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1 Talk Of The Towne Thimble Towne Volume 2, Issue 3 Fall/Winter Central California Quilt & Sew Retreat The 2014 Central California Quilt & Sew Retreat will be here before you know it! Get excited! Fall Into Fabric, Fall Into Fun! When I think about Fall, and the fast approaching holiday season, I think about a few things. First, the fact that I ll be getting one step closer to 40! SCARY!!! Second, my favorite season; Fall. And lastly, my favorite family holiday; Thanksgiving! I m a sucker for pumpkin pie and turkey! I love the fall months and I am such a fan of all the colors! I just love when the leaves start to turn, and although we can t compare to the beautiful New England States, with their gorgeous colors, I still love our own little version of Fall right here in the valley. The weather will start to turn before we know it and things will start too cool down to a more reasonable temperature outside. But while things will be cooling off weather wise, they are continuing to heat up here at the shop! We continue to be busy around Towne but for good reason! We refuse to settle when it comes to providing you, our customers and friends, not only fun but the best classes around! With recently having been shop certified, by Judy Niemeyer of Quiltworx for her amazing paper piecing techniques, things have really started to heat up around the shop more so than they already have been, and we have you to thank for that! Not only has the daily shop happenings been keeping us busy but we are coming down to the wire with the final preparations for the 2014 Central California Quilt & Sew Retreat happening Halloween weekend! If you were one of the lucky ones and got your spot before it sold out, you are in for a real treat! The projects for each class have been finalized and all of the details surrounding our amazing team of educators have been taken care of! Get excited because this fall is gonna heat up! - Jeremy & The Amazing Thimble Towne Crew The event is sold out BUT you can still take part in the fun! On Sunday, Nov. 2nd, the trunk show and lecture from our SEWlebrity guest is open to all who would like to attend. $25 gets you in and gives you a chance to check out the new merchandise and take advantage of the retreat specials! Call the shop at (559) to R.S.V.P. and secure your spot! Destiny Preview Party Baby Lock s newest Top Of The Line Embroidery & Sewing Machine just debuted at Baby Lock Tech and it is amazing! Join us for a special evening of food, fun, and friendship, as we play with this brand new machine! Stop Chasing Your Dreams And Follow Your Destiny! Details to be announced soon! Thimble Towne 400 West Caldwell Ave. Ste. F Visalia, CA (559)

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3 Free Motion Quilting: The Basics Have you ever wanted to try your hand at free motion quilting? Not sure where to begin? Join Nationally recognized quilter, Debbie Van Fossen for Free Motion Quilting: The Basics. Debbie will teach you about threads, batting, needles and just about everything else you will need to begin your free motion quilting adventure. We are lucky to have this talent locally, so be sure to take advantage while you can! Instructor: Debbie Van Fossen Dates: Saturday, 9/20 Times: 10am to 4pm Fee: $35 plus supplies 2014 Fall/Winter Classes Beginning Quilting 101: Just Cant Cut It This class is designed to teach you quilting from square one. Learn to properly cut fabric using rotary cutters, master the ¼ seam and piece together your first quilt top. This class will teach you the basics necessary to move forward with your quilting adventure. Dates: Monday, 9/22, 9/29, & 10/13 Times: 10am to 1pm Fee: $40 plus supplies Binding Basics Need to put the final touch on that quilt you have worked so hard on? Barbara will guide you through preparing, applying and finishing the perfect binding. You will learn how to miter your corners, perfectly join the ends together and stitch it down. We will be working from pre-quilted fabric leaving you with a reference piece for future projects. This easy one day class is offered twice, day or night, this quarter! Dates: Thursday, 9/25 Dates: Monday, 10/20 Times: 10am to 1pm Times: 6pm to 9pm Fee: $25 (includes kit) plus supplies Fee: $25 (includes kit) plus supplies **Suggested Book: Happy Endings By Mimi Dietrich** Celebrations Tree Skirt This Judy Niemeyer, paper piecing, beauty will definitely make your Christmas tree pop! You will love this project so much, it will pain you to cut out the hole in the center! Don t worry, you can make it a table topper! Certified Instructor Patsy Carpenter, will be teaching this great two day class that will definitely get you in the holiday spirit! Instructor: CI Patsy Carpenter Dates: Friday, 9/26 & Saturday, 9/27 Times: 10am to 4pm Fee: $70 plus supplies **Kits Available** Talk Of The Towne Page 3

4 Pumpkins Table Runner Are you looking for something different to decorate your fall table with? Look no further. This circular table topper is the answer. Using fusible, raw edge appliqué, a little thread and prairie points made from one strip of fabric you will create this stunning piece. If a round runner doesn t work for your table we have an option to make this rectangular too! Instructor: Ann Hinman Dates: Wednesday, 10/1 & 10/15 Fee: $40 plus supplies 2014 Fall/Winter Classes Accidental Landscapes Candy Boulton is at it again! This time, instead of making happy villages, she will teach you how to make some stunning landscapes! Using Karen Eckmeier s technique, this one day class will give you the confidence to piece some fabrics together and create your own landscape collage. You will be feeling like a true artist in no time! Instructor: Candy Boulton Dates: Thursday, 10/2 Fee: $25 plus supplies **Required Book: Accidental Landscapes by Karen Eckmeier** Poinsettia Table Runner with Free Motion Quilting Using one of Debbie s favorite rulers, the quick curve ruler, she teaches you how to piece together this gorgeous table runner that goes together quickly! Once the piecing is out of the way, she shows you how to really kick it up a notch with some amazing quilting that will bring these flowers to life! Instructor: Debbie Van Fossen Dates: Thursday, 10/2, 10/9, & 10/16 Times: 6pm to 9pm Fee:$50 plus supplies Lazy Daisy Table Topper Really make your dining room table pop with this giant dresden plate table topper! This easy to assemble pattern will accent any home perfectly! Make it resemble a giant flower, or liven it up with some fun Kaffe prints, the possibilities are endless! Dates: Friday, 10/3 Times: 10am to 4pm Fee: $25 plus supplies **Christmas Kits Available** Page 4 Volume 2, Issue 3

5 2014 Fall/Winter Classes Pocket Full Of Rulers Tote You will fall in love with the amazing amounts of pockets this very functional tote has! Use it to carry all your supplies easily to your classes, retreat, or open sews! This tote is made to fit everything! From your cutting mats to your rulers and notions, it all goes in the bag! Our newest instructor to the Thimble Towne family, our friend Dolores Waymire, will teach you how to construct this gorgeous bag in no time! Instructor: Dolores Waymire Dates: Tuesday, 10/7 & 10/14 Fee: $40 plus supplies Color & Value Color is important but value makes the quilt. In this class you will learn to view your fabric collection based on both value and color. You will make your own fabric color wheel, fun, easy and perfect to inspire your future quilts! Instructor: Charlotte Rogers Date: Friday, 10/10 Fee: $25 plus supplies **Color Tool Required** Power Cutting Power Cutting is a fast and efficient approach to rotary cutting. Power cutting is a collection of cutting techniques that allows you to choose the one that is best for the task at hand. Charlotte will walk you through this fun and fast technique to ensure you get more work done in less time, the right way! Instructor: Charlotte Rogers Dates: Friday, 10/17 Fee: $25 plus supplies Inspired Art Quilting Workshop Have you tried cutting quilt blocks without a ruler? Would you like to play with ideas in a small format? The goal of Inspired Art Quilting is to give you the foundation and tools to pursue your own ideas and create beautiful quilts, both traditional and art quilts alike. Over the three days of the class we will create two or three small pieces using fun techniques that you will learn! Instructor: Charlotte Rogers Dates: Friday, 10/24 - Sunday, 10/26 Times: 10am to 4pm Fee: $100 plus supplies EQ7: The Basics & Beyond Have a tough time finding the right quilt pattern for what you re wanting to create? Ever wanted to try and manipulate or alter a quilt pattern? Or how about creating your own all together? There are programs and software out there that can help you do just that! Learn the ins and outs of how to use Electric Quilt 7, and you will be on your way to creating your very own quilt patterns! Juanita is back, by popular demand, to show you how to use that software you ve been aching to try! Instructor: Juanita Cairns Dates: Monday, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24, 12/1, & 12/8 Times: 10am to 1pm Fee $100 plus supplies Talk Of The Towne Page 5

6 2014 Fall/Winter Classes Beginning Quilting 102: Simple Sampler Quilt You ve graduated from BQ: 101 and now its time to take the next step in your quilting education! Create this gorgeous sampler quilt while learning a variety of quilting techniques. This pattern will teach you how to make; 1/2 square triangles, flying geese, quarter square triangles, strip piecing and more! Dates: Wednesday, 11/12, 11/19, 12/3, 12/10, & 12/17 Times: 10am to 2pm Fee: $75 plus supplies Chalkboard Fundamentally Fun Table Runner We are going to make you the talk of the office pot luck, or family gathering, when you bring along this table runner, lined with insul-bright, and adorned with chalkboard fabric, this table runner allows you to place even the hottest of dishes on it without burning! What s better, the chalkboard fabric lets you note who brought which dish and what it is! Never worked with insul-bright or chalkboard fabric` before? Not a problem, Barbara will teach you the ropes and eliminate any fear you might have! Dates: Friday, 11/14 Fee: $30 plus supplies GiGi s Garden: Intro to English Paper Piecing Learn the English method of paper piecing from our newest instructor to the Thimble Towne family, Karen O Connor. Let her guide you through using this hand piecing method as you make this gorgeous wall hanging! From making your templates to piecing it all together, she will help you every step of the way! Instructor: Karen O Connor Dates: Saturday, 11/15 Fee: $30 plus supplies Table Graces This classic quilt as you go placemat pattern will become a favorite of yours once you get started. They go together so quickly you will want to make them for every occasion. Perfect for gifting too! Come see why this pattern is one of the highest selling there is! Dates: Tuesday, 11/18 Times: 10am to 1pm Fee: $25 plus supplies Page 6 Volume 2, Issue 3

7 Intro To EmbroideryWorks Software The most popular features in embroidery software have come together in EmbroideryWorks. EmbroideryWorks Everyday comes with all of the essential editing tools you use daily. It provides embroiderers with a toolbox filled with all the essential design editing functions needed to create beautiful embroidery. Our resident software guru, Jenny Glass, will walk you through step by step and have you creating and editing your own designs in no time! Instructor: Jenny Glass Dates: Tuesday, 12/2 & 12/9 Times: 10am to 1pm Fee: FREE with purchase of software from Thimble Towne 2014 Fall/Winter Classes Vintage Compass For those fans of Judy Niemeyer and her paper piecing patterns you will love this beauty. This quilt measures out 62 square and will be a wonderful pattern for the comfortable beginner. This is a happy alternative to her larger queen sized patterns too! Patsy will be teaching this gorgeous quilt as a two day class which is sure to fill up quickly! Instructor: CI Patsy Carpenter Dates: Friday, 12/5 & Saturday, 12/6 Times: 10am to 4pm Fee: $70 plus supplies Finish It With Charlotte Just in time for the last minute holiday rush Charlotte is here to help you finish up those gifts you ve been working so hard to complete! Whether you got stuck and aren t sure where to go next or just need help choosing the perfect fabrics for your next project, Charlotte is here to help! Instructor: Charlotte Rogers Dates: Friday, 12/12 Fee: $15 (bring your own projects) We Have A New Technician! We are happy to announce that we now have our very own certified technician! You may have seen him around Towne already but if not, let us introduce you to: Jason Handley Jason joins the Thimble Towne family with a HVAC background and extensive knowledge in embroidery. He and his wife, Renee, are the happy parents of two adorable kids; Jaxon and Avery, who you will also see around Towne from time to time. Jason is happy to help with your machine service and repair needs! Talk Of The Towne Page 7

8 2014 Fall/Winter Classes SERGER TRAINING WITH NATIONAL BABY LOCK EDUCATOR RLARRY TOUCHETTE One of the perks of buying your Baby Lock Serger from Thimble Towne is the unbeatable FREE training that you get along with your purchase. Not only do you get that FREE training from us here in-house, but you also get it from National Baby Lock Educator RLarry Touchette, at no cost to you! We are happy to pick up the tab and bring in this amazing talent to share his passion for Baby Lock sergers with you! You will learn all of the Ins & Outs of your amazing serger that you will want to run home and get serging! Serger Basics Training: Date: 10/8 Time: Fee: FREE with purchase of machine from Thimble Towne ($50 otherwise) Serge Notebook Cover Project Date: 10/9 Time: Fee: $25 plus supplies Open Sews We have a busy fall and winter ahead of us! Not only is it packed with classes but with events as well! We managed to squeeze in a few Open Sew dates to help you get the time to finish those last minute Christmas gifts! September Dates: 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 24th, 30th November Dates: 11th, 13th, & 25th December Dates: 4th, 11th, 15th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd Friday Night Fun Sews Join Greg for the Fall line up of Friday Night Fun Sews! If you ve not made it to one, you are definitely missing out on a lot of fun! From freebies and raffles, to food and fabric sales he knows how to have a good time and throw a party! Please call the shop with at least one weeks advance notice to the date to R.S.V.P. so we have an accurate head count! Friday Night Fun Sew Dates: October 17th November 21st December 19th Talk Of The Towne Page 8

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11 2014 Fall/Winter Class Calendar September 2014 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat TOM (2/6) TOM (2/6) Beg Mach Qltng Beg Qltng 101 (1/3) 23 Quilt Club OR 6pm - 9pm Binding Basics 26 Celebration (1/2) 27 Celebration (2/2) Beg Qltng 101 (2/3) 30 October 2014 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 Pumpkins (1/2) 2 Acd. Landscapes Poinsettia TR & FMQ (1/3) 6pm - 9pm 3 Lazy Daisy TR Pockets Tote (1/2) 8 Serger Basics 9 Serger Project Poinsettia TR & FMQ (2/3) 6pm - 9pm 10 Color & Value 11 TOM (3/6) Beg Qltng 101 (3/3) 14 Pockets Tote (2/2) 15 Pumpkins (2/2) 16 TOM (3/6) Poinsettia TR & FMQ (3/3) 6pm - 9pm 17 Power Cutting FFS 4pm - 11pm Binding Basics 6pm - 9pm Insp Art Qltng (1/3) 25 Insp Art Qltng (2/3) 26 Insp Art Qltng (3/3) CV Q&S Retreat Talk Of The Towne Page 11

12 2014 Fall/Winter Class Calendar November 2014 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 CV Q&S Retreat 2 CV Q&S Retreat HOLIDAY HOP 8 HOLIDAY HOP 9 10 EQ7 (1/5) Beg Qltng 102 (1/5) 10am - 2pm Chalkboard TR 15 GiGi s Garden EQ7 (2/5) 18 Table Graces 19 Beg Qltng 102 (2/5) 10am - 2pm 20 TOM (4/6) 21 FFS 4pm - 11pm 22 TOM (4/6) EQ7 (3/5) CLOSED 27 CLOSED December 2014 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 EQ7 (4/5) 2 Emb Works (1/2) 3 Beg Qltng 102 (3/5) 10am - 2pm 4 5 Vintage Cmps (1/2) 6 Vintage Cmps (2/2) 7 8 EQ7 (5/5) 9 Emb Works (2/2) 10 Beg Qltng 102 (4/5) 10am - 2pm Finish It 13 TOM (5/6) Beg Qltng 102 (5/5) 10am - 2pm 18 TOM (5/6) 19 FFS 4pm - 11pm CLOSED 25 CLOSED Talk Of The Towne Page 12