Olive Grace Studios: Fall'in into some fun new stuff....

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Fall'in into some fun new stuff....

It's hard to believe that it is August... but I guess I need to get a grip with it and make the best of getting out the fall and winter patterns. I don't want summer to end but honestly I am looking forward to cooler weather and of corse college football. I am thinking like 70 degrees when I can wear my favorite jeans and a cardigan!

Since vacation I have been trying to get this little shop ready for the up coming seasons. I have been pulling out new patterns and samples plus have hung up some new quilts and received some great new books and patterns! Plus Fabric.... I am gonna let the pictures below speak for themselves.

Just let it be Abbey Lane Pattern

Used Chenille and Ticking to add texture

Make Life: Go Round Pattern by Sweetwater

New Michael Miller Fabrics

Blackberry Primitive Patterns Designed by Maggie Bonanomi along

with her new BOOK Comfort Zone For Kansas City Star!!!!

other new Kansas City Star Books!

more great Michael Miller fabrics... I think theses are my favorite!

Last but not least pictures of the shop all fixed up!

Hope you enjoyed all the pictures I have been having fun taking them too! Next time I will have to show you a little project I am working on...

P.S. it's a really cute Hatched and Patched Pattern you will want to make one for yourself and a friend!

4 comments:

hand pecked debb said...: Love the orange and blue owls!; August 11, 2010 at 1:52 PM
Kori Turner (olive grace studios) said...: I know it is super cute! Its the whimsy and the designer is typically a paper person!; August 13, 2010 at 2:51 PM
Anonymous said...: your little shop is so cute...wished I could visit!; August 16, 2010 at 7:57 PM
Kori Turner (olive grace studios) said...: Thanks Christine!; August 17, 2010 at 1:24 PM

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The Olive Grace Story

5 years has come and gone and oh how things have changed!

What is Olive Grace Studios ?
It is a sweet little quilt shop and a pattern and design company!

Who is behind Olive Grace Studios?

Me (Kori Turner-Goodhart) and the people that inspire me and the memory of people who I have loved and lost.

Since I was a little girl my mom and grandmas’ took me in and out of little quilt shops and surrounded me with fabric. I believe this is where the dream of opening a quilt shop all began. When I went away to college this enigma was put on the back burner. I received a B.F.A. in Interior Design from Savannah College of Art and Design and headed off to the corporate world of Interior Architecture. The path of climbing the corporate ladder was not for me and I looked back at the dream I had once envisioned. So I packed my apartment up in Washington D.C. and Dad moved me home to Fowler! I opened my little quilt shop in hopes of sharing my experiences through my pattern, hand picked sewing goods and gifts. Now I am designing and using the Olive Grace Studios brand as a path way to great things in the quilting industry.

Where is olive grace Studios, llc (an eccentric quilt shop)?

The little red school house at my parent’s home and my sewing studio in my home basement!

What is so ironic about my idea is that in the late 50’s the Dewitt sisters who’s family originally built my family’s home saved the schoolhouse from becoming a garage. The sister’s moved the one room schoolhouse to our property to become a retail space and McGuffy Reader Museum. They to had a big idea…Mable’s was to provide our community with music lessons and Evelyn’s was to have a quilt shop and classes. Although the sisters never opened their own shop I hope in some way I am making their dream come true too.