New free quilt pattern!

We have a new free quilt pattern in the shop, drop by for your copy any time. Our sample is a lap quilt, but the pattern can also make a twin or queen quilt. This quick quilt really shows off the gorgeous floral prints we got in the shop this month... Pick your favorite floral & we'll help you choose the coordinating fabrics to make your quilt unique and fabulous!

If you need help making the quilt, don't forget we have a weekly quilting clinic, Thursday afternoons 2:00 - 4:30pm. Just bring your project along and we'll help you! See our schedule on our website for more details & more class & clinic info.

Warm Up Winter program

Join Craft Land in our winter knitting project! Take a free pattern, knit up a square or two from acrylic yarn, and donate the squares back to the shop. Use your own yarn or buy one of ours, 5dhs gets you enough yarn to knit two squares.

We will make the squares into blankets! We are currently searching for the best charity to donate the blankets to, please contact us if you have any suggestions.

pick up a ball or two & make some squares!

NEW Free Bag Pattern at Craft Land!

We have a lovely new free pattern for you at Craft Land! It uses our specialty Home Decor fabric, available in four gorgeous Amy Butler prints.

The pattern is not too hard, anyone who does a bit of sewing could tackle it on their own. We are also adding the bag to our class schedule, look out for it in the coming weeks.

Block of the Month at Dubai Quilters' Guild

Jennifer and Danielle proudly introduced the designs for Dubai Quilters' Guild Block of the Month at the DQG's first meeting of the year. It was a great meeting at the new venue at the Arabian Ranches Golf Club.



Danielle explains the project



Craft Land was honoured to organize this year's Block of the Month for the guild, and Danielle spent the whole summer working on the design. We went with an Arabian theme, with blocks done in several techniques for variety. The first block to be offered is the Appliqué Coffee Pot, the top left block. The pattern is available in the shop, with a fat quarter pack of the necessary fabrics. Each month from September to May, we will offer a new block and fabric pack, for a total of 8 kits to make the entire quilt. Lots of the guild members snapped up the patterns and fabric, and it will be exciting to see everyone's finished projects as the year goes by! Stop by the shop any time to see the whole quilt and get your copy of the pattern and the fabrics, and we welcome all quilters to join the fun & make the quilt.

Holiday table runner

The second part of the Block of the Month club for the guild is a month-by-month block raffle. The first block has a holiday-theme, and we made ours into a table runner. Guild members were able to purchase a kit at the meeting, which is made up of the block pattern, the table runner pattern, and three fat quarters. At next month's meeting (October 24th), participants will hand in their completed blocks and enter a draw to win sets of the blocks to make a larger project.

The kits are also available in our shop for anyone who would like to make the table runner or the blocks. Next month a whole new project will be introduced at the guild meeting and then shared in our shop!

Learn more about the Dubai Quilters' Guild at: http://dubaiquiltersguild.wordpress.com/

New in Ebroidery

Sweet felt needle cases

Our resident embriodery queen, Riana Auret-Dubois, has been even busier than usual! Some of the great new projects she's been working on are in the shop now; look for them to appear on our class schedule throughout the fall.

Ribbon embroidered monogram

The embroidered monograms come printed on fabric, ready for you to add ribbons and embellish with your handiwork. All of these projects use our exquisite European ribbons woven on antique ribbon looms.

Shadow embroidery sachet

Another Lovely Saturday

Jennifer sharing her quilting wisdom

Yesterday we had another lovely Summer Saturday class, with another lovely group of ladies, and we even had a fellow helping out.

The class spent the day cutting and piecing the quilt Fat Quarter Frolic by Larissa Key Designs. It's been one of our more popular quilt classes since we've opened the shop. The full-day workshop is a great format for this quilt, as  you spend the first hour or two cutting, then get to the piecing in the afternoon.

Happy quilters having a carrot cake break

There are still three more Saturdays in our series, see our website for details: http://www.mycraftland.com/
The remaining classes are Random & Lovely, a very simple quilt that is great for showing off pretty printed fabric; Petit Fours, a pattern that's wonderful for stacking and slicing; and Summer Evening, a more traditional quilt with four different pieced blocks that is made with Jelly Roll strips and looks fabulous in whites and blues. The Saturday classes are a fun way to spend the day sewing and meet some new friends!

Quilting Class

Craftland continues to hold regular classes through the summer, and through Ramadan.
Today's class was day two of Layer Cake Quilt - Beginners' Quilting. Last Sunday, the first day, we looked at the Layer Cake squares & discussed options for putting it together: random? in a pattern? We had lots of fun shuffling the squares, and then sewed them together to make the main quilt top.

Today was Border Day. We spent some time choosing fabrics & talking about border widths. After playing with the bolts of fabric, we settled on three borders. Here is Diane pressing her first border strip open.

Check out the cool cutting mat and ironing surface! The Foldaway portable cutting & pressing station is made by Omnigrid & folds into a convenient case to carry to classes. Very handy for classes, or to use at home.Thanks, Diane, for modelling it for us so well!

If you're interested in this or any of our other classes, see our full schedule at http://www.mycraftland.com/