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Yankee Pride Quilts May Newsletter
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Spring may finally be here...
Green is our favorite color of the moment - the green of the grass, the trees, new buds, and leaves. All that new growth shows up in a matter of days - it's quite amazing! It's also a lesson for every one of us who likes our quilts and projects to be "matchy matchy". We try to find the ideal fabric match for our projects, even when they're scrappy. It has to be "just the right one". But look outside, at nature. The landscape as a whole is so beautiful, and if you look up close, you'll see that none of the greens match. Some are more yellow, some have a bit of sage. Some are bluish, and some a bright lime. They all work together, and our view, especially here in Vermont, is quite stunning. So let's open our eyes when we're working with fabric, and add a piece that's not quite a perfect match - we bet the quilt looks a bit more interesting!
Yankee Pride's
Helping Hands is this coming Sunday, May 6! We will be making quilt tops for Laurie's House, a women's & children's shelter in St. Albans. Please bring your machines and be ready to sew - Cindy has made several kits that need to be put together, and she will be at the shop from 11-4. We plan on having a pretty good time, so please join us! Please contact the shop to let us know if you're coming - we need to make sure we've got room for everyone!
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| May Weekend Sales May 5: Cindo de Mayo Day! 20% off chili pepper fabric May 5 & 6: 20% off yellow background fabric May 12: 20% off green background fabric May 19 & 20: 20% off one ruler May 25, 26 & 27: End of Bolt Sale! 30% off the end of regular-priced bolts 10% off the end of sale-priced bolts Yankee Pride will be closed on Sunday, May 13 for Mother's Day, and Monday, May 28 for Memorial Day. |
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Sulky Club 2
 Yankee Pride's first Sulky Club was so successful, we're running a new one! Over a six-month span, for $24.99 a month, you get 80 spools of Sulky embroidery thread, perfect for all kinds of hand stitchery, and even machine quilting. You also get a storage case to keep them in. If you participated in the first club, come on back - the 80 threads this time around are completely different from what you already have. Deanna chooses the threads in each month's bag, which includes both solid and variegated threads. And there are no repeats! If you're new to the club, you'll love the beautiful colors, and you'll be finding projects to use them in right away! The deadline for signups is May 11, and the club starts June 1. Please call us at the shop, or e-mail us at info@yankeepridequilts.com to sign up!
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| 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!
 Regency Blues
What lovely blue fabrics! Combine these four prints with a few from your stash, and you've got the makings of a brand-new project. The large floral (left in photo) would be fabulous as the main fabric for a new bag, wouldn't it?
 Farmhouse Living
It's always nice to have a few fabrics in our stash that can play as either lights or mediums. These three prints are perfect for just that. Paired with dark fabrics, they're lovely textured lights. Combine them with a light or off-white background, and they become a versatile medium value.
 Compositions
by Moda
Our modern fans will love these prints! Fabrics with words printed on them make such interesting backgrounds in your projects. One of these (top/center in photo) is sheet music - even more fun! They make us want to start something new - right now!  Heather and Shadow Play by Maywood Studios It's been a while since we carried Maywood, but Judy saw these, and ordered them right away. She ordered a few from each line, and they complement each other so nicely! Need a new bag, or a gorgeous spring quilt? Why not these?  From the Farm and Beautiful Basics by Maywood Studios Those pretty pastels weren't the only thing Judy liked from the new Maywood lines - here we have primary colors, and strawberries - just in time for warm weather! Make a bag for your trip to the farmer's market, or a pretty wall hanging for your kitchen - there are lots of choices here.  On Frozen Pond from Whistler Studios by Windham Fabrics Yes, we're just getting to spring now, but it's never too early to begin your holiday projects, is it? The wintry print (second from top in photo at left) could become the center of a lap quilt, for an easy-to-complete project.
The panel (photo at right) can be cut apart bordered, and made into a wall hanging, which is just what Judy's doing to make our shop sample. |
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Notions, News & Other Notes
**Note: For all of our customers taking classes at the Vermont Quilt Festival in June, please remember that we are happy to order many of the supplies you need for your classes. Give us a call by June 1, so we can get them in before you need them!
 We got this great new book in just last week!
Lunch-Hour Patchwork is full of projects that can be completed in an hour or so. There are pillows, small bags, and cute little quilts. Lots of us love our big, complicated projects, but we also like to make small things sometimes - things that can be finished quickly - here's the perfect solution.
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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, Marty, 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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