BOM quilts for every season

My friend, Kathy, the owner of Spring Creek Quilts and Fabrics, is a Block of the Month (BOM) queen. Whenever I get to visit her, she's got several of them going—in various stages.

Sampler quilt with machine quilted designs in variegated thread.

You saw the brightly colored sampler she made with Yvette in this blog post. She designed that quilt, by the way, and did the machine quilting on her long arm. Isn't the variegated thread simply spectacular on the solid black alternate blocks?

Kathy has a few new BOM programs starting in 2014, so if you like tackling a larger project by doing smaller, more manageable units on a monthly basis, give her a call. "Fairy Tales" has a sweet, fanciful, pink and green color palette and the finished quilt will fit a single or twin bed.

Fairy Tales BOM

This primitive style BOM quilt features blocks that have a small vignette surrounded by patchwork.

A primitive style BOM.

"Starlit Garden" is an appliqué BOM with a classic layout. The nine center blocks have a radial symmetry. The primary and secondary colors of the flowers, leaves and vines have a twinkling effect on the black ground.

Starlit Garden BOM.

Previous year's block-sets hang on design walls throughout the shop.

Look at all the details in these blocks! You can tell Kathy really loves appliqué and is so adept at choosing the most appropriate fabrics. She chose Fusion Illusion for the background of these blocks. Doesn't it look like a "wintery mix" swirling around the gingerbread house?

This Christmas holiday BOM has a nice mix of patchwork and appliqué blocks.

Here is a stunning water gardenscape. Lots of beautiful batiks in this quilt.

Again, look at all the detail in the blocks! Some of the flower petals are even 3-dimensional.

This is probably my favorite.

I like the bears ice skating on the pond.

Oops! Watch that slippery ice, little bear!

Oops! The little bear took a spill on the ice rink.

Wha-cha got cookin' ?

When it looks like this out your window…

… and the roads are like this…

… you need to find a bunch of these ...

Freshly cut cotton and batik fat quarters.
Fabrics from collections by Blank Quilting.

 … and cook up something like this!

Buck-a-Block sampler quilt at Spring Creek Quilts and Fabrics, Cookeville, TN.
The bright and colorful border fabric is Yvette by Blank Quilting.

Take a good look at what a variegated thread does for the quilting design on this sampler.

Detail of sampler quilt.

A free-motion quilting design with variegated thread in the alternate blocks.

Spring Creek Quilts and Fabrics recently had batik fat quarters for $2.50!!! 

I'll take a dozen!

Cotton and batik fat quarters at Spring Creek Quilts.

I'll tell you more about what my friend, Kathy, at Spring Creek Quilts and Fabrics has been cooking up lately. Stay tuned!

My Fabric Rep Trek: Spring Creek Quilts

Ella shows me the pattern
she's using for her first  quilt.

Do you remember your first quilt? What excitement and pride you had when it was finished. This cute little girl is Ella, and she is learning how to make a quilt in a quilting class at Spring Creek Quilts and Fabrics, which is located in Rickman, Tennessee, a town about 12 miles northeast of Cookeville.

In addition to beginning quilting classes Kathy, the owner of Spring Creek Quilts and an accomplished long arm quilter herself, offers a variety of programs including popular Block of the Month (BOM) programs. The shop has been known to have 75 students participating in one of these programs.

During my visit, there was a Sit and Sew session in progress. Some students were working on the center of a garden-themed appliqué BOM project.

Kathy assists a student with measuring and squaring up her quilt top.

Ella was busy at the sewing machine... carefully piecing 5-inch squares cut from a variety of fat quarters. She is quite the extraordinary fist-time quilter as her quilt top has the blocks set on point! You can see how focussed she is sewing those quarter inch seam allowances.

Ella piecing her quilt blocks.

Kathy has been machine quilting for nearly 24 years and offers this service at the shop. The long arm Gammill machine is set up toward the back of the large main room and is kept quite busy, Kathy indicated.

Quilting services are offered at the shop.

Spring Creek Quilts recently relocated to its current location and is a gathering place for new and long-time sewers and quilters alike. 

Applique Block of the Month program.

Kathy provides a warm and friendly atmosphere for all who visit her shop. She is generous with her knowledge and assistance to customers. Her classes and programs offer fun, interesting and beautiful projects and she guides students and nurtures their creative spirit while they hone their quilting skills along the way.

Quilts from various classes and Block of the Month programs.

Spring Creek Quilts and Fabrics, Rickman, Tennessee.