Spotlight on Dewberry Lane & Giveaway

I’m excited to share a little about Rachel, a new crafty business owner and the woman behind Dewberry Lane, an online shop for quilting notions and sewing supplies! She also blogs at Scrapendipity Designs if you’d like to say “hi.”

Rachel, welcome to Craft Buds! Can you tell me a little bit about yourself?

I live in New Hampshire with my lovely husband and awesome son. I have many interests, including Revolutionary War Reenacting, but my favorite hobby is of course quilting!! I learned to quilt 12 years ago, but really started being passionate about it in the last 4 years or so. Quilting is a wonderful creative outlet for me, and I am slowly learning my own style. I am a quirky kind of girl, so that often comes out in my quilts. Like many others, my to-be-finished pile is much longer than my finished pile, because I have more ideas than time.

Quilt blocks by Rachel

Where did you get the name for your quilting notions shop, Dewberry Lane? How did you decide to get started?

Dewberry Lane was actually the name I thought of for another project. I was looking into starting a digital scrapbook store, and purchased the domain for that. The store never took off, but I kept renewing the domain anyway because I really liked it. When I purchased my longarm machine a year ago, my husband and I were talking about quilting and quilting as a business and I mentioned to him that I would love to own a quilt store. He asked me why I couldn’t, and that got me started down the path of opening the store. When it came time for the name, I knew Dewberry Lane was it. It was a perfect fir for the store, and I was glad I held on to it for all those years.

Quilt block from Rachel

If you were stranded on a desert island with your sewing machine, designer fabrics, and only 3 other quilting tools, what would they be?

A small hand needle, freezer paper, and scissors. (And I assume thread, too?) I would use a hot rock as a makeshift iron, and go to town with applique. Although I love all kinds of sewing and quilting. If I was going to be stuck for years on end, I would choose to do applique because there is just such a myriad of design choices. Plus it takes so dang long to do, when the rescuers come to get me, I might be asking them for just a little more time!!

Patterns at Dewberry Lane

What fabrics are you loving right now?

I am not always up on the latest fabrics; it’s just not my forte. I believe in specializing in what you know, and I know tools. I love patterns, books, thread, special rulers, fusibles . . . anything that can make my life easier when quilting. I leave the fabric choices to other stores that can do it so much better than me. I personally love scraps. If I could have a store filled with scraps, and people wanted to buy that, I would do that in a heartbeat (hmmmm maybe there is an idea there).

My favorite thing is to get scraps from other people because I rarely buy quantities of fabric, so this allows me to get small pieces of fabric I would have never thought to buy myself (anyone want to trade??). But if I had to choose a line, I would have to say that I am totally crushing on last year’s Dr. Seuss fabrics. This has been one of the very few lines of fabrics where I bought every single pattern in the line. I have already made a few tops with it and have plans for a few more.

Dr. Suess quilt

Giveaway!

Rachel is generously giving away a $30 gift certificate to her shop to one lucky reader! To enter:

  1. Leave a comment telling me one product you love from her shop. (one entry)
  2. Sign up for her newsletter (link in the left sidebar of this page), and leave a second comment. (one entry)

Rachel holds a free pattern drawing each month for newsletter subscribers! Giveaway is open worldwide, and we’ll choose one winner on Thursday, July 28th at 11:59pm. Thanks Rachel!

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Hi, I’m Lindsay Conner, an author, modern quilter, editor, and founder of the Lindsay Sews blog. I’m a Baby Lock ambassador and Stash Books author who loves writing modern sewing and quilt patterns for beginners and weekend sewists! I live in Indianapolis, Indiana with my husband, son, and two loveable cats, Murph and Chloe. I’ve been crafting for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I saved my dollar bills for trips with my mom to Jo-Ann Fabrics, where I’d find new floss for friendship bracelets or mini cross-stitch kits. Because my mom has always shared my love for crafting, she bought me my first sewing machine, a Hello Kitty Janome.

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  1. I love the Cutting Edge rulers. I haven’t seen them in person, but they seem like a really good idea.

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  3. I just signed up for Rachel’s newsletter and if I had to pick just one product from her shop it would be the accuquilt go! fabric cutter. I have been eyeing these for quite a while but just haven’t broke down to spend the money. They look like an awesome tool!

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  4. I love the Eli the Elephant pattern. I would love to make that in lots of fabrics for future grandchildren!

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  9. I would get the Dear Jane book. I’ve been thinking that I should take the first step to that quilt. Which, of course, is buying the book and dreaming of making it for a year or two 🙂

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  30. I would love to have the AccuQuilt GO! I’m sooooo wanting one of these but I can’t spend the money right now to get one! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  32. I would love to have the book, Word Play Quilts! Lots of good stuff for quilters in this shop!

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  34. My favorite thing from the shop is the Dear Jane software. I just got the Dear Jane book and realize that I’m going to need the software…so if I win I’ll be able to get it!

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  39. What a great shop, I think my favourite thing is the Kate Conklin Skittles and Off the Rails E-Pattern. Thanks for a great giveaway!

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  41. I do love the Kate Conklin quilt patterns. I would also love to get a few more quilting rulers. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  48. I am in the “softie” mode I guess because I kept going back to the Elephant and Hippo patterns.

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  51. I really like the Honey, Honey pattern by Tula Pink. I’ve come across it before and admired it… from a distance. I am way to chicken to attempt it. Thanks for the intro to Dewberry!

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  53. So many things to love. Right this minute my favorite thing is the “There’s a Square in There” pattern from Kate Conklin.

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  74. Love all the quilt patterns but the little Elephant is absolutely adorable! I’m signing up for her newsletter too!!!

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  78. Eli the soft elephant,grabbed my attention first but so did the prices of the Accuquilt Go Cutter and dies, very reasonable! Lots of notions I’d like, even the cute and colourful font is worth a mention. Great website for all sorts of quilty reasons. So I signed up.

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  79. Well I should have only picked one thing from the shop that I liked and if that is true then the name is just fantastic…I want to stroll down to Dewberry Lane and have a chat and a cup with Rachel and find out how her quilting is getting along today.While I’m there I might pick up some delicious thread and a new pack of bright sharp needles and come home inspired to make something lovely too.

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  86. I love all the rulers. But, since that is more than one thing, I’m going to have to go with the Word Play Quilts book.

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  87. I love quilting books. I’d probably get one of those. I also love the patterns for the stuffed toys too. My girls would love them.

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  90. Sounds crazy but…the flowerhead pins. Now that I’m starting to use better fabrics with tighter weaves, I find my pins dull and thick. Silly! I love scraps too. My collection is not huge, but a trade is not out of the question!

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