Garden Melody Patchwork Quilt Bedding SetPastel patchwork is captured with a floral border and finished with pink binding.The twin set comes with a twin quilt measuring 66'' x 86'' and a standard matching sham measuring 21'' x 27''. The Full/Queen quilt measures 90'' x 92'' and comes with two standard shams.Accent pillows matching dust ruffle and euro shams in pink and sage stripes are also available below.
Quilted accessories include a wide range of products: home d?r, clothing, pet accessories... and more!
In the home d?r category, your business could make and sell quilted potholders and matching aprons with pockets that coordinate with the potholder pattern. You could make and sell quilted oven mitts.
Table runners and mantel drapes are also popular quilted items for the home. Quilted placemats and coasters are also ideas.
For a living room, den, bedroom, dining room or kitchen quilted wall hangings are popular. These can be custom made to coordinate with your client's own interior colors and style.
For a guest room or bathroom, why not quilt covers for a tissue box or photo or mirror frame? Quilted pillowcases are also good sellers.
Take the idea of home d?r to a smaller scale and perhaps your quilting business could be making quilted items for doll houses. Many collectors will pay top dollar to have their dollhouse beds accented with tiny little quilts. Such quilts would also be a niche business for baby dolls. Little girls love their dolls and many parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles would pay good money to have a special quilt made for a special doll!
Holidays open up a wide range of options for home d?r as well. Keep that in mind if your quilting business will focus on home d?r. Your quilting business could actually focus on holiday items.
Christmas ornaments, stockings, wall hangings, table decorations...the possibilities for that one holiday alone are endless! Imagine if your quilting business focused on all holidays.
For January, quilted d?r featuring snowmen and snowflakes would be popular for the winter theme. February is Valentine's Day. Focus for that holiday would be on quilted items with hearts, cupids, etc. March brings St. Patricks' Day and Spring.
April is Easter, and brings another slew of quilted holiday items to mind. Baskets made from quilted strips of fabric would be gorgeous. Patchwork eggs stuffed to perfection would also be fun items.
May and June bring graduations along with Mother's and Father's days. These months are great for quilted photo frames or scrapbooks with a quilted cover.
July's patriotic theme would be great inspiration for quilted home de'cor as well. August and September sends children (and teachers) back to school. Quilted notebooks, tote bags, pencil cases would be great accessories for those months. Halloween and Thanksgiving also offer endless possibilities for home décor, too. Use your imagination!
Quilted apparel could include a number of items as well. Belts and headbands are popular accessories. Quilted jackets are a higher ticket item you could make and sell. You could add small quilt blocks to simple cardigans as pockets. Combine your jackets with a matching quilted cap or tote bag and increase your price accordingly!
Other quilted accessories you could make include cell phone holders, lip gloss pouches, and eye glass cases. Coin purses and wallets are other ideas for quilted accessories. Purses and tote bags are also very popular items that translate nicely into quilted products.
The pet niche can be so much fun. People of all ages love to buy things for their pets. For cats and dogs, quilted carrying cases are good sellers. Pet beds are another top item.
Pet clothing is also very popular. Small dogs generally need the added warmth of a coat in the winter. Quilted coats, jackets and shawls are good sellers for pet clothing. Create a package by including the quilted coat or jacket along with a matching quilted hat.
No matter which niche you choose, any of these areas would offer great sales opportunities for your own quilting business.
By: Penny Halgren
About the Author:
Penny Halgren
http://www.TheQuiltingCoach.com
Penny has been a quilter for more than 27 years. She enjoys exploring all aspects of quilting and sharing her knowledge with all quilters. If you are looking for an Internet quilting club with a wide variety of resources for all level quilters, check out http://www.TheQuiltingCoach.com .
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Single Girl King Quilt in Olive by Denyse SchmidtThe art of quilting gone cozy! The Single Girl Quilt by Denyse Schmidtis one of our FAVORITES. This charming take on the traditional weddingquilt is adorable. Available here in standard king size. Also sold in twin and full/queen sizes. KING QUILT SIZE: 108" x 94"(price includes quilt only) **Add: A Standard sham(s) (shown with matchingdesign) for $63 ea. size 20"x26" or; A Euro sham(s) in matching quilted solid for $74 ea. size 26" x 26" or; A King sham(s) in (shown with matching design) for $74 ea. size 20" x 36" or: A quilted accent pillow size 16" x 16" All pillows are sold separately at check out and/or visit our Accent Pillows and Shams section in Bedding 100 % cotton each quilt has been expertly hand-crafted by Sarita Handa Exports, a woman-owned company and one of the leading manufacturers in India today. Two quilts in one! As if the fronts of these quilts weren't fabulous enough, Denyse has designed most of the quilts to feature a beautifully modern patchwork reverse. Turned back, it creates a compelling contrast accent. Flip it over you've got yourself another quilt. More about modern quilt designer Denyse Schmidt
Crazy Quilts, Redwork Quilts and the Centennial Fair
By Kimberly Wulfert
For centuries embroidery had been a favored form of needleworked decorative arts in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the British Isles. When Britain's Royal School of Art Needlework displayed an exhibit at the Centennial Fair in 1876 in Philadelphia, it opened American women's eyes. At first the women of leisure helped progress the art and use of embroidery on quilts in the late Victorian period. This resulted in the American crazy quilt.
Fancy crazy quilts were the fad from about 1880 to the early 1890s. This type of crazy quilt was heavily decorated. It is recognized today by its elaborate embroidered and painted pictorial designs on colorful pieces of silks, velvets, satins, and silk ribbons with a fanfare of colorful stitches covering the seams lines.
The fanciest Crazy quilt tops signified a needleworker was living the good life. It indicated to visitors that the maker had hired help in her home, leaving her plenty of leisure time in which to embroider. The special dress and furnishing fabrics costs more than common cottons used in patchwork quilts. The fancy Crazy quilt epitomized the affluent woman's lifestyle.
During the fad, fancy crazy quilts were show-off pieces in women's parlors and other public spaces in her home. Actually Crazy "quilt" is a misnomer, as they were not a quilt. There was little need for batting or a layer of fabric for a back, as they were not put on beds, but thrown over couches and tables for show in the main parlors.
Not all women were ladies of leisure, but they too wanted to make their home and bedding more beautiful. "Redwork" offered that opportunity. An outline or stem embroidery stitch formed a simple stitch that outlined a picture of a simple object such as an animal, flower, or a face. Any simple line drawing could be used as a pattern to embroider onto muslin blocks. Joined in rows with a thread and needle they made a decorative quilt top. Women would tie or quilt three layers together and place the Redwork quilts on beds for warmth and decor. Eventually other colors of floss were used besides red, yet the quilts are still commonly described as Redwork because of their style.
Mothers could use Redwork blocks to teach their children the name of simple things like zebras, chickens, buildings, and flowers. The faces of former President's of the united States were popular patterns, as were scenes from the Bible. Redwork quilts with 48 or 50 different blocks, one for each state in the United States were very popular in the twentieth century. An embroidered block included a state's flower, bird, outline of it shape and an abbreviation of it's name were also outline stitched on the block.
Kate Greenaway's (1846-1901) illustrations of young women and little girls, dressed in bonnets and long dresses with empire waistlines, long after this fashion had ended. First they were a most popular motif embroidered on crazy blocks, then more often on Redwork blocks, as fancy crazy quilts went out of style.
Quilts were made by women from all walks of life. Studying them can open our eyes and our heart to the lives and attitudes of those who created fabric art before us.
Kimberly Wulfert is a quilt historian and speaker. Quilt styles are important in determining a quilt's age and era. She published an easy guide to dating quilts by style for the quilt owner and collector new to dating quilts. http://antiquequiltdatingguides.com More on quilt history here http://antiquequiltdating.com
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