New Class

What:   Class on how to make a One Block Wonder quilt using nothing but 7 quilt panels.

When:   Friday, January 10, 2020 - 10 am to 2 pm at the Adel Library.

Cost:   Class is free with the purchase of the kit for this barn panel quilt. Otherwise, $25. Pre-registration required.

Call now to register - 515-993-1170

Angel Tree Update

Below is a list of names on our 2019 Angel Tree. Some of these names have already been adopted but there are still several children to choose from that would really appreciate a gift of love for Christmas.

If you would prefer to sponsor an Angel and let us do your shopping for you, just give us a call. We already have a holiday pillow case ready for each Angel on the tree to use as the gift bag, free to you.

OOOOOpen Sew!

Open Sew is this week, tomorrow and Friday at the Adel Library. Doors open at 10 am and don't close until the last stitch of the day is made. Be there!

November Sisters of the Cloth

Our last meeting of this series of Sisters of the Cloth is Saturday at the Adel Library - 10 am.

Sue Kluber will be our speaker with a trunk show of her collage and story quilts. 

We will reveal the last step to our Mystery Quilt Block.  Bring your Mystery Blocks and any other show and share.

Kits for our Grandmother's Dancing Flowers quilt are now available. If you already have one ordered, you can pick it up Saturday at the shop. If you have not ordered one, no problem. Julia made up several extra kits for anyone who may still want one. 

SOC 15% discounts do not apply to this kit as they have already be discounted for the Sister's members.

This is not the best picture of Grandmother's Dancing Flowers but I am on vacation now, so it's as good as it gets until I am home again 😊.  We will have the completed quilt on display at our class on Saturday.

Free Quilt Society

The Central Iowa Free Quilt Society met yesterday at the Adel Library. 

Skip on over to our Facebook page . Ask to join our group to see all of the sharing and to post your own Free Quilts.

This group meets every other month and is open to all who want to share ideas on how to make Free Quilts, using only from our collection of leftover quilt parts and pieces and from the stash of fabric we already have.

Upcoming 2020 dates for this FREE gathering are:

January 11

Mar 14

May 9 

Bring your no-longer-wanted-or-needed scraps for the sharing table.

Come sit and stitch with us from 10 am to 5 pm. OR, just come at 1 pm for the sharing meeting. Learn new block patterns and/or techniques at each gathering to help you use up those scraps.

The Angel Tree is up!

It's official! The Angel Tree is up and ready for your adoption. We have several names of kids who will really appreciate a little something under their tree this holiday. Renee Godberson was, once again, kind enough to make a pillowcase for every Angel on the tree. Come in, pick up a pillowcase, fill it with gifts, bring it back and we will deliver to the local Crisis and Domestic Violence Shelter.

While you are here, pick up a little something for yourself and then draw a card from our Friendship Appreciation Jar. It could be a big discount or maybe a free kit.

Central Iowa Free Quilt Society to meet.

Saturday, November 9 - 9 am to 5 pm

The Central Iowa Free Quilt Society has a free sewing day scheduled at the Adel Library this Saturday.

Bring your machine and plan to sit and stitch. Do you have scraps to liberate from your sewing room? Bring them for the sharing table.

At 1 pm, we will regroup for our meeting so, if you don't want to come for a whole day of stitching, you can just come at 1 pm.

Not a card holding member? Come anyway and we will give you a card --- wait for it - - - -   Free!

The Central Iowa Free Quilt Society - where members gather to stitch and to share ideas on how to use their stash to make "Free" quilts from fabric, blocks and block parts they already have!

The family grows!

Gabe and Brooke are engaged! Aren't those smiles the best?

Our last guests of the weekend - - -

These two flew in under the radar, just before the stroke of closing, but they left with full bags so, it's all good!

Thank you to everyone that joined in on the fun of our Tasters Mystery Tour - Holiday style.

Friendship Appreciation Days

November 7, 8 and 9.  We open at 10 am!

Come in and let us show you our appreciation for your business and your friendship. At check out, draw from our friendship prize jar. It could be a 5% discount, a 25% discount or a 50% discount! Or maybe it is a free fat quarter or free pattern or - - - - who knows! Each prize ticket comes with a friendship prose.

Here it is!

Thank you to all who played along with our Holiday Tasters Mystery Tour! Here is the unveiling of the finished quilt.

Thank you to Flo Welch for testing the pattern and making this sample. This quilt, 36" x 38", is made using just the 4 green fat quarters customers picked up free during the tour plus 1 1/2 yards of background fabric. Even the binding is made from leftover strips of green.

TODAY!!!

Queens for the Day!

Another retreat tradition is to do some type of charity quilt. This year, we did a relay piecing race with teams of 4. The winning team was crowned "Queens for the Day".  Notice a couple of these speedy stitchers won the honor in both retreats!

Retreat 2 winners.

Retreat 1 winners.

We made 144 blocks in just minutes. We should be able to put together 3 quilts for our charity from this stack of blocks.

In a lay-out like this:

These blocks were cut from strip sets of 4, 2 1/2" strips. Sue took the scrap ends from the strip sets, after 4 blocks had been cut, and made this charity quilt!

Retreat Friend Pics

One of our retreat traditions is the "Photo Booth". Here's a few:

Ladies of the Lake Retreat

Another fall series of retreats at Lake Panorama is in the books - # 17.

Here is the Monday to Wednesday group.

And here is the Thursday to Saturday group. You may notice that some of these quilters came to both retreats!

Holiday Tasters Mystery Tour!

Pick up a green fat quarter FREE at each shop. Pick up part of a FREE pattern to build our holiday quilt at each shop. Pick up a FREE recipe and holiday treat sample at each shop.

Visit the shops in any order. When you get to the 4th shop, show that your have all 4 patterns and pick up the finishing instructions FREE.

If your 4th shop happens to be Adel, we will give you a private showing of the completed quilt. 

It's all fun you-time before the holidays get serious.

Coffee Shop News

If you are on your way to quilt retreat at Lake Panorama on Thursday morning, you can swing by Crafty's Coffee in Panora for a bite of breakfast and cup of coffee. They are located just west down the street from Ben's Five & Dime.

Huddle Up!

Olivia (in the purple) is used to joining the after game huddle for the team her 8 yr old brother plays on and her mom coaches. So - - -

 - - while visiting Uncle Gabe in TX for one of his high school games, she felt right at home, joining their post-game huddle. 

Left to right - Brooke (Gabe's girlfriend) and her son Jack, Seth and Willow with Jackson and Olivia in front of them, Gabe and then the other twin, Calvin.  The smiles say it all - - it was a good game and Olivia did not get squished by the huddle!

Customer Show and Share

Rod Ferry sent me this picture, made with some of our Dear Stella fabric. Such a cute little quilt.

Geotopia

Have I shown you this new line? Geotopia. Love it. What shall we make with this??

Email Sign Up Form

Here are some links to make it easier to manage the email updates you receive from us.  If you would like updates to either our Spring or Fall quilt retreats and/or you would like to receive our general updates about events sponsored by Adel Quilting, click on one or each of the links below and add your email information.


sign up here - for news about our Fall Ladies of the Lake Quilt Retreat

sign up here - for news about our Spring Ladies of the Lake Quilt Retreat

sign up here - for our news blasts and newsletter updates of Adel Quilting events

Villa Rosa charmer

Jenny O made this shop sample quilt for us. The pattern. from Villa Rosa, is written for 8" squares but we improvised a little, creating it with 5" squares so we could use the new Home charms from Moda.

New Panel Quilts

These cutees from the new designers at Ruby Star Society all come on one panel.

On the more traditional side, a cute harvest quilt. We just added a border to this panel - - - Living within our harvest

And this is a new pattern Lonnie tested for me. We simply added a piano keys border to this panel and then an outer border.

It's a sneak peek!

This is your peek at the Holiday Tasters Tour Mystery Quilt. Are you ready to start collecting the patterns, free fat quarters and holiday recipes?  

October Quilt Circle of Friends

We just finished up another lovely evening with our Quilt Circle of Friends. We caught up on quilt news and baby news. Welcome to Emmet Michael, first grandchild to Nancy and Barry Hagelberg. Nancy has been making Baby Maker quilts for this young couple for several years and one must have finally worked!

Circle member, Deanna Darrah won a Gift Certificate prize from the recent Strip Poker Run. Congrats to you, Deanna.

Then it was time to head around the circle of show and tell.

Macey is our youngest member. She has been coming with Grandma Celia.

She showed us this pillow case and bag she made. 

Celia finished up this darling Kimber Bell Block of the Month.

Sue is making progress. Her stack of flowers is starting to be rows!

Sue used this little magnet in lieu of pins or glue stick for her English Paper Piecing on the flowers.

On she goes to her next quilt.

In between, Sue has been keeping up with our Bermuda Triangle Block of the Month.

Customers were challenged to pick their own background fabric for this block of the month. Her is Abbie's first several rows.

And Deanna's - - - - 

And Trish's. This background fabric is kind of like newsprint with small words and signs.

This is another BOM Abbie is building.

And this is just 2 of the two t-shirt quilts Abbie has made for a man and wife veteran duo. 

Trish had a creative whim and decided to draft and make an applique' quilt using a variety of little camp fire blocks. 

Margaret finished this lovely blue quilt top.

This is one of two baby quilts Nancy J made for Warrior Wagons.

And she shared her Ruth Bader Ginsberg socks. Cute!

Deb's quilt is really growing! Just 3 more rows.

Deb machine quilted these two tops donated by Penny White for Warrior Wagons.

Lonnie showed us this 12" quilt.

And she did a "dammo" to show us how to use this tool as an easier way to make Jelly Roll rugs.  It's called Jerry's Jelly Roll Jig.

A close up - - - Feed the strips in one end and they come out the other end, folded and ready to stitch.

Kathy used up all of her scraps making this cool quilt. Well, maybe not ALL of her scraps.

More of her scraps went into this string quilt.

In between scrappy quilts, Kathy made this beauty. It's a gift for her son and daughter in law.

Here's a close up of the back to show the circular quilting on the plush backing. One big heavy quilt for a Minnesota couple.

Deanna showed us this Cathedral Window quilt, hand pieced by her mother during long car rides in the 50s and 60s. Stunning.

And she shared this little Bat quilt she just finished.

This is Deanna's version of our pumpkin row from Strip Poker Run. She machine quilted around every polka dot in the background fabric. Cute.

Here is my One Block Wonder Panel quilt again. This time, pieced, quilted and bound.  Done!

I did a little demo of these Magic Clips and then it was time to snack on vegetables (popcorn and candy corn), etc.

Thank you to all, especially Jackie O for taking all of these pictures.