Hours:
Mon.-Fri. 10:00am - 5:00pm 
Saturday 10:00am-4:00pm
507-359-2896

Owner: Val Besser

Stroll through this uniquely trellised garden
to find the ultimate in handcrafted quilts,
fabrics, books/patterns and quilting accessories.
This shop owner has been quilting for over 25 years
and brings skill and artistry, along with fun,
into her designs and classes! Visit and allow us
to help you find fabric, thread, and tools,
or that unique new pattern.

We'll help you 'spin' the creative quilter in you.

Join American Patchwork & Quilting and Spinning Spools Quilt Shop in donating 1 million pillowcases.  Stop in to see samples of free patterns that are available through www.allpeoplequilt.com    All pillowcases brought in will be donated locally.     For every pillowcase made with Spinning Spools fabrics that you bring in for donations,   you will receive a chance to win a $10 gift certificate. New drawings every month.  Kits available.

Book your date and time for a Tea Party in the garden next summer.  Morning? Afternoon? Evening?  May? June? July?  We have groups of friends, guilds, mothers/daughters.  We start out with a small hand project, then tea and snacks served to you! 

Prairie Piecemakers Quilt Guild of New Ulm is having their 3rd Quilt Show on March 26-27, Friday, 9-6 and Saturday 9-4.  It will be at the DAC building (formerly the Middle School)   15 N. State Street, New Ulm, MN.  Admission is $4.  There will be Vendors, Door Prizes, lunch available.

85 of Minnesota's best quilt shops participated this year!  Over 450 of you came through our shop during the 17 days of the 2009 hop.  Check out the Quilt Minnesota website to see some of the great happenings around the state.  This year's fabrics are posted too!

www.quiltminnesota.com   

New Ulm Shopping opener was November 6-7 and 13-14.  We had a Cocktail Cruise on Friday the 6th; Comedy night on Saturday the 7th.  The 13-14th was the ArtScape downtown New Ulm.  We had an artist featured in our shop, as well as many other shops.  A juried art show in the annex of the Museum.  Our featured artist demonstrated how she makes fused glass pendants and turns them into beautiful jewelry.    Check our ESP website for more details and pictures: www.shoppingnewulm.com

Marilyn Foreman, of Quilt Moments, spent Saturday, July 25 at Spinning Spools. She brought many of her quilts and patterns that she's designed. We had a show and tell of the quilts we did for our block of the month, weekend retreats, and classes.  We got to see, on paper, what her Block of the Month will be like that we will be doing. Marilyn will return to Spinning Spools on September 26 to demonstrate the technique used in the blocks and the beginning pattern. If you'd like to be a part of this program, stop in the store, call or e-mail to sign up so we have enough of the materials available.  Check the Classes page for more information.    

 "No Frills Bar Hop" bus trip.  Included in the trip were: "Gone to Pieces" in Kimball, "Quilts on Broadway" in Foley, "Heavenly Patchwork" in Waconia, "Quilting by the Hearth" in Lonsdale, then back home to "Spinning Spools" for show and tell.   The "Quilts on Broadway" group had a great time in New Ulm!
 

Have you seen the Southern Minnesota based "Connect" Magazine? They did an article on me and the shop!  Check it out at: www.connectbiz.com  Go to the archives, January 2009 issue, Hot Startz.