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ROAD TRIP
For a couple of people that don’t go anywhere, Carl and Liz have been to Atlanta and Yellowknife in short order. They loved each trip. One trip was to learn and the other trip ended up with them falling in love with the Northwest Territories. Who knows where they will go next. But they didn’t forget their quilters. Look at their give away.
Our gift to you for your road trip will be a Road Trip panel to each customer who spends $30.00 or more before taxes.
What’s new?
The courier delivered some very exciting African themed fabric and Liz is wondering if this will work for a quilt for her friend’s daughter’s wedding quilt. Always thinking. We saw this fabric in the Convergence Quilt while we were in The Northwest Territories.
We are very excited about the Marti and Me Club… add the Muffins.
We still want to play with the Texture Magic… when we stay home to play.
Meals on Wheels: LAST WEEK TO PARTICIPATE.. we are asking our quilters to please make a good size napkin in whatever fashion you feel would work and bring it in before the Feb. 9th. There are about 35 Meals on Wheels participants and we would like each of them to get a little nice surprise on Valentine’s week with their meal. We have heard so many positive responses from your generosity that your heart would grow like the Grinch on the Dr. Suess story. Bring in your contribution soon. We thank you for this and so do the participants in Meals on Wheels.
In store Batiks are 40% off… Come and get your heart’s desire! Better than the Birthday Sale Savings!
WORKSHOPS
OUR WORKSHOP POLICY IS THAT ALL WORKSHOPS ARE PREPAID AND IF THERE ARE LESS THAN FOUR CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS THE WORKSHOP WILL BE CANCELLED. IF WE CANCEL THE WORKSHOP YOUR MONEY WILL BE RETURNED HOWEVER IF YOU DO NOT SHOW UP THERE WILL BE NO REFUND. WE APOLOGIZE TO THE MAJORITY OF OUR QUILTERS WHO ACTED RESPONSIBLY. WE ARE VERY SAD TO HAVE TO INSTITUTE THIS POLICY.
Basic Sewing kit for most workshops: sewing machine in good working order, sewing machine manual, thread, thread scissors, seam ripper just in case, tape measure, bobbins filled and ready to go, pattern, fabric, notebook, pen, and your appetite. Please do not arrive more than 30 minutes ahead of your scheduled workshop time. It may interfere with other activities in the workshop area. Also it gives us time to make the coffee and tea and set up for your workshop. We appreciate your enthusiasm and will very much appreciate you thinking of us setting up for you.
B is for Beginners… Build your skills and get together once a
week. This will be a Monday morning get together and the details are still
undefined. The group will be designed for the new to quilting person and
we will decided projects together as we work together, Let us know what you
are interested in learning and doing, We are here for you! Workshop will
begin when we have interest. Don’t be shy all of us had to start first
before we ended up where we are. Template and book purchase required. We
will meet Monday mornings from 10:00 till 1:00 for the cost of $10 per
session. We will begin the second Monday in February. We will learn how to
use Marti Michell templates and work through her encyclopaedia of patterns.
Learn to Quilt: Our program starts at the beginning and after 8
weeks you will have a usable quilt. It will be a constructive top sewn to a
batting and backing and bound so you can declare I made This! You are not
left with a quilt top with a number of quilt blocks that you couldn’t
reproduce if a gun was held to your head. You will have a quilt finished to
keep you warm and appreciate. Workshop fee is $100.00. You will receive a
10 % discount on purchases for this workshop to make your way into quilting
easier. Fabric choices and size choices are your own. You can make a crib
or lap size quilt. We want to keep the size to a minimum so you can work
through the entire process and quilt on your machine a project that you can
be proud of and show to your friends. People entering into this program can
also commit to the Marti Me and Muffin Club. It will not be too difficult
and will assist you into entering the quilting world without a lot of
expense. It could also keep you becoming friendly with your sewing machine
which may or may not be a concern. Liz and her machine conflict regularly.
Workshops begin Monday March 8th 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Build your own class: Do you have a group of friends that would like a special class just for you? Talk to us and we will do our best to provide you with a personalized class that suits your timetable. This could be a weekday, evening or weekend class. Bring a couple of dates and the project and let us see what we can do to accommodate you and your friends. We can also set up a lock in where you and your friends come in and have a pot luck dinner and sew all night. (or as long as you can stand it)
Case of the Substitute Teacher: Earlier we offered this as a
mystery quilt. Now we are offering it as a workshop suitable for quilters
who want to see the finished project and work through the clues with
instruction and guidance. You have a choice of sizes, wall hanging 42 X 42
inches using 10 fat quarters or double it by using 10 pieces of ½ meter and
end up with a full size quilt. This uses Perfect Patchwork Templates Set
L. (We also have another club using these templates so you will have lots
of opportunity to use these templates and fall in love with them). This
class will be 5 workshops, one every other week beginning Wed. Jan. 27, Feb.
3, Feb 10, Feb. 17th, Feb. 24th.
CLUBS
Thursday Get Sewing Club: Let’s meet every Thursday and sew together. We can finish up things we have on hand or pick a project and learn it together. Share our talents, teach each other new skills and have a friendship day. We will gather at 10:00 in the morning and work until about 4:00p.m. We can have a pot luck lunch each week and enjoy a lot of laughs and learning. Club fee is $20.00 and entitles you to 3 months of friendship AND 30% off your backing fabric for one project. This club will begin Jan. 7th. We hope you are interested.
Sewing Sisters: So what if we aren’t sisters by blood sew together and have a family affair. This club will work on individual full size projects Fridays from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00p.m. Club fee is $20 and entitles you to all the sewing Fridays and a 30% on your backing fabric for your project. A new club will begin Jan. 8th and run until the last Friday in March. THIS CLUB IS FULL. THANKS.
Sunday Scrappers: We all have bits left over from our projects and being quilters we just can’t toss them away. Have you seen the show on TV Hoarders? We don’t want to be a feature on that so what can we do? Let’s meet every Sunday from Noon until 4:00 and work on reducing the scraps. Together we will come up with ideas that lead to a plan to reduce the bits in our sewing area and create a wonderful end result. Session one will run from Sunday Jan. 10th until Sunday March 28th. Club fee is $20 and all the ideas you can bring with you. We have quite a few in our pocket already. This is a great way to exchange ideas, broaden your imagination and create something from the bits.
Saturday Sleuths: We are offering another Marti Michell Mystery Quilt. The finished project is a wall hanging approximately 50 “x 50”. This club welcomes new quilters and experienced. In the first class we will cut our fabrics using Marti’s templates and get ready to solve the case. For any quilter not comfortable with selecting fabric for a mystery project, feel free to pick a border print and we will pick the rest of your fabrics if you trust us. We understand that fabric choices are difficult for most quilts but for a mystery even harder to choose. This club uses Marti’s template sets Q and R and her Flying Geese Ruler. You may already be aware that we run programs that reuse Marti’s templates and rulers so you get great value and we follow Marti’s philosophy on customer service. If your time is short and you cannot make every clue session, please don’t worry. We understand. The first session is designed to help all quilters understand how to cut with templates and be confident that they have cut what they need. Club meets every other Sat. morning at 8:30 – 10:00 for 5 weeks and will begin in the year new. Membership fee is $35.00 for all sessions. First session we will be cutting so leave your machines at home and join us Sat. Feb. 20th. Per registration is required.
Block of Every Other Week: Marti Michell has created a new program called American Beauty. It uses her template set L… remember we used this set previously. We have found the fabric Marti used in her quilt. There is a light and dark option in the border fabrics and both look lovely. We are offering a prepaid method of all the fabrics to makes this quilt which measures 84” X 104” for $275.00. This will make the complete top and will be presented in a matching Wild Roses reusable tote. We will not be cutting the fabrics into the pieces for each block or border or sashing pieces so you may be able to have a little extra to make a complimentary project. This is a limited offer and we will meet every other week to discuss the blocks and show what we have completed. Beginning Sat. Feb. 27th and ending Sat. July 31st. Remember we have no demerit points for non appearance. We must have a commitment by Jan. 31st to advise our supplier.
Marti and Me and Muffin Club: Marti’s products are just so amazing we had to sign up for her club. We went to Atlanta to learn from Marti first hand how this will work. This is a once a month club on Saturday mornings. The projects are small and we suggest you make each one and stash it away as Christmas or hostess gifts so when December comes along you will not be caught short. Liz will have the coffee and a treat ready for you and we will meet to see how to use a different Marti Michell tool each month. We will get together at 9:00 for a demonstration on how the featured tool will work. You are not obligated to purchase the tool. You will receive an exclusive pattern not available to non members of the club and we are all aware of copyright laws RIGHT! The first month we will put all the members’ names into the pot and will have a draw for prizes and the following months the members who bring in the finished project will put their name into the pot for another draw. Membership for 6 months is $20.00. Imagine 6 patterns, 6 coffee/tea and snacks and the friendship plus the free draws for only $20! Wonderful. First club meeting Sat Feb 27th and the fourth Sat. of each month until July. The first project features batiks. But you can use whatever you like.
The local guild, Quilting Corners Guild, is hosting the Spring Interguild Meeting. This is a very important and informative meeting helping guilds provide information to each other. Let’s see how we can support this meeting.
Don’t forget to check out our upcoming events to see what we are participating in locally in the quilting world. There is so much going on you won’t want to miss a beat. Get out your calendars and make some plans. In May we are involved in the Goose on the Loose Shop Hop and each shop has a demonstration. We are going to be demonstrating Marti Michell’s Log Cabin Ruler and you won’t believe what you can create with just this ruler. Many of you know I am not a fan of the Log Cabin but Marti has changed my ways. I have made a table runner with her ruler and thinking I may even go further with this. Am I nuts or is Marti a genius?
Battings: Buy your batting by the meter and save! We have 100% bamboo, Hobbs Heirloom and Warm and Natural, Poly Down, Thermore, as well as Thermolan Plus. FUSIBLE batting has been discontinued by our supplier. We apologize to all our quilters who loved it. … Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 is at our every day price of $9.50/m and it is 96 inches wide. 120 inch wide 100% bamboo batting selling for $20.25/m. We know it quilts up clean. It does feel very nice and bamboo is a renewable resource. If you are purchase a roll of bamboo batting it is 30 meters of 120 inches wide and costs $450.00. We have Tuscany Wool batting an organic batting for a lofty look. We carry a selection of pillow forms and stuffing and can order in any special size that you may require that we may not have in stock. Wool batting is available prepackaged in a queen size by request. Silk batting can be brought in prepackaged for your requirements as well. . If you require a different size please let us know and we will get it for you. If you are looking to purchase an entire bolt please let us know and we will order it and phone you when it arrives. Please keep in mind when we have a fabric sale, batting is also included in that sale.
Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 natural color batting is 96 inches wide and comes in a 30 YARD bolt. $200.00
Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 bleached (if there is a lot of white in your quilt this is great) is 108 inches wide and comes in a 30 YARD bold. $300.00
Hobbs Polyester batting is 108 inches wide, white and comes in a 30 YARD bolt. $225.
100% Bamboo batting. 120 inches wide 30 meter bolt. $450.00
Bamboo batting is now available in a 96 inch wide by the meter or part meter. Nice way to see if you like this batting. $16.25/m.
Quilt Stencils: We have expanded our quilting stencils and were surprised at how excited people were with our choices. Thanks for the encouragement. We keep changing our stock just to make it interesting for you.
Buttons: Lately lots of knitters have been coming in and are so excited that they can find buttons for their projects. We carry what we believe you are looking for so let us know any special requests and we will try to provide. You should see out big bag of Christmas inspired buttons… wow!
Pillows and Stuffing: We usually have some on hand but at this time of the year we are stocking up for those gift giving projects. High quality pillows and stuffing are in stock and if we don’t have your size just let us know and we will try to get it for you.
Cones of Thread: For the serious quilter or just those of us who don’t like to run out and want to save a bit of money. We carry a polytwist thread for piecing and machine quilting. This is not a serger thread. We also have cones of YLI and King Tut Variegated threads for machine quilting.
Silk Thread: We carry a selection of YLI silk thread which is perfect for hand appliqué. $6.29/spool.
This recipe is so easy that you won’t be able to accept the compliments without blushing! Thanks Mom! You came through again for me. But gee did it have to add inches to my bottom line?
Peanut Truffles
Melt together
8 oz. chocolate chips
2 tblsp butter
Mix
2 tablespoons peanut butter
¼ cup icing sugar
2/3 cup whipping cream
Roll into balls and roll in coating of your choice, chopped nuts, cocoanut, sprinkles
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