you do not celebrate Christmas, this is also a season where we have the opportunity to attend many parties, large and small. Whether this is a party for friends, co-workers or family, we all enjoy them to the fullest. As Christmas fast approaches, it also will mark only one week before a very important party ends.The 2010 Patchwork Party

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I promised you more photos from the Veteran's Day Parade. These are some really nice shots of the activities and the great ideas that went into the making of this tribute to our Veterans. Yes, we honor ALL vets, even those from the very beginning. Here is a pretty good indication of where Leavenworth fits into the scheme of things with regard to the military. If you cannot read the sign it

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VETERAN'S DAY - What a blast!As I have said, Leavenworth has the largest Veteran's Day parade in the state, it goes on for several hours and is first class all the way. Of course, we have a huge contengency of veteran's here so it is not hard to feel good on this day. Before I opened the store in the morning, I was looking outside at all the decorations up and down the street and feeling really

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I just LOVE to write. Almost as much as I love to quilt. You would never know it when you look at the date of my last blog post. Good grief, where have I been?And I dearly love to read. I am reading a darling little book right now, actually it is about the 3rd time I have read this one. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. The book is a series

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Don't you just love summer? The kids are out of school, you have more free time to play. You get to spend more time working in the garden and to spend more time with kids as you drive them to the pool. You get to spend more time shopping for groceries as you will spend many more quality hours in the kitchen cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner for the kids. You will get to spend even more quality

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For those of you who may not know me personally, I am Southern. Born and reared in the deep South. For a lot a people that may not mean much, however, for a Southerner that says it all. No matter where the Army moved me, no matter that we retired in Kansas, I am still a Southerner. Always have been, always will be. It is not a location thing, it is a mind-set.(at this point you may begin hearing

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Now that Spring has finally arrived, most of us want to spend some time in our gardens. However, we do not want to stop quilting. So how do we do it all?I think we do it the easy way. We purchase plants at the nursery rather than starting our gardens from seeds and get new hanging baskets rather than trying to do them ouselves. (At least that is how I simplify my gardening and insure it has a

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We just completed the 12th annual quilt shop hop. Quilters were out in force and having a ball. I have been thinking and trying to decide what it was that excited our customers so much. I am not certain that it was any one thing, but a lot of things.One thing that I think was very important was our EXCLUSIVE fabric. Our beautiful music motif batik from Hoffman is filled with a song to sing. We

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Have you ever wished you could quilt faster? Make even more quilts? Well, I have a way for you to do just that. It will also help you use some of that wonderful stash of fabrics with which you just cannot part. You know the part I am talking about....the small, little bitty pieces.Well, first take a few minutes one day and cut those little goodies into the same size, such as 2 1/2" squares or 3"

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I believe there are very few people who don't try to volunteer to do something to help others. I did say, 'try' because there are a lot who think about doing something and then find the age old "I don't have time" response. They are not bad people because they don't volunteer, they are just very busy people. Like a lot of quilt shops, we are involved in the 1 Million Pillowcase program from

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We have returned from our Legendary Quilt Retreat at the Great Wolf Lodge. We are all a little sleep deprived but happy campers. What a fun group. The group worked on their individual projects on Friday after arriving and getting all set up. The room was very nice, large and with great lighting. Marilynn did not like her chair but that did not stop her for a minute: she went next door to

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My mother used to sing a song for me as a child that said, "Oh little playmate, come out and play with me and bring your dollies 3, climb up my apple tree". Such a sweet and innocent song. Today I have been doing a purly "grandmama" thing. My beautiful granddaughter will love it, I hope. Even if she does not, I truly had a fun time doing this and I really feel she will enjoy it.For those of you

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Have you ever thought about how much better it is to quilt than to watch television? Well it is.Let me explain why.When you quilt, you do not need to wait on anyone to do it. You simply go to the quilt shop and get some beautiful fabric, go home, cut it out and sew it up. Simple as pie.If you want to watch television, or a movie, then you must endure the stress that I have had this past couple of

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Have you had enough winter? I certainly have. I am ready for a great retreat. Someplace I can eat a lot of good food, go and sew all day, eat a lot of good food, shop for great things, eat a lot of good food; did I mention eat even more CHOCOLATE? Have you signed up for such a thing? I have! The Legendary Quilting Retreat is a happening place on March 5-7 at The Great Wolf Lodge in Kansas City.

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Do you ever wonder what a group of quilt shop employees do in their spare time? For Christmas this year the staff and I adopted a family from a local charity organization and began to be Santa's for this young family. The father (21) had just lost his job and the mom (20) was a stay-at-home mom with two small girls (18 months and 2 1/2). We had a ball shopping for these people.When we had our

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Welcome to 2010! Did you see the ball drop in Times Square on New Year's Eve? It was beautiful. Well, I have decided that we cannot let the ball drop on a very good program this year. American Patchwork and Quilting is sponsoring a 1 million pillowcase challenge. The idea is to donate at least 1 million pillowcases to charity.The Quilters Quarters is going to participate in the challenge and we

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The day after Thanksgiving is unfortunately called "Black Friday". This name really means that the retail stores can be "in the black" for the season with all the sales, but it sounds so negative. I think a lot of folks think it means because of the crowds shopping, it is a black day indeed.At The Quilters Quarters, we think of the day after Thanksgiving as a technicolor day. The shop

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Have you seen the new Patriotic Gammill? This was created to honor the Quilts For Valor association. This is such a beautiful machine, more beautiful are the many, many volunteers who spend their time making quilts for soldiers wounded while defending our freedom.As our country is in mourning for the soldiers who were killed or wounded at Ft. Hood, I pray we keep all service men and women in our

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Did you ever secretly think about having an affair? Come on now, be honest. Well, we just finished our first affair....Quilt Sampler Affair that is. Friday and Saturday we hosted the first Quilt Sampler Affair with the other 5 quilt shops in the greater Kansas City area who are also Quilt Sampler Magazine shops. What a fun time we had.Friday the weather was the pits. It was cold, rainy and windy

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I cannot believe that before we know it, Christmas will be here. Do you remember the wonderful Advent calendars we had as children? Each day you could open the little door and you would receive a treat. It would be either a piece of candy or maybe a small gift or an ornament for your tree.With that in mind, we have decided that you can still enjoy that fun with our Christmas Advent Quilt.

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Would quilters notice 1/2"?If you go to the quilt shop and ask for a fat quarter, would you notice if it were 1/2" shorter than before? 17 1/2" instead of 18"? Of course you would when you got ready to sew with it. Can you imagine the quilt shop giving you 17 1/2" and saying they were "Just-shy-of-a-fat-quarter"? Yeah, that would work! Or worse, NOT telling you the size?We are used to

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We just completed our 5 State, 12 Quilt Shop Strip N Stitch bus trip. What fun! Each bus was filled with happy quilters having a grand time. It never ceases to amaze me how happy quilters are as a whole. Maybe it is the life style of the quilter that should be studied by socialogists to determine how to train people to live a good life. Oh wait! That is what we do in quilt shops, teach

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Today I wore yellow shoes to work. Bright, happy, yellow shoes. The weather was gray and overcast and I needed a lift, so out came the yellow shoes. Back in 1960- something-or-other, when I graduated and began my first job I had to walk five blocks from my parking lot to work. When the weather was ugly, I had a bright yellow London Fog rain coat, yellow T-strap pumps and a clear plastic bubble

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I simply cannot believe the weather we are enjoying in Kansas for July. It is cool and wonderful. Sure hope it holds out through September, yeah, like that is going to happen.We have been acting a little like "bag ladies" around here and making cute new hand bags.Using the Claire bag pattern from Lazy Girl Designs, we created a darling thing with zebras.We were enjoying working with animals so

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When I first opened The Quilters Quarters I often wrote articles on quilting for our local newspaper, sometimes including a free quilt block pattern. I recently came across some old files and thought I would share some of these articles with you from time to time."Stop the car, I want to go to the quilt show" was published on September 10, 1999.When I was a child, my family drove on vacations

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Where does the time go? I thought I was doing ok with keeping up with the blog and everything else in the world (that is my responsibility isn't it?) and I see I have not written anything for quite some time.Well, I have been working on getting lots of new stuff done in the shop and preparing for our bus trip. This one is going to be such a good time. 12 great shops are included and I just wish I

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I think it is a given that you would understand that I love to quilt. Right? Well, I do. I have quilted for over 35 years. I love every part of the process of quilting. As a matter of fact, I think we should enjoy the process, regardless of where we are in the process. Have you had days where you just did not want to sew? Be truthful, we all have. We just cannot make ourselves sit down in

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Every once in a while you have something happen that just makes you feel really good. This week I had one of those moments.I received my advance copy of the American Patchwork & Quilting Calendar for 2010. Now I knew this was coming, obviously, but it was still exciting to see.http://webstore.quiltropolis.net/stores_app/Browse_Item_Details.asp?Store_id=408&Page_id=23&Item_id=13310What you ask? My

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What a beautiful weekend we just experienced. Sometimes the weather in Kansas is really harsh, but Spring is just gorgeous. I always wonder how the women in covered wagons managed to withstand the elements of Kansas. I just cannot imagine seeing so much wide open land with the heat and wind with cool water and air conditioning. There were brave women for certain. To think they walked most of the

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I just returned from Quilt Market and it was so fun! This Spring’s market was held in Pittsburgh where we had one day of really gorgeous weather and a couple of not so gorgeous.However, since we were inside the convention center where it was simply raining beautiful quilt ideas, we did not care what the weather did.The market held a lot of beautiful and exciting new fabric lines (yes, we ordered

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How do you move a quilt shop?As many of you know, we moved the quilt shop at the end of February. We have had many questions about the move and so I thought I would share some thoughts and pictures of the adventure.A quick history of The Quilters Quarters and her moves.1996: 402 S. 5th St: 600 sq ft and 300 bolts of fabric.1997: 408 S. 5th St: 1200 sq ft and closer to 900 bolts of fabric. Added a

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Let me just wave my magic wand and lead you to a website that will transform your sewing room. Visit my site at www.quiltersqtrs.com on May 1st to get complete information and rules to win a $10,000 Dream Sewing Room Makeover.We'll give you ideas on how to spend your $10,000 to create a fabulous, well-stocked, well-notioned creative sewing retreat for you.Don't forget on May 1st is when the

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