Christine AbelaWeb Site Designer. Social Media Manager.

Sue Chesworth runs a lovely patchwork shop in Murrumburrah, NSW, Australia called The Quilters Stash.

She has a huge range of fabrics, especially bright and fun prints.  So when she wanted a web site, we know it had to be bright and happy!

You will find the web site we have built together at http://www.thequiltersstash.com.au

On the site you will find a wonderful range of fabrics.  Sue has been busy putting up other products as well, but still has a lot more to add, so if you can’t find what you are looking for, please email her.  Or join the mailing list so she can let you know when there are new goodies!

The little cotton caps that welders and construction workers like to wear under their helmets are now available online.  These are hand-made to order by Lori in Oklahoma, USA, and come in a very wide range of colourful fabrics.

Lori takes special care in making her 100% cotton caps, and can even make them fully reversible, in two different fabrics if you like.

Now you can have your very own caps made, in the fabrics of your choice, by ordering via her new web site, http://www.lorislids.com .  Yours will be truly unique, because with over 9000 possible combinations of fabrics (so far!), there surely won’t be another one like yours.

And if you want to make yours even more special, Lori can add monogrammed lettering at a very reasonable price, so everyone will know who it belongs to!

I invite you to visit Lori’s new site at http://www.lorislids.com , and to join her mailing list while you are there, so she can tell you about some new exciting products she has in the pipeline for next year.

Sharon Frazer’s shop Patches Indooroopilly in Queensland, Australia, is Brisbane’s oldest patchwork shop.  It was founded 25 years ago, and has been in its current location for 16 years.  It has been run by Sharon for the last 8 years, and she is very proud that all her staff are all experienced patchworkers.

She came to me for a new web site to replace the one she has had for several years.  The new site is, we hope, easier to order from and navigate than the old one, and has a fresh new look.  (If you are a regular visitor to the old site, and see the old site, with its blue and yellow patchwork down the side, when you visit, please click the F5 button on your keyboard to refresh the screen).

Sharon has a selection of her products available for sale on the new site, but there are a lot more to be added.  I encourage you to join her mailing list so you can be kept up to date as she adds new ones.

You can find Patches Indooroopilly at http://www.patches.com.au – enjoy!

Dahl Borck is a very energetic woman.  With a large family, and several online businesses, she is kept very busy!

I had already built http://www.pinelandscottage.com for Dahl, where she sells a HUGE range of craft products, especially for scrapbooking.  Then I built http://www.pinezilla.com where she sells jewellery.

Her latest venture is http://www.ATouchOfAroma.com .  Here Dahl has again put her own special stamp on a wide range of fragrance products.  She still has plenty to add to the site (join her mailing list so she can tell you when they are ready), but you will find candle-making supplies, home fragrances, reed diffusers and so much more.

I encourage you to visit A Touch Of Aroma at http://www.ATouchOfAroma.com – it’s a very pleasant experience!

Christine Ashe has a beautiful garden on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia. She has filled it with amazing stone and marble statues she has found on her regular buying trips to China.

And now you can visit Christine’s garden online at her new web site, and see some of the wonderful art works for yourself. Her new site is at http://www.chinesegardenstatues.com.au .

Because the statues are so large, and because each one is unique, you really do need to visit Christine’s garden to see them for yourself and bring them home. For this reason, I have built in a “pick-up only” option for the shipping.

Christine would love to have you join her mailing list, so she can let you know when she has new items available (she has a buying trip planned for February 2012).

I hope you enjoy her new site!

Suzan Saliba lives in paradise.

She lives in Queensland, Australia, near Mount Beauty and Ocean View, on 67 acres of simply gorgeous countryside. With bush, gardens, peace and quiet, what more could you want?

Well I’ll tell you! Suzan calls this place “Retreat For The Creative Soul”, and she would love to have you come to stay and relax.

On top of all that, there is even a Statler long-arm quilting machine on which Suzan can quilt your quilt top while you unwind. She also takes in quilts to quilt for those not lucky enough to be able to visit.

And if that still isn’t enough, she now has a wonderful online shop where you can buy lots and lots of quilting supplies. Suzan specialises in products for art quilts, and has a great range.

You will find her site, Easy Peasy Quilting, at http://www.easypeasyquilting.com .

In the new year, she hopes to start running classes – why not join her mailing list so she can tell you all about them, as well as her new products!

Sam has been working hard getting her new web site ready. Her business is called Ripple Patch, and she decided to have one of my Express web sites, so that she can do the design work (the “prettying up” part) herself. This way, she can change it whenever she wants to, and she doesn’t have to wait for me to be ready to do that part for her.

I think you will agree she has done a lovely job! Sam also has some great products on her site at http://www.ripplepatch.com.au. Hers is one of the most “complete” online patchwork shops I have seen, with everything you will need to make your next quilt, from needles and threads, through fabrics (pre-cuts or off the bolt), all the way to batting. She even has classes listed (run in NSW, Australia) to teach you how to do it all!

I have been watching Sam adding lots of lovely new products to her site, and I know she has more to go. I encourage you to join her mailing list so you can be kept up to date with her new products.

Dawn Cheetham and her friends have created some lovely quilting designs, and put them onto downloadable files for you.

She has all the classics – feathers, double wedding ring, cross-hatching – as well as some beautiful innovative styles like florals and petals.  And you can find these as borders, blocks, wholecloth, edge-to-edge and so much more.

You will find her new site here: http://www.justquiltingdesigns.com

Right now, they are only available as downloadable files in DXF format for the Statler machines.  But she is working hard to also produce them for Compuquilter (CQP format) and Intelliquilter (IQP format).  She also tells me that if you want a design in one of these formats (or another), and it isn’t up on the site yet, let her know by email and she should be able to help you out.  Join her mailing list to be kept informed of the latest designs and formats.

Of course, if you are not a longarm quilter, you can still take advantage of this site.  If you are having a quilt quilted for you by a professional machine quilter, let them know about this site, so they can download the design you want!

This web site was fun to do.  It is a great example of selling downloadable files online.  You, the customer, can choose the format you want, and as soon as you complete your payment you will get an email with your download link.  So you can start stitching straight away, even in the middle of the night.  This is a feature that is available on all the web sites I build – what could you sell as a downloadable file?  Patterns?  Classes?  Embroidery files?

Enjoy!

A REALLY quick note for a REALLY quick sale…

For the next 8.5 hours only – till 4pm Sunday 27 November 2011, Melbourne time, I am giving 12.5% off everything (except postage) on the site at http://www.cloverproducts.com.au .

I found out only yesterday that my supplier has a sale until just 5pm today, and so I am passing on the savings to you!  You will see the reduced prices on the site.

Yes, this is a new site and I haven’t got all the pictures up yet, but if there is anything you really want to see, let me know (soon) and I will try to get them up for you.

But I need to get the orders to the supplier by 5pm, so the sale ends at 4 today!

Helen Rhodes is a woman of colour.  Just look at the wonderful bright colours she has chosen for the web site we have just finished building together!

Right now, Helen only has her (HUGE) range of threads on the site, but she has a lot more products to add.  Helen’s home-run business in Western Australia also includes a range of ribbons, as well as a quilting service and classes.

Next year, she has big plans for guest tutors, including Lisa Walton of Dyed and Gone to Heaven and Caroline Sharkey, Textile Artist.  Lisa will be a guest tutor in June and Caroline in August.

Please visit Helen’s new site, Wattle Moon Quilting at http://www.wattlemoonquilting.com.au , and join the mailing list while you are there, to be kept up to date on all the news!