Lilac Lane Quilts

180 Parson Road Unit 27 Alliston, On. L9R 1E8
(705) 435-2746 Toll Free 1-866-435-1041

Your Complete Quilt Shop
Patterns, fabrics, notions, workshops, longarm quilting services and custom made quilts.
We also carry a large inventory of quilts for sale. These can be viewed by visiting our Quilts for Sale link.

OPEN MONDAY TO SATURDAY 9:30 – 5:30
SUNDAY AND MOST HOLIDAYS 11:00 – 4:00
Our Secure Online Shop open 24/7 wherever you are.

Closed August 1^st & 2^nd

We are constantly working on expanding our online shopping link.
You can use this as a guide to what we stock.

^{New Trunk Show has arrived}

From another Ontario designer. Come and see the works of Brenda Miller the owner and designer of Among Brenda’s Quilts. She has sent a great array of samples and she included the patterns. Support our provincial talent!

Marti, Me and Muffin Club. It seems like we all just love the Marti Michell projects so we are opening up another club for six more months. New projects, new challenges. If you didn’t join the first club, don’t fret we will let you play with us. Club fee is $20.00 plus HST. This entitles you to 6 patterns, 6 get togethers with coffee, tea and muffins and 6 opportunities to bring and brag. Each month Marti features a different tool and her patterns are more like a booklet with patterns and ideas to use that month’s tool. We will continue to meet the 4^th Saturday of the months August to January at 9:00a.m. If there is enough interest we would consider running a Monday 9:30a.m. Club. We would require 6 participants or more. At the September meeting we would like to see the creations of the first club. We need to know who is interested so we have the patterns in stock before we begin. So you only have a couple of weeks to decide if this is something you want to participate in. Returning Muffin Club members will get a one day surprise the first day we meet for the second club. We are the only shop in Canada offering this club!

Bake Sale! At some point during the summer we like to support our local food bank. I have heard the shelves are getting low. We are calling all quilters to help out with a bake sale. Lots of ways to help. Step one..bake something and have it ready to sell. All items will be sold for one dollar so package accordingly please. Bring your baking in on either Wed. August 18^th or early Thursday August 19^th and Lilac Lane Quilts will give you Lilac Lane Quilt Bucks. One buck for every package you bring in. These bucks are good for one week only. Step two.. bring your friends, family and anyone who has a sweet tooth to our sale on Thursday August 19^th from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Aquapura has donated a tent so we all stay fresh and Red Oak Digital has donated signs for our big day. What a great community we live in. It is a pleasure to support organizations like the Good Shepherd Food Bank. Get those recipes out; August is just around the corner.

What’s new? Big changes at the Lane! First the zippers and now Liz sees fat quarters in her shop.. But you should see the shop! It is looking so different you will think you dropped into another world. Andrea has done her magic and made the place look amazing. Dagmar and Andrea have convinced Liz to try fat quarters at least in the newest arrivals. Speaking of new arrivals, the delivery boys have been stopping by. What a great selection of new fabrics we have in stock. Look for more changes as the ladies talk to Liz. We think Dagmar is planning a sale shortly. We will be sending a survey out in a little while about these changes to see if you like them. There is always a bonus at The Lane so don’t miss out on the survey.

Atkinson Designs have some great organizers and containers. They use zippers. See where this is going?

Legacy batting. This is another company that provides an 80/20 blend. We have it in 96 inches wide and 120 inches wide is on order.

We played with the Texture Magic… We bought a pattern from Creative Sisters (Kitchener) and made the purse. It is so cute!! The purse is hanging in the store. But Texture Magic is also useful in bags, landscape quilts and baby quilts. Let your imagination take you away.

Don’t forget we offer quilting services and we are known far and wide. Carl has won prizes for his quilts but Liz is just a simple girl. You can choose your poison when you bring your quilt in for our service. Both Carl and Liz have their own Gammil to quilt for you. Liz will just work on the machine and let Andrea and Dagmar take over the shop. They are much smarter, nicer and more knowledgeable..

WORKSHOPS

OUR WORKSHOP POLICY IS THAT ALL WORKSHOPS ARE PREPAID AND IF THERE ARE LESS THAN FOUR CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS THE WORKSHOP WILL BE CANCELLED. IF WE CANCEL THE WORKSHOP YOUR MONEY WILL BE RETURNED HOWEVER IF YOU DO NOT SHOW UP THERE WILL BE NO REFUND. WE APOLOGIZE TO THE MAJORITY OF OUR QUILTERS WHO ACTED RESPONSIBLY. WE ARE VERY SAD TO HAVE TO INSTITUTE THIS POLICY.

Basic Sewing kit for most workshops: sewing machine in good working order, sewing machine manual, thread, thread scissors, seam ripper just in case, tape measure, bobbins filled and ready to go, pattern, fabric, notebook, pen, and your appetite.

Please do not arrive more than 15 minutes ahead of your scheduled workshop time. It may interfere with other activities in the workshop area. Also it gives us time to make the coffee and tea and set up for your workshop. We appreciate your enthusiasm and will very much appreciate you thinking of us setting up for you.

Learn to Paper Piece: Let Carl show you how to paper piece. Repeat 5 blocks to learn how this technique works and then you can arrange them to make a wall hanging. Sat. Aug. 21^st 10:00 – 3:00 light lunch provided. Workshop fee $25.00 plus HST.

Learn to Quilt: Our program starts at the beginning and after 8 weeks you will have a usable quilt. You can declare I made This! You are not left with a quilt top with a number of quilt blocks that you couldn’t reproduce if a gun was held to your head. You will have a quilt finished to keep you warm and appreciate. You will receive a 10 % discount on purchases for this workshop to make your way into quilting easier. Fabric choices and size choices are your own. You can make a crib or lap size quilt. We want to keep the size to a minimum so you can work through the entire process and quilt on your machine a project that you can be proud of and show to your friends. People entering into this program can also commit to the Marti Me and Muffin Club. It will not be too difficult and will assist you into entering the quilting world without a lot of expense. It could also keep you becoming friendly with your sewing machine which may or may not be a concern. Liz and her machine conflict regularly. You must have a sewing machine in good working order and know how to thread it. Prior to this workshop get to know how your machine works so you are only learning how to quilt not quilt and operate your machine. Come in and see the sample and talk about what you need to bring and know before you start. We will run this workshop again when we have interest. Workshop fee is $100.00 plus HST and supplies. Wed. evenings Sept 8^th – Oct. 27^th. 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.

Build your own class: Do you have a group of friends that would like a special class just for you? Talk to us and we will do our best to provide you with a personalized class that suits your timetable. This could be a weekday, evening or weekend class. Bring a couple of dates and the project and let us see what we can do to accommodate you and your friends. We can also set up a lock in where you and your friends come in and have a pot luck dinner and sew all night. (or as long as you can stand it) There has been talk about a machine appliqué workshop. We can do that!

Debbie Cathay Mystery Quilt. This will be offered in the fall once the clues are found. Is there anyone around here who is a detective? Don’t ask Liz she doesn’t even know where her keys are most of the time. But this is one great quilt. More details when the clues are once again together.

Christmas Wall Hanging. Take a panel and add a wonderful border, there are four choices for the border corners. We have kits available to make this wall hanging. You also have the option of buying the center panel and adding your own fabrics to make the wall hanging. Workshop Sat. Oct 30^th 10:00 - 3:00 p.m. Light lunch included. $25.00

We have an instructor coming to teach the Square in a Square ruler. She is picking the fabrics for a sample just for us! Aren’t we special? Our Christmas fabrics should start arriving in September so we can all get our projects done in good time. At least this year Liz remembered to order Christmas fabric and yes Eugenia there is bling coming for Christmas.

CLUBS

Monday Morning Madness: Come in on Mondays for a cup of coffee or tea and sit and sew undisturbed. Enjoy companionship with the other quilters and have some “me” time. This is a no obligation club. Come when you can we are just happy to see you. Mondays 10:00 – 1:00 Club fee $5.00 when you visit.

Thursday Get Sewing Club: Let’s meet every Thursday and sew together. We can finish up things we have on hand or pick a project and learn it together. Share our talents, teach each other new skills and have a friendship day. We will gather at 10:00 in the morning and work until about 4:00p.m. We can have a pot luck lunch each week and enjoy a lot of laughs and learning. Club fee is $20.00 and entitles you to 3 months of friendship July – September club is just ready to start.

Don’t forget to check out our upcoming events to see what we are participating in locally in the quilting world. There is so much going on you won’t want to miss a beat. Get out your calendars and make some plans. You can see the quilts in the show from Yellowknife on our photo gallery page.

Battings: We have also included Legacy brand batting to our selection. We have 100% bamboo, Hobbs Heirloom and Poly Down, Thermore, as well as Thermolan Plus. FUSIBLE batting has been discontinued by our supplier. We apologize to all our quilters who loved it. … Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 is at our every day price of $9.50/m and it is 96 inches wide. 120 inch wide 100% bamboo batting selling for $20.25/m. We know it quilts up clean. It does feel very nice and bamboo is a renewable resource. If you are purchase a roll of bamboo batting it is 30 meters of 120 inches wide and costs $450.00. We have Tuscany Wool batting an organic batting for a lofty look. We carry a selection of pillow forms and stuffing and can order in any special size that you may require that we may not have in stock. Wool batting is available prepackaged in a queen size by request. Silk batting can be brought in prepackaged for your requirements as well. . If you require a different size please let us know and we will get it for you. If you are looking to purchase an entire bolt please let us know and we will order it and phone you when it arrives. Please keep in mind when we have a fabric sale, batting is also included in that sale. At this time we are looking into another supplier which could benefit your even more. At the end of our investigation we will let you know the results.

Legacy 80/20 natural color batting is 96 inches wide and comes in a 30 YARD bolt. $200.00

Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 bleached (if there is a lot of white in your quilt this is great) is 108 inches wide and comes in a 30 YARD bold. $300.00

Hobbs Polyester batting is 108 inches wide, white and comes in a 30 YARD bolt. $225.

100% Bamboo batting. 120 inches wide 30 meter bolt. $450.00

Bamboo batting is now available in a 96 inch wide by the meter or part meter. Nice way to see if you like this batting. $16.25/m.

Quilt Stencils: We have expanded our quilting stencils and were surprised at how excited people were with our choices. Thanks for the encouragement. We keep changing our stock just to make it interesting for you.

Buttons: Lately lots of knitters have been coming in and are so excited that they can find buttons for their projects. We carry what we believe you are looking for so let us know any special requests and we will try to provide. You should see out big bag of Christmas inspired buttons… wow!

Pillows and Stuffing: We usually have some on hand but at this time of the year we are stocking up for those gift giving projects. High quality pillows and stuffing are in stock and if we don’t have your size just let us know and we will try to get it for you.

Cones of Thread: For the serious quilter or just those of us who don’t like to run out and want to save a bit of money. We carry a polytwist thread for piecing and machine quilting. This is not a serger thread. We also have cones of YLI and King Tut Variegated threads for machine quilting.

Silk Thread: We carry a selection of YLI. Superior for hand appliqué.

Jeanne’s Broccoli Salad

Mix together:
3 cups broccoli
½ cup chopped red onion
¼ cup sunflower seeds
½ cup raisins
½ cup feta cheese

For the dressing mix together:
½ cup plain yogurt
¼ cup mayonnaise
2 tbsp. sugar
1 tbsp lemon juice

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Lilac Lane Quilts
(705)435-2746
Toll Free 1-866-435-1041
Email_Liz @lilaclanequilts.com