{"id":7440,"date":"2020-03-06T23:24:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T07:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=7440"},"modified":"2020-03-06T23:24:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T07:24:33","slug":"meet-road-vendor-one-sister-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/06\/meet-road-vendor-one-sister-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Road Vendor One Sister Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Road to California 2020-25th<\/sup> Anniversary Show was the first time for vendor One Sister Designs<\/a> to have a booth and meet their fans. Janet Nesbitt and her husband, Tom, were \u201cthrilled\u201d to be at the show. So thrilled, that they cancelled a scheduled vacation in Cabo in order to attend Road 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Farm Girl to\nEngineer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Janet was raised on a farm in Washington State. She learned to sew through 4H. When she came across a McCalls quilt pattern that had stars in the design, Janet wanted to try to recreate it for herself. So she adapted the pattern, cutting out her own stars using tissue paper and scissors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janet left the farm to attend college and graduated in civil engineering. Later, her young family moved to the Seattle area in the 1980\u2019s where she worked for the Navy and began taking sewing classes. Janet had all boys and quickly realized that there was no cute boy stuff, so she began designing her own boy baby quilts.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1990, Janet realized for the first time that she was a \u201cdesigner.\u201d She took an applique class taught by Sue Linker, the creator of Sunbonnet Sue<\/em><\/a>. <\/em>Ms. Linker gave permission to Janet to change Sunbonnet Sue <\/em>from a girl to a boy and put him in various farm themes. \u201cSue really taught me a lot\u201d about pattern designing, recalled Janet.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buggy Barn to\nOne Sister Designs <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Janet\u2019s first sewing business venture was Buggy Barn<\/em>, a quilt store in Reardon, Washington. It really was located in a barn, 25 miles from \u201ccivilization\u201d near Spokane. Under this name, Janet partnered with her sister and together they published 36 pattern books as well as designed fabrics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When her sister left their business, Janet closed Buggy Barn<\/em> and rebranded to One Sister Designs, an online-only retailer and wholesaler for her full line of unique quilt patterns and books. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2000, Janet began designing fabric for Henry Glass<\/a>. She does 5 fabric lines a year for them. Janet says a unique sense of color is the inspiration for her fabric lines, mixing prints and plaids. \u201cI have to have plaids\u2014plaids are my florals.\u201d Her standard formula for her fabric lines is a big and small plaid, a word design, and a stripe.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cCrazy\u201d\nPiecing Technique<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Using her\nengineering background, Janet and One Sister Designs has developed a popular\n“crazy” piecing technique. This trademark piecing method is easy and\nforgiving, ensuring quilting success for piecers of all levels. The method consists\nof:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Tracing the quilt block pattern, found\nin every One Sister Designs<\/em> book, on to freezer paper;<\/li>
  2. Putting the freezer paper on to a stack\nof 12-15 squares of fabric and cutting out the pattern on the lines, then<\/li>
  3. Taking the freezer paper off, and shuffling\nthe fabric squares before <\/li>
  4. Lastly, stitching all the pieces together.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    This method provides that no two-quilt block\u2019s material will\nlook exactly the same. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    \u201cMeeting all the people\u201d is why One Sister Designs goes to 4 \u2013 5 shows a year. They still open their barn occasionally to accommodate their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    To find out where One Sister Designs will be next, visit their website.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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