QKO Notebook

December 31, 2009

Happy New Year and Blowout Specials

Filed under: General QKO Info, Random thoughts and ramblings... — Don @ 10:24 pm

Happy New Year to all of you, our friends and customers!  We hope your Holiday celebrations were fun and safe.

We look forward to 2010 with the expectation that things will improve in the world and in our industry.  It’s been kind of a tough year, but we have high hopes for the next one!

The Blowout sale ended tonight, but we decided to keep a semi-secret Blowout Sale section going anyway.  We’ll only document it here and in our infrequent newsletters so they’ll just be for people who read our Notebook and our Newsletter.

You can access our Blowout Sale section by clicking HERE.

If you lose track of this link, you can also find it by clicking on the Browse Store button on our web store and scrolling to the bottom of that page.

This section is in addition to our regular sale section, with even better deals.

Cindy and I are thinking of making major store changes in the next few weeks to our pricing and shipping structure, so stay tuned for more exciting news.

Again, Happy New Year!

p.s. If you’re out bunny hunting – you can always find a clue here in our Notebook.  Check out the Page menu to the right, and have a great Hop! ==>

December 23, 2009

Merry Christmas to All Our Friends!

As this year draws to a close, we want to wish all our friends, old and new, a very Happy and Blessed Christmas and Holiday Season.  We also hope that you and your families will have a happy, prosperous, and joyous 2010.

Best Wishes from Cindy, Don and "the girls"

Best Wishes from Cindy, Don and "the girls"

Thanks again for patronizing our little business here, and for all the kind comments you have sent our way.  We treasure each and every one of them, and each and every one of you.

All the Best,

Cindy, Don, Sassy and Princess

December 11, 2009

Tribute to Vincent

Vincent van Gogh was one of the 19th century’s most influential and prolific painters, especially after he was introduced to the impressionist style. In only a few short years he produced over 900 works of art.  Eight of his most famous and well-known paintings are reproduced in this great new collection from

Tribute to Vincent Panel

Tribute to Vincent Panel

Exclusively Quilters/Classic Cottons.

We’re a little late getting this fabric line on our site for a very good reason.  UPS, who delivers here almost every day, couldn’t figure out where our shipment of this fabric was supposed to go.  Go figure.  So they held on to it for awhile, then sent it back to South Carolina.  Then Exclusively Quilters put it in the wrong warehouse and didn’t notify us that it had been returned.

Anyway, our well-traveled (but still in perfect condition) Tribute to Vincent fabrics finally arrived the other day, and we now have it on our website for your

Vincent - Fabrics and blenders

Vincent - Fabrics and blenders

shopping pleasure. We have our fantastic half-yard collection with attendant discount on the focus panel when you buy it with the collection, as well.

So, about the fabrics! Tribute to Vincent is a fantastic new collection from EQ, who is well-known for their lifelike prints on great cotton goods.  The main panel features reproductions of 8 of Vincents most famous paintings. The panel has plenty of black space around the paintings to facilitate cutting/sewing. (Just a note on the panel picture shown here and on our website; the picture shows 1-1/2 panel sets, the actual panel is eight pictures.)

Additionally, there are four main fabrics and 9 additional blenders in various color combinations.  The blenders are a large brushstroke print pattern. Two of the main fabrics are “starry night” brush stroke patterns, in light blue and darker blues. One of the main fabrics is based on Vincent’s painting “Irises” and is an overall Iris pattern. The final fabric is “Starry Night.” It has a continuous reproduction of the painting of that name and is in about an 8 inch repeat.

This is a beautiful collection and will be prized by art lovers and anyone else who likes creative, unique fabrics.

See these wonderful Tribute to Vincent fabrics by clicking here.

Update: Since we have such a limited supply of panels, we’re now only selling the panel along with the half-yard collection, and it is included in the half-yard collection rather than being an optional purchase. The panel pricing is considerably lower than if sold along and we now have special pricing on the half-yard collection.

December 5, 2009

New Serenity Daiwabos

11106-C Serenity Daiwabo

11106-C Serenity Daiwabo

We’ve added a couple of new Cara collection Daiwabo prints from Maywood this last week and they are, like the others, really beautiful and of the highest quality. The first, 11106-C, is a multi-layered print done in soft greens with back-tones of beige and mauve. A pussy-willow branch is overlayed by a willow leaves done in white dots, and there is a soft green cross-hatch pattern overall. This is a beautiful fabric that pictures can’t do justice to.

The next new print, 11484-O,  is a

11484-O Serenity Daiwabo

11484-O Serenity Daiwabo

blue/gray print with undertones of soft green. It’s the same stylized light brush-stroke print as the 11484-E which is in cream/beige tones.

These two prints extend our Daiwabo offerings to 16 different prints, and these two have also been added to our half-yard collection.

We’re in the process of adding a bunch of patterns that go great with our Daiwabo prints. Several of them are already available and more are going up daily, so stay tuned!

Click Here to see all our lovely Cara Daiwabo Taupes from Maywood.

December 3, 2009

Christmas Squares

With the plethora of patterns available these days based on 10 inch squares, known by some as “dimes” and others as “layer cakes,”  we’re going to start offering more cuts in this size. Cindy got busy the other day and came up with

Christmas batiks 10 inch squares

Christmas batiks 10 inch squares

a special, Holiday Edition 10-inch square pack using all 15 of our Hoffman Christmas Bali batiks and 5 really nice color-coordinated 1895 Bali Watercolor blenders.

This is a great collection, and will go really nicely in most patterns designed for 10 inch squares. It’s a blend of several color combinations, including reds, purples, blues, mint, hunter and gold, with a lot of blended colors thrown into the mix.

This pack is a QKO exclusive and is available in limited quantities.  And, it’s at a really attractive price, especially for hand painted Bali batiks!

These would also make terrific gifts!

Check out all our great holiday fabrics, collections and projects, including this great 10 inch square collection today by clicking here.

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