Lilac Lane Quilts

180 Parsons 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 11:00 – 4:00

^{Sign up now for the workshops in July with a certified Judy Niemeyer instructor. Great chance to learn how to piece the Judy way and have some fun.}

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Gala photos from our 10^th anniversary event November 2012

Our Calendar is up and running again. We have updated to a new calendar so let us know how this one works for you.

Thank you for another exciting Goose on the Loose Shop Hop. We hope we have inspired your desire to create. The Grand Prize winner of the tickets to CreativFestival, hotel accommodation and bail (oops spending) money goes to Ruby of Orangeville. Guess how many friends Ruby will have once they know this.

Other passes to the fall CreativFestival were won by Janette of Egbert, Robyn of Creemore, Dianne of Mississauga, Eleanor of Angus and Kathy of Cambridge.

Our quilt was won by Jean of Haliburton. The quilt from Cobwebs and Caviar was won by Sandy of Fergus. The quilt from Quilters’ Line was won by Linda of Meaford. The quilt from Sew Jax was won by Berni of Guelph. The quilt from Country Concessions was won by Angela of Alliston.

JARS OF JOY!

We will have jars of joy starting January 2013. Different jars share different joys. At the end of the year the jars will be opened and discussed, pats of congrats will be passed along and some prizes. There will be the BEST INTENTIONS JAR. When you are in we will walk you through this! All positive!

If you have a group of 3 or more that would like a specific workshop we are more than willing to work with you and your group’s schedule as best as we can.

Help the local Food Bank. We thank you for your continued support of the Good Shepherd Food Bank. Those Zehrs tapes are such a help and the food donations are greatly appreciated.

Alliston and District Humane Society: Fund raising is always a concern with a community effort. Crystal has dropped off some fabulous goodie baskets which will help support the animals in need. Each basket is only $15.00 and ALL the money goes directly back to the shelter

For the love of Science. We have been asked if we could collect empty thread spools. A teacher is planning an experiment. Cones will not work, we asked. Save your empty spools and bring them in and we will collect and pass them along.

VERY SPECIAL WORKSHOP

In July, we are so excited to have Marilyn Moran, from Yellowknife, come to teach. Marilyn is a certified Judy Niemeyer instructor. She will tell you the secrets of how to understand and organize Judy’s patterns. Marilyn has studied repeatedly with Judy and also taught alongside with Judy. Carl will be on hand to assist Marilyn during this special workshop. You can view Judy’s designs at www.quiltworx.com. Carl has finished the Four Seasons Table Runner, the Double Wedding Ring bed runner, and just recently finished piecing the Arizona Cactus table topper. The Arizona Cactus has not been quilted yet so you can still see how the instructions have you do the pressing on the back.
Four Season Table Runner

Wedding Ring Bed runner

Arizona Cactus ( Finished piecing, waiting to be quilted)

The workshop will be held at the Lions Hall in Alliston. There are 2 workshops available. The first one runs Saturday and Sunday July 27^th and 28^th. You will have the choice of making Weeping Willow, Stepping Stones, or Cappuccino table runner and place mat. Lunch will be provided. There will be surprises of course. Workshop fee is $200.00 plus taxes.

The 3 day workshop will run Monday to Wednesday July 29 – 31^st at the Lions Hall in Alliston. Your pattern choices will be Cactus Star, Arizona Cactus (Carl has that one on the table now) Cactus Flower table runner, Golden Harvest , Sky Lone Star, Autumn Splendor and Four Season table runner (sample in store now). Lunch will be provided each day and of course there will be surprises for you as well. Workshop fee is $300.00 plus taxes.

This workshop will be limited to 20 people. Marilyn is very comfortable with that number and we will have a lot of room at the Lion’s Hall. Carl will be on hand to assist. He and Marilyn have talked at great length about this. Marilyn is working on Carl going to Montana for certification. Hmmm.

The patterns have arrived. Lots of time to get organized and clear the dates. We would like to get confirmation of registration soon so we can book the teacher and the room.

Make a Log Cabin Chicken: We have not done anything for the people receiving Meals on Wheels for some time. Let’s get together and make these cute decorations. Join us at 10:00 and bring your machine and fabrics and get busy making people happy. FREE~ we are helping our community, how could we charge for that? Sat. May 25^th at 10:30. Bring your stash and have some fun! Sharon has precut some strips for this project.

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.

Diabetes Kids Go to Camp: The Lions send approx. 300 kids to camp each summer. All of these children have diabetes. We are asking people who sew, if they could make a few pillowcases for these kids to help them remember their camp experience. There is a very easy and exciting way to make pillowcases called the hot dog style. Allison showed us this a few months ago when we made pillow cases for the children in care with Children’s Aid Society. Join us to see how this works or if you cannot join us bring in your pillowcases. We will be keeping track of our goal. Pillowcase day will vary throughout the first 5 months and the first sew day will be May 25th at 11:00 onwards. Kits are available. We are getting a nice collection, but so many campers! Let’s keep sewing! 122 pillowcases already!

Friday Night Freak! There are times in a quilter’s life where they just NEED to let off some sewing steam. Join us Friday June 21st from 5:00 p.m. until midnight. We will lock the doors, pull down the blinds and get freaky with those projects we want to start. We will be order in dinner and split the cost, bring any snacks you would like to share and bring your beverage of choice. We have coffee and tea. Workshop fee $5.00 plus your share of dinner. We did this in Feb. and March, It was just so much fun I couldn’t sleep that night!

Arkansas Crossing: In typical Marti Michell fashion, she offers choices. This uses Set B templates, recommended but not imperative to make this fabulous quilt. This striking quilt uses 2 ½ inch strips and other fabric or you can choose to make it with your own 2 ½ inch strips. If you choose to make it with your own 2 ½ inch strips please have the strip cut for the first session. This will be a two session workshop. Workshop dates are Sat. June 22 10:00 – 3:00 and Sat. July 13^th 11:00 – 3:00. Workshop fee $60.00

CLUBS

Marti and Me Club AKA the Muffin Club: The Marti we are referring to is Marti Michell. She created a club which meets once a month and demonstrates how to use one of Marti’s tools. Carl and I went to Georgia twice to train for this club and have taken other classes/workshops/lectures with Marti. Recently Marti took some time away from this club so she could finish up things. We can all relate to that! Liz was amazed how much she missed getting the box of surprises and inspiration from Michell Marketing every month. Feb. we will be back with the great Marti instruction booklets you have come to enjoy. This club meets the 4^th Saturday of the month for six months. We are truly excited to see what Marti has conjured up during her studio time (which was restricted since she went to Mexico to teach and who knows where else?) Club membership is $20.00 plus HST. If you cannot attend on the Saturday, you have the opportunity to come in to pick up your instruction booklet or have someone pick it up for you. We were the first Canadian store to run this program and the group that has formed and changed and expanded are one of the nicest groups I have had the privilege to sit with and talk. It is very enjoyable and encouraging. This club is able to enter into the Marti Jar of Joy. 4^th Saturday of the month at 9:00 a.m.

Block of Every Other Week:

We love Marti. We also love to make a quilt in less than a year. Sign up for $10.00 and enjoy learning how clever Marti designs are. We have just started, so if you still would like to join us, please feel welcomed. You choose your fabrics, which makes our get togethers so interesting. Everyone has a different scheme.

Women of Courage: This will be a block of the month club. The finished quilt is 98” X 98”. The fabrics and colours will all be the same as the sample. This club will begin in March. This will be a Saturday club once a month. $290.00. It is not too late to join. 5 spots remaining. Next club meeting will be Sat. June at 11:00 a.m. Kita are available if you wish to make the quilt without the club meetings.

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.

Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 in a roll of 30 yards and 96” wide is $200.00

Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 in a roll of 30 yards and 120” wide is $250.00

Hobbs Poly Batting is also available upon request.

Now In Quilters Dream batting. 70/30 in 92 inches wide. Come and feel it!

Quilt Stencils: We work hard to give a changing assortment of stencils for quilting and marking pens.

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.

Gift certificates are available. We also have a registry for gifts. Let us know what you are interested in and we will keep track and you can send your gift giving friends in to shop in confidence. For anyone who doesn’t like shopping, they can phone ahead and we will package up the gift (they have to tell us the budget for the gift) and it will be ready to roll when they come in. It can’t get any easier than that can it?

Next retreat at Whitestone Lake Lodge. We are planning on going Nov 1^st until Nov. 4^th. We need more time to sew. Check your calendars and we will talk with Joedy to give you more details very soon.

MY FRIEND TELLS ME

Preheat oven to 400º.

nicely browned!!!! (we like ours verrrry browned!!!)

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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
(705)435-2746
Toll Free 1-866-435-1041
Email_Liz @lilaclanequilts.com