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Fall Issue 2013 The Fabric Patch 220 Tenth Ave SW Ephrata, WA 98823 509-754-8280 www.fabricpatch.net Find us on Facebook!! Worth the drive from anywhere!! See what s new!

Don t miss our Fall/Winter BOM Open House We made it through summer!! Now it s on to our very busy fall schedule!! So much to do so little time!

1 Fall Issue 2013 The Fabric Patch 220 Tenth Ave SW Ephrata, WA Find us on Facebook!! Worth the drive from anywhere!! See what s new!! Home Dec class for the Pinterest Addict $5 Quilt starting again in November Needle and Thread Society Facebook giveaways Log Cabin Garden BOM Prairie Women Sewing Circle Color Challenge!! Big Prizes! Don t miss our Fall/Winter BOM Open House We made it through summer!! Now it s on to our very busy fall schedule!! So much to do so little time! We have really been enjoying hand embroidery and have two new classes focusing on this very relaxing technique. Bertys is still teaching the machine embroidery class - and auditioning patterns for a new embroidery club starting in January for those of you that didn t get a chance to join our current club. Speaking of second chances - we are repeating our long arm block-of-themonth. We had 17 quilters last quarter (too many) with many of you asking to join in. We will teach the same class, beginning in October, for 6 months. Call or come in for more information, or, pick up a flyer at our BOM Open House on October 5th. Come check out all of the new clubs and classes. It is always a lot of fun, but many classes have limited enrollment so come early. Three more celebrations you should have on your not to miss calendar are: The Fabric Patch 14th Anniversary Party Sept 28th!!! Market Party October 26th!! Christmas Open House November 29th and 30th!! And, with regard to the calendar, we tried monthly online newsletters for the summer; it may have been greener and more cost effective, but a lot of you still came in to pick up a hard copy and told us you missed getting them in the mail. So we are going back to mailing quarterly newsletters to local shop patrons and e- mailing to everyone else. I hope this is a happy win/win. We can t afford to mail to all 2700 in our system. If we continue to be cost effective, we can keep prices low. So again, win/win. So sit back, put your feet up, and read through a long, event filled newsletter. Don t forget your highlighter!! See you soon! Cindi The Fabric Patch is turning 14!!! Join us for our Anniversary celebration! Saturday, October 5th 10am - 2pm Come down and check out all of the new block-of-the -month classes and clubs. Lots of brand new ideas, techniques and patterns. Special gifts and giveaways. Door prize drawing! The Fabric Patch 1st Annual Color Challenge!!!! Big Prizes!!!! We have been hosting challenges for years in our clubs. Fabric challenges, panel challenges, etc. Now we are ready to open it up to everyone! And offer big prizes for the winners! To play, you will have to purchase a fat quarter cotton or batik color tower from us (it is the 24 colors of the color wheel) and fill out the registration. The tower cost is only $59 ($66 value) for cotton and $72 ($78 value) for the batik. They will be available October 1st. Quilters will have until February 19th to finish their completed quilts. They must be a minimum of 24 x 24 and use at least 12 of the colors provided. Pictures will be posted on our gallery. Prizes: 1st Place: gift basket valued at $500 and a $500 Fabric Patch gift card. 2nd Place: gift basket valued at $250 and a $250 Fabric Patch gift card. 3rd Place: gift basket valued at $100 and a $100 Fabric Patch gift card.

2 Fall 2013 Page 2 September Don t miss the Wenatchee Quilt Show September 13th and 14th at the Town Toyota Center!! class 1 of 4 $5 Quilt 6pm $5 Quilt 9am finishing class Raining Cats 1pm class 5 of 12 National Sewing Machine Day! Class 5 of 12 10am - 12pm As Time Goes By 1-2pm 11/ International Christmas Peace 1-2pm Class 4 of 6 Blockwatchers 6pm class 6 of 6 In the Garden 6-7pm class 11/12 Basic Landscapes 10-3pm $18 Mystery Class 10-3pm 22 Autumn Begins FOM: Darning Foot th Anniversary!! Beginning Quilting 6-9pm $14 Stop in for specials, demos, gifts and door prizes!! 14 fat quarters for $20!!! October 2013 Color Challenge towers available October 1st!! Don t miss the Spokane Quilt Show October 18, 19 and 20!! 1 2 class 2 of Fall/Winter BOM Open House Winter s Evening Bris Blockwatchers Class 6-8pm Log Cabin Garden 6-8pm Class 6 of 12 As Time Goes By 10-12pm Needle and Thread International Pfaff Training in Seattle Blockwatchers Sew Day 9-5 In The Garden 6-7pm Class (12/12) Mystery Class 10-3pm Christmas Peace Class 5 of Home Dec pm Class 1 of Market Party 10-2pm Quilt Smart 6-8pm Class 1 of 4 30 PWSC 6-8pm Class 1 of 6 31 Halloween

Classes/Current Clubs: Page 3 September is our month for finishing up four of the block of the month quilts we have been working on all summer.

Each individual class is $5 and includes a demonstration and a $5 voucher to use towards the purchase of your pincushion kit. Always lots of fun!

In Basic Landscapes you will bring your machine and learn her great techniques for color and fabric manipulation. We also have a Beginning Quilting Class in September, and again in November.

It is an affordable class with a bag of goodies valued at more than the cost of the class!

3 Classes/Current Clubs: Page 3 September is our month for finishing up four of the block of the month quilts we have been working on all summer. Now it s time to come to the BOM Open House and choose a winter project!! is open to all. Each individual class is $5 and includes a demonstration and a $5 voucher to use towards the purchase of your pincushion kit. Always lots of fun!!! Thelma is teaching a great class for a beautiful wallhanging. Check out the sample in the shop! In Basic Landscapes you will bring your machine and learn her great techniques for color and fabric manipulation. We also have a Beginning Quilting Class in September, and again in November. We cover all of the basics for rotary cutting, piecing, pressing and finishing and give a class pattern to work on. It is an affordable class with a bag of goodies valued at more than the cost of the class! The Game Quilt is a great opportunity to learn four different techniques (double wedding ring, big arc, appliqué and perfect four-patch) with a darling quilt when you are done. This is a four month BOM with additional featured panels and giveaways each month. This is an exceptional class for a beginner or a time challenged sewer. Come see the quilt and all of the other new BOM classes at our Open House on October 5th!! Foot of the Month Club Free to our Pfaff customers. $12 to everyone else. Come and make a cute project with the featured foot. Supplies and pattern provided. September 25th at 1pm: Darning Foot October 30th at 1pm: Gathering Foot November 20th at 1pm: Beading Foot December: No foot class. The Fabric Patch turns 14!!! Big Celebration!! September 28th and 29th It is hard to believe we opened on October 1st, 1999 with only 400 bolts of fabric and three rooms that seemed too big to ever fill. Our first class was Log Cabin Quilt in a Day by Eleanor Burns and we had 6 participants. 14 years later. my what a difference, in so many ways. We feel so blessed to have so many special friends and such happy days. We are looking forward to the next 14! We will have a gift for every customer, a door prize drawing, and Thelma will be doing a special demonstration. Also, to honor our first week, we will have a free Log Cabin Quilt in a Day class on both Friday and Saturday. Six participants each day. VERY fun class!!! Sign up early!! Nine Patch Shuffle in Beginning Quilting Class So come with me where dreams are born and time is never planned. Just think of happy things and your heart will fly on wings... New BOM Open House!! October 5th 10-2pm Peter Pan As usual we had too many ideas restraint is not a quality we possess. So, we are doing all of them, now you just have to pick what YOU want to do!! We have new great embroidery club called Needle and Thread and a beautiful hand embroidered BOM using a pattern from a popular local artist. I am very excited about the new wool BOM. It is huge and GORGEOUS, stitched on a flannel log cabin quilt. So, so nice!! We are continuing the Modern BOM by mail, starting a new Blockwatchers focusing on Round Robin borders and starting a new $5 Quilt! We are bringing back the LongArm technique of the month for those of you that could not get into the first series. It was a lot of fun and worth doing again! Time to sign up to get inspiration for those unfinished tops!! Class samples and a full color packet (with a free pattern) will be given out at the open house, along with a door prize drawing and specials for classes. If you are unable to attend, the full color packet and pictures will be available online for those classes that still have openings. Hope to see you!! Prairie Women s Sewing Circle

4 Fall 2013 Page 4 November 2013 $5 Quilt Begins 2nd or 7th!! 1 2 $5 Quilt 9am LA BOM 1pm 3 Daylight Savings Time Ends 4 Winter s Evening (2 of 3) 5 Perfect Fit! or 6-8pm 6 class 3 of 4 7 $5 Quilt 6pm Class 1 of 9 8 Class 7 of pm Needle and Thread International Raining Cats 1pm Blockwatchers Class Log Cabin Garden Mystery Class class 7 of 12 6 pm 2 of 4 6-7:30pm (2 of 6) 10-3pm Christmas Peace 10-4pm class PWSC 6-8pm Home Dec QuiltSmart Beginning Quilting 6-9pm $ Thanksgiving Christmas Open House 9-5pm Gift, Specials, Door Prizes December $5 Quilt 9am Winter s Evening class 4 of 4 $5 Quilt 6pm LA BOM 1pm Class 2 of Raining Cats 1pm Blockwatchers 6pm 12 Log Cabin Garden pm class 8 of 12 Class 3 of 4 6-7:30PM Class 8 of 12 Needle and Thread Days ends! 18 PWSC 6-8pm Class 3 of Days pick up!!! 21 Home Dec QuiltSmart Closing at 3pm for Christmas preparations. Closed for Christmas Closed for Christmas recuperation Closing at 3pm Join us January 1st for our Annual Closeout Sale!! 10-2pm Fabric $4/yard, $5 books, $1 patterns!!

5 Fall Issue 2013 Page 5 12 Days of Christmas Starts December 2nd!! Sign up now!! New rules!! This is our fourth year!! Each year has gotten bigger and better! Last year was our first glitch with one swapped bag, but it was quickly fixed with no harm to any elves or reindeer! We have SOOO much fun with this, and plan for it all year. We pick the newest and best items of the year, package them in cute gift packaging and offer them for one day only, while quantities last. This will continue for the 12 Days of Christmas, which this year, will be from the 2nd to the 17th. With pick up starting on the 20th, and mailed packages going out the 23rd. We have a few new rules this year to control the frenzy and prevent rainchecks and unclaimed bags. We will also be very strict about following the time limits and not allowing new participants to join in once we have started - which may seem harsh, but it was too difficult to keep track when we added people and had to backtrack. We will not oversell any item, so once it is gone, it is gone. No rainchecks. Every table in the classroom was covered with gift bags after last years 12 Days of Christmas!! To join in, just Santa any time between now and December 1st. His address is santa@fabricpatch.net. He will send out a test on December 1st which will require a response. You will then get a pdf reminding you how the program works. You can buy every special gift offered, only a select few, or none. But you only have 24 hours to do it! You can respond by phone or . Your gift bag will be stuffed each night and pick up will occur on the 20th, with all remaining bags mailed out on the 23rd! Fun, fun, fun!!! Market Party Christmas Open House October 26th 10-2pm November 29 and pm Every October Cindi, Brianna and a few shop employees go to market in Houston to find everything new, exciting and special. They come back enthusiastic and energetic, and ready to demonstrate and show everything they found!! Come in for a free pattern and fabric sample, demonstrations, specials and a door prize drawing!! Check out our monthly Pfaff Machine Specials!!! Gifts, bundles, No interest financing and more!! We will have free coupon books to the first 10 customers ($9.99 to everyone else, limited to 50 books); special pricing on select Christmas kits and gifts; cookies and cider; Door prize drawing on Saturday at 5pm (no need to be present to win) Tree skirt and ornament tutorials going on in the classroom. How much fabric should I buy? For a specific project, round up 1/4 yard for oops insurance. If it s gorgeous and unusual, get 4 yards so it can be a focus and a border. If its on sale, get 6 yards for an 84 x 108 backing Brianna spent a great deal of money for her textile arts degree from the Seattle Art Institute. She has had a great time teaching us Project Runway techniques!! She makes it so easy - even for us home economics flunkys!! She has a great Perfect Fit class coming up, offered one day, but two time options, mid day or evening. Only $14. Includes pattern paper. If you want to know how to make a copy of your favorite ratty shirt, or how to make your own pattern for a top that will fit perfectly - this is your class. Check out the sample at the shop of Cindi s shirt and the one Brianna made. Now Cindi can now make a favorite, perfectly fitting top in just 30 minutes - and she didn t have to live in Seattle for 2 years!! Class size limited to 8/time slot. Class is Tuesday, November 5th.

The Fabric Patch 220 Tenth Ave SW Ephrata, WA 98823 (509) 754-8280 www.fabricpatch.net Established 1999 Proprietors: Cindi and Brianna Rang CHECK US OUT ON FACEBOOK! Why a Club and not a Class?

6 The Fabric Patch 220 Tenth Ave SW Ephrata, WA (509) Established 1999 Proprietors: Cindi and Brianna Rang CHECK US OUT ON FACEBOOK! Why a Club and not a Class? For the past 14 years, we have offered over 6oo day classes. By that, I mean a one day class where you bring your machine and fabric, work on your project, then go home and finish it up on your own. Over the years, we have found that there is a very small completion rate for those that have to take their projects home to work on them. It may be that they have more questions, or a loss of inspiration, or it could be that life just gets in the way of our hobbies. For whatever reason, we have found that clubs, or series are more conducive to completion. People enjoy the camaraderie of a new group of friends, they are inspired by the Show and Tell and are more likely to complete their block or project if they know everyone else is also working on their own project. As a result, we now offer mostly clubs, block-of-the-months and series instead of one day classes. We want you to join us, meet new friends, come in monthly, get inspired, be encouraged to finish, learn more than one new thing, have fun, and most importantly come out of your quiet sewing studio!! Retreats coming soon!!! We have been working on a special retreat with PJ s new place in Lind, but at the time of this newsletter printing - it is not ready for occupants, with no set date determined. SO, we left the Progressive Classes and the Retreats out of this newsletter, but are still hoping to add one in late October or early November. If you are interested in the information if it should occur, please leave your phone number and/or at the shop and we will let you know when we get it organized. We held off sending out the newsletter as long as possible, but we can t wait anymore. I suppose if Murphy has his way, we will have a planned date within 3 days, or, the exact time this newsletter arrives on your door! You can contact me at cindi@fabricpatch.net if you have questions.

The Fabric Patch. Worth the drive from anywhere!!

The Fabric Patch. Worth the drive from anywhere!! FALL 2014 The Fabric Patch 220 Tenth Ave SW Ephrata, WA 98823 (509) 754-8280 www.fabricpatch.net Worth the drive from anywhere!! Hello!! I hope you have all enjoyed your summer! I did. I always enjoy the