421 Main Street
Pecatonica, IL
(815) 239-1026

A small town shop with lots of fabric, books, patterns, and notions for quilting.
Come to Lucky 2B Quilting for classes, clubs, beginner lessons, or custom work.

 

Clubs

Lucky 2B Quilting hosts several clubs at meet at regular times during the month.
Want to enjoy a topic, quilting, or just the company of other quilters?

Farmer's Wife Sampler Club

Thangles Buck-a-Block

Cora Jo's Circle

Moda's Baker's Dozen

Sampler

Calendula Patterdrip

Civil War Club

Purses or Totes

 

 

 

Farmer's Wife Sampler Club

Two to four blocks will be featured each month.

Come in the last Saturday of the month (except December!) at 9:00 if you would like a demonstration of how to make the blocks.

Techniques using rotary cutting, Thangles, Easy Angle, hand piecing, and freezer paper templates will be shown. There are 111 blocks in the Farmer's Wife Sampler book.

You are not required to stick with the club to make all of these; you can make as many or few blocks as you wish.

Are you interested in Lucky's challenge?

Do NOT buy any new fabric! Use from your stash
--OR --
or buy Lucky's scrap bags.

As we get rolling along in the club, members will be asked to share farmer's wives tales, recipes, gardening and animal care tips. Some of these will be posted on the website.
Purchase of the book is required.

Club fee each month is $2.00 plus tax for each block featured that month BUT if you attend on Saturday with completed blocks to show, the total cost is $1.00 plus tax for each block featured that month. Club members are welcome to come in and sew their blocks with assistance or make up a missed Saturday class any 1st Tuesday from 10:00 - 7:00.

 

Thangles Buck-a-Block

Series 8: Possibilities

Thangles make diagonal blocks easy!

1) Here is a Boy sample block or you can substitute pinks for a Girl

 

2) Civil War reproductions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3) Fig Tree

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4) Use a different color for each of the twelve months with flowery flip flop border or substitute any of the twelve month's colors for the border

 

 

5) Come in and create your own!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cora Jo's Circle

Block of the Month 2012

Beginning in January

Cora Jo's Circle is a queen sized quilt designed from original 30's patterns. There are 12 blocks plus a center block. You can opt to make a smaller quilt if you leave out the center block.

Blocks use three different 1/4 yard pieces OR leftover pieces from previous blocks.

Now is the time to use some of your stash or you can get kits with new fabrics.

Options:
1) Come in and pick up patterns anytime each month OR
2) Attend class demo and/or stay and sew the 2nd Tuesdays at 10:30 or the 3rd Saturdays at 2:00.

Cost: $2.00 per month for pattern or $20.00 at the beginning for all the patterns.
You will need to purchase the background fabric (Kansas Troubles is done with various background fabrics) and patterns. Kits and 1/4 yard cuts will be available each month but feel free to use from your own stash too. New 30's and batik fabrics are expected to arrive by January.

Will mail kits upon request.

Lucky and Shy Cleo (edge of photo on right) check out the new Cora Jo's Circle Blocks in the three colorways. Sally, Pauline and Polly have chosen to do this in very different types of fabrics (30's, batik and Kansas Troubles). Can you guess who has done which?

 

 

 

This picture shows progress on the 30's version.
It just needs outer border. Come see the finished one!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moda's Bakers Dozen

Begins in January

Thirteen pieced blocks from Moda's designers use three fat eighths each. Two setting options are available. You choose your color scheme and fat eighth cuts each month. Just let us know what you would like so we have it available. (Actually there are 15 blocks so that if you do not like a couple blocks you can substitute ones you do like. )

Here are some examples:

reds, whites and blues
black, tan, and creams from Primitive Gatherings
anything in Kansas Troubles
anything in Me & My Sister brights
dark blue, light blue and white

Have the idea?

Demo, show & tell, and/or sit and sew time available

$5.00 per month includes 3 fat eighths, pattern and recipe
Options:

1) Come in and pick up your pattern and recipe anytime during the month or

2) Come in the 1st Fridays at 9:00 or 3rd Tuesday at 6:30 for demo and/or sit and sew time

Will mail kits upon request.

 

This picture shows some of the blocks.

 

 

Two colorways and styles of the quilt patterns are completed below

 

 

 

Sampler 3

 

Twelve 12" blocks will be presented with a lesson featuring specific quilting techniques. This sampler can be done by a beginner but also offers options for more challenge for the advanced quilter.

Stay and sew the block or take it home.

Start ANYTIME

$6.00 / month ($7.00 / month for batiks)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Calendula Patterdrip

 

Meets on first Tuesdays at 1 or 6 pm.

A witch-y assortment of blocks!
What should be in your witch-y cottage?

Piece assorted blocks with a block-a-month or pick up the whole thing at once. Add some embroidery using Cosmo variegated thread.

Full payment for pattern, thread and stitchery fabric is required the first month. Additional fabrics are needed and may be purchased all at once or as you go along.

Crayons are also needed.

 

Civil War Club 2

 

Begins anew in January 2012!

Join anytime. Meets the last Thursday of the month at 10:30. (Not November or December, due to holidays)

$10 includes 2 fat quarters of your choice, pattern and lecture

Civil War Love Letters (discount on book purchase offered to club members) or Path to Civil War book required

Each month, rotary cut pattern directions are given to make Civil War era 6", 9" or 12" finished blocks with a lecture about Civil War history /Civil War era fabric history. A piecing demo is included with show and tell time of finished blocks and quilt projects. Once a year, a guest speaker is invited. Make however many blocks you wish. Additional fabric is available and needed for background and finishing. Civil War Club 2 options include repeating blocks done the past 3 years from Civil War Love Letters, continuing with blocks not done yet in Civil War Love Letters, and/or Path to Civil War.

 

 

Civil War Path

 

A completed Year 1 Civil War Path quilt by Donna Bramer

 

Donna Bramer's top for the Second Year Civil War Path quilt.

 

Civil War Club in October 2011 - costumes, guns, quilts

 

 

 

General and Mrs. Grant came to visit the Civil War Club in February.

 

 

 

 

 

Purses or Totes

Pick up a pattern and receive guided assistance, if you want.
Fabric kits will be available or choose your own fabrics.

Peeps

 

Big Bag

Victory Bag done in green wool

 

Folding Wallets

 

Pinwheel Tote

 

 

Teri Atkinson comes through with another cute purse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reader Wrap - Holds your Kindle or Nook

 

  

   

Questions? call Polly at

(815) 239-1026

or email: info@lucky2Bquilting.com