What’s so great about Quilt Market? People, Fabric, Quilts and…Santa! I’m just back from Quilt Market after spending a fantastic day on the show floor meeting with old friends, connecting with new ones, drooling over gorgeous fabric displays, ogling breathtaking quilts and taking a moment to pose with Santa. I never pass up a hug from Santa! Even at the ripe old age of 25, oops maybe my dyslexia is kicking in on that number. I even talked my old friend and colleague, Designs ad rep Sandy Griggs, into a quick Santa snapshot! Doesn’t Sandy look terrific? There’s a girl who never seems to age.
Check out two of my favorite, non-related stitching sisters, HoopSisters Lynda Remmers and Annie Moody. I waited in their booth for what seemed like an eternity to snap a photo of the sisters with their hot new quilt – Star Feather. Never one to interrupt a sale, I waited and waited until shop owners vacated the booth for a brief moment. The HoopSisters are on a roll! Kudos to Lynda and Annie!
Designs pages are full of talented embroidery design companies and I had the chance to visit with some of them. Rhea and Lisa from Pickle Pie Designs were so pretty in pink! Lots of gorgeous samples in their booth and I loved their dishtowel designs.
Speaking of pretty booths, Lunchbox Quilts, made quite a splash at Market. Again, the booth was mobbed, but I was finally able to grab a quick shot of Lunchbox Quilts founder, Angela Stevenson, in front of her popular quilt, Love Letters.
As I made my way down to the quilt gallery, I stopped to say hello to Sealed with A Stitch and wound up having my laugh for the day. David and Susan O’Very are a very capable husband-wife team with popular design collections, quilt blocks, in-the-hoop projects and more. I chatted with David while I waited for Susan to free herself from interested shop owners. David explained the chain of command at their company. Proudly, he boasted of his envious CEO title, and then explained exactly what CEO meant. Carry Everything Out. Oh I howled! What a great sense of humor – laced with quite a bit of truth, I imagine!
Tomorrow I’m heading back to Houston for Quilt Festival. I haven’t attended Festival in many years and yikes, I even enrolled in a software class. I am going to try to be on my absolute best behavior in this class. After all, I usually teach. And I know when I teach, some of my hmmm, most challenging students are teachers! So I’m going to keep my mouth shut, keep up with the class, turn my cell phone off, disconnect from the internet and CONCENTRATE! So if you see me wandering the hall on Wednesday during the 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM class time, you’ll know I couldn’t do it!
I hope to see some of you at Festival. I’ll be in Discount Embroidery’s booth (#1053) on Thursday between 11:00 and 12:00. Stop by and hello! After that fun event, it’s time for me to pack for the Stitching Sisters’ seminar next weekend in Sherman Oaks, CA. It’s our last event of the year and guess who is hosting this fun event? Great Scott! That’s right, Scott Goodman, Designs Great Scott columnist. He tells me there are still a few seats left so come on out and join us! Learn more by clicking here.
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69 COMMENTS
Diane Crane
11 years agoI love all the baby things – especially the gowns. I am going to be a first time grandmother this spring – to twin girls! The baby items would make a very nice gift.
Clem
11 years agoI like the napkins. I am getting away from paper products as much as possible and linen napkins would be great. I do not want to monogram them, but get enough to embroider for the different holidays, different seasons, different meals, etc. I know it is a monumental task, but eventually I will have enough napkins. lol
Dawn Davidson
11 years agoI love the double-seated panties. With one grandaughter 4 months old and another due in February I would love to make these for them. They will look so cute in these!
Carol Seavitt
11 years agoThe handkerchiefs are beautiful. Plus I signed up for their free designs — only had to add my e-mail address:) Thinking the handkerchiefs with embroidered initials would make a great gifts for my girlfriends. Love the site.
Ellen Perry
11 years agoI need to finish daughter’s quilt as a surprise to her. bath towels and tea towels for xmas gifts.
Ellen in Texas
Ellen Perry
11 years agoanything linen..I just love
all the baby items since I make a lot of gifts.
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Marlene Hovagimian
11 years agoI love their white, linen tablerunners. Great for embroidering endless designs on, and so pretty too.
Karen Arnold
11 years agoI love the variety of items that you can get. Every kind of blank item to embroidery!!
Tammy
11 years agoI love the free designs, they always work up so beautifully, would love to be able to purchase some from them, excellent site! love the hankerchiefs also.
Debbie
11 years agoLove Embroider This for embroidery blanks. I have purchased the linen towels, table runners, and can/bottle wraps to embroider and gave them as gifts. Last year I add fur for snow and blue material for the sky and embroidered a village with Santa and sleigh on a table runner.
I have a shawl and a table runner waiting to embroider.
Mitzi
11 years agoI like the spa gifts! everyone needs to feel personally pampered!
Susan Novak
11 years agoI hadn’t visited EmbroiderThis.com for a long time, so was glad to be reminded of what a great site it is. I love all sorts of kitchen towels, and was most intrigued by the Honeycomb Waffle Weave ones. Hmmmm, I may just have to order some.
Lori W
11 years agoI love all the hankies and the boxes to give them in are a wonderful gift. All the new guest towels in all the colorful bands would make a great gift and also would be fun to keep! I seem to give most everything I make away!
Enis
11 years agoI have a new (first) grandbaby coming (due Christmas Eve), so I’m really into baby stuff right now. I love the white cotton bibs with hand crocheted lace. I can see lots of these little loves doning my cute little bundle coming for Christmas!
Susanna
11 years agoAt the time I’m acting cranky. I haven’t been able to sew anything for weeks. I’d love to try everything. Maybe I’ll get so cranky my husband realises that I must be locked away with my sewing machine.
Kay
11 years agoOh yes! I started last January! I have a few more shirts to finish for nieces and nephews, and I hope to have my Dakota Collectibles Nativity Window Scene quilt finished by Christmas, so I can give it to my husband. (He’s a pastor.)
Hope to see/meet you at Quilt Festival tomorrow!
Pamela Seigl
11 years agoI love the napkins they make wonderful and beautiful fireplace scarfs. Also like the kitchen towels can make a special set for a gift in little time
terry pitcock
11 years agoBAby stuff, baby stuff
Sharon Stoeh
11 years agoI love the guest towels. I embroider a guest towel with a monogram anytime a guest spends the night with me. Then they get to take it home as a special gift.
Sue Duisenberg
11 years agoI love the linen towels in yummy colors
Virginia
11 years agoEileen I love the pictures. Hoopsisters Lynda and Annie are 2 of most favorite people (of course next to you).
My xmas projects are some table runners but I do love your Xmas quilt. Would love to use the designs on a table runner. I have a pattern in mind.
Lisha Falk
11 years agoAm always looking to do baby items and kitchen items for showers, gift baskets, etc. They have a great selection.
Donna N.
11 years agoLove the vintage tea towels.
Debbie St.Germain
11 years agoI like a lot of things, lol.
I love the baby items, we are expecting our first grandchild next year, so it would be fun to make items for a layette set. I also like the guest towels, would be nice to do designs that i Like to match my bathroom and also a nice gift idea.
Barbara
11 years agoI love the linens — but the pet food dish made me giggle! What a clever gift idea!
Gail Beam
11 years agoI like all of their embroidery blanks and they offer a really nice selection and variety of items to embroider on.
Gail
Judy Wentz
11 years agoEmbroider This is a very nice site for items to embroider on. they also have lots of free designs.
Mary
11 years agoI like the hankies. When I was young and wanted to give my mom a gift for her birthday the ‘five and dime store’ was my favorite place to shop, I sure miss that store. Then comes the towels and so many other great items.
Donna
11 years agoOf course, I love the baby things…everything for my grandbabies from bibs to burp clothes to diaper covers. But I think my favorite this Christmas will be the kitchen towels I plan to embroider with digitized recipe designs for my 86 years young mother. She has become obsessed with baking brownies and carrot cakes.
Barbara Rowlan Wong
11 years agoWhat a treat for my eyes to visit this site. I have been looking for hemstitched linen handtowels and they have so many colors it will be difficult to choose. But, I’m always up to a challenge!
Bonnie Gray
11 years agoA great place to get blanks!
Sharon Aiken
11 years agoI just love their guest towels, but any blank will do.
Susie Mackenberg
11 years agoI love the baby fancy panties. I’ve been buying them for several years for my granddaughter and embroider a cute design on the back. She loves twirly skirts and dancing, so when her skirt comes up, there are the cutest panties with an adorable design on it. I’ve bought other items from Embroider This and the quality has always been great. I’d have no trouble spending a gift certificate, LOL!!
Christine Ward
11 years agoEmbroidery blanks so so useful. So many beautiful designs to sew and more to come. Even if I lived to be 100+ I still wouldn’t be able to make a dint in my collection.
Jennifer Padden
11 years agoI’d love t see the linen cosmetic bag. I’ve done lots of embroidery on towels, too.
Laurene Shewan
11 years agoThe matching child’s robe and slippers in pink, of course, would make all our little Princesses smile. How adorable!
Carolyn Goodworth Ford
11 years agoI love the 100% linen kitchen towels. I’ve used them for so many different types of embroidery. They are my blank canvas just waiting to turn into a new creation!
Judi Haines
11 years agoI love the silk charmeuse scarves, to dye and/or embroider!
Elaine Gilfilen
11 years agoI love the children’s white linen dress with hemstitching. That would be a sweet little dress for my granddaughter.
Dorinda DeScherer
11 years agoThe answer is as easy as 1,2,3. My
(1) brand new embroidery machine,
(2) brand new granddaughter, and
(3) brand new grandson-in-progress,
Wil make me their best customer for beautiful baby clothes!
Birdie Cade
11 years agoI love the variety of sample packs offered on their website. That gives you a better idea of the quality & what is available rather than ordered one of everything. Once you get those you can do tests on each sample & see what works best for the projects you will be working on.
Karen Rilstone
11 years agoGreat site for all kinds of embroidery blanks. Would love a shopping spree with the holidays looming ;).
Beverly
11 years agoI loved the free designs and the specialty gift items.
Beverly
11 years agoI loved the free designs and the specialty gift items.
Calla
11 years agoI have to choose ONE item? That’s impossible!! The linens are first quality, and at reasonable prices. They would make great personalized gifts for Christmas…it’s something most people wouldn’t buy for themselves.
Christina
11 years agoMy favorite is the spa items. Quick and easy ideas for bridal shower, moms to be, birthdays or teachers. Everyone enjoys a little pampering every now and then.
Penny
11 years agoI just love all the beautiful hankies, tablerunners, napkins and all the adorable items that are just WAITING to be embellished. When I need inspiration, I always go to Embroiderthis.com! The added bonus, is the FREE designs you offer and the projects to hightlight these designs. YOU ROCK!
judit z
11 years agoLove the doubleseat diaper panties great grand daughter will love the frills and designs on them
she can choose which one she will wear for the day
Love the towels … want tons of them great for all my friends..,,,,, requests are already coming for
their special designs. Learning basic digitizing and separate and merge designs. Love it..!!!!!
judit
Penny Kitzmiller
11 years agoI love their whole site!!!! I guess I am drawn to the kids blanks. They are so cute and easy projects to sew. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas !!!!!!!
patty sack
11 years agoI like the women’s spa wrap, robe and slippers to embroider.
judy williamson
11 years agoHELP!!! I have been over run with bridal and baby showers and have not even gotten started with Christmas sewing yet!!! I hope to do a table runner for my daughter and some monograming for friends. Hope I have time to get everything done.
Pam J.
11 years agoI love all the blanks, but especially the towels and the sample packs. They would make fantastic gift items!
Gena Allen
11 years agoThe thing I like best is the lace edge hankies. You can’t hardly find them anywhere any more. Oh yeah, and I love the free designs!!
Kathy
11 years agoI love the battenberg items. I have ordered the tree skirts last year and might get around to embroidering this year for gifts.
Berenice
11 years agoI really liked the baby bib sample packs. They were similar enough for a set, but different enough to make it fun! My dd’s best friend just had 1st baby on Tuesday, need to whip out a few more things…
Peggy
11 years agoHave made a new on line friend, since I had hip surgery and so did she. Would love to embroidery some linen towels for her for Christmas!
Brenda L. Pedersen
11 years agoI like the Guest Towel Sample Pack. The variety would be great to embroider all alike for a set to give as a gift…or save for us to use! I can just picture some beautiful poinsettias on them!
Deb
11 years agoPillowcases! They are great to embroider for people who don’t want much, but everyone sleeps & nice monogrammed ones are an appreciated necessity.
Barb
11 years agoGreat to see the booths and how different designs are used by the sellers. Lots of ideas now and I need loads of new designs.
Becky
11 years agoI would like to embroider on the battenburg lace tree skirt. Also I would like to use one of the adult terry bibs and use fabric paint or tie dye it then using the free digital access to the Designs in Machine Embroidery Magazine which is provided by Embroidery This and get more ideas and find the perfect design to brighten and make the bib lively for a great BBQ when you are serving ribs. Having the free digital access to the magazine is like an dictionary of designs and ideas at your fingertips.
Doreen
11 years agoI love the Battenburg lace tree skirt and the natural linen bags, and wine aprons.
Jodie
11 years agoI really like their handkerchiefs, cocktail napkins, toiletries bag. I have purchased from them many times. Cocktail napkins make for great wedding gifts and the handkerchiefs are great for the man you don’t have a clue what to give. Just last week I was thinking they would make super groomsmen presents as well.
Lois Daubney
11 years agoI loved so many things on their website, but my favorite was the wine aprons & coasters. The spa wraps looked like a great gift idea.
Linda
11 years agoI especially liked the availability of the sample packs. I can just see it now. First I had a fabric stash, then I became addicted to all kinds of threads. Now, I’m going to collect blanks. The variety of quality blanks is outstanding. I’d like to have an assortment on hand, when the occasion for a gift arises.
LeAnne L
11 years agoI like the Gilucci hemstitched linen bunwarmers. I think they’re so festive for the holidays.
Mary Haggenmaker
11 years agoSon, son-in-laws, grandson-in-laws always get their monogrammed handkerchiefs. They know what they are going to get and they definitely look forward to it every year. Eight year old grandson is now making his request for some of his own mongrammed handkerchiefs.
Lisa Boyer
11 years agoWOW! The photos you posted of the Quilt Market are so nice. I love Hoop Sisters, Pickle Pie, Sealed With A Stitch and Lunch Box Quilts as well. Their new products never cease to amaze me and keep me way too busy. Thanks so much for sharing!!
judy revell
11 years agoi love their waffle weave robe and slippers