Heirloom Creations Triangle Exchange VIDEO & Pictures
How Does the Exchange Work & How Many Cinnamon Sticks Do I Need?
Select a quilt or project from the “Friendship Triangles” book by Laundry Basket Quilts
Visit our website for additional inspiration on our blog and an instructional video.
To help control the entire exchange color palette, continuity, and quality, please only include Heirloom Creations’ Cinnamon Sticks in the exchange. You are welcome to include other fabric of your own for extra triangles for your own project. Additional triangle paper is available for purchase.
- You are not required to return these Cinnamon Sticks for the exchange. They are yours to do with as you wish.
- Use Aurifil thread (such as #2370)
- Schmetz Sharp needle 80/12
- Stitch length 1.5 – 2mm
- Spray fabrics with Best Press prior to layering.
- If needed, use a dry iron to press the triangle paper flat.
- Lay DARK fabric right side up.
- Lay LIGHT fabric right side down.
- Place paper right side up on the LIGHT colored fabric.
- Pin in each triangle area in a “hop-scotch” formation.
- Using a foot in which you can see to the needle (open toe foot, 1/4” foot), stitch on the dotted lines.
- Using a rotary cutter, cut along the solid lines.
- DO NOT REMOVE PAPER.
- DO NOT IRON OPEN.
- Return triangles by Friday, April 27, 2012 to Heirloom Creations in a zip lock bag with your name, address, phone and e-mail written and the number of total Cinnamon Sticks you sewed.
Heirloom Creations has the right to return any triangles not matching the above guidelines.
Join us for a triangle pick-up party on Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 9am.
These quilts are from the book “Friendship Triangles” by Laundry Basket Quilts.
Garden Path – 13 Cinnamon Sticks
Little Pyramids Table Topper – 5 Cinnamon Sticks
Tree of Life – 6 Cinnamon Sticks
Southern Exposure Basket Quilt – 7 Cinnamon Sticks
Constellation Throw – 21 Cinnamon Sticks
Album of Friends – 9 Cinnamon Sticks
Delfina’s Basket Quilt – 5 Cinnamon Sticks
Mosaic Quilt – 19 Cinnamon Sticks
Medallion Quilt – 15 Cinnamon Sticks
Criss-Cross Quilt – 28 Cinnamon Sticks
Ice Cream Sundaes Wallhanging – 2 Cinnamon Sticks
Cabbage Rose Table Runner – 2 Cinnamon Sticks
Foot of the Month – Cording / Piping
New for 2012, we will be highlighting a special sewing machine accessory foot and its many uses. On the first Saturday of each month at 9am at Heirloom Creations, you may attend the free mini foot lecture. No reservations required.
We also will be making both a Husqvarna Viking foot video and the Bernina foot video. If you own other brands of sewing machines, these feet are readily available. If you own an older sewing machines, we stock a line of generic feet that fit many older models.
Bernina Video
Husqvarna Viking Video
Here is a tentative list of scheduled foot topics, dates and times:
| 02.04.2012 09.00.AM |
Foot of the Month – Hemmer Feet | Events |
| 03.03.2012 09.00.AM |
Foot of the Month – Gathering / Ruffler | Events |
| 04.07.2012 09.00.AM |
Foot of the Month – Edgestitch Foot & Feet with Guides | Events |
| 05.05.2012 09.00.AM |
Foot of the Month – Pintuck | Events |
| 06.02.2012 09.00.AM |
Foot of the Month – Flat Felled Seam | Events |
| 07.07.2012 09.00.AM |
Foot of the Month – Button Sew On & Buttonhole | Events |
| 08.04.2012 09.00.AM |
Foot of the Month – Non-Stick Feet (Teflon) | Events |
| 09.01.2012 09.00.AM |
Foot of the Month – Bias Binders | Events |
| 10.06.2012 09.00.AM |
Foot of the Month – Yarn Couching / Free Motion Yarn Couching | Events |
| 11.03.2012 09.00.AM |
Foot of the Month – Foot TBA | Events |
| 12.01.2012 09.00.AM |
Foot of the Month – Foot TBA | Events |
Heirloom Creations Triangle Exchange – Sneek Peek
Are you intrigued by scrappy quilts, but confounded and confused by the complexity of assembling a large quantity of fabrics to successfully achieve the “look”? Then you’ll want to join us for our first-ever Heirloom Creations Triangle Exchange!
Being introduced at the Tuesday, January 10, 2012, Sewtopia Sewing Club will be the exchange along with the trunk show of quilts from the book Friendship Triangles by Laundry Basket quilts. We will also be posting a video in the near future for those who wish to participate who are not regular Sewtopia members.
Here’s how the Triangle Exchange works:
1. Purchase a Cinnamon Stick from Heirloom Creations ($2.99 each).
“What is a Cinnamon Stick?” you ask. It’s a roll of 2 different fabrics – a light and a dark – rolled together with a piece of Triangle Paper which is printed with stitching lines for 28 half-square triangles.
2. Take the Cinnamon Stick home, sew on the stitching lines as indicated on the Triangle Paper, and cut the triangles apart.
3. Leaving the paper attached, and without pressing them open, put the 28 triangles in a small bag and return them to Heirloom Creations at your convenience – any time between now and the last collection day of the Exchange, Saturday, April 28, 2012.
4. We at Heirloom Creations will keep track of how many triangles you return to us, and sort them into separate containers where they’ll get mixed up with all the other triangles returned.
5. At the end of the Exchange, we’ll present you with a bag with the same number of triangles you returned to us, but in a truly scrappy assortment!
6. Need suggestions for using half-square triangles? Check out the Friendship Triangle book by Laundry Basket Quilts.
7. Save the Date: Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 9am – come help mix up and count out the triangles. Join us for coffee and morning treats. If you can not attend, we will be also counting out your triangles for you for pick up at your leisure.
8. If you wish to participate and you do not live in our area, please call the store to purchase desired amounts of Cinnamon Sticks. Return them to us prior to April 28, 2012 with $4.99 for return shipping.
We will be posting more details about this exchange after we launch the program at the Sewtopia Sewing Club. Join us for something new this 2012!
Heirloom Creations’ Triangle Exchange Rules
Select a quilt or project from the “Friendship Triangles” book by Laundry Basket Quilts
Visit our website for additional inspiration on our blog and an instructional video.
To help control the entire exchange color palette, continuity, and quality, please only include Heirloom Creations’ Cinnamon Sticks in the exchange. You are welcome to include other fabric of your own for extra triangles for your own project. Additional triangle paper is available for purchase.
- You are not required to return these Cinnamon Sticks for the exchange. They are yours to do with as you wish.
- Use Aurifil thread (such as #2370)
- Schmetz Sharp needle 80/12
- Stitch length 1.5 – 2mm
- Spray fabrics with Best Press prior to layering.
- If needed, use a dry iron to press the triangle paper flat.
- Lay DARK fabric right side up.
- Lay LIGHT fabric right side down.
- Place paper right side up on the LIGHT colored fabric.
- Pin in each triangle area in a “hop-scotch” formation.
- Using a foot in which you can see to the needle (open toe foot, 1/4” foot), stitch on the dotted lines.
- Using a rotary cutter, cut along the solid lines.
- DO NOT REMOVE PAPER.
- DO NOT IRON OPEN.
- Return triangles by Friday, April 27, 2012 to Heirloom Creations in a zip lock bag with your name, address, phone and e-mail written and the number of total Cinnamon Sticks you sewed.
- Heirloom Creations has the right to return any triangles not matching the above guidelines.
- Join us for a triangle pick-up party on Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 9am.
Happy Sew Year 2012
January 1 always invokes a few resolutions aimed at our favorite hobby…
- Finish projects
- Attend a class at Heirloom Creations
- Get to at least one Sewtopia sewing club lecture!
- Don’t buy any new fabric until the fabric that was bought is used up… (btw, this never works)
- Keep the sewing room clean
- Buy the new sewing machine you always dreamed of owning
- Make quilt/project “bucket list”
- Watch Sara’s 2012 “Foot of the Month” videos!
Or maybe something like what our new employee Deb S. is doing. She has devoted to sew (1) Project Linus quilt, (1) Charity Gift Bag and (1) doll blanket EACH month! Now that is a New Year’s goal!
No matter your resolutions…
May your sewing machine always hum
May all your projects started be done
And may your hours sewing be pleasant, plenty and fun!
Happy SEW Year!
Kate Snuggerud – Christmas 2011
This picture was taken at Cherry Berry
Opening presents for her new play kitchen
Visiting Landscape Garden Center and enjoying the smells of Christmas
Front row seats at the hockey game
Decorating sugar cookies using the cookie cutters I used when I was little. The tradition continues…
What is Your Sewing Machine Getting for Christmas?
You’re not getting your best friend anything for Christmas?
How about scheduling a trip to the spa for your sewing machine. She probably deverves it! She has kept you sewing all your holiday projects, it powered through all those Cuddle Scarves and let’s not mention all those hours of sewing on those sewing retreats you took her on! It’s time to say thanks to your faithful sewing friend. Book her a one-day, all inclusive spa treatment at Heirloom Creations!
As we approach the new year, we always here, “I’m not buying any new fabric until I finish up my UFO’s.” (Un-Finished Objests) Let’s make sure your bestie is ready for the challenge.
If it has been over a year since your sewing machine’s insides have seen the light of day under the care of one of our THREE service techs, then you could be treading on thin fabric. Nothing’s worse than the unexpected trip to the service center. And then you have to get in line for the next available Spa spot. Avoid those ambulance rides by having your machine serviced on your time schedule.
Taking a cruise this January? Visiting the new grandchild in February? Drop off your baby on your way out of town and she will be as good as new when you return.
Click here to read “A Sewing Machine Technician’s Check List” to know what all to send with your sewing machine, embroidery machine or serger for its annual SPA day.
Merry Christmas and Happy Sew Year from our service guys,
Gary, Ryan and Shad
Bloomin’ Minds Trunk Show
On display at Heirloom Creations is a lovely collections of mini quilts from Bloomin’ Minds. All patterns are only $3.50 each! We are happy to ship. Thank you Lynne for letting us display your beautiful work in our store.
Click on the pictures to see these quilts larger.
Ruler of the Month – Side Setting Triangles
There are rulers that you don’t need very often, but when you need them, you don’t want to be without!
Cutting triangles to set a quilt on point has never been easier. Use this ruler to cut side setting triangles for finished squares up to 12″. Save fabric by cutting these triangles from strips instead of squares. The longest side of each triangle is cut on the straight of grain so bias edges are no longer a problem. The math required is built into the markings on the ruler. The exclusive embedded gripper dots hold the fabric while cutting when pressure is applied.
Kate Snuggerud – 2 1/2
Top 10 Gift Ideas for 2011
‘Tis the season for selecting gifts for loved ones. Click on the item for more information or to watch the video. Here are a few of our top gift ideas for 2011:
1. Cuddle Scarves
2. Smart Phone Holders
3. Wonder Clips
4. Electric Seam Ripper
5. Cuddle Quilts
6. Frixon Pens
7. Heirloom Creations Gift Card- any amount, no expiration date!
8. Husqvarna Viking H100Q – travel size sewing machine
9. Batt Scooters – awesome for free motion machine quilting!
10. Horn folding table – $166
Easy folding table requires minimum space for storage, lightweight for easy moving from room to room. Fits most free-arm and flatbed household machines. Inserts sold separately.