Weekly Email Newsletter
May 2, 2008
Hi everyone, Today is my oldest son's 28th birthday. That just doesn't seem possible! It wasn't that long ago he was just turning 8 - wasn't it? Time is just flying by when you think about it. My youngest niece will be married this summer - and how did she get old enough to get married??? Time marches along whether we are ready for it or not - seems the thing to do is enjoy it while it's happening!
The shop hop was this past weekend and everyone seemed to have had a great time! Four of the grand prize winners were passports sold at QP! How about those odds?!? This is a picture of Diana, who won one of the fat quarter grand prize baskets. (Jim made me get in the picture too.) Congratulations Diana! 
Enjoy!
Rebecca's Reel Quilters will present their 2008 quilt show "Needlesongs" on May 16 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM and May 17 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM at Poricy Park Conservancy, Oak Hill Road, Middletown NJ. The Conservancy's four buildings, including an 18th century farmhouse and barn, will be used to display beautiful traditional and contemporary quilts. The show will also include challenge quilts, a raffle quilt, vendors, quilts for sale, and refreshments. Adults $5, under 8 years Free. Ample parking, buses welcome, no strollers inside the buildings. Info: Maryann (732) 842-5253, Libby (732) 842-8696, www.poricypark.com
More Christmas fabric has arrived! 
This is Secret Santa from Benartex. You can see the panel and the rest of the coordinates by clicking here.
This nautical line has been in the shop for awhile but I've been too lazy to put it up online! It's now there and you can see it by clicking here. The colors are crisp and clean and the panel is great. Judy did a kit 
and you can see that by clicking here.
This adorable piece of fabric arrived last week. I am picturing a toddler's drag around quilt done with this and a couple of tone on tones. Too cute!
Click here to order.
We have some new patterns too! 
14 1/2" x 16 1/2" Tote Bag. Designed for Jelly Rolls or 2 1/2" fabric strips. Make one for you and then make one for a friend. One jelly roll will make 2-3 bags. Add 2 fat quarters for lining and you're set to go! Click here.
I'm working on a new embroidery sample, it's called Bluebird and I'm using the tea pot fabric I showed you last week. I needed something to stitch on the five hour flight to Portland to go to Quilt Market next week and when I saw this sweet quilt, I knew it was my next project. Warning - the picture doesn't do the quilt justice. 
The embroidery is birds, teapots and teacups - too cute! Hopefully, I won't sleep all the way out to Portland and will actually get the sample well on it's way to being finished! Click here for pattern.
Machine Promotions! Instore only, sorry , no mail order. We have TWO Elna 683 sergers on sale for a REALLY good price. The 683s are 2,3,4 threads and are Elna quality. We also have ONE 744 - a 2, 3, 4 thread that has a cover hem and auto tension! These are closeout machines and I can't get anymore. Don't wait, if you've been wishing, longing for a serger - these are the best prices we've ever offered.You'll need to call the shop for details since I will get in trouble if I do it by email.
BabyLocks - I have TWO Emores - embroidery only machines - coming in at closeout pricing! A fantastic buy for an embroidery machine that is capable of 5x7" embroidery! Click here for details. Again, call the shop for prices so I don't get in trouble! And sorry, no mail order on machines. 
MOTHER'S DAY HORN OF AMERICA FURNITURE SALE! 30% off MSRP and QP will pay the shipping to the store! If you purchase a machine and a Horn cabinet between now and May 10th, we will include the insert for FREE! You can see the cabinets on the Horn of America website by clicking here. 
Koala Cabinets will soon be made in the USA! Koala is having a closeout sale on their website of their previous line of cabinets. They have some really good deals but to get them, you have to order through their website - click here to see. QP has pre-ordered three of their new models to be shipped as soon as they are ready. We will post when they've arrived.
Debbie's Weekly Quilt Tip - Save your cleaned margarine, cottage cheese, or yogurt tubs & the lids. Use them to safely dispose of your used rotary cutting blades. Squeamish about changing the blade? Use tweezers or needle nose pliers to protect your fingers!
Libby Lehman is coming to QP and doing a lecture Sunday evening at 7pm. Libby is the thread queen and if you've ever wanted to know more about threads, decorative stitching and making your machine do all sorts of neat things you never knew it could do - come to this lecture/demo! Cost is $15 and you can sign up by clicking here.
Don't forget we will be closed on Mother's Day! Jim & I will head for Portland Oregon and Quilt Market that week. Stop in and see the girls, they will have some things on sale while we are away!
Goings on at QP:
- Sat, May 3rd - Scrap Therapy - Somethings Fishy! 1-4pm
- Sun, May 4th - Machine Mastery Class - Embroidery, 12:30-3:30
- Fri, May 9th - Serger Club - Quilt as you go Tote Bag 1pm $15
- $5 Quilt Club - 6:30pm sharp!
- Sat, May 10th - $5 Quilt Club - 9am sharp!
- Machine Mastery Class #2 - 10-noon
- Machine Mastery Class #1 - 12:30-3:30
- Sunday, May 11th - Closed for Mother's Day!
Enjoy your weekend!
April 25, 2008
Hi everyone,
Just a quick note this week - it's Shop Hop time in NJ, we're all working extra hours & I'm running further behind than usual!
We have a trunk show hanging in the lobby from my friend and fellow shop owner, Karen Snyder's book Fat Quarter Fun. All the quilts are made using fat quarters and she offers two sizes of each quilt. Stop in and see!
Also hanging in the lobby is the State Quilt Guild's raffle quilt. It's gorgeous!
It'a queen size quilt. We have tickets for sale this weekend. You can find more information about the guild and the annual show at www.njquilts.org
The NJ shop hop is going on and passports are still available. We have extended hours this weekend and are open till 8pm tonight, Friday the 25th, 10-5 tomorrow and 10-4 on Sunday. Stop in and see us.
New into the shop:
We have some great new kits that I forgot to take pictures of . . . I will get them up on the web page ASAP and post them in next week's Gazette.
One is a cute wall hanging of sailboats and fish - the sailboats have three dimensional sails. Here's a picture of the pattern. 
We do have kits. Click here to see.
I'm working on a new baby quilt that I am machine embroidery/quilting in the setting squares. It's coming out really nice - even if I do say so myself! You can see the design pack I used by clicking here. We have them in the shop or you can order online. The pattern and the kits will be ready as soon as I get the quilt finished so I can take a picture!
A new fabric line from Susan Branch called Tea Time arrived today and were the "hot" fabrics of the shop hop last night! Click here to see.
Debbie's Weekly Quilting Tip - From Kaye England. When Kaye finds a great fabric that she loves but doesn't quite know what to do with, she makes bias binding with it. She buys enough fabric to make bias binding for a queen size quilt, makes it and then rolls it onto an empty cardboard tube. She stores these and when she needs a binding for a project, she goes to her ready made stash!
Goings on at QP:
- Friday, April 25th - NJ Shop Hop 10-8pm
- Machine Mastery Class #3, 1-3pm
- Machine Mastery Class #5 - 3pm
- Sat, April 26th - Shop Hop 10-5pm
- Sun, April 27th - Shop Hop 11-4pm
- Machine Mastery Class #1 12:30-3:30pm
- Tues, April 29th - Beginning Quilting by Machine 7-9pm Class one of eight
- Fri, May 2nd - Embroidery Club, 1pm and 7pm. Applique!
- Sat, May 3rd - Scrap Therapy - Somethings Fishy! 1-4pm
- Sun, May 4th - Machine Mastery Class - Embroidery, 12:30-3:30 Enjoy your weekend!
April 18, 2008
Hello everyone,
Ahhhh, spring! The weather has turned a little warmer and I've been out poking around in my gardens - moving and dividing things that I was really supposed to do last fall. When the guy comes to redo the front porch and walk, I am going to be kicking myself for not moving all that stuff out of the front garden earlier! It just looked so pretty with the bulbs all coming up and the peonies finally bloomed for the first time last year - of course the instant I move them, they are going to sulk and not bloom for another few years. If they weren't so gorgeous, I wouldn't put up with their bad moods!
The entire line of MayPole by April Cornell for Moda arrived last week and it brought a welcome breath of spring into the shop.
We have a new garden display. 
Fern did the flower box sample on the left and I did the spinning flower one on the right. Both are fat quarter quilts. The spinning flower one is a Pick Your Own Garden kit - you choose a floral fat quarter bundle, then choose a background & border bundle and when you buy both, you get the book with the pattern in it for 20% off!
A crazy line of flamingos came in from ClothWorks and I couldn't resist taking some home to make a table runner! 
Flamingo Fiesta is too funny! This will look perfect on the table out on my deck this summer! (Love the flamingo dressed as Marilyn Monroe! There's one of Elvis too!) Click here to see the table runner kit.
In the shop April 17th we will have an open classroom Make It Take It Green Shopping Bags! Celebrate Earth Day with us - a few days early! - and make a shopping bag to help reduce the use of plastic or paper shopping bags. Stop in any time before 3pm, we will have $5 kits ready and the machines all set up to make your own bag! "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!"
MOTHER'S DAY HORN OF AMERICA FURNITURE SALE! 30% off MSRP and QP will pay the shipping to the store! If you purchase a machine and a Horn cabinet between now and Mother's Day, we will include the insert for FREE! You can see the cabinets on the Horn of America website by clicking here.
Koala Cabinets will soon be made in the USA! Koala is having a closeout sale on their website of their previous line of cabinets. They have some really good deals but to get them, you have to order through their website - click here to see. QP has pre-ordered three of their new models to be shipped as soon as they are ready. We will post when they've arrived.
Swimming Upstream is a great wallhanging for that little nook that just needs something! Lori made the sample and said it went together quickly.
The kit includes all the fabrics show - click here for details.
Coming Up at QP:
- Fri, April 18th - Cutting Workshop for Scrap Therapy, 6-8pm
- Sat, April 19th - Earth Day Tote Bags Make It, Take It's all day
- Wed, April 23rd - Machine Mastery Class #2, 12:30-2:30
- Thurs, April 24th - NJ Shop Hop 10-8pm
- Friday, April 25th - NJ Shop Hop 10-8pm
- Machine Mastery Class #3, 1-3pm
- Machine Mastery Class #5 - 6-8pm
- Sat, April 26th - Shop Hop 10-5pm
- Sun, April 27th - Shop Hop 11-4pm
- Machine Mastery Class #1 12:30-3:30pm
Tues, April 29th - Beginning Quilting by Machine 7-9pm Class one of eight
Debbie's Weekly Quilt Tip deals with rulers. If you are like most quilters, you have a collection of rulers, probably by a bunch a different companies and you use whatever one is handy or fits the need while you are working on your project. BUT are all rulers really the same? Check yours to find out! Stand two of your rulers from different companies on their ends on a flat surface. Do the lines match up on both rulers? If not, when you use both of those rulers on the same project, you are not cutting exactly the same! Could that be why your seams don't line up?????
And are your rulers faded? The numbers hard to make out? Have you been using the same ruler since you started quilting and the edges are chipped? If so, it's time to replace them. Come to the shop & mention this email and get 20% off the Cut for A Cure 7 x 14" ruler from now until April 27th. Click here to order on the website, we will subtract the 20% before charging your card.
I finally wrote the spring newsletter! You can read it by clicking here.
Enjoy your weekend!
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