Row by Row Winner and Upcoming News!

Winner Sue Lee — and Our New Batiks!

For the third summer, Artistic Artifacts is participating in the Row by Row Experience, an annual shop hop event taking place throughout the U.S., Canada, and even many locations in Europe!

The theme this year is “On the Go,” and as always we enjoyed designing our unique “Pinwheels In Motion” row, created using our Batik Tambal Exclusive Batik. On July 20, 2017 we awarded our prize for the first completed (quilted, bound, and labeled) quilt using at least 8 different 2017 row patternsto Sue Lee...who used 9 row patterns including ours. Sue extended our row and included it on the back of her quilt, making it reversible.

Sue purchased one of our kits (currently available to in-store visitors only; when the event ends this fall we will be able to sell them online) Each kit includes a June Tailor® Charming Circles Ruler to easily cut accurate circles, Avalon Bleached Muslin for background, Mistyfuse® lightweight fusible and a sample spool of WonderFil Specialty Thread. There are so many beautiful color combinations possible with our batiks that we allow kit purchasers to pick the two they like; Sue chose Shapes-Pinwheels, Fuchsia and Color Sponge Solid: Berry.

Sue so loved our fabric that after buying our kit returned the next day for more to create the row extension and to create her quilt’s binding. Sue was happy to receive her prize of 25 different fat quarters of Batik Tambal Exclusive Batik fabrics, plus a gift certificate to our shop (pictured below). Congratulations, Sue!

New Batik Tambal Exclusive Batik Fabrics!

And we have exciting news to share about our Batik Tambal Exclusive Batik: new patterns and colors have arrived from Indonesia! We are in the process of getting these news designs on our website: stay tuned to our weekly enewsletter to see! They are making their debut at Quilt Odyssey this weekend!

(updated 7/26) Above, some of the new Batik Tambal Exclusive Batik, NOW AVAILABLE to order on our website: shop now. We have new colors of some of our established designs, and new patterns for you as well!

Rayna Gillman Workshop September 23

And more good news to announce! Our first year of participating in The Row by Row Experience was 2014, and a key design feature in that inaugural row design was Rayna Gillman’s wonky strip piecing technique.

Rayna has written several books teaching her design concepts, and has influenced so many art quilters... so we’re delighted to announce that Rayna Gillman will be visiting Artistic Artifacts on September 23-24 to teach her amazing techniques!

Back in April our enewsletter included a photo of our customer Laura Geiser’s modern, graphic quilt, featuring many of our wonderful Australian Aborigine fabrics interspersed with many black and white designs as well as modern cottons.

Once she received her copy, Rayna emailed us, “This is exactly what I have done in my new book... using some of the Aboriginal fabrics I bought from you, modern fabrics, and some solids. Time for us to schedule me to teach a 2-day class from my new (modern) book!”

That new book will be published in November. Titled Create Your Own Improv Quilts: Modern Quilting with No Rules & No Rulers, you can pre-order a signed copy from her website.

Updated 7/26: Learn more about this class and register now »