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Mon-Fri 10-5
Sat: 10-2
or
until the last
customer leaves!
We are also open by appointment anytime - not a problem to open
earlier or stay later - just call and let me know what day and
time.
February
– the month of CHOCOLATE!! What a warm winter we are having –
no excuse for not being able to get to our shop. Spring fabrics
are coming in and I’ve even ordered more because it feels like
spring! As everyone else is saying “I hope we don’t have to pay
for this in June.” Let’s be optimistic and say that the rest of
the winter will be mild and we will get some snow so all can go
skiing, snowmobiling, and snowshoeing.
Directions to the Country School House Quilt
Shop
My
shop is at the corner of 21st Ave. E. and East 5th
Street. I’m in the DeSmet Agency building. They have a big
sign in parking lot and my little sign is on building next to
door.
Directions to the shop:
(I am only 3 blocks from the Lake, so when you get to the lake,
drive 3 blocks away from it and that is E. 5th St.)
(1) Driving N on Hwy 2/53. When you see McDonald’s on
the right & Culver’s on the left, turn left and go 3 blocks to
stop sign, is E. 5th St. The DeSmet Agency
building is diagonally across the street. (2) From Mn
– take Blatnik Bridge and follow the Hwy 53 S. signs which
will take you under the bridge and along the lake, past
Perkins and Fairlawn Museum. At Culver’s, turn right and go 3
blocks to stop sign which is E. 5th St. The DeSmet
Agency building is diagonally across the street. (3) Coming
from the N on Hwy 35 (Tower Ave). Turn right on N 28th
St. (Mall Drive) – go past mall and over railroad tracks. Turn
right at the stop lights onto E. 5th St. Go 3 blocks
to 21st Ave E. The DeSmet Agency building is on the
right.
Important News:
More than 19,000 women
last month developed invasive breast cancer. Did you know one
of them? I am willing to be that this year you will know
someone who develops it – maybe even yourself! That’s why we
need all our quilters to step up and help our friends, sisters,
mothers, daughters, daughter-in-laws, and relatives who will be
battling this nasty disease by making and donating a lap size
quilt that will be donated to our 2 local Breast Cancer
Centers. You can either do it with the Challenge part where you
make it with 1/2yd of challenge fabric or the no challenge where
you make it from any fabric. You can use any pattern for both
these ways. Get your friends together and make one together or
your quilting group can put one together. All will be shown at
the Spring Fling Quilt Show in April. Come in and get the
information and start it today. The woman who gets your quilt
will know that P.S. We love you….. and someone cares about her.
Christmas All Year Long –you
asked for it and we are doing it. Starting in February –
actually tomorrow, we will feature a free pattern a month
included with our kit that is something fast, easy, and makes a
great gift. We will do this from Feb. – October. If you do
this each month, come November you will have 9 gifts to be
wrapped up. Some of these projects will be so much fun that you
will make more than one! Kits will range from $40 for a quilt
to $5 for smaller projects. How do you join? It will cost you
$10 to join and that guarantees you a kit (as we will only make
so many each month and when they are gone they are gone), a free
class to do it in, if you wish, a show n’ tell on the 2nd
Sat. of the month with goodies so you can see what everyone else
is doing and get ideas from them also. I will also present the
next months kit and go over the pattern with you. Kits can be
picked up each month on the 15th or after. We will
need at least 15 people to run this successfully so sign up
today. We will have the first project, which is a quilt,
hanging for you to see. This quilt is the fastest one to do and
only takes a jelly roll and we have great jelly rolls in the
newest spring prints! Come see this and register for the
program…or call….or e-mail me.
What's New
Groovy Women Clubs-don’t
forget to bring 3 fat quarters to the club meeting this month
for our game! Write this down on our calendar so you remember.
Meetings are Thursday, Feb. 9th (my grandson’s
birthday) at 1:00 p.m.; Sat. Feb. 25th at 9:00 a.m.
and Tues. Feb 28th at 5 p.m.
New Spring Fabrics
are coming in…our goal is to make a project from each line!
That might prove to be a bit difficult, but we’re up to it! We
have some new kits ready: The Rose is a beautiful quilt made
from this gorgeous fabric. You fussy cut the large rose
squares. It goes together quickly but makes a show-stopping
quilt. We also have the top done from a quilt shown in the new
Quilts and More for Feb. which hasn’t even come out yet. A
darling kid’s quilt made from some farm fabric. We will have
kits ready if you want one. That magazine has my Lil’ Twister
featured in their What’s Hot column this time. I think we’ll
order more magazines than usual! We now have snowmobile fabric
for making great pillow cases and some cute bright funky flowers
and a geometric with bright colors, charm packs from Moda in
prints and in a batik that are for fabrics to come and for some
that have arrived….stop in and get a whiff of Spring!
The Wedding Quilt
by Jennifer Chiaverini has arrived and I think this is on the
top of my favorite book by her in the Elm Creek Series and this
might be the one I stop at – we’ll see. It is a great story and
I won’t tell you more or I will spoil it for you…it will make
you feel angry, sad, and happy is the only hint I will give. It
is in hardcover.
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