Fabric-Chicks

IT'S SHOWTIME!

The Quilt Shows are starting for Beth and Fabric Chicks. Beth was in Folsom, CA. Feb. 9,10th and we were in San Mateo, CA. Feb. 21,22,23rd. She was in Manteca, CA. March 2,3rd. We will be in Scramento, CA. March 21,22,23rd. Beth will be in Lindsay, CA. April 12,13,14th. That covers the shows until June but always check the "Fabric Chicks on the Roads" on the website as things change.
 This is a picture of the booth in San Mateo.

As you can see from the date of this blog........Donna Greenwald's classes are starting on March 8-10th. The class this weekend is the Hibiscus or one of her other projects. There is still room for you in this class. Call today. 775-267-0204 The next class is May 3-5th and it will be the Sunflower. 

Above is a picture of the hibiscus, sunflower, poppy and Lake Tahoe scene.

AND.......there may still be room in the Retreat at Zephyr Cove (Lake Tahoe), CA.  Donna has designed a special scene of Lake Tahoe (one of the most beautiful lakes in the world) for this retreat. I have seen the finished wall hanging and it is beautiful.  As with all of Donna's classes, she will be treaching new techniques. Or you can work on your own project. The retreat dates are May 26-31st. Please call the shop 775-267-0204 to see if there are still openings.

We have had several classes the past two months. One is the Dragon Fly and another is the Calendar Quilt wall hanging.  The Dragon Fly will be on the schedule again....the calendar quilt is a monthly class. We work on the calendar for the following month so you will have it finished in time to hang. This is just a couple of the classes we have on the schedule. The schedule for the next three month will be organized soon.  Please check the website as we keep the classes updated there.  If there is something you have always wanted to have a class on......call and let us know so we can schedule it.
The dragon fly class.
The calendar class.

"March is Quilting Madness" month so we have a lot of surprises for the month. Staring with this weekend. For those of you who can't make it into the shop you will get 15% off your entire internet order now thru Monday the 11th- enter code QM1 (if you have any problems put it in the notes or call us!) Tomorrow March 8th- 20% off any one item of your choice.

Saturday March 9th- 20% off the new Ecolux LED light for your sewing machine....check out the website for info....www.ecolux lighting.

Monday March 11th we have a special guest speaker from Oklahoma... Susan Masters will be visiting. Sign up now as there is still room. She will give a lecture at 10-11 am. The workshop is 12-4 pm. The wonderful experience will be on a new Folded Facets technique in fabric. The fee is $57.00...that includes lunch. Plus a kit fee of $28.00.

(Mystery special and  raffle for those signed up for the day!!)

 She will have several other kits you can purchase after the work shop.

This is all for now......Norma

 

Here it is the New Year and I still have some catching up to do so I'll keep it brief. In September we had the annual Sierra2Sage Shop Hop. There were 12 local quilt shops on the hop tour.  The event is four days and there were some really nice prizes.  I will provide more information about the one this year as soon as we have everything set. The dates will be September 5-8th so mark your calendars. It will make for a fun road trip/vacation.

Every two years we put together a Fabric Chicks and Friends Cookbook. September was the the second edition. We sold the first printing and have just had more printed. All the proceeds from the sale of the book goes back into our Wounded Soldiers Program. We meet at the shop once a month to work on quilts and make kits so others can help. We have given out 56 quilts in the past two years.

We had Donna Greenwald in the shop in October for two different classes. All her classes are three days. The next one is March 8-10th. Every class has some new techinques.

If you follow the Quilt Show circuit, you  may have seen Beth as she and I were at several shows - September through November.  The shows are starting again in February. See the Fabric Chicks on the Road information on the website.
 This was our booth in Pleasanton, CA. - September 2012

This is part of the booth at PIQF in Santa Clara, CA - October 2012
This is Santa Clara from a diferent angle.

Speaking of the website, it is getting updated more every day. So  until next time...........Norma

The shop hase been really hopping the last three months.  We even had a Shop Hop - more on that later.

We celebrated the FOURTH Anniversary of the shop in August! It is really great for a small business to be successsful in these times. We had several demonstrations of new items. There were door prizes, raffles, shop samples for sale, wonderful sales on fabric and even some free stuff.  We have added a yard salle room also.There were hot dogs and sodas for a fund rasier for Devon's (Beth's  son) football team. A great time was had by all that by for the day.      The yard sale room that has been added recently. 

                              The above picture is part of the sale tables for the Anniversary sale.

A couple of views of the shop.

The hot dog serving crew - Gracie (Beth's daughter) and her friend.

I will tell you all about the Shop Hop in the next post.....until next time.......Norma

Hello- I'm Norma and my plan is to bring you up todate on all that has been happening this past year since I'm sure you have noticed the date on the last entry...and a lot has been happened.

You will see I have put the pictures before the blog because I don't know for sure what I'm doing.  Also Rita's "Sunflower" is posted sideways. sorry Rita.

So here goes.....

The more recent bit of news is.....I just entered in my first ever my Quilt Show. The Quilt Show was put on by the CarsonValley Quilt Guild, Minden, NV. http.//www.cvqg.com. There were several of us from Fabric Chicks, who decided at the last minute to enter quilts or wall hangings in the show. By last minute I mean...the deadline is coming right up and.....??? We had to take pictures, fill out paperwork, join the guild, get sleeves sewn on the backs and "are you kidding me" they want labels sewn on too, by when? Beth won a "Third Place" for her hand appliqued "Baltimore" quilt she started when she was a wee young'un and finished just before the quilt show.

We did get everything done. We managed to get them devoid of threads, lint, etc. and to the drop off point on time. We were able to enter three items, judged or non-judged per person.  The prize money was $20,000.00 for several  categories, only the judged categories were eligible for the prize money.

I would have worried a lot more when I was taking the class for the "Poppy" had I known it was destined for the show and I would have enjoyed it less I'm sure. The "Poppy" class was taught by Donna Greenwald, a renowned Fiber Arts and Thread Painting Instructor. 

Donna is scheduled into the shop as often as her busy schedule will allow and that will be five times this year.  The "Poppy" class was the first of her classes I have taken. I have taken four of her classes so far.  The classes really fill up quickly.

 

I have included pictures taken at the Carson Valley Quilt Guild Show "My Favorite Things". I hope you enjoyed seeing them.....did I mention I WON a "First Place" prize for the "Poppy"?  I promise it won't be very long before you hear from me again as I have lots of things to tell you...until next time..Norma

 

 

 

 

 

Beth's "Baltimore" quilt

The is Fabric Chicks boothe at the Carson Valley Quilt Show.

Rita's Sunflower

Beth's Sunflower, another of Donna Greenwald's classes

Dragonfly

My Poppy