My trip to Utah, New Mexico and Arizona ended last week with two days teaching at two shops that are located right next door to each other in Tucson AZ. Both stores are owned by Lena Tsuruda and used to be across town from each other. When Lena got the chance to move them together, she did.
The Sewing Room contains the BERNINA machines, a kazillion threads, embroidery supplies and designs, sewing machine needles and other machine related things. The Quilt Basket is a well supplied quilt shop with fabrics, books, patterns, notions and all the things we expect a quilt shop to carry -- and more! Both are beautifully decorated and fun to visit!
I started my photographic journey in The Sewing Room, but wandered all over both stores, camera in hand.....
The photo at left is part of the BERNINA display area; below is the BERNINA 820 on a frame with a beautiful star quilt displayed behind it.
This colorful and incredibly well-pieced, as in "You should SEE these points!", is the 2011 Raffle Quilt offered by the Tucson Quilters' Guild. If you would like to take a chance on winning this beauty, you can buy tickets at the Quilt Basket.
A glimpse into the Asian room at The Quilt Basket; Lena says she is ordering new Asian fabrics all the time for this part of the store and plans to expand this section.
Closeup of some fabrics and an issue of Asian Fabric magazine.
The fall quilt was particularly appropriate for the weekend before Thanksgiving!
This picture was taken from inside the store, but it is the front window display.....
...more of the same window display. Beautiful fall fabrics make a simple quilt special....
Some colorful quilts in the machine area....
Some pictures of the store show how well everything is displayed....
I've come full circle and am back in the machine area to get a picture of a smiling happy sewer and some of the beautiful threads....
I taught two days here and will post pictures of some of the fun things that we did!
The Sewing Room and The Quilt Basket are located at 6538 E. Tanque Verde Road, #130, Tucson AZ (phone: 520-722-8810). To go to their website, click here.
The Sewing Room contains the BERNINA machines, a kazillion threads, embroidery supplies and designs, sewing machine needles and other machine related things. The Quilt Basket is a well supplied quilt shop with fabrics, books, patterns, notions and all the things we expect a quilt shop to carry -- and more! Both are beautifully decorated and fun to visit!
I started my photographic journey in The Sewing Room, but wandered all over both stores, camera in hand.....
The photo at left is part of the BERNINA display area; below is the BERNINA 820 on a frame with a beautiful star quilt displayed behind it.
This colorful and incredibly well-pieced, as in "You should SEE these points!", is the 2011 Raffle Quilt offered by the Tucson Quilters' Guild. If you would like to take a chance on winning this beauty, you can buy tickets at the Quilt Basket.
A glimpse into the Asian room at The Quilt Basket; Lena says she is ordering new Asian fabrics all the time for this part of the store and plans to expand this section.
Closeup of some fabrics and an issue of Asian Fabric magazine.
The fall quilt was particularly appropriate for the weekend before Thanksgiving!
This picture was taken from inside the store, but it is the front window display.....
...more of the same window display. Beautiful fall fabrics make a simple quilt special....
Some colorful quilts in the machine area....
Some pictures of the store show how well everything is displayed....
I've come full circle and am back in the machine area to get a picture of a smiling happy sewer and some of the beautiful threads....I taught two days here and will post pictures of some of the fun things that we did!
The Sewing Room and The Quilt Basket are located at 6538 E. Tanque Verde Road, #130, Tucson AZ (phone: 520-722-8810). To go to their website, click here.
I love this shop! It is one of my favorites. It is so hard to go in there and 'be good'!
ReplyDeleteGreat Paula .. I am really surprised your Quilt basket. It was fantastic really ...
ReplyDeleteGood job !!!