Olive Grace Studios: February 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Umm... Happy New Year!

Well Happy 2011 a month or so late. The last time I blogged was right after Country Living Fair in Atlanta. I look back at the fall and wonder where it went. Well what have you been up to? Here are some pictures of what I have been up to in the meantime!

Olive Grace in a Suitcase!

Wildwood Quilt Show 2010 I have to say this is one of the nicest quilt shows I have ever been to!

Hi Girls... Smile Pretty... Wave at the Camera... North Coast Needlers were so nice to invite me to their November Meeting and can't wait to see them again at their Quilt Show April 2 & 3 at the Westlake High School in Cleveland!

Country Christmas in the Gingerbread House.... mom like in years past open the house to show off some of our local artisans!

Merry Christmas says Libby Lou! I had to share this one from Christmas Morning!

All in all I have to say the closing of 2010 was great! 2011 is starting off well too. Things to look for from this little shop on a piggie farm...

1. The entire collection of Cosmo Floss (400 and some colors) has arrived and it looks like candy! Come in and see it...
2. Sue Spargo is coming back in April and the class is aalmost full!
3. I put together a bus trip to Spring Quilt Festival check out the website for details!
There are other fun things but i guess I should blog more often huh!? So keep and eye out...
Oh and...
4. On-line shopping.... you have been heard loyal shoppers! I can't speak enough of the people I have got to meet by traveling and vending at Country Living Fair(s)! Hopefully with on-line shopping you can experience Olive Grace from the comfort of home. I hope to have it running sometime this summer... Watch out!

I hope this blog finds you well and I promise to be more diligent in the next few months!
~kor

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.