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- Ideas, advice and inspirations, from picking prints to choosing wadding
- Save on top collections and kits
- Brilliant new fabric lines – and new sale bargains – being added all the time
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Just over a week to go until The Festival of Quilts, so we're flat out here in the Henley Warehouse, sorting out what to take – including some fabulous Quilt Kits and new fabrics.
And we're also still adding new lines to our Summer Sale, so check online for all the latest bargain buys.
| | Kaffe's clever Stripes – we think you'll buy them like a Shot | | That beautiful brand-new Handkerchief Quilt Kit at the top of this newsletter is made from Kaffe Fassett's superb Shots and Stripes 2025 collection | |
The kit, which makes up to just under 85in (2.15m) square, has been designed by Kaffe himself using his Woven Stripes fabrics, now in a new range of colours for 2025.
It includes all the fabric to make the quilt, which uses squares cut in different sizes – there\s over 24m/26yd of fabric in the kit, along with complete instructions to make the quilt-top.
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Complementing the Woven Stripes fabrics, which include stripes of various widths, available both by the metre and in a choice of Pre-cut Packs, is Kaffe's collection of Plain Colours in Shot Cotton.
The fabrics were created as a response to the need for some plain and calmer blocks in Kaffe's quilts, and to isolate the richly coloured strips and floral prints.
Unlike normal; fabrics, which are woven from plain fabrics and then printed or dyed with a colour and/or pattern, shot cottons are woven using two different colours of hand-dyed cotton thread: one colour for the warp and another for the weft.
This combination of fibres gives these fabrics a soft, almost iridescent look, which is instantly appealing. No wonder they're proving so popular!
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Come and meet Kaffe and Brandon at Festival | | A week to go until The Festival of Quilts, and we're really excited we'll have both Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably on our stand at the show to launch Kaffe's brand-new book, Quilts in London | | |
They'll be with us on Stand G58 at 11am and 2pm on both Thursday August 1st and Friday 2nd, to sign books and talk about the quilts in the new book.
We'll also have the Fabric Packs to make the designs from the book and some Kaffe favourites – you can pre-order them online before the end of Monday, to collect at the show.
All the designs from the book are on our website – so don't miss out on your favourites, as they tend to sell really fast at the show.
| | Get comfy while you shop online in slippers made from your favourite fabrics | | |
Our Vanessa's been busy putting her best foot forward with this brilliant Mommy & Me Slipper Pattern from Cool Cat Creations
The pattern makes a whole range of sizes from children's to adult's (hence the name!) - here's a video of Vanessa in action last weekend:
| | Vanessa made the slippers using strips of the lovely Muse collection, by 3 Sisters for Moda Fabrics – and here's everything else you need to make them: | | Make pressing a pleasure with the very clever Oliso range of irons | |  | | | And here's the finished product, deftly modelled by our 'Mommy', Joy | |
...Or then again, you could start making stockings! | | This is the ever-so-angelic Christmas Stocking Panel from the brand-new festive fabric collection from Lewis & Irene, Away in a Manger | |
Drawing its inspiration from one of the oldest and best-loved Christmas carols.
dating back to the early 1880s, and sung in one of two musical settings.
The carol evokes the scene of the Nativity, and that's what's seen in the fabric collection, which includes a Double-edge Border Print showing the Magi journeying on ther camels, overseen by a sky full of angels.
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There's also a very festive Bunting Panel (above),which might be just the thing for decorating crib scenes or nativity plays, while the Advent Calendar Panel will have you counting down from the beginning of December.
All the fabrics, which are enhanced with glistening metallic detailing, are available by the metre or in a 15-piece Full Collection Fat Quarter Pack, (seen below).
And there's also a co-ordinating six-piece Fat Quarter Pack of Lewis & Irene's Bumbleberries blenders.
| Crib-sized Manger quilt kits, too | This is one of two Away in a Manger Quilt Kits, making up to a very crib-friendly 48in square. Designed by Sally Ablett, the kits contain all the fabric for the quilt-top, and include full instructions. | | Christmas has come early to Henley-on Thames! | | Want to buy a Seed Packet Quilt at Festival? We're just about to pack it! | | |
Opening Hours:
- Warehouse: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-4pm
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Marlow shop: Mon-Sat, 9.30am-5pm
- The Festival of Quilts is only just over a week away – are you ready?
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With The Festival of Quilts now just over a week away, we're busy preparing new collections and favourites for you: here's our Vanessa busy cutting the classic Kaffe Fassett Seed Packets Quilt Kit ready for the show.
Making up to 67.5x82.5in, this spectacular design is always a Festival favourite.
| | So if you're coming to Festival and don't want to miss out on this kit – or indeed anything else –, you can pre-order and collect there, just click the appropriate button on our online checkout, and we'll have your order waiting for you at the show. The button looks like this: | | For all your fabrics, wadding – and more... | | |
Visit us in Henley-on-Thames or Marlow
Whether you're one of our regular customers or coming to see us for the first time, we look forward to meeting you – we're sure you'll be amazed at what we have to offer, whether you quilt, sew, knit or crochet.
So why not come and experience Lady Sew and Sew for yourself? Or visit our Warehouse with a group of friends, whether it's a car-full or coachload of you.
We have lots of free parking for you all, space for coaches to set down and pick up, and we can organise a range of special talks and demonstrations for groups.
Check out our Coach Parties page for details, and to book your 2025 group visit.
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Click & Collect
As well as visiting us, you can of course also order online – and if you're local to Henley or Marlow, Click & Collect is available. Just order online or by phone, then pick up from the Henley Warehouse during office hours, or our Marlow shop.
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All you have to do is phone us on (01491) 572528 to order and arrange to collect from our Henley Warehouse or Marlow shop, or click the button in our online shop on check-out.
And if there's anything else we can do to help, just call in, phone, email or message us.
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