Barb's Bulletin
Next PageDecember 22, 2011 : Barb’s Bulletin January 2012
January - April 2012
Dear Quilters,
Happy New Year to you! May it be a happy and healthy year for you and your loved ones!
I have a lot to tell you about so let’s get started!
• You were VERY generous with your donations this past year for charity. In Nov. and Dec. you contributed 308 pounds of food, 286 diapers, and 75 children’s books. All 3 categories were record breaking over the previous year. Thank you so much!!
• Long Arm Quilting Special: We are continuing the 2011 special because you liked it so much. Upon the completion of having 4 quilts longarmed, panto and/or custom, receive a FREE $20.00 class of your choice. Our turnaround time for pantos is a MAXIMUM of 4- 6 weeks. Our turnaround time is so fantastic because of my 5 gals who work in the longarm department. (I only let them come up out of the basement once a day to go to the bathroom and eat lunch.) Ha-Ha!
• Quilt Away Weekend, Feb. 10th-12th Balance due Jan.7th. Full, but can still call the shop to be put on a waiting list as there always seem to be cancellations due to unforeseen circumstances. We have “newbies” every year.
• Quilt Away Weekend, Mar., 2nd - 4th Balance due Feb. 1st. Full, but can still call the shop as stated above to be put on the waiting list.
• Hop For a Cause: Mar. 7th - 10th .I’m really excited about this Shop Hop! It’s like no other one you’ve ever been on! Read about it under Special Events.
• Kits and more kits: We’ve always had a lot of kits, but one of my goals for 2012 is to have many, many more kits available for you. We are going to put as many of our kits on our website as possible. If you are not a computer person, you’ll just have to stop in to see them. An example of a set of 4 kits: Each season you will be able to rotate in the same spot a 14” x 56” wall hanging depicting the season: Spring Hopes, Summer Dreams, Autumn Blessings and Winter Wishes. Another kit example: A pattern that uses 12 fats in the main body of the quilt while the size can be flexible with the borders. After you have read the Classes section, you will see that anyone can order the Thimbleberries 2012 kits this year,(a new format), and of course, the McKenna Ryan lovers can order the Bella Garden kits from us as well.
• So many of you have responded to my plea about switching from U.S. Postal mail to email. Thank you. I’m sending out another plea again to see if there are any more of you who could do that also. Please email me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
• Check out the MONTHLY SALES page: January Thaw Sale, Make a Deal Sale in Feb.,
Pajama Party Sale in March and Coupon Sale in April.
Enjoy the winter season! As I always write in my newsletter because it’s so true-you are all fun, friendly and fantastic women! (And men-you are too!) I sincerely thank you for attending classes and shopping at Mt. Pleasant Quilting.
Sewingly,
Barb
August 19, 2011 : FAll 2011
September – December 2011
Dear Quilters,
I’m writing this Fall newsletter on July 31st. Seems a bit early doesn’t it, but to get it to the printers and to you on time, it was a necessity. When you finally get it, summer will be just about over. Where did the time fly to?
“Barn Quilts”: I’ve been hatching an idea! Hopefully, many of you have seen the two “barn quilts” that I have. Wild Goose Chase is on the front of the garage and Flower Basket is on the shed at the end of the garden. Penny’s Stitch n’ Print made them for me. They are digitally printed on vinyl and laminated to protect them. You can have your favorite block pattern made, or choose one of the many block patterns Penny has. The “barn quilts” can be any size you want. Hang them outside any place: your porch, garage, house, shed, barn, etc. Let’s get to the idea I’m hatching: We know how great the Barn Quilt Trail is in the Kendall area-let’s extend it all over. Spread the word wherever you are. Wouldn’t it be great, no matter where we travel, to see a “barn quilt” displayed? If you order them through Penny, I will be able to keep track of where they are and someday will be able to publish a Barn Quilt Trail listing. Wouldn’t it be great to have “barn quilts” showing up everywhere? Penny’s website is www.pennystitch.com. Phone #:585-591-8149.
Quilt Away Weekend: Oct. 21st – 23rd. Balance due: Sept. 21st. Full, but can still call the shop to be put on the waiting list as there always seems to be cancellations due to unforeseen circumstances.
Quilt Away Weekend: Nov. 4th – 6th. Balance due: Oct. 4th. Full, but can still call the shop as stated above for the waiting list.
Forks and Needles Cuisine: Balance due Sept. 15th.
Longarm Machine Quilting: Many of you have asked about our cut-off date for Christmas Longarm Machine Quilting. As of this writing, I am not establishing a cut-off date. I have 5 girls who work a considerable number of hours to quilt for you in a timely fashion. We have been able to turn our pantos or edge to edge around in a MAXIMUM OF 6 WEEKS, and custom in about 2 months. If it is really close to Christmas, give the shop a call and we can tell you where we are at that point.
Fabric prices: I’m sure we all are aware of the rise in fabric prices. Many of you and I have had discussions about this very topic. I have always bought the latest fabrics instead of close-outs. Close-outs certainly would be priced lower, but I am listening to you when you tell me you want the latest and newest fabrics. I will continue to honor your wishes. Thank you for your input.
10% discount: A quick reminder that every time you make a purchase, you always receive 10% off your purchase of regularly priced merchandise, whether it be by our punchable shopper card or quilt guild discount.
9th Anniversary Celebration Sale: It doesn’t seem possible we will be celebrating our 9th year in business. The tent will be up as usual! Make sure to mark it on your calendar as well as our other monthly sales.
Have a wonderful autumn adventure and a blessed holiday season! As I always write in my newsletter because it’s so true: you are all fun, friendly, and fantastic women! (And men-you are too!) I sincerely thank you for attending classes and shopping at Mt. Pleasant Quilting.
Sewingly,
Barb
July 19, 2011 : Great things are happening this summer!
NEW YORK STATE ROW BY ROW QUILT SHOP HOP
A fun shop-hop-like event. No passports and no cost to the customers.
Each participating shop designs a row pattern. Customers travel to the shops to collect the row patterns. Customers create unique quilts using at least 8 different shops’ patterns.
Prizes:
Each shop will award a bundle of 26 fat quarters to the first customer who brings in a completed (quilted, bound, and labeled) row quilt using rows from at least 8 different shops. When you pick up our row you will receive a list of other participating shops.
Challenge expires December 31, 2011. Limit one prize per quilter/quilt.
Here’s Mt Pleasant’s row for the hop:
Have you noticed the two “Barn” Quilt Blocks outside our shop?
More info will be coming in our September – December Newsletter regarding an idea I’m hatching…stay tuned!
April 12, 2011 : Barb’s Bulletin Summer 2011
Dear Quilters,
Happy Spring and pre-Summer to you! The next four months this newsletter encompasses look like they will be pretty busy ones here at Mt. Pleasant! I’ve tried to plan a variety of classes (twenty-seven, in fact) in hopes that you will be able to find something that will be of interest to you. I know we all have different tastes and desires in our “quilting addictions” that need to be fulfilled.
Some of the highlights you will read about: the continued Book-n-Quilt class, Fun in the Sun II, 8th Annual Western New York State Shop Hop, of course- our Monthly Sales, Ryan McKenna’s Home Tweet Home new block patterns and fabric, and the wonderful complete fabric line of Winterberry Lane used in a class.
I hope this finds you well! Please know I will gladly listen to any suggestions or comments you may have about the shop. They can relate to classes, policies, customer service, or anything else you may have on your mind. After all, if it weren’t for you, Mt. Pleasant Quilting would not be here.
I’m still asking for anyone who would like to switch to email to please let me know.
As I always write in every newsletter because it’s so true…..You are all fun, friendly, fantastic women and men! I sincerely thank you for attending classes and shopping at Mt. Pleasant Quilting.
Sewingly,
Barb
April 12, 2011 : Barb’s Bulletin Summer 2011
Dear Quilters,
Happy Spring and pre-Summer to you! The next four months this newsletter
encompasses look like they will be pretty busy ones here at Mt. Pleasant! I’ve tried to
plan a variety of classes (twenty-seven, in fact) in hopes that you will be able to find
something that will be of interest to you. I know we all have different tastes and desires
in our “quilting addictions” that need to be fulfilled.
Some of the highlights you will read about: the continued Book-n-Quilt class, Fun in
the Sun II, 8th Annual Western New York State Shop Hop, of course- our Monthly Sales,
Ryan McKenna’s Home Tweet Home new block patterns and fabric, and the wonderful
complete fabric line of Winterberry Lane used in a class.
I hope this finds you well! Please know I will gladly listen to any suggestions or
comments you may have about the shop. They can relate to classes, policies, customer
service, or anything else you may have on your mind. After all, if it weren’t for you, Mt.
Pleasant Quilting would not be here.
I’m still asking for anyone who would like to switch to email to please let me know.
As I always write in every newsletter because it’s so true…..You are all fun, friendly,
fantastic women and men! I sincerely thank you for attending classes and shopping at Mt.
Pleasant Quilting.
Sewingly,
Barb
Mt. Pleasant Quilting Company
MAY—AUGUST 2011
November 18, 2010 : Barb’s Bulletin Highlighting Mt Pleasant Quilting’s November Quilt Away
November 2010
Dear Quilters,
A great big ‘THANK YOU’ to Penny Marble for creating a wonderful slide show of our November Quilt Away. Be sure to take a peek and see the wonderful projects our guests worked on. You may even see yourself (or your project)! Click here to view our Quilt Away.
A quick reminder that every time you walk in our door you always receive 10% off your purchases, whether it be by our punchable shopper card or quilt guild discount.
Have a wonderful autumn adventure and a blessed holiday season! I sincerely thank you for attending classes and shopping at Mt. Pleasant Quilting.
Sewingly,
Barb
November 18, 2010 : Barb’s Bulletin Highlighting Mt Pleasant Quilting’s November Quilt Away
November 2010
Dear Quilters,
A great big ‘THANK YOU’ to Penny Marble for creating a wonderful slide show of our November Quilt Away. Be sure to take a peek and see the wonderful projects our guests worked on. You may even see yourself (or your project)! Click here to view our Quilt Away.
A quick reminder that every time you walk in our door you always receive 10% off your purchases, whether it be by our punchable shopper card or quilt guild discount.
Have a wonderful autumn adventure and a blessed holiday season! I sincerely thank you for attending classes and shopping at Mt. Pleasant Quilting.
Sewingly,
Barb
November 18, 2010 : Barb’s Bulletin Highlighting the November Quilt Away.
November 2010
Dear Quilters,
A great big ‘THANK YOU’ to Nancy Hyde for creating a wonderful slide show of our November Quilt Away. Be sure to take a peek and see the wonderful projects our guests worked on. You may even see yourself (or your project)! Click here to view our slideshow.
A quick reminder that every time you walk in our door you always receive 10% off your purchases, whether it be by our punchable shopper card or quilt guild discount.
Have a wonderful autumn adventure and a blessed holiday season! I sincerely thank you for attending classes and shopping at Mt. Pleasant Quilting.
Sewingly,
Barb
November 18, 2010 : Barb’s Bulletin highlighting Mt Pleasant Quilting’s November Quilt Away.
November 2010
Dear Quilters,
A great big ‘THANK YOU’ to Nancy Hyde for creating a wonderful slide show of our November Quilt Away. Be sure to take a peek and see the wonderful projects our guests worked on. You may even see yourself (or your project)!
A quick reminder that every time you walk in our door you always receive 10% off your purchases, whether it be by our punchable shopper card or quilt guild discount.
Have a wonderful autumn adventure and a blessed holiday season! I sincerely thank you for attending classes and shopping at Mt. Pleasant Quilting.
Sewingly,
Barb
August 13, 2010 : Barb’s Bulletin Fall 2010
Sept. – Dec. 2010
Dear Quilters,
I’m writing this in August, but by the time you get this, summer will be just about over and kids will be thinking about school again. We, at the shop have to be thinking of Fall and holiday projects in this last newsletter of 2010. I like to have this newsletter contain a considerable number of Fall and holiday related classes. These projects will be appropriate gifts for loved ones on your list, or for you in your own home.
So many of you have responded to my plea about switching from U.S. Postal mail to email. Thank you. I’m sending out another plea to see if there are any more of you that could do that also. Please email me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or go to my website: www.mtpleasantquiltingcompany.com and you can enter your email address there. The newsletter is easy to print from your PC and will look just like the one you have in your hands right now. If we have made errors in your address or you are receiving duplicates, please let us know that too.
Quilt Away Weekend, Oct. 22nd – 24th. Balance due: Oct. 1st. Full, but can still call the shop to be put on a waiting list as there always seem to be cancellations due to unforeseen circumstances.
Quilt Away Weekend, Nov. 5th – 7th. Balance due: Oct. 15th. Full, but can still call the shop as stated above for the waiting list.
Check the Special Events section – some neat things going on.
It doesn’t seem possible we will be celebrating our 8th year in business. Be sure to mark our Anniversary Celebration Sale on your calendar. (The tent will be up as usual.) I like our other sales Oct. – December too! Check them out!
A quick reminder that every time you walk in our door you always receive 10% off your purchases, whether it be by our punchable shopper card or quilt guild discount.
Have a wonderful autumn adventure and a blessed holiday season! As I always write in my newsletter because it’s so true-you are all fun, friendly and fantastic women! (And men-you are too!)I sincerely thank you for attending classes and shopping at Mt. Pleasant Quilting.
Sewingly,
Barb