Hi everyone,

 

Thanks for the concern when I didn't send an email out last Friday, which just goes to show I'm entirely too predictable or in a total rut. :0)   Many of you guessed it, I was just too wiped out from cruising to form enough coherent thoughts to write an email.  We had a wonderful cruise, it would have been better if the weather had cooperated!, but we had fun anyway.  I've posted pictures on the shop Facebook page - just put Quilting Possibilities in the FB search engine and you'll find us.  Like us while you're there for up to date info!

Here is everyone with their Potato Chip Bags that we made on the first sewing day.  Well except for one shy person!

So where will cruise to next?  We had a meeting the last sewing day of the cruise and decided we would do another cruise to the Caribbean next spring AND a cruise to Alaska in the summer of 2014!  The cruise lines do not have information yet for either cruise so stay tuned for details!  Information for the one next spring to the Caribbean should be coming out soon.

I also wrote on the QP blog this week - you can read it by clicking here.
 

 

What's New In The Shop:

The new Quilt Sampler magazine has arrived!  Our friends Karen and Ken of A Scarlet Thread in Georgia are featured in this issue.  Nice people, great shop!


         

Sandy's Garden - pretty, pretty, pretty!  A panel, a gorgeous stripe and some coordinates make up this group.  Click here for details.













Did you know?  We have a selection of bundles - five 1 yard cuts - where you choose your bundle and then choose from five patterns in stock and 4 more on their way to make a quilt???  They're called Five Yard Bundles of Fun and we have them online and more in the shop.  You can choose from florals, asian, batiks, Christmas and we'll be making up flannel and nautical ones this coming week when we get in the four NEW patterns that use our bundles.  You can click here to see them online or stop in the shop!  My goal is to have 100 bundles for you to choose from!








Panels are on sale - buy two get one free!  Our three newest panels - By The Sea by Helen Weinman, Harvest by Timeless Treasures and the Sandy's Garden shown above are not included in this promotion.  Highest price prevails.  Click here for panels online.

Debbie's Weekly Quilting Tip -  What the heck is grainline and why do I need to know about it?  We've all heard about straight of grain but why is it important?  
Fabric is woven on big looms with lengthwise threads called warp and crosswise threads called weft.  The lengthwise - warp - threads are the strongest and have little stretch.  The crosswise - weft - threads usually aren't as strong, so the fabric has some stretch in that direction.  If you draw a 45 degree angle from corner to opposite corner, you'll find the bias grain, this has A LOT of stretch.  If you cut your fabrics along the bias, your pieces will have enough stretch to stretch out of shape will you are sewing and your blocks and borders won't lay straight.  It is very important that you cut with the grainline. 

Enjoy your weekend.  
 

April 13, 2012

 

Hi everyone,

 

Busy, busy, busy, busy here.  Let me catch you up to all the QP happenings!

Shop hop is this weekend - are you hopping??? Eleven shops, 10 days, eleven free patterns, free passport - what could be easier or more fun to do?????  Here's our QP table cloth/quilt.  This pattern is free to all hoppers during the hop.  

Be sure to check out the aprons the staff is wearing during the hop!  They're all made with the vegetable/fruit fabric from our hop quilt.  Patterns are available for all, just ask.

 

 

Don't forget - we have extended hours for the next 10 days - M-F, yes we will be open Monday the 15th! - 10-8, Sat, 10-6, Sundays 10-4.  We'll go back to our regular hours on Tues, April 24th.  Let me know how you like the Monday hours, I'm taking a poll for future consideration.

The BERNINA Tax Break Sale is going on at QP this weekend!  Buy a Bernina sewing machine, serger or embroidery machine and we'll pay your tax!  Including the tax on any accessories you buy with your new machine!  Don't delay - this offer is only good until April 17th!  Stop in for more details and to pick out YOUR new machine!

Also going on this weekend - the Beach Plum Quilters Show "Quilting From The Heart" is in Toms River Saturday and Sunday -click here. for details.

What's New! - 

Tea Cakes to the left and Sweet Tarts are Daily Bread patterns - a little slice of patchwork!  Click here for Tea Cakes details and here for Sweet Tarts details. 

     
  These little quilts are small enough to finish up quickly, are a perfect hand or machine project and are just dang cute! 










 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of my favorite fabric lines is By The Sea by my friend Helen Weinman.  She and I are always lamenting to one another about the scarcity of good nautical lines, Helen is from Cape Cod. Helen finally did something about it and designed her own line a few years ago and it's one we continue to sell.  Now she's taken that line and updated it a bit by doing it in black, tan and white.  Stunning!  Click here to see the complete fabric line.  I, of course, fell in love with the panel and here is, not a terrible picture of our unquilted sample but not a good picture either.  We have kits and I'm hoping to get it quilted before we leave for the cruise!  HA!  Click here for our Ocean View kit.




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It doesn't seem possible but our Pink Sand Beaches Cruise LEAVES NEXT SATURDAY!  YAY!  We are all looking forward to this and I know you are all waiting with baited breath to find out where we will go next . . . .  well, you'll just have to wait a bit!  We're working on it - stay tuned!    QP Cruisers, I'll be sending out and email to all of you over the weekend with some last minute details.  SEVEN MORE DAYS!

 

Goings On At QP:

Thurs, April 12-17 - BERNINA Tax Relief Sale
- Have you ever wondered exactly HOW your sewing machine makes a stitch?  I mean, the needle dissapears down into the machine and if you've set everthing up correctly, a stitch forms . . .  but what REALLY happens when that needle goes into the machine and somehow hooks up with the bobbin thread?  Click here to see a video of how a stitch is formed.

Enjoy your weekend!

 

 

 

 

 

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