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Welcome to the Largest Quilt Shop in the
Des Moines Area!
Creekside Quilting has been in business for 16 years! We are a premier quilt shop, here in the middle of Iowa! We have over 5,000 bolts of fabric, a nice variety of wool, batiks, books, patterns, notions, Pfaff Sewing machines, and a wide variety of items that can not be found within a 100 mile radius available in our store. We specialize in helping each of out customers obtain the best products needed to create their most beautiful quilts. Many of our customers say, "we are their happy place"! Come in and check out the extensive selection of fabric, the beautiful samples, the kits, the notions, the books, the patterns, and more! You will love the bright lighting and the friendly, helping staff. Come for the fabric, stay for the fun! We are located in Clive, a suburb of Des Moines, and about 2 miles east from the I-80/35 Hickman exit. We are on the south side of Swanson Blvd., on the east side of the strip mall. We look forward to meeting you! Calendar
Take on the challenge of a larger applique project such as Sue Spargo, Heart to Hand, or any other project that you would like help with. In this class we will work individually on projects with assistance on color planning, preparation, stitching and quite honestly anything else you would like to discuss on wool appliqueing and embellishing. $120 for three full days of instruction
Learn the Studio 180 Design Tucker Tools in a hands on class. Bring your sewing machine and learn seven of the tools in a class taught by a Studio 180 Design Certified Instructor Rosella Hanson. Tucker Tools use a sew before you cut method to create blocks that trim up to the perfect size with a seam allowance. Deb Tucker creates tools with the math needed to oversize blocks with enough room to trim them down. The tools included will be the Wing Clipper, V Block, Corner Beam, Tucker Trimmer, Square Squared, Diamond Rects and Split Rects. Each tool makes blocks in multiple sizes. Come and make the size (or sizes) you want and learn how to incorporate the Tucker Techniques into patterns you already own. As a bonus there is an optional project for each tool. Stop in the shop to see samples of the blocks and the optional projects. Classes taught by Rosella Hanson, who is a Certified Instructor for Studio 180 Design. She has a long sewing and quilting history and has been actively quilting for 30 years. She has taught classes, has a pattern line Get the Point Quilt Designs, designed a Techniques Sheet for Studio 180 Designs and presents new ideas to other Certified Instructors.
We have had such an overwhelming request for more 1930's projects, that we are starting the Clothesline Club! We will meet monthly on the 4th Monday of the month from 1-4 pm. Each month we will focus on a 1930's block and it's history. We will also focus on a color of the month and hand out a scrap piece of reproduction fabric, that can be used in the next month's block. You can choose to make the focus 1930's block, or make a different one, using the scrap piece of reproduction fabric. By the end of the year, you will have made a minimum of 12 blocks to add to your 1930's quilt, and when people comment on your quilt, you can tell them a snip-it of history behind each block! Each month there will be show and tell, a teaching technique, history lesson, and time to sew! The cost is $20 for the year and if you bring a block each month for show and tell, you will receive the next month's pattern and color fabric free!