Jan 23 2012

Bella Garden Block of the Month – Bella, Bella!

Tag: Shop NewsCarol Britt @ 3:04 pm

Bella Garden Block of the Month From the Bella Garden Series by McKenna Ryan for Pine Needles.

Each month for 6 months you will receive a pattern and Hoffman batik fabric kit to complete one section of the Bella Garden Quilt.

Finished size 69″ x 76″.

Click on the photo for more information.

The sections of the quilt are available as separate kits instead of the Block of the Month.

Each Kit includes the fabrics, borders, and binding.

Click on the individual pictures to see details of that particular kit.

It is really neat to be able to pick a section and have a meaningful small quilt.

I love Wisteria.  I love the shape, the color, the fragrance, and how it takes over the universe where it grows.

My mother would say, “How wisterious” when it started to bloom.

I’ve always wanted to name a fat quarter pack for her but thought the wisterious would be thought a typo!

A Vine Buzz would be a perfect reminder and would give me or any of my family a smile.

All of the quilts are available as patterns as well as kits.

Garden Party

Garden Party 31" x 31"

A Vine Buzz

A Vine Buzz 46" x 21"

Lily's Pad

Lily's Pad 54" x 22"

Evensong

Evensong 34" x 34"

Morning Song

Morning Song 34" x 34"

Hide 'n Seek

Hide 'n Seek 11" x 26"


Jan 14 2012

Bali Deadline Approaches

Tag: Shop News,Trip to BaliCarol Britt @ 7:51 pm

BATIK LOVERS JOURNEY TO BALI

WITH BATIKS ETCETERA AND SEW WHAT FABRICS

11 Days – May 4-14, 2012

Last Chance for reduced prices and group air rates!

Register by January 20 to get the great rates.

Contact Deb Roberts at World of Quilts Travel.

If you are thinking of joining us for this incredible journey, make your commitment soon.

You don’t want to miss the lower group rates.


Jan 14 2012

Winners for Girls in the Garden

Tag: Garden & Flowers,Shop NewsCarol Britt @ 11:51 am

Our winners of the four Girls in the Garden are:

Michelle M     Summer Pattern. “I especially like reds in my flower garden. But as a quilter, I just love color!”

Kay Holm     Winter Pattern. “I really like the winter scene because it reminds me of winter in Minnesota where we have cardinals visiting our bird feeder all winter long!”

Elizabeth     Spring Pattern. “Spring Garden most likly resembles my Garden. I have a green thumb when it comes to outdoor gardens. Lots of Tulips, Daffodiles, Herbs, and Butterfly Garden. Indoor plants beware. I love the Garden Girls they are Great”

Connie German     Fall Pattern.  ”Spring flowers are the most fun, but then summer flowers come along sometimes even prettier, and then we get those awesome fall colors. How to choose? Not!”

Winners: Send your mailing address to “info@batiks.com”. Use the same email that you made your comment from so we can be sure we got the right person.

Check out the Girls in the Garden patterns and kits at What’s New.


Jan 12 2012

Give Away is almost here!

Tag: Block of Month,Free Patterns,Garden & FlowersCarol Britt @ 11:01 am

Two more days before we draw four lucky winners of a Girl in the Garden pattern by Pat Sloan and Bigfork Bay Cotton Company.

We love these designs in batik and will kit just as they were made.  We are waiting for a couple more bolts to arrive.  The kits should ship mid March.

Want them all?  Sign up for our Wall hanging of the Month starting in April and get one kit a month for four months.  Sign up here.

Make a comment on this blog to be entered in the pattern give away.

Your responses have been so much fun.  So here’s a new question:

What is the most unusual flower in your garden?

Mine would have to be the Seven Sons tree.

It blooms in late August into September and has a delightful fragrance.

The pink flowers become fuchsia and a berry forms at the center that is a shiny purple.

Very interesting.


Jan 10 2012

Come with us to Bali

Tag: Shop News,Trip to BaliCarol Britt @ 11:54 pm

Batik for $2 per meter!

100 pounds of free luggage!

See the Hoffman Batik Factory!

Make your own batik!

Go to World of Quilts Travel for all the details and forms.

New lower price expires on January 20th. Our scheduled hotel will be under going renovations.

So our tour director, Deb Roberts has arranged another 5 star hotel who offered an even better deal.

Hurry – reservations close soon.



We will have lots of opportunities to shop for amazing batik — at amazing prices.

I plan to pack very light so I can bring home lots of delights.

Remember we get 100 pounds of free luggage.

HURRY our great air flight rates will expire around Jan. 20, 2012.

After that you will have to find your own flight.

Make your commitment now!



The colors, the friendly people, the natural beauty all await us on this once in a lifetime opportunity.

Marty and Carol will be there as well as our tour director, Deb Roberts to make sure your trip is a delight.

How amazing! Water, sun, beach, sky, mountains, forests, and luxury.

Come play on the island of Bali with us.

Bali Slideshow

Check out this Smilebox of photos from a previous trip. Gorgeous!

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