Volume 14 Issue 1
August - Sept
Quilting Possibilities Gazette
A NOTE FROM DEBBIE...
Due to numerous requests we will now mail the quarterly newsletters for $4 per year. Newsletters will still be available on the website for free & also available in the store for pick up. We’ve had enough inquiries that we are now offering the mailing service to those who want it. Mail a check to the store & just write newsletter mailing in the memo line.
The best way to keep in touch with us is to sign up for the QP Web Gazette that is emailed every Friday morning. It’s full of store news, pictures of new kits, class reminders, a quilting tip & anything else I think might be of interest to you. You can sign up by going to the website & clicking newsletters. We don’t share, lend, sell or rent our snail mail email list to anyone.
We’ve added to our machine embroidery designs selection! QP is the only NJ dealer of Amazing Designs Embroidery Avenue. This program along with ETO and Dakota Collectibles gives you literally thousands of designs for immediate satisfaction at QP!
Everyone at QP thanks you for your business!
Piecefully,
Debbie
MACHINE NEWS
BABY LOCK nEWEST ADDITIONS!
Stay tuned!
Cathy Gandy, a Baby Lock educator, will be at QP for two days in Oct! We will be focusing on quilting at these hands on seminars. Stay tuned for details!
ELNA
Look at Elna's newest edition! A table designed for the 7300 and 7200 owners! Trade in your Elna 6003 or 6005 for a 7300 & get the table FREE!
BERNINA 8 Series Machines!
Switzerland’s leading engineers designed the BERNINA 830 and 820 to outperform any other home sewing machines. The BERNINA 830 offers you unsurpassed sewing and embroidery. For quilters, garment sewers, and fiber artists of all kinds, the 820 is the machine of your dreams. Click below and discover the exclusive features that make these machines the most luxurious in the world.
Join us at our Switzerland/Series 8 party September 6th!
BLOCKS OF THE MONTH
Butterfly Block of the Month
Butterflies is a QP original! This 81" square appliqué quilt - you can do it by hand or by machine - has 16 different butterflies and will be offered for $19.95 per month in batiks as shown The first 8 months you will receive the patterns & the fabrics for two butterflies per month, the 9th month we will send the sashings & month 10 we will send the outer border & the binding. Click here to enroll via the website
SHELLS BLOCK OF THE MONTH
53" x 32" This 7 month block of the month is done in batiks and celebrates the shells of the sea. QP’s shell block of the month will include the pattern & all fabrics for the top & the binding. Backing will be available separately. There is a $25 non-refundable start-up fee, then only $19.99 per month plus $3 shipping and handling for each kit for the first 6 months and actual shipping + $1 for the final month if not picked up at the shop. Click here to sign up via the website.
Wild!Flowers Block of the Month
Starts October 2008. Wild!Flowers is an appliquéd and pieced quilt for embroidery machines which features 6 flowers native to the Eastern U.S. Our block of the month will be done in lighter colors - we are working on our sample. The QP version will use lighter colors & the backgrounds be done with the same light green batik and the finished quilt will have borders of greens and some blues, along with the purples & golds.
The CD includes 6 Large and 6 Small designs, and 2 PDF files showing each flower sewn-out and thread charts. Design sizes range from 4" x 4" to 5.5" x 7.5" and are in ART, DST, EXP, HUS, PCS, PES, SHV, and XXX formats.
Our block of the month will finish at 58 x 72" & will include the CD & pattern, all fabrics for the top & binding. Click here to sign up via the webstore.
Let there Be Chocolate Block of the Month
46" x 56"
In the beginning ... we believe there was one more day set aside for the creation of chocolate! Our own little heaven on earth. (Incidentally – we cannot be held responsible for any weight gain mysteriously found during the making of this quilt! However, we feel a warning may be appropriate.) WARNING: may feel the need to join a local gym after completing this fabulous quilt! (But it is totally worth it!)
Chocolate is my FAVORITE food group! There is a $25 non-refundable start-up fee, then only $14.99 per month plus $3 shipping and handling for each kit for the first 7 months and actual shipping + $1 for the final month in the US. Click here to sign up via the website.
New Kits
- Pinwheels Aplenty— A cute table topper for the summer or for those who love 1930's prints..
- Squared Unions - our sixth installment for the Quilt Shops Gallery as seen in McCall's magazine. Batiks make up this lap quilt.
- Chick A Dee Hollow a wall hanging for the winter that features a chickadee.
- Pirates of the Jersey Shore- twin sized for that special little boy or for the pirate lover
- Presents & Gifts Table Runner - perfect for a Christmas table.
- Making New Friends - an underwater scene with fish and a pigtailed little girl checking them out!
- Mighty Totes! - a great tote bag in all kinds of fabrics. Go green with a Mighty Tote or two!
- Pine Cone Fun Table Runner - the first kit in our series of Home Dec for the Holidays, this is done in gorgeous Christmas metallic fabrics from Hoffman
- By The Sea Table Runner - complete with a lobster & a crab - perfect for the Jersey shore or anywhere!
- French Roses - raggedy edge applique & big gorgeous flowers make this shabby chic quilt a QP favorite!
- Scrappy Floral Pinwheels— plant your own garden! Choose a fat quarter bundle of flowers, then choose a bundle of background & borders to make your quilt!
- Blooms & Hummers - flowers & hummingbirds in a quickie project from a panel.
- Friendship By The Sea - children at the beach— summer is coming!
- Gems—a batik beauty!
- Mother Goose—a child’s quilt from the P&B Mother Goose panel & coordinates
- And more!
EMROIDERY DESIGN PACK OF THE MONTH
Each month we will feature a different emboridery design pack to tempt machine embroiders! Look for stitch outs of the featured pack. April is Beatrix Potter, May is Nautical Bluework and June is Appliqued Gift Bags.
BYOB - Bring your Own Bag! GO GREEN!
Each time you use your own bag, cloth or a plastic one you're using again and not taking one of QPs - we will enter your name in a monthly drawing for a QP $20 gift certificate! Drawings will be held the end of each month.
QP REWARD!
We would like to reward those who recommend us! If you tell someone about us & he or she buys an $1100+ machine, we will give you a $50 QP gift certificate! Make sure the buyer tells us your name at the time of purchase & we will mail you your gift certificate.
New Items
- Zippers! - a whole display from Coats & Clark
- Klasse Needles—buy two get one free everyday!
- Halloween & Fall fabrics are in!
- A great new selection of quilting stencils!
- Kwik Sew patterns - sew with confidence again! These patterns actually fit YOU!
- Christmas fabrics are here!
- Pre-printed flannel to make chenille easily—no marking!
- Bali Pops! 2 1/2" strip sets from Hoffman batiks!
- CD’s of Quilting Patterns to print out on your printer!
- Dakota Collectibles Embroidery Club Special for the fall is Lacy Christmas Decorations
- You're In The Loop - a new CD from serger whiz Margaret Tully. Great for beginners. Learn that serger!
- Table Runner Batting! - 18" wide on a roll! Sold by the yard in two thicknesses
- Batting from Recyled Plastic Bottles! It feels and quilts GREAT!
New Fabrics
- 100s of batiks from Hoffman, Timeless Treasures, Island Batiks & more
- Autumn in New England by P&B.
- Wizard of OZ fabrics —are here!
- Wildflower Serenade from Moda
- Kona Bay limited editions prints & panels - new 2008 series
- Laurel Hill flannels from Marcus Brothers
- Beach Divas! - a fun new line of bathing beauties from Elizabeth Studios
- Never Enough Romance- reds, blacks & blues by Alex Anderson & P&B
- Three Little Kittens the newest Beatrix Potter fabrics
- Norman Rockwell prints from Quilting Treasures
- 108" wide batik backings from Timeless Treasures
- Woolies Flannel from Maywood
- Portugal from Three Sisters & Moda
- PJ & Friends soft baby fabrics from Timeless Treasures & Becky Kelly
- And more!
HANDIQUILTER
Gina, from HandiQuilter, will be here for a weekend of HandiQuilter events! September 19th, 20th & 21st. See the events page for details.
Machines used at the event will be available at a special price! Call the shop for details. You must be able to pick them up after the seminar.
MicroHandles are now available for the HQ16! Call the store for details.
BIRTHDAY CLUB
Celebrate your birthday with a 20% off shopping trip to QP during the month of your birthday! Just show us your license with your birth date on it & get 20% off all regularly priced fabrics, patterns, books & notions!
MACHINE KNOW HOW LESSONS
If you have purchased your sewing machine or serger from us, you know that you have a quality product. We feel it is important that you maximize your investment by learning how to use all the features available on your machine. We have regularly scheduled Know How classes. If you bought your machine from QPs and have not taken your free Know How classes, please call the store or check the web page for the schedule www.quiltingpossibilities.net
MACHINE SERVICE & REPAIR
QP is an authorized Bernina, Elna, Baby Lock, HandiQuilter & Janome service & repair center. We also service & repair all other makes & models.
Going on vacation? Send your machine to SPA QP while you are gone! Jim or Ernie will lube, exfoliate and buff that machine right up! Bring your machine’s foot control, cord and zigzag foot when you drop your machine off at the spa. Leave the rest of your accessories at home. Machines should be serviced once a year.
Classes & Clubs this Fall
- Stash Pot Pie - a new monthly club to get great new patterns, trade scraps and have a blast!
- Serger Club
- Redwork for Beginners
- Trip for Two to Boston! Grab a buddy and spend a Friday evening & a Saturday at QP and make TWO quilts!
- OESD Virtual Trainings - join us as we have an educator come to QP through the magic of a computer and a telephone line! Various topics will be covered during the fall.
- Log Cabin Quilt from Judy Martin's newest book
- HandiQuilter 16 Rental Class
- Machine Quilting 101 with Debbie
- Embroidery Club
- Top of the Line Club - learn how to freemotion on your top of the line Elna, Bernina or BabyLock machine!
- And more!
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