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| Updated Monday January 4, 2010 Happy New Year to all and we hope everyone enjoyed a safe and Happy Holiday Season! We would like to extend our sincere thanks those who were able to make it to our Christmas Open House December 10. It was a great success and it was nice to see so many new and familiar faces. It was an excellent turn out and it certainly was confirmation of your loyal support. A huge thanks to our suppliers for all their generous door prize donations; Nothcott, Checkers and Sewing Machine Services. Congratulations to all the lucky winners!!! Thank you again to all who helped make 2009 an exciting and successful year we anticipate more new products classes and special events in 2010! Updated Thursday November 12 Sorry it has been so long since our last update. So many things have been happening in the store if you haven't been in lately you must make the time to come and check out all the delightful new beauties we have in our fabric collection. I purchased many of these on special and have passed the savings directly on to you, so many of the new bolts are already reduced to nearly 1/2 price. NEW FABRICS Janome Embroidery Event Thanks to Linda Pidzemecky, the Janome Educator for coming out to host the Janome Embroidery Event Thursday November 5th. For those of you who are quilters you missed all the unbelievable features demonstrated on the Janome 11000 Special Edition. Those that already have this incredible machine were introduced to the new upgrade with even more exciting features for quilters, sewers and embroidery enthusiasts alike! Christmas is coming so put in your wish list to your family and ask for the update kit or if you don't have the 11000 what better time to trade-in and trade up? Please remember our low price guarantee and we will match and advertised price from our competitors even up to 15 days after your purchase. The Urban Quilt We would also like to welcome two new quilting teachers, Shannon Hill and her business partner Adrienne both of The Urban Quilt Company. Adrienne and Shannon conducted classes on their version of the "modern railed fence", which was a hit! Their modern, no fuss approach to quiting makes it a delight for first time quilters taking their classes. Watch for news classes in 2010 from this dynamic duo! Check out their website at www.urbanquilt.ca Photo Transfer Class by Terri I want to thank my students Eleanor, Linda and Sheila for making my first official quilting class a success! It was great to see that even though two out of three had never quilted before, everyone went home with a finished project! Mission accomplished. You were a delight to teach and it was exciting and interesting to see the same project turn out with such unique looks. I look forward to more classes in 2010. |
| Updated Friday July 17 - Square in a Square Demo Wow! What an incredible turn out to our Square in A Square Demonstration!!! A huge thanks to Gail St. Louis for providing us with such a detailed and fascinating step- by-step demo on the Square in A Square technique using this must have ruler! I think many of us couldn't believe our eyes when we saw how easy it was to achieve perfect triangles. Gail even showed pieces cut and stitched without using this technique or ruler and you could clearly see the perfection that plays out before your eyes when using the SNS technique. It truly makes a difference. Perfect triangles, perfect diamonds endless combinations of flying geese, unique and interesting borders...you will never fear matching points again!!! Gail dazzled us with her use of these techniques and showed many samples based on Jodi Barrows' patterns in her books. Here is a list of notions and books that Gail featured in her demo. If you are interested in any of these items you can contact us to order. Rulers: Square in a Square Technique Ruler Mini SnS Ruler Cross 4-Patch Ruler Cross 9-Patch Ruler Books: Advancing on II Square in a Square Book 1 Moving On with Diamonds Anniversary Book Liz’s Mercantile Pattern Book Abby’s Schoolhouse Pattern Book Megan’s Miniatures Pattern Book Liz’s Mercantile Abby’s Schoolhouse Megan’s Story DVD: Square in a Square Technique DVD Tool: Stiletto We will be booking dates for Square in A Square Classes with Gail very soon. We will be sending out an email to notify those of you who are on our newsletter list. So keep an eye out and remember spaces are limited so don't wait for the last minute to register! Thanks again to everyone who came out I know you went away with a lot of useful hints and tips. We will be calling you when your goodies arrive! Special thanks to Vicki Cal for taking the photos featured on our blog...yes, I forgot my camera again - tisk, tisk! Watch for more special events to come! Happy Triangle Making! Michelle |
| Updated Friday June 26 Thursday June 25 we hosted a Scrapbooking by Machine event with special guest Shannon Hill, Janome Educator. As usual Shannon brought a myriad of sewing machine accessories and demonstrated how to make your hobby just a little more fun, creative and of course easy with all these specialty attachments. Shannon showed how to combine the art of sewing with the very popular art of scrapbooking using accessory feet such as... Beading Feet 2.5mm-4mm & less than 2mm This set comes with 2 beading feet one for wider beads and one for narrow. The grooved foot allows a strand of beads to pass freely under the foot while your zigzag stitch secures the beads to your project. Border Guide Foot Never have mismatched decorative borders again. This foot is used for lining up rows of decorative stitches so that they are evenly space and straight. Ribbon Sewing Guide Foot Embellish ribbons with decorative stitches and stitch lettering while attaching ribbon to fabric at the same time. Also a great tool for making labels. All of these feet are available to order at SMFO. Using the Janome Scrapbook Embroidery Collection CD (filled with tonnes of designs especially for your scrapbooking projects) Shannon shared samples of beautiful embroidered frames, decorative embellishments, ideas for stitching on fabric, felt, craft paper and wallpaper! We were in awe of how wonderful a tool Digitizer Software can be when creating your own truly unique embroidery designs with just one click of a mouse! Now available - the Digitizer JR Program and the latest Digitizer MB, the perfect companion and an essential tool for anyone with an embroidery machine. For those of you who already have this amazing program but have not utilized it there are incredible educational DVD's with step-by-step instructions on how to digtize by Trevor Conquergood manager of Stitchitize Design service. Thank you to all who attended we hope it inspired you to try exciting and new creative projects! We appreciate your support in helping make our events a success. Many thanks to Shannon for her talented samples and informative tidbits of create inspiration! You have the greatest job in the world! Don't forget we have an excellent seminar/demo planned for Thursday July 16 with Gail featuring "A Square in A Square" technique...learn how to create perfect no fuss triangles. Registration Fee $10 (non-refundable). Call (416) 751-7170 Terri and I have been busy making samples with the bolts of new fabric arriving weekly and we will be posting these online to share with you. Keep watching for our updates on what is happening in the store. Happy Sewing, Michelle. |
