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9857 W. Bell Rd., Sun City, AZ 85351 - 623-972-2091
Bits and Pieces
February 7, 2023
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I’m sure there is a perfect phrase to sum up Barbara’s last week. One might be “she’s off sick” or “she’s all bunged up” or “she’s caught a bug” or maybe simply “she’s under the weather”. Which ever phrase we choose it means that Barbara has missed most of the last week in the shop! But she knows we can carry on while she gives her body a chance to rest and the time to shake off the nasty head cold and cough that has kept her away from the shop. | |
As you know, we spent several days at the state fairgrounds meeting, greeting, introducing the Quilt, Craft and Sew Festival attendees to Unique Sewing Furniture, TrueCut products, Q’nique long-arms and debuting the two newest quilting frames made by Grace! Once the show ended we set our showroom back up and prepared for our three and a half days of Quilter’s Creative Touch workshops with National Educator Joyce Blowers. | |
The classroom was filled with eager to learn students from Arizona, North Carolina, Iowa, Washington and British Columbia who own QuiltMotion, QuiltPath, QCT and QuiltMagine software. These classes were sold out and waitlisted in just under four days. If you’d like to attend future classes please let us know! We’d love to bring Joyce back again. | |
Bag Camp with Lynn M starts Thursday, and continues on Feb 10th, 16th and 17th. If you wanted to make a bag but missed previous classes this is your opportunity to make one or more bags at our Bag Camp! These make great Christmas gifts, birthday presents, or a great addition to your own collection. We will have fun together learning new techniques. Recommended Patterns: Take a Stand, Clam Up, Road Trip Caddy, Catch all Caddy, In Control Caddy, Ultimate Travel Bag, Night and Day, A Place for Everything 2.0 and Grab Some Grub 2.0 – Almost any of Annie’s patterns will work for this class. If it is not listed above, please contact the instructor ahead of time to let her know which pattern you wish to make. | |
Our monthly FREE Sew Smart event takes place on Saturday, Feb 11th. Come meet our newest Art Quilting Fiber Artist, Barbara Janson, at a trunk show presentation featuring her specialty: Landscape Quilting. As an award winning fiber artist and competitive quilter, Barb applies the rules of good design and the painterly skills she learned while earning her Bachelors of Fine Arts to her favorite hard edged medium-Fabric. Barb began teaching the Art of Landscape Quilting in 2005 and continues to share her knowledge and experience in informative lectures and classes throughout the country, inspiring her students to create from the heart. We are excited that she will be teaching several upcoming classes at Sun Valley Quilts! | |
Jumpstart Quilt Camp is a great place to launch your quilting skills or brush up on skills that you put aside when life got too busy to quilt. You will be making quilt blocks and creating a sampler tablerunner. You'll learn cutting procedures, proper seam width, block assembly, adding borders, the actual quilting and adding your binding. | |
National Embroidery Month is finally here and there are fabulous opportunities for sewists to expand their creativity! Purchase a new embroidery capable BERNINA ~ receive a FREE embroidery module! Shop our Embroidery Accessory Sale ~ BERNINA/bernette embroidery hoops, Plus Upgrade Kit for the 770 QE, the BERNINA embroidery bundle and Multiple Spool Holder are all 25% off MSRP in February! 50% off MSRP on the NEW 5 or 7/8 Series Embroidery Module with Smart Drive Technology (SDT) with the trade in of a prior 5 or 7/8 Series Embroidery Module. | |
Speaking of Embroidery, Jan is teaching a two day camp whose focus is Computerized Quilting for Bernina 7 & 8 Series Machines. This process will help you understand key Bernina features using your embroidery module and the NEW Medium Clamp Hoop. This class is for owners of new generation Bernina 7 series and 880’s models only. | |
In closing, before wishing Barbara a speedy recovery, I’ll just slide in this little weekly fabric special hoping you’ll be tempted to come visit us or shop online! Please use the code HEALTHY20 to get 20% off your half yard or greater cuts of Valentine’s and Sports fabrics. Who can choose between the upcoming Valentine’s holiday or the upcoming Phoenix Open or Super Bowl LVII ?!? I couldn’t! | |
Lynn, (ghostwriting for Barbara) and the healthy, happy, fabric loving worker bees! | | | | |
