Lilac Lane Quilts

180 Parson Road Unit 27 Alliston, On. L9R 1E8
(705) 435-2746 Toll Free 1-866-435-1041

Your Complete Quilt Shop
Patterns, fabrics, notions, workshops, longarm quilting services and custom made quilts.
We also carry a large inventory of quilts for sale. These can be viewed by visiting our Quilts for Sale link.

OPEN MONDAY TO SATURDAY 9:30 – 5:30
SUNDAY AND MOST HOLIDAYS 11:00 – 4:00

Family Day Feb. 20^th CLOSED

Clearance patterns are now half the lowest price.

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Reunion and Reveal of BOEOW. Here are a few of the quilts, click on the image for a larger view.

Christmas fabrics, hangers, calendars, and patterns are 40% off.

Marked down patterns are now half the lowest price. You can pick up patterns starting at $2.50!

Thinking about upcoming workshops? We have been working on bringing you some new workshops very soon. Check in frequently to see what we have nailed down.

Marti, Me, and Muffin Club January marks the last session for this club and for the quilters who have done a BOEOW with us you will be pleased to know that January’s project uses Set L which is already in your sewing room. We are taking applications for the next Marti Me and Muffin Club which will begin the 4^th Saturday of February. (LEAP YEAR) At the first session we will walk you thru how to use the Marti Michell marvellous templates. You may not like using them at first (most of us said this) but the light will come on and you will discover how marvellous your piecing can be by listening to Marti. This is a club so you come and hear how the construction goes take your information booklet home and create something marvellous. No sewing machines to haul. No question too small. This is a wonderful supportive group and you never know where the conversation will lead. Membership for 6 months is $20.00 in total. If you cannot be there for a club meeting, no worries, come when you can to pick up your information booklet.

Help the local Food Bank without doing anything out of the ordinary! We just found out that if you bring in your Zehrs cash tapes, nicely flattened out, we will pass them along to the local food bank and they will receive funds to keep their organization running. How easy is that? It doesn’t matter which location you shop at, the Food Bank will be able to change your receipts into food to assist their clients.

Halloween fabrics, patterns, kits are now on sale at 40% off!

WORKSHOPS

OUR WORKSHOP POLICY IS THAT ALL WORKSHOPS ARE PREPAID AND IF THERE ARE LESS THAN FOUR CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS THE WORKSHOP WILL BE CANCELLED. IF WE CANCEL THE WORKSHOP YOUR MONEY WILL BE RETURNED HOWEVER IF YOU DO NOT SHOW UP THERE WILL BE NO REFUND. WORKSHOPS ARE SUBJECT TO HST.

Basic Sewing kit for most workshops: sewing machine in good working order, sewing machine manual, thread, thread scissors, seam ripper just in case, tape measure, bobbins filled and ready to go, pattern, fabric, notebook, and pen.

Please do not arrive more than 15 minutes ahead of your scheduled time. It may interfere with other activities in the workshop area. Also it gives us time to make the coffee and tea and set up for your activity. We appreciate your enthusiasm and will very much appreciate you thinking of us setting up for you.

GIT: Get It Done. Join us for a day of uninterrupted sewing and see your goals being attained. Jan. 23^rd. You made your New Years Resolution; let us help you keep it. $10.00 We are here to help, make the coffee, tea, and keep you on track. That is what friends are for!

Learn to Paper Piece: This technique results in precise points and corners. You will create a Mariner’s Star wall hanging during this workshop. The pattern will be printed onto Fundation so you can focus on getting the technique down pat. Sat. Feb. 11^th 10:00 – 3:00 Workshop fee including pattern $50.00

Not Such Hard Times: (Machine Quilting in Sections) Over the course of three months you will make and quilt a full size quilt. Following Marti Michell’s Machine Quilting in Sections book, we will make the quilt Not Such Hard Times. The first session and homework will be making the blocks. The second session you will start quilting it in sections. At the third session you will join the sections together. The sample for this workshop has been miniaturized, that is Shirley’s style. You will be making a full size (88” X 105”) quilt to see the benefits of quilting in sections. Book required. Workshop dates are Jan. 21^st , Feb. 18^th, and March 17^th. Workshop fee is $100.00. Wouldn’t that be a great birthday or Christmas presents the book and the workshop! This workshop is full. We are taking names for another session or in case someone for some reason cannot attend. We only need ONE more to fill another class. Dates for the next session are March 10, April 14, and May 5. Each session runs from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Going in Circles from Buggy Barn: This is a two part workshop. Book purchase necessary. (read on later about the book club). Sat. Feb. 4th and March 3rd 10:00 – 3:00 each day. Workshop fee $80.00 Sample is in the store. Come and see what we are talking about! The first session we cut and the second session we swap pieces around and sew them together. Room is still available.

One Block Wonder: Take one fabric and learn to make one block and see how wonderful the fabric works for this quilt. You will learn the cutting and piecing in class then go home and work on the layout, that is the magic and then come back and show us what you created! Saturday March 24^th 10:00 – 3:00 p.m Book required and ruler. The 60 degree ruler is useful in so many other quilts you won’t regret having it in your tool kit. Workshop fee $45.00. Learn the magic in cutting and piecing and organizing in class.

Learn to Quilt: Join us for 8 weeks and you will learn how to rotary cut… yes quilters do not use scissors, machine piece your blocks, apply borders, machine quilt and bind either a lap size quilt or a baby quilt. Fabric choices are up to you. You do need to know how to operate your sewing machine. For any questions about your machine, we suggest that you visit Pat’s Sewing on Dufferin Street in Alliston. Pat is so very knowledgeable. You will require the basic quilting tools and a sewing machine. Come by and we will walk you through this. Next session runs from There will be 8 sessions to complete your quilt. From fabric to a warm hug of a quilt. Workshop is for only 4 participants. Workshop fee $100.00. Fabrics and incidentals extra. You may want to add this to your Christmas wish list; the workshop and tools or simply a gift certificate so you can choose your fabrics. Friday January 20^th 10:00 – 1:00. 3 spots remaining!

Butterfly Quilt, A Quilt in the Round. Join in the fun and learn to make an amazing quilt using a 10 degree ruler. Book and the ruler will make you RULE~ Create this amazing quilt and enjoy. Workshop date Sat. April 28^th from 10:00 – 3:00. Workshop fee $45.00. Pack a lunch! This is going to be fun~ No pre cutting, we will learn the tricks in class.

CLUBS

Thursday Sew Together Club: Let’s meet every Thursday and sew together. We can finish up things we have on hand or pick a new project and learn it together. Share our talents, teach each other new skills and enjoy a friendship day. Gather at 10:00 in the morning and work until about 4:00p.m. Bring lunch and enjoy a lot of laughs and learning. Club fee is $20.00 for 3 months. Spaces Available

Friday Sew Sisters: We gather at 10:00 am and sew together until 4:00. Pack your lunch and enjoy friendship and dedicated sewing time. Some times we don’t pack our lunch and just order it in. After all it is Friday. Shouldn’t we have the day off making lunches? One space remaining.

Book Club: Previous workshops have included the purchase of a book namely, Buggy Barn (book) and all of the Art to Heart books. There are so many great ideas in each of these books we will be running more workshops around those projects. We want you to get the best value you can from your purchases. Let us know what you think. Are they any books that you would like to see made into a club in the same manner as we have for the Farmer’s Wife Club?

Farmer’s Wife Club: For the quilter who has purchased the book and cd, you can join us on the second Sunday of the month from 11:30 – 3:00 and stitch together. Debbie will have secrets passed to her from Marti Michell for making these blocks. Oct – March Session fee for all 6 months is $15.00

CIYBOEOW: Starting Jan. 14^th we will begin our next Block of Every Other Week. We know that some of you have made New Years Resolutions to use from the stash and if so that is the Choose It Yourself part of this club. You can choose your own fabric, from your stash, from our store or a combination. This makes a lovely queen size quilt and you will receive, upon signing up, the colour picture and the fabric requirements and two fabric keys to fill in. Cost of club is only $5.00. Talk about starting the year off correctly! WOW~ Quilters have enjoyed our BOEOW (Block of Every Other Week) because it doesn’t take a year to complete. We give the finishing instructions part way thru so you can start, if you wish, to make the extras that make Marti’s quilts so delightful. If you have never used Marti Michell templates previously, don’t fret. We will walk you thru how to get the hang of it. You may not be a fan at first but we bet you will have an ah ha moment and say YES! Got it! We have been there. The last group was so much fun that we can’t wait to see the next. There is no limit to this club because you are responsible for your fabric choices. Just a little aside, Marti and I have been chatting this month about a few things and she is quite excited to see pictures of this quilt in fabrics that she said that we have to send pictures. Marti is all about the quilter and producing a quality product. If you cannot make a club meeting, please don’t worry. Come when you can your pattern will be waiting for you. Life gets hectic we understand.

SSFS, Sunday Sew for Soldiers. We are hoping that Liz from CFB Borden can join us for our start out. We will bring in fabric and brain storm what we can do for our Soldiers who have been injured. The organization that collects and sends out the quilts have a size limitation which was decided upon by usefulness and transportation costs. Our first get together will be Sunday January 29^th from 11:30 – 3:30. We just were gifted 3 bags of fabric for this service. THANK YOU. Our first get together will be an exchange of patterns, ideas and how to best serve the people who served for us.

If you are looking to purchase an entire bolt please let us know and we will order it and phone you when it arrives. Please keep in mind when we have a fabric sale, batting is also included in that sale.

Quilt Stencils: We have expanded our quilting stencils and were surprised at how excited people were with our choices. Thanks for the encouragement.

Cones of Thread: For the serious quilter or just those of us who don’t like to run out and want to save a bit of money. We carry a polytwist thread for piecing and machine quilting. This is not a serger thread. We also have cones of YLI and King Tut Variegated threads for machine quilting.

I love being a Canadian and especially an Ontarian and I love the changes in our seasons, it changes our menus, clothes and habits. This is a great Ontario soup to warm your soul and give you the strength to quilt and ignore the voices of the family.

Minestrone Soup

½ cup olive oil…..I put enough to cover the bottom of the pot so the veggies don’t stick
1 large onion diced
2 large carrots diced
2 stalks of celery diced
2 medium potatoes diced
½ pound green beans cut into ½ inch pieces
6 cups of water
½ small head of cabbage shredded
1 16 ounce can tomatoes
½ 10 ounce package of fresh spinach coarsely shredded.
2 medium zucchini sliced
6 beef bouillon cubes or packages
1 teaspoon salt
1 16 – 18 ounce can white kidney beans (cannelloni) drained
1 16 – 18 ounce can of red kidney beans drained
½ cup grated Romano or Parmesan cheese

Cook’s Note

I put the veggies in with the amount that makes sense to me…what am I going to do with ½ a bag of spinach????
In an 8 quart Dutch oven or LARGE saucepot over medium heat in hot oil cook onion, carrots, celery, potatoes, and green beans until vegetables are lightly browned about 20 minutes stirring occasionally.
Add water, cabbage tomatoes, with their liquid spinach zucchini, bouillon cubes and salt. Over high heat: heat to boiling stirring to break up tomatoes.
Reduce heat to low and cover. Simmer 40 minutes or until all the vegetables are very tender stirring occasionally don not overcook
Stir in beans, cook 15 minutes longer or just until the soup is slightly thickened.
To serve ladle soup into bowls and pass cheese separately to sprinkle over each serving. Carl is not fussy on the cheese so keep that information handy for the future. SMILING!

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Here are our two clips of our guest appearance from Thursday Oct. 14^th 2010 when we were guests on the Roger’s Community Show, Daytime. This aired live but you can watch our segment in two parts here. Thanks to Rogers Community Television for having us as guests.

First half of our appearance.

Second half of our appearance

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Lilac Lane Quilts
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