So…I’m curious to know if you have been mindful of being mindful last week: many positive responses from that newsletter and how people found it to be helpful. So I hope you are practicing the “tell yourself something nice about yourself" technique, that it will become a habit, and that it will start your day out on a positive and mindful note. I forget some days, but I’m trying to follow through daily. We quickly have Shop Hop approaching (Oct. 7-15) and there are lots of things to get done to make it especially fun and nice for you, so this is definitely not a good time to not be mindful and to not be stressed out! I do love Shop Hop and I get to talk with so many new, and not new, people visiting SVQ for the hop that, luckily, I have very little stress. We still have passports available for you to purchase for $10, and the eligibility to win some fabulous prizes, like a BERNINA machine, gift baskets per shop valued at approximately $300-400 each and/or the Grand Prize Basket at about $700-800!!!  Some eleven people have to win at least a gift basket, so one of them might as well be you! Get your passports while you can.

Now, since we’ll be busy during Shop Hop, I urge you to consider signing for the Color Dance BOM starting Oct. 2, from noon to 4 with Andi. It’s only a 6 month project, uses fat quarters for the colors and shapes, is available in 6 month payments by and large, includes many techniques and tips, and is very reasonably priced for you. Sample is in the classroom for you to see. Our second BOM, Traverse, will begin Oct. 24, since all the fabrics have now arrived. Please sign up ASAP, since kits for both BOMs are limited, and both can be purchased online or call the shop and we can mail them out to you. Traverse will have time set aside in the classroom for those who might want a class, but otherwise, it will be more like a typical BOM---come in on the assigned day to pick up your monthly fabric rows, and there will be instructions and video info. included for you. Jeri will also be available for questions if you get stumped (which I doubt will happen!). Color Dance will be Sunday afternoon, 6 total classes, beginning Oct. 2 at noon to four. You will be given your entire fat quarter bundle the first class, background fabrics as needed monthly.

Classroom will have NO CLASSES during Shop Hop so we can concentrate on the hop. But we’re back up and running October 17 with a three-part Bags By Annie class: Day and Night is the pattern, and one bag is a tote which can then match back to the bag you’ll make. Great sizes, great gifts or great carry-alls! Lynn M. has scheduled parts 2 and three for Oct. 20 and 21.  

Need a few pumpkin projects to set out or gift? Jan will be here teaching a two day, back-to-back Free Standing Lace pumpkin class Oct. 18 and 19. Even if you’re not in to pumpkins, it’s a great class to learn the techniques and tips for any and all Free Standing Lace Projects with your embroidery machine. Do any other free standing lace project your heart desires, or begin on Christmas decorations. We have plenty of patterns available for you. Bring or purchase your USB stick to class, along with your machine, and see what might be missing from your supply list provided with class signup. You choose your own thread colors also, so stay traditional or get wild and crazy!

Be sure to check out our new KITS!!! We have grab-and-go Three Yard Kits, and a big selection of pattern books for you to choose from. Already have some of the books? Great, and then you can just grab your fabrics. Or we will be happy to custom cut your fabric choices for you. These kits are AMAZING…fast, easy, impressive, sizable with borders if you want. They are all together in one section, and the kits for the most part, do not duplicate fabrics, so you can grab a few and we’ll keep making them for you. We also are adding kits for you like the beautiful Rugged Cross kit with its special fabrics, Baby Bently kits, A guy’s kit of John Wayne’s Old West, even Tula Pink’s kit of Sunshine Dream which has wonderful, sane prints and colors!!! Plus more, of course. As always, we are always here to help you select your own special fabrics even not in kits! This is a forte with us, and we don’t stop pulling fabrics until you have just the right ones, pleasing to you, with the right pop and color combinations! Take advantage of our expertise!!!

We are moving things around a bit, getting rid of clutter, to make things easier for you to shop in the shop! We hope you like! This is usually an on-going process, but this month is particularly intense. All the better for you, since there will be many things on markdown to make room for new merchandise. It is a work in progress since we finished the Rusty Barn Show and we feel will give the shop better flow for all of us. Give us your feedback---ALWAYS! We hope to see you checking out the changes, and we thank you for shopping with us online and in store!

Barbara and the Movers and shakers at SVQ

Sun Valley Quilts / 9857 W. Bell Rd. / Sun City, Arizona 85351 / 623-972-2091

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