Calico Mermaid

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Downtown Porterville Art Walk

Candy Boulton was the featured artist at Calico Mermaid for the

January Art Walk in Downtown Porterville.

Candy, a retired teacher, is an award winning fabric artist.

She enjoys the work of designer & author Karen Eckmeier, traveling great distances to study with her.

Some of her amazing work is inspired from photographs taken while traveling.

Her quilted landscapes are incredible.

Join us downtown the first Friday night each month, 5-8 p.m. for the Art Walk. There are all kinds of artists showing their work in all kinds of venues. It's a great time to get together, go for a short walk, & enjoy the creativity of our locals. No charge, family friendly, what more could you ask?

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Mermaid's FINtastic Winter Mini Retreat

We had a great time at the mini retreat this weekend! We spent Saturday, Sunday, & Monday at the shop with our retreaty friends - eating - laughing - sewing - quilting.

Everyone is starting off the new year with a lot fewer unfinished projects & a bunch more friends!

Here are some of the projects they completed. Everyone is so talented.
I tried to take a lot of pictures, but everything was going so quickly & I messed up a lot of the shots....here are a few to show what a good time we had.

We even played some games & won some prizes. Guess who won the word search?

The Handi Quilter Avante stayed pretty busy all weekend. Rae Lynne quilted tops, Jenny quilted table runners, & Vicki quilted her beautiful jelly roll quilt.

Here's Shirley working hard!

Monday, December 24, 2012

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from all of us at Calico Mermaid!

We appreciate your business during the past year, & your friendship has been invaluable to us.

We love to have you come to the shop & share your life with us.

We love sharing your excitement over new skills, ideas, & projects.

We love to help you & we love the way you help us.

May you always be able to spend Christmas with those you love, doing exactly what you love.

Our quilty friends are the very best anywhere & we wish you all a Merry Christmas!

love & safe travels,

Richard, Georgia, Darlene, Dion, Jen, & Rae Lynne

Sunday, December 16, 2012

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Merry Christmas from all of us at

Calico Mermaid!

We appreciate your business, support, & friendship this year.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

2013 Hoffman Challenge

Hoffman Challenge fabric is finally here!

Look how gorgeous!

This year the Hoffman Challenge is celebrating its 24th Anniversary. The Challenge started with 94 enthusiastic quilters, and in some years, the number of entries has grown to more than 700. In addition to the three quilt categories (pieced, appliqué and mixed technique), new categories include clothing (wearable art), accessories, and dolls. While the majority of the entries come from the United States, a wide variety of international entries are received. Each year, the top entries are grouped into traveling collections and visit quilt and fiber shows, seminars, quilt shops and quilt- and doll-makers guilds nationwide and in Canada.