Field Trip-The Quilt Company & A Favorite Notion, The Pinking Blade-Rotary Cutter

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A cold and windy, snow flurry day here. A good day for a field trip. Some quilting friends and I headed north, out of the city, to Allison Park, Pa. This is a lovely quilt shop with large and open spaces. The fabrics are bright, colorful and fun. QF (Jen) helped me choose some great new fabrics. I know, I said no more quilt fabrics, but I need more color. I will show you those in the next post. I have been totally re-thinking my crazy quilt project and I will discuss that as well. QF Rose is doing one too, in cottons. Now I am really ambivilent about all the fancy fabrics. I think I will try one in quilting cottons first. Probably with some of the batiks I picked up today. It will be a modern quilt. More on that next time. Anyway, here is a little bio of the shop, and some photo's from their website. They also have an online shop and the owner is a fabulous, nationally recognized designer.     

About Us

The Quilt Company was established in 1993, included in Quilt Sampler Magazine in 1997 and featured as one of America's Favorite Hometown Quilt Shops by McCall’s Quilting in 2010.  With over 4000 square feet of fabric, books, notions, patterns and classroom space, the shop has something to entice quilters of all levels.  Our large, spacious sales floor is handicap accessible and can easily accommodate your next bus trip.
Visit our BERNINA showroom and take advantage of our well-equipped demonstration area, which offers a full line of BERNINA products — including everything for your embroidery needs.  Having a problem?  We have a full-time, certified BERNINA technician on staff.
Store owner Karen Montgomery is a nationally recognized quilt teacher and designer.  Our shop showcases Karen's fabric designs for Timeless Treasures, her original patterns and the Quick Trim Ruler she designed for Creative Grids.  Karen's projects can be found in catalogs and magazines around the world. A link to their site:

http://www.thequiltcompany.com/about-the-quilt-company.aspx










  
The pinking rotary cutter blade is a favorite. It works well for fabrics that fray, of course, but I like it for cutting white and light colored knits as well. It reduces the shadow of the seam. See above? A nice little wavy line.  
Gratuity Moment: a little sunshine on a snowy day and great QF's to share it with.

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