Weekly Email Newsletter
September 3, 2010
Hi everyone,
Labor Day weekend. Doesn't seem possible does it? Some of the schools here at the shore have started already, my nephew in FL has been back to school for two weeks already - and he's not happy about it either. He can already tell you how many more days of "torture" he has until school lets out in May.
We don't have to go back to school but if you're in the area, we're having a "Back To Sewing" financing deal through September 12th. Call the shop for details - 12 or 18 months interest free with minimum payments on all sewing machines, sewing cabinets and embroidery software. Don't miss this deal!
Jim and I are just back from Baby Lock Tech - the dealer convention for Baby Lock sewing & embroidery machines and sergers - in St Louis. Check out my blog for pictures and some details. I took two embroidery classes with Simon Haskins and another fiber artist class and actually came home with THREE finished projects! Yes, I'm stunned too. Usually, I come home 
with pieces of a project that I have really good intentions to finish, and then, well, you know what happens. Pieces get lost, I forget how to finish, I decide I really didn't like it anyway . . . . sometimes it's just a lost cause. Here's a picture of my tree AND IT LOOKS LIKE A TREE! Ok, it's really not finished since it needs borders but heck, the tree is finished!
Go to the Quilting Possibilities TV channel on YouTube - click here - and there you'll see two videos that I posted about Baby Lock Tech. Again, remember I am a quilter and not a videotographer!
Heat Press Batting Tape is new! 1-1/2in x 10 yard roll cloth tape that will fuse two edges to of batting together. It's soft, its thin, it stretches, its needle easy for hand or machine quilting. This can be used on any batting fabric content. Click here for details.
The first of three collections, this lace ornament Christmas multiformat CD is available now while supplies last! Purchase $79 worth of OESD stabilizers, threads or design packs and this CD is free! Click here for details. Another collection will be available in Oct and another will be available in Nov. We can only guarantee availability of these CDs until Sept 12. Don't delay, order yours today!
Debbie's Weekly Quilting Tip - From Nancy Zieman - Slip a small piece of vinyl tubing (found at a hardware store) over the point of your scissors. It will keep the tips safe and sharp while they’re in a drawer or in your sewing bag.
Coming Up At QP:
Enjoy a monthly get together where club members can laugh, learn, and be inspired by creative ideas! We'll teach a new technique each month for fun little projects that will be perfect to make for gifts or to keep for yourself. Sat, Sept 18th at 9am. Click here to register.
All About Me (Machine Embroidery) is next Friday at 10am. The topic is placing your embroidery where you want it to go. Open to all brands of embroidery machines. Call the shop to register.
This is the last few days of our Summer Color Sale! On sale through Sunday are Christmas fabrics. Stock up now!
Did you know September is National Sewing Month? What are you sewing to celebrate???
And don't forget our Pillowcase SewIn Day is September 25th. We are low on fabric so if you have some in your stash you're willing to donate to this worthy cause, drop it off at the shop before the 25th. I haven't counted the pillowcases dropped off lately, I let Francine the ConKerr coordinator do the honors, but I know there is more than enough there to get us past our original goal of 1,000 pillowcases! The new goal is 2,000 by December 31st - can you help us?
Have a wonderful and safe holiday weekend! Sew something!
Piecefully,
Debbie
August 27,2010
Hi everyone,
Summer is about winding down here at the Jersey Shore. Nights are getting cooler, we've actually had the air conditioning off at home!, and the tourists are frantically grabbing those last hectic days at the beach. Jim and I are off to St. Louis at the crack of dawn Saturday morning to attend the Baby Lock dealers convention. I'm going to take some business and some sewing classes, the only one I can remember is Nancy Zieman's and I think there's another one I'm supposed to bring money for a kit. I guess I'd better dig out those registration papers!
I took a very amateur video of the Let's Do Lunch trunk show we presently have at the shop and posted it on facebook and I posted it QP channel on YouTube. Click on either link to check it out. Click here for the book.
We're very excited to be premiering Graywood Design's newest book - Tapestry of Textures! Wanda sent all the samples from this book and you'll find them hanging in the lobby. (I did a video of that trunk show too but somehow ended up taking a VERY shaky movie of my pant leg and feet! I'll try again and post next week) There are seven projects in this book, all table runners and table toppers (Wanda calls them covers). I LOVE the Cut Glass table runner, I keep picturing it done with a blue background and green triangles . . . Click here for details.
My buddy at Calico Gals, Janet, sent this link to a YouTube video of a quick, easy, very nice tree skirt by Nancy Zieman. Click here. We've ordered the bigger binding and the yardstick compasses, they should be here shortly.
This is a teaser of the first three blocks of our Dear Dorothy block of the month. Fabric arrived last week and I got cracking on the directions. Judy is going to test them this coming week and the blocks will be ready September 15th. Click here for details
Also in is the first pattern of the Beachwalk block of the month! And Hoffman shipped our fabric a week ago so it should arrive today. Stay tuned for details on the block of the month.
Debbie's Weekly Quilting Tip - I've been sewing Nathan a few things from terry cloth and Minkee. I LOVE both of them but really dislike the mess they leave behind on my cutting table, which then gets all over everything else. I've found that if I take a piece of scrap batting and rub it across my cutting table and mat, it picks all that "fuzz" right up. Then the whole thing goes into the trash. I also use a piece of scrap batting to clean the top of my sewing machine. I should dust the rest of the house as often as I do the machine! HA!
Next week is our final week of the annual Summer Color Sale and it's Christmas fabrics! All regularly priced Christmas fabrics are 20% off, minimum cut is 1/2 yard. Stop in, we have a GREAT selection!
August 20, 2010
Hi everyone,
Nine Patch Challenge! Did you make it? Do you have 65 Nine Patch blocks waiting to be put together into a quilt??? Do you have some? Any??? I have some. I was close but didn't get all of them done. That's ok, they're going into a Scrappy Bermuda Sunrise Quilt that really has no home yet. I'll keep plugging along on the blocks - I need 144 to make a queen - until I need a quilt. The great part about scrappy quilts? I get to keep buying batik fat quarters - in pairs with this quilt! Karen Montgomery of The Quilt Company has graciously put up four setting options for your Nine Patch Quilts on her blog. Click here to check them out.
Lori whipped up this Fall Braid Table Runner sample. It's gorgeous! Click here for kit details.
"Quilting: Looking Forward" is a free quilt exhibit at the Monmouth University Pollak Gallery in Eatontown. It will run until Sept. 16th. Click here for details.
This quilt is October Leaves by Joy Bohanan.
Lakehouse Fabrics - Bright happy fabrics came in this week and we're working on this kit (I just designed it this morning, so give us a few days to test it!) Click here to see the fabrics.
Tonga Treats are here! Packages of forty 2 1/2" strips or 10" batik squares!!!! LUSCIOUS! Click here.
Our color sale is Baby Fabrics and Civil War Fabrics through Sunday. On Tuesday starts Halloween and Fall!
Debbie's Weekly Quilting Tip - If you are cutting the same size cut of fabric multiple times, do yourself a favor and mark the correct cutting line on your ruler with blue painters tape. Place the tape right next to the line you are going to line the edge of your fabric with, not on top of it, it will distort the line. By doing this, you're eye is easily drawn to the correct line and you'll have fewer cutting mistakes and it speeds up your cutting!
Get up to date information on QP happenings on Facebook and Twitter. Click here for Facebook and look for QP Debbie on Twitter.
Enjoy your weekend!
Piecefully,
Debbie
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