Mastering your Sewing Machine

Wednesdays 4/11,25,5/2                                             10am-12:30pm or 6pm-8:30pm

Mastering Embroidery

Wednesday  2/1                                                          10am-12:30pm or 6pm-8:30pm or

Wednesday 5/9                                                           10am-12:30pm or 6pm-8:30pm

Creative Sewing Club

                                                         Fee: $15 per / $75 year

Tuesdays 1/24,2/21,3/20,4/17,5/22,6/19,9/18,10/23,11/13,12/11          10am-12pm

Tuesdays 1/31,2/28,3/27,4/24,5/29,6/26,9/25,10/30,11/27,12/11          6:30pm-8:30pm

Five Dollar Sampler 2012

Presenting our 10^th Sampler Block of the Month!  Purchase your first kit for $5 and

make a unique patchwork block.  Learn tips and tricks every month. Find out how to make a quilt top for $5. Find out about the fun, prizes and incentive to finish.

Fridays 1/27,2/24,3/30,4/27,5/18,6/29,7/27,8/24,9/28,10/26,11/16,12/14        5pm

Saturdays 1/28,2/25,3/31,4/28,5/19,6/30,7/28,8/25,9/29,10/27,11/17,12/15    9:15 am

Girls’ Night Out

Close to Home Staff                                               Fee: $15*/party

Friday night sewing parties! Will be great fun and very productive.  Bring a current project and something to drink.*Fee covers supper. Please RSVP as space is limited.

Fridays  2/17,3/16,4/20,5/18,6/15,7/20,8/17,9/21,10/19,11/9,12/7            5-10pm

Janome Club

                                            Fee:$15 per 6 for $75

Come join the fun using your Janome machine. Make a project, share ideas and see what’s new!

Saturdays  1/28,3/24,5/19,7/14,9/22,11/17                                        10:30am-12:30pm

                                          Sewing Machine Technique of the Month

Marilyn Gattinella                                                     Fee: $5*

Learn a new technique each month.  Enjoy the learning and great  project ideas.  Lecture / demonstration only. *Incentive to finish the monthly project.

Saturdays 2/11, 3/3, 4/14 , 5/12,  6/9                                                     9:15am-10am

Quilt in a Day

Chris Goldschmidt                                                   Fee: $50

Bring your quilt pattern and get the help you need to get it done!

Saturdays  2/18,3/10,4/21,5/12,6/16,7/21,8/18,9/15              10:30am-5:00pm  

Bag Ladies Unite

Marsha Duquette                                                       Fee:$30 per class

If you love purses-join us! We will make a series of 4 purses over the year, each different in style and difficulty. The first one is the “Tahiti Tote” by Pink Sand Beach Designs. It features an easy zipper installation and lots of pockets. Pre-class work required.

Saturday 1/28                                                                                    1pm-5pm

“Think Inside the Box”

Deb Mastrianni                                                          Fee:$50

A quilt by Cathy Wierzbicki from her  book “Geometric Gems”. Create a quilt to display your collection of fabrics in stacked cubes that appear three-dimensional!

Book and pre-class work required.

Saturdays 3/3,17                                                                            10am-1pm

“Autumn Leaves”

Deb Mastrianni                                                            Fee:$60

Create a quilt in rich, beautiful colors of earth tones from the book “Stack the Deck Revisited” by Karla Alexander. You will learn and practice Karlas’ “stack-slice-shuffle-and-sew” method to complete this quilt! Book and pre-class work required.

Saturdays 2/4,11,25                    week 1: 10am-12pm   weeks 2 & 3: 10am-1pm

Embroidery Class

Denise Johnston                                                            Fee:$20

Take your pillowcases to another level  by learning to use your embroidery machine to do Endless Embroidery on the pillow band. Make each case even more special.

Wednesday 2/22                                                                     2pm-4pm or 6pm-8pm

Free Sew Days

 Bring your current project(s), machine, tools, something for lunch or snack.  It’s like an old fashioned "bee" with quilters who are willing to share their experience, ideas, opinions and friendship.  Drop in any time or stay all day.

Saturday                s 3/31,4/14                                                                           10am-5pm

Beginning Quilting

Nickie Person/Jane Knight                                           Fee: $120.

Beginning quilting is for those who always wanted to learn how to make a quilt but never got around to starting it. Now is the time to learn the basics in a fun class. We’ll be making the pattern “Just Can’t Cut It”. Check out our sample and come join us!

Wednesdays 2/8,15,22  3/7,14,21                                                         10am-12pm or

Mondays 2/6,13,20,  3/5,12,19                                                              6pm-8pm

Events

Super Bowl 46

Big Sales Event

Feb 2,3,4,5

Don’t Miss It!

Lots of surprises

 Floriani Program

Coming April 2012

Details to follow

$100.00 Gift Certificates

To 5 Lucky Winners

in each store!!!

To be awarded February 14^th, Valentines Day

In an effort to “Go Green” we will be emailing our flier to you and making it available on our web site. Please submit your email address to us and on February 14^th  5 names will be randomly selected from each store’s file and rewarded with a $100.00 Gift certificate.

“Seams” like it’s “sew” good an idea.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation.

You can give your email at the store or send it to rgattinella@yahoo.com

New items to check out!

“Chalkboard Cloth”

“Wonder Clips” A new type of binding clip

“Pin Moor” Anchors for straight pins

1/23/2012