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It’s just hard to believe that we are about to celebrate 32 years in business.  What a great ride, and we are just getting the hang of it….

We are going to make it into a celebration with some great gifts, bargains, and food for everyone.

We are all eager to celebrate and even Domino is ready to help us put together lots of stuff for everyone to enjoy.

We will have over 1000 one yard cuts that will be $3.99.  Our regular one yard cuts are $9.98 so this is a great buy.  We have lots of patterns for aprons that take 1yd for the front and 1yd for the back…think gifts.  All of these fabrics came from our regular stock so you know they will be top quality. We will also have over 300  3-yd cuts which we will be offering for $9.99.  Regular price would be $27.00!!

This is just a peek down our back hallway showing you that we are READY….

No party would be complete without gifts, so we have 32 gifts to celebrate our 32 years.  Everyone who visits our shop during the weekend, will receive a ticket.  All you have to do is drop it in the bag that corresponds to the number of the gift you would like to have.  For each $50.00 you spend, you will get another ticket.

 You just might want to come in this week and take a look at what we have for you.

We will also be giving away our coupon book for 2010.  You have to be present to pick one of these up, so hope you were able to save the date!!

While you are in the shop, you  might take a look at our picture boards of the History of Creations.  Ginger has done a wonderful job compiling pictures of us from our past.  It’s fun to see how we have all changed.

Hope you can come and celebrate with us.  We will be serving that great pound cake that Mary makes…it’s a tradition at Creations!!

When we got this new line in called Gerta (the designer’s name) we had a great reaction to it, but we were often asked….What would I make with it? 

Thought you would like to see what Helen did with it. 

This is a great story.  Helen’s granddaughter came to the shop to get her grandmother a Christmas present.  Ginger helped her pick out fat quarters from the Gerta line. 

Helen decided to do Turning Twenty Again, Saundra quilted it, Arlene bound it….and now it’s on our wall for all to enjoy it!!

We will have this up on our website  soon so you can make one yourself if you can’t get to the shop.

We have gotten in another beautiful line from In the Beginning called Elizabeth Rose.  This one has a printed patchwork  and a large stripe that was designed for the border.

Different colorways in this collection will make your decision difficult as both are lovely.  The company designed this quilt for the Elizabeth Rose fabric line.  We have the fabric in both colorways so we would be delighted to get the prints together for you to make this star within a star quilt.  The finished size of this quilt is 87″ x 87″

Now we are no Picasso around here, but we can have a great time with our new selection of Paints, Mediums, and Inks…

Yikes, you say….what am I supposed to do with those?  What is a Medium?  When do I use each one?  I can’t draw!!

I could say all of those things myself, but along with the Paints, Mediums, and Inks, comes Jane Davila’s new Surface Design Essentials book.  It gives you 15 techniques and very clear pictures.  This book gives you the confidence to branch out and get creative with paint.

If you learn better from a DVD, she has a new one out on Art Quilting, which will not only inspire you, but give you techniques and basic principles.

Drop by the shop and check out the latest.

In the Beginning does it again with another beautiful collection featuring the distinct style of Jason Yenter.  We, of course, pulled out the red and green colorway to show off as it is our favorite.

 Now we must admit that this collection of blues is one of the most stricking groups that we have seen. 

This blue group could almost make us “blue people”.  Hope you will be able to drop by the shop and take a look.

The countdown starts to the biggest event of our year which is the Bluebonnet Patchwork Shop Hop, April 15th - 18th, 2010. 

One of the highlights of the Shop Hop is our Block Challenge.  We hope lots of you will participate this year.  Hospice Austin supports Camp Brave Heart which is a recreational camp for kids ages 6 - 17 who have experienced the loss of a loved one due to death.  Blocks received from this challenge will end up in a quilt that will be received by a child at this camp.

You can pick up your kit for $2.00 at any of the shops on the hop beginning January 1st.  If you can’t get by one of the shops, you can order it on our website www.creations-online.com beginning January 4th.

 We have just received the next in the Desert Series by Susan Cranshaw.  What desert would be complete without an armadillo?

If you aren’t familiar with her patterns, they are raw edge fusible web applique and free motion quilting.  Susan gives you lots of design possiblities for the quilting as well as great instructions for the fusible applique.

If you want to see other patterns by Susan, visit our website www.creations-online.com and go to the Quilt Pattern button. The Armadillo will join the others soon and retails for $12.98.

It might only be December, but we are already eager for Bluebonnets… and they have arrived.  Each year Moda manages to come up with another bluebonnet design and this year they really did some great prints.  Everyone wants to know, what else can you do with a bluebonnet???…. well ask Moda…they figured it out.

It’s impossible to see the detail in this little photo, so our websmaster is working quickly to get these up on our website.  We know lots of displaced Texans who love their bluebonnets.

The group came in those great yellows and light blues, but also with the black background.  This colorway usually ends up being the most popular. 

Hope you will come by the shop and take a look…

Speaking of bluebonnets, don’t forget to mark your Calendar for our 12th Annual Bluebonnet Patchwork Shop Hop April 15th - 18th, 2010.  You can get full details on our website www.creations-online.com

What fun I had sewing this coat this morning.  That’s right… it was only a morning project. 

   The fabric is a sherpa backed suede which is 60″ wide.  All it took to make this coat was a couple of yards of fabric, Kwik Sew pattern 3358, the walking foot on my machine and a few hours.  This pattern was designed for this fabric, so it was very easy. 

    I washed the fabric before I cut out the pattern.  After cutting, I washed the pieces again so that there would not be any “fuzz”. 

     We have carried this fabric for several years, but it hasn’t been cold enough for a good warm coat.  We made some great vests from these fabrics, but this year might just be the year for that coat. 

These  photos will give you an idea of the color choices we have.  Along with these colors, we also have black suede with a black sherpa backing, brown suede with a brown sherpa backing, and natural with natural sherpa backing.

These fabrics retail for $29.98 and are completely machine washable.  Check out website in the next week and you will find the pattern and fabrics on our website www.creations-online.com   Better yet, drop by the shop and “feel” the fabrics.

It’s hard to believe that it’s only about 3 months untils Quilting Adventures 2010.

We are fortunate enough to be the on-site store for these three weeks of quilting seminars. They have a great line-up of instructions for the 2010 retreats.

Week One March 7th - 12th:  Esterita Austin, Susan Cleveland,  Marsha McCloskey,  and Karen Stone.

Week Two, March 14th - 19th:   Gwen Marston & Freddy Moran, Jeanette DeNicolis Meyer, and Sue Nickels.

Week Three, March 21st - 26th:  Ann Fahl, Cara Gulati,  Mary Sorenson, Carol Taylor. 

Registration is underway for 2010 and I know of several of the classes that are filling up quickly.  We certainly will be there next year and we hope you will too.   If you are in the dark about Quilting Adventures, you can check them out at www.quilting-adventures.com