Sale Week

This week is sale week because next week is stocktake! So the less we have to count the better.

The sale is great apart from a range of fabric at just £3 per metre, all our fabric is 15% off! But, if you finish a bolt it is 25% off!

There are lots of other in shop deals as well, including all cross stitch 25% off .

The sale finishes on Saturday at 5pm so pop into Threads and Patches before then if you can

http://www.threadsandpatches.co.uk/

I have also been getting all the stuff together for Patchwork Schoolhouse - 18th April which is looking very exciting.

Plans for next terms needlework classes are also underway. so keep an eye on our workshop list.

Quilt for a Quid!

Hi All,

I have got very excited about an idea I had yesterday, 'Quilt for a Quid'. Similar to the 'Buck a Block' programm we ran last year but our own design and themes and with a whole range of fabrics.

The idea is simple, sign up for one of the colour options (or more if you wish to!), then cll in to the shop during normal working hours at least once a month to collect your block/s. You must collect your block in the correct month or the price is no longer a £1 but £3. You must make up your block during the month and bring the completed block back with you in order to receive the next one.

We shall be running 'Quilt for a Quid' in four colourways - Floral, Latte, Christmas and Amish.

We cannot guarantee that the fabrics will be identical to pictures displayed but they will be as close as possible. The blocks may vary in size and technique, so are a good 'sampler' quilt for beginners.

Ideas for putting the blocks together in a quilt will be available on completeion of the final block and we shall be offering 'completion kits' should you want one (not yet organised!)

Patchwork People - Newport Pagnell

On Saturday 7th March I am speaking at 'Patchwork People' at Silver Street Hall in Newport Pagnell, I am terrified! The title of the talk I have chosen as 'How not to run a Quilt shop' in theory telling the story of how I got the Threads and Patches business up and running and some of the errors and incidents that happened along the way. However as I have been thinking about it I have realised that essentially it is probably going to be one long digression and I am concerned that I am going to sound like Ronnie Corbett telling an interminable story that never gets to the end, with numerous wanderings along the way. If I can be a tiny bit as funny I guess it might be OK - the answer of course is to take quilts and more quilts!

I know many of the group as they have come to my classes and shopped at my shop for years now, so hopefully the natives will be friendly, this is weird, I am usually so confident when I am teaching - not sure why this is so different - ho hum!

Sally White

Shrink Fabric

This stuff is fantastic, it lends itself to so many uses! just stitch to any fabric , apply steam and Voila! your fabric shrinks with wonderful gathered effects to the stitches to a maximum if 30% (or 15%).

You must try this it is fun!

Apology!

Ok,

have to apologise for not maintaining this blog, so will make a real effort to keep up now!

Numerous customers have asked me to update so here comes a few things that are happening,

But like the guys in the photo I shall be careful about revealing too much too soon!