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November

Needle and Thread Society

Facebook giveaways

Log Cabin Garden BOM

Prairie Women Sewing

Circle

Color Challenge!! Big Prizes!

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 em-

broidery 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-the-

month. 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 mail-

ing 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 high-

lighter!!

See you soon!

Cindi

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.

Worth the drive from anywhere!!

The Fabric Patch is turning 14!!!

Join us for our Anniversary celebration!

Fall Issue 2013

The Fabric Patch 1st Annual Color Challenge!!!! Big Prizes!!!!

Don’t miss our

Fall/Winter BOM

Open House

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 220 Tenth Ave SW Ephrata, WA 98823 509-754-8280

www.fabricpatch.net

Find us on Facebook!!

Fall 2013 Page 2

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4

Jo’s Club 6 - 8pm

class 1 of 4

5

$5 Quilt

6pm

6 7

$5 Quilt 9am

finishing class

8 9

Raining Cats 1pm

class 5 of 12

10

National Sewing

Machine Day!

11 12 13

Pennies 1 - 3pm

Class 5 of 12

Pincushion Club

10am - 12pm

As Time Goes By

1 - 2pm 11/12

15 16

Christmas Peace

1 - 2pm Class 4 of 6

17 18

Blockwatchers 6pm

class 6 of 6

19

In the Garden

6 - 7pm class 11/12

20

Basic Landscapes

10 - 3pm $18

International

Mystery Class

10 - 3pm

22

Autumn Begins

23 24 25

FOM: Darning Foot

26 27

28

29 30

Beginning Quilting

6 - 9pm $14

September 2013

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2

Jo’s Club 6 - 8pm

class 2 of 4

3 4 5

Fall/Winter BOM

Open House

6

7

Winter’s Evening

1 - 3pm

8

Kids @ Bris

9

Blockwatchers Class

6 - 8pm

10

Log Cabin Garden

6 - 8pm

Pennies 1 - 3pm

Class 6 of 12

As Time Goes By

Pincushion Club

10 - 12pm

Needle and Thread

13

Pfaff Training

in Seattle

14

Blockwatchers

Sew Day 9 - 5

15

16 17

In The Garden

6 - 7pm Class (12/12)

18

International

Mystery Class

10 - 3pm

20 21

Christmas Peace

1 - 3pm Class 5 of 6

22 23

Home Dec 101

6 - 8pm Class 1 of 3

24 25 26

Market Party

10 - 2pm

27 28 29

Quilt Smart 6 - 8pm

Class 1 of 4

30

PWSC 6 - 8pm Class

1 of 6

31

Halloween

October 2013

14th Anniversary!!

Stop in for specials, demos, gifts

and door prizes!!

14 fat quarters for $20 !!!

Color Challenge towers

available October 1st!!

Don’t miss the Wenatchee Quilt Show

September 13th and 14th at the

Town Toyota Center!!

Don’t miss the Spokane Quilt Show

October 18, 19 and 20!!

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!!

Pincushion Club is open to all. Each

individual class is $5 and includes a dem-

onstration and a $5 voucher to use to-

wards 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!!

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 Block-

watchers 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!!

New BOM Open House!! October 5th 10 - 2pm

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

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Classes/Current Clubs:

“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...”

Peter Pan

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.

Prairie Women’s Sewing Circle

Nine Patch Shuffle in

Beginning Quilting Class

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!!

Fall 2013 Page 4

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2

$5 Quilt 9am

LA BOM 1pm

3

Daylight Savings

Time Ends

4

Winter’s Evening

1 - 3pm (2 of 3)

5

Perfect Fit! 1 - 3pm

or 6 - 8pm

6

Jo’s Club 6 - 8pm

class 3 of 4

7

$5 Quilt 6pm

Class 1 of 9

8

Pennies 1 - 3pm

Class 7 of 12

Pincushion Club

10 - 12pm

Needle and Thread

1 - 3pm

10 11

Raining Cats 1pm

class 7 of 12

12 13

Blockwatchers Class

6 pm 2 of 4

14

Log Cabin Garden

6 - 7:30pm (2 of 6)

15 International

Mystery Class

10 - 3pm

17 18

Christmas Peace

10 - 4pm class 6

19 20

PWSC 6 - 8pm

21 22 23

Home Dec 10 - 12

QuiltSmart 1 - 3pm

24 25 26

Beginning Quilting

6 - 9pm $14

27 28

Thanksgiving

29 30

November 2013

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2

Winter’s Evening

1 - 3pm

3 4

Jo’s Club 6 - 8pm

class 4 of 4

5

$5 Quilt 6pm

6 $5 Quilt 9am

LA BOM 1pm

Class 2 of 6

8 9

Raining Cats 1pm

class 8 of 12

10 11

Blockwatchers 6pm

Class 3 of 4

12

Log Cabin Garden

6 - 7:30PM

13

Pennies 1 - 3pm

Class 8 of 12

Pincushion Club

10 - 12pm

Needle and Thread

1 - 3pm

15 16 17

12 Days ends!

18

PWSC 6 - 8pm Class

3 of 6

19 20

12 Days pick up!!!

21

Home Dec 10 - 12

QuiltSmart 1 - 3pm

22 23 24 25 26 27 28

29 30 31

Closing at 3pm

December 2013

Christmas Open House 9 - 5pm

Gift, Specials, Door Prizes

Closed for Christmas Closed for Christmas

recuperation.

Closing at 3pm for

Christmas preparations.

$5 Quilt Begins 2nd or 7th!!

Join us January 1st for our Annual Closeout Sale!!

10 - 2pm Fabric $4/yard, $5 books, $1 patterns!!

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 quanti-

ties 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.

To join in, just email Santa any time between now and December 1st. His e-mail address is santa@fabricpatch.net. He will send out a

“test” email 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 e-mail. 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!!!

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.

Market Party

October 26th 10 - 2pm

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!!

Page 5 Fall Issue 2013

Every table in the classroom was covered with

gift bags after last years 12 Days of Christmas!!

12 Days of Christmas Starts December 2nd!! Sign up now!! New rules!!

Check out our monthly

Pfaff Machine Specials!!!

Gifts, bundles,

No interest financing

and more!!

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

Christmas Open House

November 29 and 30 9 - 5pm

We will have

free coupon books to the first 10 cus-

tomers ($9.99 to everyone else, lim-

ited 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.

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!

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!!

Why a Club and not a Class? 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 occu-

pants, with no set date determined.

SO, we left the Progressive Classes and the Re-

treats 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

email 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.