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Yankee Pride Quilts Mid-Month Update - February
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Welcome to snowy Vermont!
After a few years of slushy, gray winters, we've got snow! Two feet have fallen from the sky, just in the past week! Skiers, riders, hikers, and walkers are all thrilled with the snow accumulation. Fans of staying warm indoors can enjoy the snow, too, from our front windows. Something we've noticed recently is that the pure white of the snow makes all the other colors in nature pop - the evergreen trees look more green, the skies are a brighter blue, and the red of your snow shovel really stands out!
If you're in the area of Essex Junction today, remember to stop in with a finished project to take part in our Show & Tell Sale! We're taking pictures of all your projects, and you get a discount on your fabric purchase, just for bringing something in for us to see. For more info, see "Weekend Sales in February", below.
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Vermont Shop Hop 2017
 It's almost Vermont Shop Hop time! Passports are in, and the fabric's here, too! The 12th annual Vermont Shop Hop will be held from Friday, March 17 through Sunday, March 26. This year, Norton House Quilting in Wilmington is rejoining the Hop, which will make 13 participating shops. There are lots of wonderful prizes to win! The theme for the top prizes is "Quilting Retreats". Stop in now and pick up your passport, for only $7.00 - this year's gift is a packet of Clover's Wonder Clips! For more information, see the
Vermont Shop Hop website.
Spring 2017 Class Schedule
It's here! Click
here for our new class schedule. We've got some great new classes coming up, and a few events for you, too!
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Farm Girl Vintage
: Sunday, Feb. 19 at noon. This class was rescheduled after last week's snowstorm, so if you wanted to take it, you haven't missed anything!
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| Weekend Sales During February Saturday, February 18: It's our Show & Tell Sale! Bring a finished project to show, which we'll photograph and post on Facebook and our website, and you get 15% off your fabric purchase. If your project has our fabrics in it, you get 20% off! February 25 & 26: 20% off panels *All Christmas fabrics are now 40% off, with a minimum 1/2 yard cut* |
| Recent Fabric Arrivals This is a sample of arrivals in the past two weeks: NOTE: For a close-up look at the fabrics, click on the photos!
 Antique Garden
These prints are so very pretty! Classic, subtle colors that make you think of spring. Make a sweet little wall hanging or centerpiece using the mini-panels (center in photo). Something like that would be a wonderful, easy project you can have done long before the snow melts.
 Kujira & Star
by RJR Modern prints are so hot right now! These simple pieces would make a great bag! The blue wave fabric (bottom in photo) is a heavier cotton/linen canvas, so you can use it for home dec projects, too!
Old Guys Rule
by Windham
Judy ordered these standalone fabrics, but we wanted to make sure to showcase them for you. The Paris fabric (right in photo) is a street map - in the past, map fabrics have flown out the door! The car fabric will be great for the car lover in your life - there are some real classics in this print!
 Baby Jungle
by Makower There have been some fabulous juvenile prints arriving at the shop this winter, and these are just the latest! You can do so many things with this line - quilts, clothing, curtains, toys, sheets, and more.
 Sunprint by Andover The two light fabrics (center in photo) are wonderful for backgrounds - just a bit of tone-on-tone print to make it interesting. And the two bolder prints are great stash-builders. They will all add some life to your projects.  Rain Walk and Kindred by Cloud 9 These are modern prints that will fit into almost any project you're working on. Rain Walk (left in photo) has some fun shapes we don't see often in fabric, and Kindred (right in photo) is not only 100% organic cotton, those two prints are very sweet and will add interest as either backgrounds or borders!  Valor Patches by Andover We have lots of customers who make Quilts of Valor in their spare time - Andover has put out this fabric so you can easily label those projects. We have the labels both as singles and as sections, so if you need one, you can buy just one, but if you're making several, you can get more.  Hello World by Moda This line will be popular with kids - combine maps and animals, and you've got a winner! Put a border on the map print (top in photo), and you've got an easy nap or throw quilt! These could also make great bags, pillowcases, and lots more.  Smarty Cats by Windham Fabrics Many of our customers are cat enthusiasts - this line is for all of you! Combine a few of these with what you have in your stash, and you're just steps away from a new cat quilt! This is a very modern-looking line, and will be lots of fun to play with. |
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Notions News and Other Interesting Notes
 Yes, we've had batting tape before, but
Marti's Choice Fusible Tape from quilting legend Marti Michell is a little different. You can certainly use it to fuse your batting together, but it's also good for stabilizing seams and bias edges, and is soft enough to hand-needle through, if you're hand quilting! She gives you tips in the enclosed booklet about using the tape for her "Machine Quilting in Sections" method.
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Thank you, as always, for your business, and thank you for being our customer. We love that you still believe in shopping local!
Judy, Rae, Suzanne, Cindy, Wendy, Kathy, Marjan, Deanna and Kay
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www.yankeepridequilts.com
9 Main Street
Essex Junction, Vermont 05452
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