Volume 12, Issue 2 ♥ ♥ ♥ Jody and I are anxiously awaiting May 15 to roll around—that’s the day we board a plane for Kansas City, Missouri, the location of Spring 2012 International Quilt Market! We’ll spend 4 days taking classes, networking with shop owners from all over the world, playing with our friends Robin & Diane from Tater Patch Quilts in Oregon, and seeing all the latest and greatest new fabrics, books, patterns, notions and techniques related to the wonderful world of quilting! Although the show doesn’t start till Thursday, we like to go a couple of days early and do our own “shop hop” to find new and different ideas that are successful in quilt shops outside our own area. Stay tuned for an announcement about the “unveiling” of our Market purchases near the end of May/beginning of June! ♥ May—August 2012 ♥ I will also be busy this Summer helping my daughter, Erin, plan a very important event—her wedding!! You may remember that she became engaged on our family vacation in Hawaii last July. Erin and Rich will be tying the knot in Chico, CA, on September 22! Thanks for all your inquiries and get well wishes following my little rotary cutting accident last December and subsequent surgery. My foot is healing nicely with the help of the wonderful therapists at Lucas Physical Therapy just a couple doors down from The Granary! I ran my first postsurgery 5K race on St. Patrick’s Day! I know I sound like a broken record, but I do like to acknowledge all the wonderfully talented, knowledgeable and kind-hearted girls that make the Granary such a warm and welcoming environment. I am so lucky to have them on staff. They take care of the store and its customers as if they were their own. It’s a very fun place to come to work every day! I love Summertime at the shop! We have so much fun planning events that bring lots and lots of people to our store. This will be our 12th year participating in a shop hop. Last year we had over 800 people visit the Granary! It’s so gratifying to hear new customers say “I’ll definitely be coming back here!” We’ve already got some great stuff planned for this year so don’t miss out. See page 2 for more details. Did someone Please join me in welcoming our newest Granary family member—Sandy Urquhart. Sandy has been say “margarita”?? a customer for many years so we know her well Another popular annual event is Christmas in July and knew she would be a perfect fit. (see page 3). So really--who wants to look at Christmas fabric in April when we start receiving it, Have a fabulous summer! Wedding details to right? We squirrel away all our Christmas fabric in follow in the Fall newsletter! staff garages and around the shop. On Saturday, July 14, we unveil all of it at once along with a few new samples—AND we offer 20% off! Join us for this fun event and get inspired to start those Christmas projects early this year! Paula Paula and Julie began their third block of the month quilt together in January. This year’s BEAUTIFUL quilt, Paris in the Fall, comes from designer, Sherri K. Falls, of This & That, and features 12 blocks (2 each of 6 designs) and a unique pieced sashing and pieced cornerstones which give the quilt a vintage feel. Paula and Julie selected rich reds, golds, greens and browns for the shop sample, but just about any color scheme/types of fabric will work--and it's fat quarter friendly! The finished quilt measures 66” x 86”. This program is designed for the advanced beginner to intermediate quilter and will focus on precision cutting, piecing and pressing so that this quilt and all your future quilts will go together in a snap. You will learn fool-proof accurate rotary cutting skills, how to obtain the perfect ¼” seam allowance, and pinning and pressing techniques. In addition, Paula and Julie will also share with you other quick, easy and accurate methods for making elements of various other quilt blocks (e.g., flying geese, halfsquare triangles) which you may not even know exist! This is the perfect opportunity to hone your quilting skills, learn new techniques for faster and easier piecing and make this beautiful quilt under the guidance of Paula and Julie! Classes meet on the first Friday afternoon and Saturday morning of each month—you can choose which session works best for you. If you have to miss a class, no problem—make-up sessions are available. Onetime fee of $110 for 12-month program; pattern and fabric sold separately. Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring are Lynda Howell's 33" x 45" Changing Seasons Block of the Month wall hangings. One of the blocks in each season's wall quilt features a quaint house and tree which change with each season; other blocks of seasonal motifs are unique to each wall quilt. This is the last of Lynda Howells 34-45 seasonal wall hangings. This time we have Santa, a snowman, an angel and many more. Our house is still there surrounded by snow. You will learn various techniques in machine piecing and fusible machine appliquГ©-or hand appliquГ© if you prefer. Members will receive a kit for that month's section of the 33" x 45" project. If monthly meetings don't work for you, you can pick up your kits at the shop or they can be mailed. Membership fee is $25 per month and is offered by automatic credit card billing only. The fee includes your monthly class, quilt pattern and fabric for each of the blocks. Improve your hand or machine appliquГ© skills with an expert! It’s not too early to start making plans to visit 12 of the Bay Area’s best quilt shops from San Mateo to the Monterey Bay and the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles! You’ll have 5 days to tour the stores and see a huge variety of fabric, books, patterns and other quilt-related merchandise. Have your passport stamped, do a little shopping and maybe even meet new quilting friends along the way. Each shop hopper who turns in a completed passport will automatically receive a special gift and be entered into a drawing for many fantastic prizes. Pick up your official Shop Hop by the Bay 2012 newsletter at the Granary or visit www.shophopbythebay.com for more details! You’re sure to be inspired! Did someone say "dessert?!" When you attend our monthly Double Delight We will be saving ALL of our holiday fabmeetings, you can sit back and enjoy a ric until Saturday, July 14. The bolts and detailed "hands-on" demo of a specially bolts that we’ve ordered will be stashed selected project and a sampling of a home-made delectaunder “Sewfie”, in the storage room, in the ble dessert. You'll also receive the pattern for the feabathroom (we do have 2!) and even in our personal gatured project and the recipe for the dessert you sampled! rages! The elves will arrive at the Granary late Friday, Our Double Delight projects feature a broad range of July 13th (or very early on the 14th!) to unpack, organize fabric styles including batiks, contemporary prints, roand showcase all the wonderful Christmas fabrics! As a mantic florals, holiday prints and more! Club meetings special treat you will enjoy 20% off all Christmas fabric are held on the 3rd Tuesday of the month from 7-8pm on that day (1/2 yard minimum cut off the bolt). We will and the 3rd Wednesday of the month from 9-10am—you also be gathering new holiday patterns and books. You'll choose which meeting time is convenient for you! If you be inspired to get started on those holiday projects! miss a meeting, you can pick up your pattern and recipe at a later time and see our project sample in the shop. Annual Double Delight Membership is $40 and covers one year of meetings from July through June. Sign-ups now being accepted for our next season beginning in Mary Kay Davis has been busy this year! July and continuing through June 2013. In the April/May 2012 edition of The Quilt Life Magazine, her 4 page article “From a Brown Paper Bag to Elvis” was published. Did you know that Mary Kay is an editor for TheQuiltShow.com with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims? Her Curves in Bloom quilt pattern was published in the May/June 2012 edition of McCall’s Quilting magazine. Both magazines are still available at the Granary! She also has a pattern, “Checkerboard Stars” in the March 2012 edition of The Quilt Pattern Magazine online. A little bird told me you’d better watch your upcoming edition of Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine for more surprises from Mary Kay. Visit her website at threadsonthefloor.com. Congratulations to Dianne! At the Auburn Quilt Show in April, Dianne received Honorable Mention and a 3rd Place Viewer’s Choice Award for her quilt Holiday Sampler, which she made here at the Granary in Angela’s block of the month class. Carol is busy making samples and putting the final touches on her newest patterns which she will preview at her second Quilt Market in May in Kansas City. Carol has now published 23 well-written, unique and clever patterns from placemats to e-Reader cases to practical tote bags. Carol teaches many of her patterns at the Granary— who better to learn from than the expert! Many of Carol’s patterns are available at the shop. Visit Carol’s website quilterbynight.com to see Carol’s entire line! Last year, Sarah graduated from The Art Institute of California with her BS in Web Design and Interactive Media. We have been so thankful that she’s been willing to continue working at the shop on Saturday’s given her hectic schedule with a full time job during the week. Sarah has been hard at work designing a whole new website for the Granary with a more fun and modern look. We can’t wait to launch it this Summer! Have you seen Sarah’s adorable quilts in the shop? Sarah has now published 4 patterns including Sash вЂ�Em, Lily’s Ladybugs, Beta Bots, and her newest owl-themed pattern, Whooo’s There. Sarah is always happy to autograph her patterns for you! Visit Sarah’s website www.sarahrosequilts.com to view her patterns; they are sold exclusively at the Granary and Sarah’s Etsy Store which you can access through her website. Julie is one of our most popular teachers at the Granary; she teaches many of our beginning quilting classes including Beginning Basic Quilting, various machine quilting classes, binding, appliquГ©, and more. Julie is having fun writing a blog about her quilting and crafting interests. Visit Julie’s blog at thecraftyquilter.com. Here's a great way to beat those Monday morning blahs. Drop the kids at school and meet Paula and Kris at The Granary for a couple hours of sewing. Bring the project of your choice and your sewing machine (or your hand-work) and start your week off on a creative foot. All levels welcome! Advanced registration required. Do you have an unfinished quilt you would like to finish and need some help? Is there a quilt you would like to make and need some extra help? Bring your project, extra fabric, pattern, machine, etc. and lunch. We all know what a great feeling it is to finish a quilt! Limit 8 quilters per class. Advanced registration required. Do you have any unfinished projects? Now that’s a silly question! Come once a month on the Wednesdays listed to sew those seams and get the help, tips or pointers you might need to complete your project. Advanced registration required. Join the Granary’s staff every Thursday evening for help with any project of your choice. Whatever phase you’re at, we’re here to help! All levels of ability are welcome. 24-hour advance registration required. If you’re a night owl, be sure to join us on the following Friday nights and enjoy the three S’s: Sitting, Sewing and Sewcializing! Bring the project of your choice and maybe a little caffeine! Advanced registration required. Bring your machine and come and enjoy a day of relaxed sewing. You’re welcome to come for the whole day or just a few hours. The Granary’s able staff is available to help you with all your quilting needs. We’ll be happy to help you choose a pattern and fabric to start a new project, practice your rotary cutting skills, put a binding on a quilt… you name it, we’ll do our best! Advanced registration required. You may register for classes at the shop, by phone or by filling out the registration form available on our website. Class reservations will only be accepted when accompanied by full payment. A supply list will be issued at that time. A 10% discount is offered on all supply list items with your paid enrollment. Refunds and/or store credits will gladly be given if you notify us of your need to cancel a class at least five (5) days prior to the scheduled class date. No refunds or credits will be given if the 5 day notice requirement is not met. We stand by this policy in order to assure our teachers that the minimum enrollment has been met and to guarantee those taking the class that the class will be a “go”. If The Granary cancels a class, a full refund will be given. п‚› пЂҐ пЂҐпЂҐ пЂҐпЂҐпЂҐ In this class you will learn the three basic principles of successful quilt making: accurate rotary cutting, precision piecing and perfect pressing. Once you have mastered these, you will be on your way to making beautiful quilts. You will be working with three different fabrics, and Julie will guide you through the process of making a small quilt top. Once your quilt top is done, you're ready to continue with our Machine Quilting Basics class. See below for more information. п‚љ Let’s get those quilt tops finished and turned into beautiful quilts with some machine quilting! This class will focus on straight line machine quilting using a walking foot. Basting, thread choices and marking your quilt top will also be discussed. Once your quilt top is quilted you’ll want to take Julie’s Basic Binding class. If you’ve been successful with simple paper piecing before and are ready to move on to something more challenging, you’ll have fun making this paper-pieced wreath from MH Designs. Choose your color scheme— make it look like a Spring wreath or a Christmas wreath. пЂҐпЂҐ Finally got those quilt tops quilted but don't know how to do binding? Learn simple double fold binding basics in this class including how to join the strips, miter the corners and join the ends for a flawless finish!! So you want to learn how to paper piece? Have you seen the perfect patchwork resulting from machine paper piecing and wondered if you could do that? Of course you can! Join Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring are Paula and learn all about this timeLynda Howell's 33" x 45" Changing saving technique. Seasons Block of the Month wall hangings. Each season's wall quilt features the same quaint house and tree which change with each season; other blocks of seasonal motifs are unique to each wall quilt. See page 2 or Edge techniques for a more decorative the website for more details. finish beyond basic binding will be taught in this class. Examples are scalloped edges, prairie points and пЂҐпЂҐ piping. пЂҐпЂҐ We are happy to offer you a 10% discount on all class supplies with your paid enrollment in a class! Not sure what to do with those wonderful large prints in your stash or you see at the store? This quilt is for you. Choose one beautiful large print to showcase in this fun, simple to make pattern. п‚› п‚љ пЂҐпЂҐ Joan Hawley of Lazy Girl Designs has done it again! Candice is her latest and the greatest bag ever! Roomy enough to hold everything you'll need for a day out and about and plenty of pockets to keep you organized! Jody will guide you through the steps to make Candice your own! How would you like to get two quilts from one jelly roll? Join Angela to make the Friendship Braid quilt in the class; you will have enough leftover pieces to make a second quilt at home! They are both fun and easy to make. Angela will share her secrets for m ak i n g t he " le ft ov er " q u il t . пЂҐпЂҐ Make this simple but protective case for your favorite E-Reader or Tablet. Pattern includes multiple sizes for popular E-Readers like the Nook, Color Nook, Kindles and popular tablets like the iPad. Use elastic or Velcro for the closure. Did someone say "dessert?!" When you attend our monthly Double Delight meetings, you can sit back and enjoy a detailed "hands-on" demo of a specially selected project and a sampling of a home-made delectable dessert. You'll also receive the pattern for the featured project and the recipe for the dessert you sampled! See website for more details. Registrations are now being accepted for our new season beginning in July and continuing through June 2013 . Turn your quilt tops into beautiful finished projects faster than ever before! Learn the basics of machine quilting, including freemotion, stipple, and machine guided quilting. The secret is the right tools and practice, practice, practice! A great technique for a quicker, easier log cabin block. "Half as пЂҐ many logs, half as much work, Half Log Cabin!" This is a technique class to learn the block construction then we will play with the many setting options available. Great for leftover strips. Book includes a bonus chart for Stacking fabrics and strip piecing 2-1/2" or 1-1/2" strips. make this quilt a delight to make in no пЂҐпЂҐ time at all. Have fun using up your fat quarters as you put together what appears to be a complicated design, but is actually quite easy to assemble. Based on the hot-off-the-press Lemon Pepper pattern, this quilt would look great in batiks, reproductions, tropicals, and Kaffe Fassett-type fabrics. пЂҐ п‚› Learn how to machine appliquГ© using a variety of techniques suitable for any project. In this workshop, you will learn how to prepare your piece for raw edge appliquГ© and finish it with a blanket stitch, fine zigzag stitch or satin zigzag stitch. You’ll also prepare a turned edge appliquГ© piece that will be finished with an invisible machine stitch. You will complete a sample of each technique in class so you’ll be ready for your next appliquГ© project!! п‚љ This "Christmas Star" wall hanging goes together in a snap using Jodi Barrow's Square in a Square technique. You will learn how to use Paula and Julie began their third block the SNS ruler for a quick and easy of the month quilt together in January. way to make flying geese and the This year’s BEAUTIFUL quilt, Paris in square in a square block. the Fall, comes from designer, Sherri пЂҐпЂҐ K. Falls, of This & That, and features 12 blocks (2 each of 6 designs) and a unique pieced sashing and pieced cornerstones which give the quilt a vintage feel. See page 2 or the website for more details! Learn how fast and easy it is to make these durable, reusable bags. Carol пЂҐпЂҐ will share all her time-saving tips and tricks. Made with canvas, fabric, and heavy-duty window screen the generous size of these bags is perfect for a trip to the grocery store or to the beach! Pattern includes a handy storage case. Instructions include This sweet little go-anywhere bag options to make fabric handles or to with a see-through window and use purchased strapping. A perfect zippered top is perfect for carrying gift for you or your environmentally anything from cosmetics to sewing aware relatives and friends! You will notions to small electronics. Paula will need a machine with a walking foot take the mystery out of the pattern for this class. пЂҐ instructions and share her tips for several finishing techniques. Once you’ve made one, you could make This huge bag is mondo fun and easy more in a multitude of sizes. пЂҐпЂҐ to make. It’s constructed using preJoin Jody to learn an easy wrapping printed fusible interface from and coiling technique that will enable QuiltSmart and 2 ½” squares of fabric. you to construct beautiful bowls, This will quickly become your favorite plates and even purses! In class we'll bag for bringing your quilts to the Granary for show and tell. With its A quilt without a label should be start with a small bowl but you'll want 10” square bottom, you can set this punishable by law! Do you usually to continue at home with larger bag on the floor without it toppling just skip labeling your quilts because projects! The bowls make great gifts over like many fabric bags do! You you’re not sure how to make a label or anytime of year! because you don’t want to take the won’t be able to make just one! пЂҐпЂҐ time? Paula will share loads of ideas for making all kinds of labels from “themed” labels to super quick and easy labels. You’ll have so many ideas when you leave the class that your quilts will never be label-less again! 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The pattern will remain a secret until the meeting and is always free with your purchase of the fabric bundle. Join us for “Happy Hour” whichever months you choose for just $40! в™ҐпЂ в™ҐпЂ Sun 6 Mon в†’ 7 Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 Finish It! 13 14 15 16 17 18 Seams to be Done 20 21 27 Open 10-4 Sunday Sewcial Sun 22 23 Fat Quarter Fun Quilt Labels 28 28 30 Mon Tue Closed Wed 19 . 24 Beg. Quilting (1) 25 26 Fri Sat 1 2 31 Beg. Quilting (2) Thu BQ III 3 в†’ 10 17 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mach. AppliquГ© Beg. Paper Piecing 19 20 18 Wrap Bowl Half Log Cabin (1) Stuff & Go Bag Easy E-Reader Friendship Braid 21 25 Open 10-4 Sunday Sewcial Friendship Braid 26 Half Log Cabin (2) 23 SHOP HOP SNS Star 24 22 27 Seams to be Done 28 Basic Binding 29 30 Fat Quarter Fun Sun 1 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 2 3 4 5 6 7 в†’ . 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Christmas in July 17 18 19 20 21 25 26 27 28 Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 Machine AppliquГ© Friendship Braid 15 16 Seams to be Done 22 23 24 29 30 31 Sun Mon Tue Open 10-4 Sunday Sewcial Quilt Labels 5 в†’ 6 7 8 9 Beg. Quilting (1) 13 14 15 16 17 Beg. Quilting (2) 19 20 21 Mondo Bag (2) 26 Open 10-4 Sunday Sewcial 27 Peek-A-Boo Bag 18 .Stuff & Go Bag 22 23 24 30 31 Seams to be Done 28 11 Finish It! Mondo Bag (1) 12 10 Candice Bag 29 Free Motion I 25
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