All I Want for Christmas...

We are back with our employee Wish Lists and today we have Deb and Karen. Deb's Wish List is a good idea to look at if you know someone who loves hand needlework and applique quilting; her items are designed to make needlework and applique easier and enjoyable. Karen reveals with her list how much she loves receiving fabric by the yard: this isn't that bad of an idea. With just even half a yard of a hand full of fabrics from a beautiful designer line, any sewer is bound to excitedly think of a dozen projects she/he could make with those pieces!

Don't wait too long to grab up these fantastic gift ideas, Christmas is next week with only one more shopping Saturday left! Even more important, that means only one more week to get all these items 15% off! Hope to see you soon! 

Christmas Gift Ideas

We are continuing on with our employee Christmas Wish List today, featuring Debby and Cyndi! Take a good look at Debby's Wish List: she has wonderful little items that would be perfect stocking stuffers! Cyndi isn't without some good tips too: knits are extremely popular right now as are chevron prints. Score double points with chevron jersey knit for maxi skirts, or even better considering our weather, for infinity scarves!

We sure hope this fun countdown gives you inspiration for what to gift your sewer/quilter on your list. For more ideas, stay tuned for the rest of our employees' wish lists or make a trip in to see us; you can fill out your own Christmas Wish list to pass on to your significant others so they know exactly what to get you this Christmas. Make your Christmas dollars stretch farther: shop with us for 15% off all regularly priced items until December 23rd! 

We're Having a Pinterest Party!

Shop Hop has officially begun this morning, did you guess our celebration theme? We are having a Pinterest Party at Fabric Center from now until this Saturday! Come help us celebrate our favorite social media app be getting inspired by projects, patterns, quilts and lots of fabric. We will be featuring projects created by our talented employees with free tutorials and projects available in store as well as here on the blog. We are also really excited about our quilt designed and created by our beloved Peggy McDonald. Do you recognize what it looks like?

Quilt Copyright 2013 Peggy McDonald

Yes, it's a giant Pinterest profile complete with individual boards! What is so fun about this quilt is each employee created each of the 12 individual blocks with a theme they love. Not only is this quilt cute and colorful, but is incredibly heartfelt and special to the entire staff of Fabric Center.

By Lara Phillips

By Peggy McDonald

By Tammy Nelson

By Cheryl Edmunds

By Katie Sanchez

By Marilyn Clark

By Maquel Querry

By Janet Howard

By Karen Wooten

By Debby Libby

By Orva Nelson

By Deb Graber

The pattern is available for free in store during Shop Hop. Make sure when you create your own Pinterest Quilt that you choose 12 themes you love, use creativity and imagination to make each block unique: play around with embroidery, cross stitch, 3D quilting, crafting, and printing on fabric. Yes, you can print on fabric! Tips and tricks for printing on fabric are included in the pattern in order to get your board title pieces. 

Make sure to check back with us these next few days as we will be sharing tutorials on our Pinterest Projects featured in store created by our wonderful employees! 

For more information about the Beehive Shop Hop, to print off a map and to see which other stores are participating, follow the link to the Shop Hop's website and blog. Don't forget, at each store you will receive a free 12" block and quilt pattern, play games as well as the opportunity to enter a drawing to win prizes. Each participating store will have their own specials and sales being offered. We will be continuing our Anniversary Sale during Shop Hop with everything in the store on sale or discounted. We look forward to seeing you this weekend! 

Featured New Teacher and Shop Hop Hint

We have been working with a new class organizer, Susan Hayward, who has lined up some wonderful new teachers for us. We are looking forward to all the new classes and ideas these wonderful ladies will be bringing to our store and customers. Make sure to keep checking back as we update you on our new QuiltSmart Club and Pincushion Club! We are featuring Carmen Geddes as our Premiere Teacher for November!
Carmen Geddes brings her love of quilting, embroidery, and people together for a fun day of learning. Students enjoy her friendly, low-key approach and her great techniques! She was named Teacher of the Year at HMQS 2013. She has taught at many quilt shows around the country and specializes in quilt retreats. She resides in Eagle Mountain, Utah with her husband Patrick. They have five children and eight wonderful grandkids!

Carmen's first class with Fabric Center will be a Machine Applique class! Enjoy beautiful, instant success in applique that will look hand done! If you have been overwhelmed by an applique project, or have always wanted to try but were not quite sure about the handwork, then this class is for you! In this class you will create an 18" block. You will be so hooked on this technique you will want to make enough for an entire quilt! The class will take place November 2nd from 10 am to 2 pm and costs $25. Needless to say this is a wonderful opportunity! 

Finally, don't forget that next week is the fall Beehive Shop Hop! As detailed before, the theme this year is celebration with each participating store specializing in a different party theme. We have decided to keep our theme secret until the first day of Shop Hop, October 23rd. However, we are so excited about our unique and cleaver party theme that we can't help but divulge a few hints:

• It is based off one of our most favorite social media tools designed to spread creativity and inspiration.
• We just started our own profile for you to follow us on this social media outlet here! 
• This kind of party is a fairly new invention where you and your friends create things to be enjoyed at the party or to "make and take" home while in the comfort of your host's/hostess's home.  

Did those hints help? If you've guessed it or not, we would love to see you come celebrate inspiration and creativity with us next week from the 23rd to the 26th. We will be carrying our 30th Anniversary sale through into Shop Hop so everything in store remains on sale! We look forward to seeing you. 

Time to Celebrate!

We are so excited to be celebrating our 30th Anniversary this month! In 1984, Ken and Joan Cahoon set up a tiny fabric shop in a strip mall just off 90th South where they featured flatfold cottons and assorted trims. It was a small family run operation with their children helping out on the floor. They moved here and there occasionally throughout West Jordan until they were finally able to find a building they could own and would allow them to grow their inventory. It's been 30 years, and now Ken and Joan's daughter and son-in-law, Lisa and Jon, are proud to carry on Fabric Center's tradition of offering the best customer service and a large, varied selection all at reasonable and competitive prices.  We decided to bring this milestone in with a bang: we launched our newly redesigned website as well as opened an online shop on Etsy! All our customers, especially those out of state, can now shop from us online and order hemstitch burps and blankets here. Depending on how we do with online sales, we may increase our online listings to tricot, baby panels, and more.

Additionally, we have started our 30th Anniversary sale! Everything in store is on sale, big time! Come in sooner rather than later to pick up what you need for Halloween, Christmas or even just a fun shopping spree. This sale will be going all month long, but don't expect to see what you love stay on the shelves for long. With a sale this big, things are gonna be flying outta here!

Always looking forward to something new!

We are always getting shipments in every week, but there are times we are so excited about the new products we get in we can't help but share our excitement! We have proudly displayed right as you walk in a new collection of Moda Wool and Needles Flannels II by Primitive Gatherings along with some woolies by Marcus Fabrics. These are so luxurious and soft, they will make the perfect quilt for those crisp fall nights.

As employees, we are always eager to take a peek when new precuts come in to get an idea of what beautiful fabrics to expect in the future. We are very excited about the newest precut delivery. We have a cabinet full of Moda Layer Cakes, Charm Packs, Jelly Rolls and even some Honeycombs!  

Probably the most popular precut line from this shipment was Scrumptious. To get an idea of all the prints included in this line, check out Moda's website here.

Wren & Friends precuts would make an adorable baby or children's quilt. See this precut's full line here. 

Finally, we also received Sweet Pea. This is a sophisticated and rich line, see all the prints available in this precut here. 

If you are looking to make a darling quilt yet have no desire to undergo the laborious process of cutting, or simply are running short on time, precuts are a wonderful option! Check out our Pinterest page for ideas and projects geared for precuts. 

Finally, our last post on Displays for Sale was so successful, we sold out of most of the quilts within a matter of days. As such, we went back into storage and dug out a few more diamonds that now are for sale and looking for a wonderful home. As before, these displays are being sold only for the price of the fabric and does not include the cost of labor it took to make the quilt. These are incredible deals!! 

Star Table Runner 22" x 51". Regularly $117, now only $70! 

Aqua/Red Table Runner 22"x 56" with rick rack accent. Regularly $171, on sale for $60! 

Riley Blake Boy's Zig Zag Quilt with cuddle backing 52" x 52". Regularly $140, on sale for $95! 

Christmas Churn Dash 42" square with cuddle backing. Regularly $205, now only $70!!! 

Baby Girl's Pink and Green with ruffle accent 35" x 41". Regularly $129, now only $98! 

We hope to see you in store soon! 

Display Sale

We recently went through our storage and brought out some of our older displays once hanging in the store. We realized these quilts would do more good as gifts and loved by a lucky someone rather than tucked away in our back room so we decided to put them on sale! At the moment, we have 8 wonderful, fully completed quilts for sale at incredible prices with more to come. Our quilts, once carefully and meticulously created to provide inspiration to our customers, are now waiting for new and loving homes, therefore they've all been priced for less then what it cost to make them!

Nana's Tabletopper, 36" square. $61 instead of $99.62!

Aqua Scallop w/ cuddle backing. 42" square, cost $131.35 to make but priced at $70!   Sold!

Boy's Bug Quilt w/ cuddle backing. 52"x54". Cost $232.33 to make, priced at only $155!  Sold!

Miss Molly w/ cuddle backing. 40"x51". Originally $188.33, now only $110!  Sold!  

Girls in Brown. 47"x56". Cost $168.94 to make, on sale for $108! Sold

Noah's Bazooples hand quilted. 35"x 43". Only $47! Would make a wonderful baby shower gift. Sold 

Woodland Creatures tied quilt. 41"x51". Only $35!!   Sold

Aqua and Red with cuddle! 50" square. Cost $193.77 to make, priced at only $135!   Sold!

Each of these quilts would make a wonderful gift or even add a little something special for your home, and with them priced to sell they won't last long! Hurry in to take a look and pick one out.