Simple Folk Whats New

Arriving soon: the newest book from Barb Adams & Alma Allen of Blackbird Designs, In Full Bloom. Nine wonderful quilts and other projects with their signature feminine style!

Move Update

I finally figured out the USB thing and got the printer going!

That'll teach me to unplug everything before labeling the wires so I know where they all go!

Now that we're back at our full-time jobs unpacking is a challenge but I'm trying

to get organized and will be shipping out recent orders as soon as possible!

Thank you for your continued patience as we plod along after this big move!

If it's July it's almost time for a new Jan Patek Girl Gang to begin! Shown is the 2008-2009 Girl Gang quilt titled "Favorite Things" and we will be starting this series in early August! Memberships are now being taken - click on the new Clubs button to the left for all the details.

Simple Folk's Girl Gang is a pattern-only club, we do not offer fabric kits

so you can use what's already in your stash and make the quilt your own!

Saturday & Sunday, August 2nd & 3rd

9am-3pm each day

Simple Folk together with Primitive Pastimes of North Yarmouth, Maine present a

Visiting the Maine seacoast around the end of July or early August? Plan to make a stop at Primitive Pastimes in North Yarmouth, Maine and join my friend, designer and teacher Kim Dubay and me as we host a fiber artist's garage sale weekend! Lots of what you see on our web sites and more will be offered at bargain prices as we make way for the new! Find one-of-a-kinds and discontinued patterns, kits, magazines and books as well as finished items, both domestic and imported, supplies for sewing, needlepunch and rug hooking and lots of surprise "must haves".

Primitive Pastimes is located at 410 Walnut Hill Rd. in North Yarmouth, Maine at the junctions of Rts. 115 & 9, a short, country drive from Rt. 1, interstate 295 and the Maine Turnpike.

Click the link below to get Mapquest directions to Primitive Pastimes:

We hope to see you there, rain or shine!

Speaking of Jan Patek and Girl Gangs, my favorite of the past Girl Gang series, The Pokeberry Quilt is available in book form and is a Featured Item at half price! Complete instructions to make the featured quilt plus several extra projects using motifs from the quilt. Featured sale item, clearanced-priced. Find it under Books by Jan Patek.

Pat Cross, Wendy Miller and Laurie Simpson are just a few of the fiber artists whose projects are offered in Hooked on Wool, a "must have" book. Clearance-priced at 40% off.

Located under Books for Rug Hooking.

I will be offering one or more Featured Items periodically to try and whittle down inventory. And I'll take requests! Is there an item you'd like to see put on sale? Email me and maybe you can create your own Featured Item sale!

While you're looking at the Featured Item books above check out the entire selection of Rug Hooking Books in the Books section - most are at rock-bottom clearance prices and supplies are limited.

Stacy Nash's Velvet Bunny Pinkeep is one of 4 new patterns in stock. Other sweet sewing needfuls include Bluebird Pinkeep, Robin Pinkeep and Monogrammed Pinkeep all on Stacy Nash's Cross-Stitch Patterns page.

Mill-Dyed wool from Woolrich is back in stock in limited quantities. This is a 13-oz. 100% mill-dyed in the USA wool in staple colors like basic Black, Antique Black, Natural, Old Ivory and more. Great bases for overdyeing or felted to use as-is for your hooking and penny rug projects. Turn up the A/C and work on a woolen creation!

The new July 2008 issue of The Wool Street Journal just arrived. Celebrate summer with some great articles, recipes, projects and more with your favorite wooly read. The April issue of WSJ is now at half price while they last!

The eagerly-awaited issue of Early American Life with it's 23rd Directory of Traditional American Crafts is in. Page after page of pictures and resource information for all sorts of quality hand-made folk art pieces from painting to dolls, tin, wood, fiber arts and much more.

All back issues of Early American Life are slashed to half price to clear out our inventory.

Regretfully we will no longer stock this wonderful magazine after the current issue is gone.

From primitivebettys, a delightful Blue Tulip & Bunny Sewie Roll:

New patterns have arrived from Stacy Nash Primitives and Country Stitches!

Stacy's Early Style Alphabet Pillow Pinkeep and Country Stitches' Woodland Frosty appear below.

Other new patterns can be found on their Cross-Stitch Patterns pages.

New patterns for punch needle from Country Stitches just arrived on our doorstep! Get a jump-start on the holiday season with these wonderful designs. Eight new patterns in all!

Punch needles are back in stock as well as the All-Purpose Threaders.

See Supplies for Needlepunch to see everything that's available.

Even with the recent postal increase, shipping is still FREE on orders of $50 or more at this time! Domestic orders only - international orders will be invoiced for actual shipping charges to your country. We'll contact you with this information.

Sorry, free shipping does not apply to wholesale orders.

Are you a New England quilter, or just interested in what's happening in the New England quilting world? I am now producing a newsletter called Quilt Fun with listings of quilt shows, classes and other information of interest to quilters in the New England area. Scroll down and click on the button to subscribe to our New email list and specify that you'd like to receive the Quilt Fun newsletter. Quilt Fun is sent several times a month.

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Due to U.S. copyright laws, we regret that we cannot accept returns or exchanges on patterns, books, pre-drawn rug canvases or anything else on which a copyrighted design is rendered. Please make your purchase selections carefully, as sales on these items are final. Thank you for your understanding!