In the Shop this Spring

40 % off toys & puzzles and selected quilt books

The museum shop has stocked up with fun and humorous games and puzzles including Chess, Chinese Checkers, Dominoes and Magnetic board games. The shop will be getting in some Historical Folk Toys, Books, Crafts Kits for sale.

We will have a selection of books to coincide with our current exhibit “Wholecloth Quilts By Hand and Machine.” We will also be carrying “The Quilter’s Catalog” and “The Quilter’s Traveling Companion.”

The gift shop always carries a variety of consignment items, such as jewelry, table runners, theme pillowcases, etc. We have a great variety of greeting cards, both funny and fancy, and also we now have quilt theme wrapping paper, “Grandmother’s Flower Garden.”

We now carry stencils and sheets of plastic for templates, as well as a variety of notions. We also have few quilt racks for sale.

Available now in the shop for the “Wholecloth Exhibit”, Hollice Turnbows’ Wholecloth Kits in different sizes and in white or ecru backgrounds. The kit includes the pre-stenciled wholecloth quilt top with binding and backing. Prices range from $40.00 -$80.00. The patterns are “Floral Fantasy”, “Garden Bouquet”, “Welsh Beauty”, and the “Feathered Pineapple” pattern.

We also will be getting in Gerald Roy’s new fabric line, “Graphic Rhythms”.
His inspirations for the graphics are based upon interpreting rhythms from music of different tempos and creating small individual linear units within a grid or straight-line format. These colorful designs are actually adaptations from drawings based on this idea of a vertical, horizontal, and grid formats. Watch this website for details

Gift certificates and memberships are always available.

Museum admission is not required to visit the Shop.

Introducing The Merrimack Collection from Marcus Fabrics!

The Merrimack Collection is the museum’s second fabric series to result from collaboration with Marcus Fabrics. Judy Rothermel has again designed a line of fabrics that feature stunning stripes, geometrics and paisley motifs based on 1850’s quilts from the museum’s permanent collection in a wide range of colors: chocolate browns, rusty reds, greens and plums. Dating back to the middle of the nineteenth century they reflect the historic region of Merrimack Valley the present-day location of the museum itself.  10-yard bolts of all 28 fabrics in the collection, charm square and fat quarter packs are now in stock. Queensize quilt kits will be available shortly.  Click here to view the entire collection.

The Regency Collections I & II by Marcus Fabrics and Judy Rothermel. Come and get it before its all gone!
The fat quarter bundles and sample packs are all gone. A few queen size quilt kits are still here and small amounts of yardage remain on most of the bolts.

Featured Quilt Artist:
Quilt artist and teacher, Sylvia Einstein was born and educated in Switzerland, coming to the U.S.A. in 1965. She made her first quilt in 1975 and has since exhibited widely in the U.S.A. and Europe, Japan and South America. She has been teaching for more the 25 years and since 1988 has been invited to teach in Europe every year. In addition she has taught in South Africa. Her unique work is published in numerous magazines, catalogues and and books and in several languages. www.sylviaeinstein.com		 Featured Raffle: Lucky Stars, a queen size quilt, was pieced by Alice Wiggin and machine quilted by Laurie LaConte.

Tickets are  $1 each or 6 for $5. Drawing is May 11th, 2008.

Exhibition Catalogs on CD-ROM

CD Exhibition Catalogues are available for several of our exhibits. Each catalogue includes both full and detail high resolution photos for each quilt along with quilt descriptions and artist statements. Note: because of the greater number of large antique quilts in the Expressions Of Beauty, Objects of Utility exhibit that CD has full shots only.  The price is $9.99 plus $.50 Mass Sales Tax if applicable plus $2.00 shipping. Click on the CD covers to view the image index for the individual exhibit. Click here for exhibit descriptions and CD order form.

CD Catalogue Happy Birthday, America!

 

 

CD Catalogue Contemporary MASSters

 

 

CD Catalogue Circle of Friends

 

 

CD Catalogue Quilted Cuisine

 CD Catalogue Best Of New England Guilds


 

CD Catalogue World War II Era Quilts.

 

 

CD Catalogue Expressions of Beauty, Objects of Utility

For quilters, a visit to the New England Quilt Museum Gift Shop is like a trip to the candy store. The NEQM shop boasts one of the best collections of books and magazines for quilters in the country. Quilters love the latest books as well as old favorites. You will find everything from traditional and contemporary patterns and techniques to quilt history and humor; one special book is New England Quilt Museum Quilts by our director, Jennifer Gilbert. Starting with a history of the Mill Girls who worked in Lowell, Gilbert gives an overview of the history of quilt making in New England using beautiful examples from our permanent collection. Included are five patterns to inspire readers to make heirloom quilts for themselves. This book can be ordered from the shop for $22.95 plus $4.00 shipping (MASS residents add 5% sales tax) by printing out the book order form and sending it with your payment as directed on the form. Contact the Museum Shop Manager at Shop@NEQuiltMuseum.org 

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