Festival of Quilts - A discount voucher

I am taking Backstitch to the Festival of Quilts 2012... Hooray!

It was a last minute decision to book my stand (G6) and so I have been working flat out for the last couple of weeks getting everything ready.  And, I'm not going to be able to do everything I wanted, but I will be there, and I will have lots and lots of lovely fabric to sell.

Are you going?  I would love to meet you.  Please do come and find us on our little stand G6.  And print off this blog post or this voucher and present at the Backstitch stand to get another 10% off your show purchases.

I will also be taking pre-orders for Liberty Lifestyle Bloomsbury Gardens and will have the swatch book for you to drool over.

Believe it or not I have never been so am VERY excited to be going next week.  The show runs from Thursday 16th to Sunday 19th August 2012 and is at the Birmingham NEC.  If you haven't got your tickets already, don't worry, you can buy them on the door.

For those of you not able to attend, don't worry, we will still be open online, although rather than dispatching your order same or next working day as we normally would, those orders placed between 3pm Tuesday 14th until Thursday 16th will be dispatched within 2 working days.  Many thanks for your understanding on this... I can't be in two places at once it seems!

Liberty Lifestyle: Bloomsbury Gardens

Pale Blue Colourway

Hooray!  Liberty are releasing a new fabric collection of quilting weight cottons called Bloomsbury Gardens under their new 'Lifestyle' name.  What?  You didn't know?  No, of course you did... and we are all very excited about it.  And we should be excited.  I've got a swatch book and it is really very nice and not pricey like the Tana Lawn.

Magenta Teal Colourway

It took me an age to choose the prints that I was going to stock here at Backstitch.  I had the little squares of the swatch book arranged on my cutting table for days.  Switching them this way and that way.  Inviting anyone who looked willing to listen in to have a look "What do you think? They are very nice aren't they?"  The number of times I had to clear them off the table to cut orders was great.  Each time I got them out again I was definitely going to make a decision.



Rich Red Blue Colourway


I finally settled on 8 of the best prints in 3 of the best colourways: Pale Blue, Magenta Tea, and Rich Red Blue.  I have put the selection into the shop as 'coming soon' so that you can ogle them and fuel your sewing dreams.

We are expecting these in toward the end of August, but I will be taking pre-orders at the Festival of Quilts (Backstitch will be there on stall G6 - more on that (and a discount voucher) later).  If you would like me to tell you when the collection comes in then send me an email.