Coming up very soon we have a dynamic lady from Australia named Ann van der Kley coming to a few of our stores to inspire us. “Anne is a pioneer in contemporary textile techniques in the 21st century— her major tool, the humble overlocker.”
Anne is a pioneer in contemporary textile techniques— her major tool, the humble overlocker.
At Sew Expo, I was fortunate to spend some time with Anne and I must say she is truly a delightful kick in the pants! She will keep you laughing!
Anne is so energetic and wonderful ideas just seem to gush from her! I wish I had had a big bucket with me to catch all of her ideas – unfortunately my bucket happens to have a hole in it and just doesn’t seem to retain as much as I wish it would. I will try to remember to get a new bucket before she arrives at our stores!
If you are not acquainted with Anne, she is a “Fibre Artist, Author, Tutor, Edutainer in contemporary textile techniques”. When you attend her seminar/trunk show, you will surely find yourself in amazement at the creative ideas she shares and the results she obtains from a serger. She has created ways to incorporate a serger with knitting, crochet, and even create all types of unique fiber masterpieces.
As you are waiting for her trunk show, make sure to check out her blog on her website.
Anne will be bringing a trunk show full of her innovative techniques and ideas to share with us. Take advantage of having Anne here in the states and learn how to open up the creative potential that are possible with your serger.
Did you know the nation’s largest event for sewing enthusiasts takes place right here in the Pacific Northwest? The Sewing and Stitchery Expo is a non-profit educational event that features inspirational seminars daily, hands-on workshops, style shows and vendors from all over the country with booths that specialize in the latest in fabrics, tools, and supplies! This year Sew Expo will be taking place February 28 – March 3rd at the Puyallup Fairgrounds. In addition to all the daily happenings, special guests, such as, Nancy Zieman, Mary Mulari, and the “HotFusing Chicks” will be flying in to make special appearances . Nancy and Mary will be presenting their second “Kick it Up a Stitch” and if you joined them last year, you know how much fun time with them can be! in addition, television host Ellen March, will be conducting a live audition for her television show “Sew it All”!
Be sure to check out Sew Expo’s website for all the details you need to know about the show. You can download a registration brochure which features all the seminar and class descriptions. Additionally you can register for the daily seminars on the Expo website. You can purchase Sew Expo tickets at all Quality Sewing locations while supplies last. Pre-sale tickets are only $10.00, they will be $12.00 the day of. The Sew Expo website also features an updated blog and some fun links including:
Pillowcase Patrol As a part of the “Million Pillowcase Project”, the 2013 Sewing & Stitchery Expo will be a collection point for handmade pillowcases. Create cheerful pillowcases for the children who are undergoing treatment at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital. Check out the Expo web site to download your free pillowcase pattern. Expo collected more than 5,000 pillowcases last year. How many more can we give this year?
Be Sure to Visit the Quality Sewing Booths – This year we will have an exciting notions and threads booth in the Pavilion. We have been shopping and negotiating with our various vendors for several months to bring you an amazing array of hot buys! We have combed our stores for close-outs and one-of-a-kind items that will all be priced to sell fast. We will also feature the new items that Nancy Zieman and Sue Hausmann will show in their seminars, all at special Expo prices.
We have many sewing experts on-hand this year and this will be a great opportunity to meet them. Across from the notions booth in the Pavilion, we have multi-needle embroidery expert George Moore and special guests long arm quilting expert Denise Applegate-Schober. Be sure to visit Simon Haskins, all the way here from Australia, over in the Showplex building. He will be showing his amazing techniques and designs along with his brand new designs that have just been released. In the Showplex, you will also find our main booth which will be filled with awesome special on machines and Floriani products. Across from our main booth, we will have special guest Ed Moore, the lead designer for Koala Cabinets. This event is not to be missed as it only happens once a year! View our 2013 Sew Expo Buyers Guide that showcases some of the fabulous deals to be had at this year’s event.
Every Wednesday in October (starting today) we are going to be holding a giveaway drawing on our Facebook page! To enter the drawings, simply follow the instructions on that Wednesday’s Facebook post. Winners will be randomly selected from all who enter.*
Then on October 31st we’ll have our Grand Prize drawing! Anyone who enters into any of the other Wednesday Trick-or-Treat giveaways is automatically entered into the Grand Prize drawing. But you can also earn extra entries!
How? Simply by sending us photographs of your Halloween Crafts! You can either post a photo on our Facebook page or email it to us at halloween@qualitysewing.com. Each photo you share will give you an extra entry into the Grand Prize Drawing (limit of 5 extra entries).
So if you’re on Facebook but haven’t yet liked us, please go to our Facebook page here and click the “Like” button. Plus, once you “Like” us you will get to see all of the fun stuff that people post to our page!
If you aren’t on Facebook, you can still participate by emailing halloween@qualitysewing.com your photo. Or you can take your crafts into any of our 14 stores so that we can take the photos and upload them for you!
We can’t wait to see what spooky, fun and tricky crafts you are up to this month!
*Limit one winner per week. Free gifts cannot be redeemed for cash.
Every month each of our Quality Sewing & Vacuum centers hosts a Sew Fun lecture/demo class that is Free for Sew Fun Members (if you don’t know about Sew Fun, be sure to learn more about Sew Fun Classes & Memberships).
A big part of each Sew Fun is the show & tell, and photos are taken of the wonderful creations that get displayed. I’ve gone through and picked my 10 personal favorite photos from Sew Fun March 2012 show & tell from amongst all the stores. Here they are:
From AAA Burien
From Ballard
From Bellingham
From Everett
From Federal Way
From Kirkland
From Mount Vernon
From Puyallup
From Silverdale
From Tacoma
Aren’t those amazing? If you’d like to see more, we post the full photo sets on Facebook, and you don’t even have to be a Facebook member to view them:
If you are on Facebook and don’t already “like” us, be sure to click the like button here to keep up-to-date with all the tips, projects, photos, deals, and more that we post there daily:
And be sure to sign up for a Sew Fun Membership if you haven’t already. It’s an amazing value: Free Sew Fun classes plus a free gift at each seminar, 20% off accessories all the time, discounts at local fabric stores, and we often give discounts to in-store special events for Sew Fun Members too.
What do you think? Do you like these photo choices? What would you have chosen differently for your Top 10? Let us know!
Every month each of our Quality Sewing & Vacuum centers hosts a Sew Fun lecture/demo class that is Free for Sew Fun Members (if you don’t know about Sew Fun, be sure to learn more about Sew Fun Classes & Memberships).
A big part of each Sew Fun is the show & tell, and photos are taken of the wonderful creations that get displayed. I’ve gone through and picked my 10 personal favorite photos from Sew Fun February 2012 show & tell from amongst all the stores. Here they are; click on any of them to see them full-sized:
From AAA Burien
From Ballard
From Bellevue
From Everett
From Federal Way
From Mt Vernon
From Northgate
From Puyallup
From Silverdale
From Tacoma
Aren’t those amazing? If you’d like to see more, we post the full photo sets on Facebook, and you don’t even have to be a Facebook member to view them:
If you are on Facebook and don’t already “like” us, be sure to click the like button here to keep up-to-date with all the tips, projects, photos, deals, and more that we post there daily:
And be sure to sign up for a Sew Fun Membership if you haven’t already. It’s an amazing value: Free Sew Fun classes plus a free gift at each seminar, 20% off accessories all the time, discounts at local fabric stores, and we often give discounts to in-store special events for Sew Fun Members too.
What do you think? Do you like these photo choices? What would you have chosen differently for your Top 10? Let us know in the comments!
Join Denise Applegate-Schober, an experienced Instructor specializing in the art of machine quilting, as she presents an informative Seminar focusing on machine quilting with a frame, a machine, and how the computer industry makes machine quilting a breeze.
Sign Up for this event now — there are still spaces available at our Everett Store tomorrow, March 7th!
Here is a video with Denise and Reva to tell you about it:
Denise will be bringing samples to inspire you and help you with your own quilting, as well as give you ideas for your current frame/machine setup. Learn how to get the most from your current frame and see the QBOT in action, doing pantagraphs and more. Join in on the discussion and see how wonderful your quilt frame can be. This event is designed to help and inspire current frame/machine owners as well as answer questions for those in the market for quilting system.
This is your last chance to Sign up now. You don’t want to miss this great opportunity!
Are you coming to Sew Expo this year? It is better than ever! There are so many fun booths and great deals. It also sounds like everyone is having a ton of fun their classes. Check out some of our favorite highlights below and you can click any photo to see it full-sized.
See the new Viking Husqvarna 140 Tribute in the Viking booth. It comes with this great anniversary gift pack that is so adorable - Holly can't wait to show it to you!
Visit Sue Hausmann at our booth in the Showplex each afternoon.
Get great deals on classroom machines in our booth in the Pavilion.
See the NEW Tin Lizzie Quilt Magician easy to use long arm quilting robot in our booth in the Pavilion.
Check out all of our great deals on thread, needles, embroidery designs, accessories and more at our notions booth in the Pavilion.
Have you thought about starting an embroidery business? See the multi-needle machines in our booths in the Pavilion and the Showplex.
We have more Koala cabinets at this show then ever before and three are brand new models! Get the best deal of the year before the price increase takes effect.
Visit with Audrey in our Pfaff booth in the Showplex and see what the Pfaff Creative Sensation Activ Stitch is all about.
Visit with long arm quilting expert Denise Applegate-Schroeder. Long arm quilting has never been so easy! See Denise in the Showplex.
Rob from Brother is showing the tablet feature on the Brother 6700D. Have you seen the scan & capture feature on this machine? If not you should stop by our booth in the Showplex.
See the new Viking Husqvarna 140 Tribute in the Viking booth. It comes with this great anniversary gift pack that is so adorable – Holly can’t wait to show it to you!
The 2012 Sewing & Stitchery Expo (or “Sew Expo”) is coming to the Puyallup Fairgrounds March 1st through 4th 2012. If you’re not familiar with Sew Expo, it’s a massive annual event with over 400 vendor booths, in-depth workshops, hands-on seminars, daily free stage shows and more!
The Sewing & Stitchery Expo has just released on their website their entire Seminar Brochure that you can download and read or print off. Online Registration is set to open January 5th on their website, so it’s a good idea to take a look at the brochure beforehand so you can figure out all of the great seminars you’ll want to take.
In addition to vendor booths and seminars, there are also many amazing special events:
• Friday Night Live, sponsored by Baby Lock, features Martha Pullen’s “Party in Puyallup,” and it’s a show you won’t want to miss.
• The Saturday night headliner Alex Anderson (host of HGTV’s “Simply Quilts”), sponsored by Bernina, will be fun and entertaining.
• Sunday, the charity event will include the “Coats and Clarks Sewing & Stitchery Exhibition” with proceeds going to Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital. If you have made pillowcases for the children, bring them to this event.
Thursday through Saturday beginning at 9:30 AM there will be free style shows upstairs in the Pavilion all day long with professional models. It is all about garment sewing and you have the chance to sit down and be entertained at the same time. So be sure you check your schedule and work in the style shows!
There are also generous daily door prizes. This is the only show in the country where about $35,000 in door prizes are given away each year!
And of course be sure to stop by our Quality Sewing & Vacuum booth! We’ll have more information on the Sew Expo and our role there soon. Be sure to check this blog and the Sew Expo Website to keep up-to-date with any developments. This event is not to be missed and it only happens once a year!
This October the Puyallup Quality Sewing store will host Washington’s Make It With Wool (MIWW) Contest (formally held at Pacific Fabrics).
What is Make It With Wool?
MIWW is the longest, continuous promotional entity of the American lamb and wool industry. It began to help promote wool and generate new interest in sewing with wool among young sewers. Sponsorship of the program has remained strong with support from the lamb and wool industry – producers, feeders and woolen mills – as well as the sewing and fashion industry – sewing machine, thread and fabric companies and fashion magazines – as well as individuals and organizations interested in agriculture and youth.
Currently the Contest offers divisions for entrants from pre-teen (under 12) through adult. It is a very economical contest to enter, at only $10 for a National entrance fee. There are several cash prizes given to the winners of the different categories with a top prize of $2000.
If you are interested in entering this contest, check out their MIWW website. This is such a great opportunity get involved with a great program and to show your creativity. Who knows, you may win a prize!
