Quilt Essentials Laramie Wyoming

Monday - Saturday: 10:00 am - 5:30 pm

Springtime in the Rockies Shop Hop batik fabric by Hoffman Fabrics, exclusive to participating shops only, is now available at QE in four of the colorways while supplies last. We also have a few Market Bag (7), Woodland Star table runner (6), Hunter's Star (3), and Shenandoah (2) kits.

Summer Mystery Quilt

Choose either the Lazy Lap (77" square) or the Quaintly Queen (111" square) size for your quilt made from the Cinnamon Spice collection by Blackbird Designs for Moda. This mystery class with Samantha Ewers will meet 4-5:30 pm on second Tuesdays in June, July, and August.

May, 2013

Six new Woolies flannels and
Four new Shadow Play flannels from Maywood Studios;
Soft brown seed stitch pattern flannel by Primitive Gatherings for Moda;
Aurifil (black, grey, white), Mettler (black, cream, white), and YLI white hand quilting threads are all back in stock;
We also have more copies of History Repeated, the book used by the 19th Century Textile Scholars group;
Two-Hour Tulip Purse pattern;
Natural Duck Canvas 7 oz;
120" wide natural unbleached muslin;
120" wide natural bleached muslin;
Water soluble glue pens;
Water soluble glue pen refills;
Air Erasable roller ball pens;
Sewline pencil variety pack lead refills.

Coming Up

May 23 (moved from 16)
5:30 pm: Women of Courage

May 27
Closed for Memorial Day

May 28
2 pm: "A" Team

June 5
5:30 pm: Stories & Stitches

June 8
10:30 am: Second Saturday TBA

June 9
1-3 pm: Prayers & Squares Open House
Hunter Hall Basement

June 11
4-5:30 pm: Summer Mystery, Part I

June 12
12:30-4 pm: One Yard Wonders

Class / Club Update

Our next Second Saturday Social will be June 8 at 10:30 a.m. Remember to bring your show & tell and any tips you've picked up lately.

Please contact us if you would like to schedule an individual or group class with friends. We are always pleased to accommodate your schedule with one of our experienced teachers. Our four Pfaff machines and cutting tools are also available for rent for any class. Day, evening, Monday-Saturday class times are available.

What's Happening in Downtown Laramie?

The Big Dipper ice cream shop at 111 E Ivinson (307.460.3358) is now open!

Check out the Works of Wyoming gift shop & gallery at 211 S First Street; the April workshop schedule is on their website.

Several of our local quilters are also taking sock classes at Cowgirl Yarn, 119 Ivinson Avenue.
May 6-August 16: Coat Couture XV, Art to Wear,
M-F, 8 am - 5 pm, UW American Heritage Center
July 5: Farmer's Market 3-7 pm
July 13: Laramie Brewfest 1-6 pm

Visiting Laramie?

Let us know if you'll be in town with a group & QE will arrange a special time for you at the shop. We're looking forward to our friends from Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota & Texas who make QE a regular stop while retreating in the area. We always have such a good time with them!

About Us......

QuiltEssentials, established in 2002, is a quilt shop located in downtown Laramie, Wyoming. Business hours are 10:00 am - 5:30 pm Monday-Saturday. We carry a wide variety of fabrics (reproductions, batiks, juvenile, cuddle/minky, flannel, extensive color wall) and provide a diverse range of quilting classes and quilting clubs. We strive to provide a helpful, comfortable, and joyful environment for all quilters. Mary McDonald (owner), Kathleen Bertoncelj (internet manager) and all the staff are excited to share our love and passion for quilting and fabrics with our local and visiting customers.

QuiltEssentials also established an on-line store in March, 2012. We are excited to expand our services to a wider on-line community. Follow us on facebook too!

We would love to plan something special for your group. If you have a group of 8 or more, call us and we will set something up. Private classes for groups or individuals are always a possibility.

Congratulations!

Alice Kay Arnett & Sherry Reynolds collaborated on "Fire in the Sky," which won 2nd place in the custom novelty category at the Home Machine Quilt Show in Salt Lake City this week.

Sherry's quilt, "Christmas All Around," placed 1st in the conventional machine category and received the viewer's choice award also at the HMQS.. The same quilt also won 1st masters large pieced & viewer's choice awards at the Dallas Quilt Celebration in March.

Also in March, "America, Let it Shine" was Best of Show, wall and 1st place wall at the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show in Bloomington.

Sherry Reynolds was one of the "Top 10 People We Met in 2012" by Quilters Newsletter.

Quilt Wyoming
July 11-14, 2013
Casper College
Brochure at Wyoming State Quilt Guild

2nd Annual Wyoming Quilt & Fabric Shop Hop
June 3-August 30, 2013
Info now available at Wyoming State Quilt Guild

Stories & Stitches

We're reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak for our June 5 meeting. Check our monthly clubs for more information.

E-Mail

If you would like to receive information from QE, please send an e-mail to info@quiltessentials.org

We'll gladly update you when we have specials or important information. At this time we plan to send out 1-2 short e-mails per month. These will not be duplicates of our website, so continue to check in for news about classes, etc.

Pfaff Machines for Rent

QE has four beautiful 2010 Pfaff sewing machines available for in-store rental. Each machine rents for $5 per hour or $15 for the day. Our staff is familiar with the machines and can help you make your sewing project about the sewing, not the frustration of a machine. This is a wonderful opportunity for a new quilter to try out a machine before investing, or for a class participant who does not want to lug around a heavy machine. Machines should be reserved ahead of time.

Map to QE

We're near the corner of 2nd & Garfield Streets. In addition to street parking, the Depot parking lot is the next block over on 1st Street and is also free.