Craft Focus - April/May 2021 (Issue 84)

47 USA COMPANIES Acr oss the pond meri an companie ready to be stocked in your store  C+T PUBLISHING DISTRIBUTED BY SEARCH PRESS Create Landscape Quilts allows you to create unique art quilts of your favourite places and the places you want to go! Meri Henriques Vahl shares her simple yet unique method for quilting realistic nature scenes and villages from fabric. The author teaches others how to use her favourite techniques in their own art quilts and lectures at quilt guilds in the USA and around the world. She lives near California, with her family and two rowdy felines. sales@searchpress.com www.searchpress.com www.meriartquilts.com CHECKER DISTRIBUTORS Checker Distributors is family owned, helping independent shop owners to be successful. Checker Distributors offers more than 120,000 products and is a leading supplier of quilting and sewing products. The independent shop owner is its target customer. Checker is a true one-stop shopping. The company’s website has tools to check stock availability, top selling, status of backorders, review old invoices, and more. Checker even offers online chat and the international customer service team is always available by email. Checker’s top selling brands are the ‘must have’ notions and fabrics that quilters use. There are more than 1,000 vendors including very popular brands as OmniGrid, Olfa, The Gypsy Quilter, and Clover notions; Hobbs and Bosal batting; Aurifil and Mettler thread; Wilmington Prints, Timeless Treasures, Benartex and Michael Miller fabric; Atkinson and Martingale patterns and books. The company encourages customers to browse the thousands of different vendors on its website conveniently sorted by product category. Checker is very excited to offer a shipping solution to its existing and future customers in Europe. Purchases will be a consolidated shipment via FedEx, with no weight requirements. Checker is offering three business days shipping from USA to Europe VAT free. Gypsy Quilter The Gypsy Quilter has been developing creative, useful, and innovative tools for the quilter and sewers ever since 2007. Wherever there’s a need for a tool to make things easier and more productive the company develops a product to fill that need. Wool Mats: Press any pieced or embroidered block with ease. The density of this high-quality 100 per cent felted wool mat absorbs seams and stitches, effectively pressing both sides at once. Block knitted projects as well by pinning them directly to the mat. The texture of the wool stops fabrics from shifting so there’s no distortion when pressing. Made in the USA. + 001.419.893.3636 custservice@checkerdist.com www.checkerdist.com