In Love, Again

Botany has arrived.
Says summer time to me.
Who can't love hidden spider webs and frogs.

A quilt to fold over the back of the rocking chair on the back porch must be made.

....and maybe a skirt

like this one (we have the pattern at the store)
In Leaves from the colorway bloom... and a yoke and hem trim in Seeds in bark.

A Celebrity in our Midst!

My copy of Food and Wine magazine came the other day. I open it and there is a beautiful feature on Walla Walla wine.

Kyle McLaughlin is featured there, but he's not the celebrity I'm referring to...


It's one of Stash's favorite customers, Island Ainsworth. Isn't she beautiful? She is proprietor of Saffron Mediterranean Kitchen and Pho Sho with her husband Chris. And there is more! Chris was named as a semifinalist by the James Beard Foundation as a Best Chef Northwest!

Colleen Blackwood's Quilts

Colleen Blackwood has special gifts. Her quilt designs, color and fabric combinations are inspirational. Her students exercise their "quilting muscles" in ways that produce amazing products.

Here's Pathway to the Stars...
...and here is Thicket.
She is scheduled to teach these two quilts of her designs here at Stash before she takes them off to the famous Sister's Outdoor Quilt Show in July where they will be featured.
If you are in beautiful downtown Walla Walla, come by and see them. Or better yet sign up for one or both of her classes here. Thicket will be taught May 15 and Pathway to the Stars will be taught May 28. One couldn't possibly regret spending the day with Colleen.

Making Lemonade!

We opened here on beautiful Palouse Street last summer, but it has looked like this since July.


Trucks, backhoes and dirt all over the place.

Our neighbor next door has created a solution (or at least is trying to adapt) to our lack of parking and the extra efforts our customers need to go through to get to us.

He has put this outside his door.

Eddie Walker Love!

We love Eddie here at Stash. Her creativity and enthusiasm is a great energy to be around.

She has an apron design that she is going to be sharing in a class here at Stash.

Here she has used the canvas weight Authentic fabric.

An Emergency Road Trip

It all started because we needed this for a class: The order didn't come in; it was Saturday and overnighting from somewhere to Walla Walla was too risky, but we found some here:

At Bear Paw Quilting in Coeur d'Alene. So Sunday morning Kathy and I jumped in the car. It ended up being a great day. It's so fun to see other stores...got some great ideas.

We also had a great lunch at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane. One day I will be a good blogger and show great pictures of the food we ate. Around the corner was the cutest little store called:

Ari and her husband couldn't have been nicer. She's designing patterns. Hope we can carry them here at Stash!

Here's a little taste of Buttercuppity. Gotta love the name!

The Circus is Coming!

Some kind of craziness overtook the Stashettes this morning....
You might hear from us, "We don't really carry novelty."

But here you have it. Was it the smell of the sawdust or the taste of cotton candy?

Two of us were so infected with the circus bug we actually got the other two to think Circus fabric is a great idea. It is so charming and engaging; I can't wait until we get it in!