Happy Mother's Day!

Today in Adel!

Lots to do in Adel today and a rain day!

Chocolate Walk, 10 am to 3 pm

Adel Healthmart with gift botique

Adel Quilting & Dry Goods - gifts and gift certificates for mom

Brick Street Bakery - pastries and coffee

Brick Streert Books and Cafe - great lunch spot for soup and sandwich

Studio Q 360 - relax and shop for calming body lotions and oils - schedule a massage

Salavage This - new to our tour, repurposed and restored household decor and furniture

Enjoy a free chocolate sample at each shop and pick up the recipe. 

Hit all 6 shops today to be entered into the drawing for 6 gift baskets, each valued at $50! 

What else in Adel today?

Clay Festival at Penoach Winery

Me and Mommy painting at the yoga studio

Annual heirloom plant sale at Juffer Family Gardens

And in Perry - the Fiber Arts Fair.

See you in a few minutes!

Mothers Day Gift Ideas

Need a nice gift for mom? These small quilts will be for sale during the Adel Chocolate Walk, Saturday May 12. Proceeds will be donated to the Adel Public Library.

That's a double gift, a lovely decor for the home that benefits our local library!

Also, while they last, we have a hand-made Mother's Day card for each customer:

Vintage and Made Festival in Adel

Doesn't this sound fun?

Happy Birthday !

Happy Birthday to my favorite sister, born exactly 2 years before me!

Open Sew this week!!!!

Bring your machine and stitch with the passion of a kid!

Adel Library
Thursday and Friday this week
Open from 10 am until the last stitch is made each day
Room secured overnight
Option to bring a snack to share
Free and fun!

Parents Day gift

Here's a fun quilt the Grands and I made together. Each colored pictures of them self, their parents and the new family dog, Sven. We're calling this a picnic quilt.

With the scraps from the quilt, I made a new liner for this old basket.

Then filled it with fun snacks in one side and the picnic quilt in the other, a surprise for their parents. Since the gift is for both Mommy and Daddy, we called it a celebration of Parents Day.

The borders are on!

The Dallas County Fair auction quilt is almost done and it's a big one! With the 49 blocks that were donated, it came to 106" x 106" - a nice King size quilt top.

Always a trooper, Lonnie climbed over the railing to hold the quilt out as far as possible for the picture.

We'll get a better picture after quilting. Thanks to all the volunteers to help put this together, we were able to do the machine quilting right here.

New Stuff!

With all the fun shopping events coming, we have added several new bolts of fabric to our collection and moved several bolts to our bargain shelf to make room.

This piece of Fantasy is back in so we can get this fun quilt kitted up again.

Meraki by Basic Grey for Moda

 Fun animal print and coordinates by Thicket for Moda

Fun metallics for Halloween, Midnight Spell by First Blush Studio.

 A few more pieces by Kim Diehl. These fit in nicely with our Civil War themed fabrics.

Several new bolts of both Grunge and Grunge Dot.

Plus, you'll see several bolts of a new line of blenders called Echo spread throughout the shop.

It's here!

Every year, it gets a little better. I noticed Millie Kerhli wrote  a couple articles in this magazine. Millie is our guest speaker at our July Sisters of the Cloth!

Stop by for your magazine and start planning your June shopping!

AISH Special

New this year during the AISH, the SW Central Region (see list below) is collaborating to help you build this quilt top for just $2! It's bigger than it looks - abut 54" x 63".

Purchase one of these special issue patterns for $2 now. Present it with your proof of purchase during the All Iowa Shop Hop (June 1-30) and collect a free 1/4 yard cut from each shop - - Just what you need to make this quilt top.

Each shop has a designated color and it's all done in Grunge and Grunge Dots. Lonnie will be whipping up a shop sample for us soon. Our color is Eggplant Grunge Dot, used in the center of this quilt.

Here are the towns in the SW Central Region:
Adel
Ames
Ankeny
Bondurant
Chariton
Clive
Des Moines
Humeston
Jefferson
Lucas
Nevada
Newton
West Des Moines (2 shops)
Winterset (2 shops)

Doesn't this sound fun?  The AISH magazines will be in the shop soon and we hope you are as delighted as we are to see who's quilt is on the front cover!!

Captive audience

Every couple weeks, I head up north to fill my soul with sweet grand kid love.

The twins and their friend Sky took a moment of down time to hear to new book. Notice Liv has on her unicorn horn because - -- why not?

Later we took their folks along for dinner out at the Iowa Stater. Always a fun time with this gang.

JoAnne's Wizard of Oz quilt

JoAnne shared this easy quilt with lots of built in character when she was in this week. The fabrics are all Wizard of Oz themed and the quilting pattern is called cyclone.

For the backing, she used Kansas sunflower print. This fun quilt will likely be donated to the Des Moines Quilt Guild auction fund raiser.

German Sweet Chocolate Upside Down Cake

I dedicate this recipe to my brother, Bill. He would love this one!

German Sweet Chocolate Upside Down Cake

Grease a 9 x 13 pan and preheat oven to 350.

Sprinkle in bottom of pan:

• 1 1/2 C coconut
• 1 1/2 C chopped pecans

Mix up one box of German Sweet Chocolate Cake Mix, according to package directions and pour over coconut and pecans.

Melt together:

• 8 oz of cream cheese
• 1 stick of butter

To this, stir in 1# of powdered sugar (3 1/2 or 4 C)

Drop spoonfuls of cream cheese mix over cake batter. Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until it passes the toothpick test.

As a follow up, you can try putting it in the freezer to decrease the temptation to snack at it constantly but, it is also good frozen!

May 12

May 12

Plan a fun day with mom on Mother's Day weekend. Visit the Fiber Art Fair in Perry and look at the quilts hanging around town.

 On your way to or from, stop in Adel and sample some chocolates at the 5th annual Adel Chocolate Walk!

More New Stuff

Love this new flag panel and coordinating fabrics. Quilts of Valor, anyone?

Riviera Bag

Lonnie made this great bag for the shop, using some of the new All Iowa Shop Hop fabric.

It has a great zipper top that customers are always asking for.

And lots of pockets, both on the outside and on the inside. Nice job, Lonnie! 

Adel City Wide Garage Sales

Saturday is City Wide Garage Sale in Adel. I've been cleaning my storage room and have a few excess display things to put out on the porch, in the spirit of the day. 

Batting stand, light, pattern racks and thread racks.

Quilt Circle of Friends

Pictures from our April Quilt Circle of Friends meeting:

Nancy H shared a pic of the wool applique she is working on. This little quilt is about 22" square. We'll be seeing more of it.

She also finished the Halloween quilt she has been working on.

Jackie O showed us these pretty place mats she made using fabrics collected on vacation.

and this beauty she made based on a picture she saw on Pinterest.

This is a fidget quilt she made for a friend in an Alzheimers unit.

Deb finished up her Fantasy panel - - - 

and she finished up this panel to donate to Warrior Wagons, a program that fills wagons full of gifts for children in treatment.

Lonnie finished up a couple of kits she's had in waiting. This one is a little comfort patch for her granddaughters to snuggle with. With a close look, you can see little folded ribbon tabs for chubby little hands to play with.

and a little cloth quiet book for the grands.

Kathy showed us her Get Er Done project - She Got Er Done!

Plus this adorable little wall quilt and - - 

This is a quilt top that will be gifted to a college grad. Kathy put this together in just a couple days. The arcs are all appliqued on with fusible web. Nice.

And Kathy shared this quilt she made for her mother. This feathered star quilt was once on display at the quilt museum in Paducah.

Trish shared this picture of a baby quilt made for her new Great Niece. We all thought the baby stole the show in this pic!

Trish also shared this big beauty, made using her half square triangle units from our exchange. Love it!

Another picture was shared. This was taken at Margaret's grandkids house. The clever quilt hanger holds quilts Margaret has made and given to these kids. Isn't it cool?

Margaret also shared table toppers she has made to decorate tables for a Woman's Club luncheon with a patriotic theme.

Nancy J is still whipping up little table toppers for our June quilt sale. Here's one and - - - 

and another.

And here is a first peak at the Dallas County Fair quilt many donated blocks for. You will see this quilt again!

It's always nice to gather for a minute and catch up in our Quilt Circle of Friends!