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Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Say Hello to NORO!
All those that have more patience than me knit and crochet, check out the new NORO yarn from Japan at the store.
Check out Penny's Parrot Scarf made from 2 contrasting scans of NORO. Her Parrot Scarf Pattern is free with the purchase of any 2 scans of NORO. Tamara
Monday, November 14, 2011
How many knitters does it take to make 29 tobaggons?
Vicki Butterfield and her daughter are practically knitting magicians.
Just last month, they brought in 29 hats. The luscious color combinations in them make it hard to believe the yarn started out as a mismatched bag of remnants.
The two take home a wide assortment of partial skeins of yarn that customers donate at the shop, and then turn them into warm toboggans and scarves. They bring those Always In Stitches, where Grandma Ginger gets the items to Good Samaritan Network, Hamilton County’s agency for clothing, feeding and housing residents in need.
Combining their donations with other customers’ handwork, 51 hats and eight scarves were sent to Good Samaritan in October, and seven quilts or crocheted blankets were given to Project Linus.
If you’d like to donate yarn or be part of these service projects, ask an AIS sales associate for more information.
New knitting BOM
Great for beginners, fun for everyone
Raise your needles if you’re looking at the calendar and wishing you’d started earlier on your hand-knitted Christmas gifts.
Always In Stitches can help you not fall into that time trap again next year. Our new Knitting BOM will get you started on a 12-block afghan (each one a different stitch) early and have it done by 12/12/12.
“This is a fabulous way for new knitters to learn tons of techniques,” said Penny, our in-house knitting expert.
There’s no sign-up fee for this BOM. A monthly $20 payment gives you a skein of Cascade 220, the block pattern and a 30-minutes class, which will be held at 2:30 on the last Saturday of the month beginning Jan. 28. (Ask Penny about the bonus for bringing in completed blocks each month.) Plus, there will be knitting goodies and snacks at each class.
The first pattern will be available starting at the Knit-In, 5-9 p.m. Nov. 18 and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 19 at the shop. There also will be door prizes, discounts and fun fellowship during those 10 hours of knitting, where we’ll appreciate you using our products. Call now to hold your spot for the Knit-In, (317) 776-4227, and sign up at the shop to be part of the Knitting BOM.
Machine tips, tricks, techniques at Univ. of AIS
“In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.” - Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com founder
This month’s class at University of AIS may not teach you how to thread a machine while it’s running, but it will give you more valuable tips, tricks and techniques to harness the high-tech power of today’s machines to suit your project.
The session is 10:30-11 Nov. 16. Bring your finished item to get this month’s sticker.
In addition to great instruction every month, this program includes free gifts. Betcha can’t get that deal in Seattle.
Make bias tape yourself to create a perfect edge
There’s a way to perfectly match bias tape to match your fabric. DIY.
The Bias Tape Maker tool cuts strips the finished width and presses the fabric as you pull the strips through the tool. It seems particularly practical for finishing projects like aprons or placemats, and would be great for making little stems for flower appliqués. On any project, making your own bias tape could save you money.
Find it among the sewing notions in the shop.
BOUND TO PLEASE
Sweet PJs are dream to make
“Every night feels like a slumber party when you are wearing a pair of pajama pants made from your favorite fabric,” begins the introduction to Sew Easy’s “Pajama Pants” pattern book. We couldn’t agree more.
Manager Capi Saxton whipped up a pair of these – in an adorable fish-pattered fabric – overnight and calls the book very user friendly. Instructions are basic and simple, but experienced stitchers will enjoy making them, too. Trace the patterns before you use them because they can be customized from sizes XS to XXXL so you’ll use them repeatedly.
There are opportunities to embellish the pants, too, says Capi, including Capri or full length and with or without pockets. If you’re making them for someone heading to a slumber party, you might want to make a matching tote bag, bracelet or pillowcase – and patterns for each are in the book.
Find “Pajama Pants” among the books at the front of Always In Stitches.
Caryl Schuetz appraises quilts Nov. 19
Get ready now for Always In Stitches’ version of Antiques Roadshow.
We’re bringing Caryl Schuetz to the store Nov. 19 to appraise and explain the history of your quilts.
For $45, Caryl will appraise one quilt in a private, 30-minute session. Additional quilts can be brought in, but each must be signed up for an individual session.
Congratulations, Ruth
Ruth Middleton, our in-house quilting expert, walked away from the recent Quilt Guild of Indy show with a third place award. She made Deb Luttrell’s Gumballs quilt.
We’re so proud of her!
You can benefit from her talent and expertise. Ruth will teach four people – advance beginners to advanced – how to make the quilt from 10:30-3:30 Dec. 3 at the shop. Cost is $50 plus supplies and pattern.
Dear Lola,
I try to plan my knitting projects carefully, but sometimes I run short when I need to bind off. Any suggestions on what I can do?
Frazzled
That’s a common conundrum, Frazzled. It won’t be a problem, though, if you follow the knitter’s rule of thumb: It usually takes four times the width of your piece to bind off. Save that amount of yarn in advance, and especially if you start running close on your yarn for the project.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Sew much going on at Always In Stitches
Handcrafters make good Samaritans -- Hamilton County babies in families where money is tight will be dressed warmly and adorably, thanks to Always In Stitches customer donations. In recent weeks, White River Christian Church brought in nine baby quilts that will be sent to Good Samaritan of Hamilton County and Project Linus, and Patti Lichford donated a wide assortment of preemie items, including bonnets and caps, one-piece outfits, booties, gowns, dresses and a crocheted blanket. Ask any AIS sales associate for more information about how to participate in these or other service projects.
A cut above the rest -- Members of the University of Always In Stitches will learn the art, and sometimes science, of accurately cutting fabric for quilting and bias binding. Leader Ruth Middleton also will discuss rotary cutting and different rulers that can be used. The session is noon-12:30 Aug. 19. Bring your finished item for this month’s sticker. Remember: In addition to great instruction every month, this program includes free gifts.
Critters to knock your socks off -- Bugged-eyed mice with ribbon tails, a bunny that’s too cute for words and a colorful, curly snake are among the projects sales associate Christy Wiegand made from old socks, inspired by the book “Socks Appeal, 16 Fun and Funky Friends Sewn from Socks.”
Author/handcrafter Brenna Maloney uses a lively writing style that will leave you smiling, even if you don’t make a pile of penguins or a trio of turtles. “Socks have a higher purpose,” she writes, “and now that you have used this book, you should hear the tiny voices of socks calling you, calling you, calling you relentlessly, ‘Release me,’ they say. ‘Release me from The Drudgery of the Foot. Let me be the Fish, the Hamster, the Rabbit, the Lion.’”
“Socks Appeal” is well illustrated and has step-by-step instructions, including tips on where to find the best socks for the projects and drawings of the stitches you’ll use. Chapter titles make it simple to match your skills to a project -- Easy-Peasy: Projects for Beginners and Children; Look Ma, No Hands! Projects for Intermediates; and Pass the Excedrin: More Challenging Projects.
Find “Socks Appeal” and Christy’s samples in the front of the shop.
Wait, your machine may not need fixing -- What’s worse than having your sewing machine sitting in the repair shop while that project you’re so close to completing has to wait? How about finding out the problem was something you could have easily fixed at home?
Before you pack it up to bring it to Always In Stitches – we’re an Authorized Service Center for Handi Quilter and Janome – check a couple of things yourself. The two biggest problems we see on “broken” machines are bobbins out of position, needles that aren’t threaded correctly and needles that need to be changed.
Neil Sedaka was right: Breaking up is hard to do -- We know the pain. We all loved our mothers’ sewing machines, and losing them is like saying goodbye to an old friend.
But sometimes – usually after about 10 years – a sewing machine has to be replaced.
An old machine may sew, but will it sew well? Parts for older machines can be hard to find and expensive when they are found. When old machines are repaired, the fix may only last a couple of years.
Always In Stitches sales associates can help you determine when it’s time for a new machine. It’s hard to say goodbye, but this may make it a little easier: Our new machines come with free classes, a 20 percent discount on accessories and 10 percent off your next purchase for every $100 invested in a new machine.
Get quilting this month -- Thangles make it easier to make quilts. Always In Stitches makes it cheaper.
Quilters can buy one Thangles block kit for just $1 – a savings of as much as $5 -- each month for a year after registering during October in our $Buck a Block program. Bring in that sewn block the next month to get your $1 block kit price for the new block. Additional block kits will be available for $3.
Sign up or get more information in the store. Program registration is $6, which includes a Thangles 2” Finished Pack and your first block kit.
Scraps today, quilts for service members tomorrow -- The Thangles Scrap Quilt Challenge comes naturally to the ladies at Always In Stitches. After all, we were taught to use every scrap, make things simple and do good things for others.
We challenge you to gather scraps that take up space in your sewing room, buy a pack of Thangles out of the basket by the cash register, get a free pattern and start quilting. Bring in the finished quilt by Nov. 30 so you can be registered for a Go Baby! Fabric Cutter Package or a Janome Jem Gold 3. We’ll donate your work to the Quilts of Valor, a program that provides lovingly made warm covers to service members and veterans touched by war.
Donate as many quilts as you want; each one entitles you to an entry in the prize drawing, which will be held at 1 p.m. Dec. 3. (Winner does not need to be present.) If you decide you can’t part with your creation of scraps, bring it in to show us and receive a special door prize.
And then, when you can see the shelves in your sewing room again, you have a great excuse to buy more fabric.
K2tog(ether) at Thrifty Knitters Club -- Beginner to advanced, the new Thrifty Knitters Club is for you.
Two patterns will be featured every month. In October, just when days are starting to get a little chilly, we’ll make hats. Club members will knit a child’s pumpkin hat or the butterfly hat, and either uses one skein of Cascade 220 Superwash.
Here’s the thrifty part: You get the pattern for the project and 30 minutes of class time during Tink-er’s Night for a monthly $5 fee (plus a one-time $10 membership fee). We do ask that you purchase all supplies at Always In Stitches.
Whaddya think your quilt’s worth? -- Get ready now for Always In Stitches’ version of Antiques Roadshow.
We’re bringing Caryl Schuetz to the store Nov. 19 to appraise and explain the history of your quilts. Caryl is certified by the American Quilter’s Society and is a member of the Professional Association of Appraisers – Quilted Textiles. For $45, Caryl will appraise one quilt in a private, 30-minute session. Additional quilts can be brought in, but each must be signed up for an individual session.
Quilt Guild opens 2-day show Oct. 28 -- More than 400 quilted items, with patterns from traditional to contemporary, will be on display at A Quilter’s Journey, the biennial show of the Quilt Guild of Indy.
Responding to the show’s challenge, some quilts will depict the quilter’s favorite trips. Appraisals, lectures and demonstrations are scheduled, as well. Small quilts, some made by nationally known quilters, will be auctioned on Oct. 29.
The show is 10 a.m. -5 p.m. Oct. 28-29 at Westfield Middle School. The school is at U.S. 31 and 181st Street. For more information, visit quiltguildindy.net.
OCTOBER SPECIALS
Fat Tuesday – Receive one free fat quarter with your purchases every Tuesday this month.
Your Birthday – You’re special! – Show us your ID within one week of your birthday to get 10 percent off your purchase that day.
Always Awesome Clearance Areas – Anytime you’re here, walk around the store to find clearance displays. All are top-of-the-line items being sold at deep discounts.
End of Bolt Discounts – Every day and any day, you can save money on bolts. If the one you like has three yards or more and you buy it all, we’ll take 30 percent off your total. If the bolt has less than three yards and you buy it all, save 20 percent.
End of the Month Sale – Visit on Oct. 27 to get:
• 1 free fat quarter when you buy 4
• 3 free fat quarters when you buy 10
• 8 free fat quarters when you buy 20
• 1 free skein of yarn when you buy 3
• 50 percent off the original price of all clearance items.
Show us Your Great Stuff -- Bring in a finished project any day this month to get one free fat quarter. Limit: one free fat quarter per person per day.
A cut above the rest -- Members of the University of Always In Stitches will learn the art, and sometimes science, of accurately cutting fabric for quilting and bias binding. Leader Ruth Middleton also will discuss rotary cutting and different rulers that can be used. The session is noon-12:30 Aug. 19. Bring your finished item for this month’s sticker. Remember: In addition to great instruction every month, this program includes free gifts.
Critters to knock your socks off -- Bugged-eyed mice with ribbon tails, a bunny that’s too cute for words and a colorful, curly snake are among the projects sales associate Christy Wiegand made from old socks, inspired by the book “Socks Appeal, 16 Fun and Funky Friends Sewn from Socks.”
Author/handcrafter Brenna Maloney uses a lively writing style that will leave you smiling, even if you don’t make a pile of penguins or a trio of turtles. “Socks have a higher purpose,” she writes, “and now that you have used this book, you should hear the tiny voices of socks calling you, calling you, calling you relentlessly, ‘Release me,’ they say. ‘Release me from The Drudgery of the Foot. Let me be the Fish, the Hamster, the Rabbit, the Lion.’”
“Socks Appeal” is well illustrated and has step-by-step instructions, including tips on where to find the best socks for the projects and drawings of the stitches you’ll use. Chapter titles make it simple to match your skills to a project -- Easy-Peasy: Projects for Beginners and Children; Look Ma, No Hands! Projects for Intermediates; and Pass the Excedrin: More Challenging Projects.
Find “Socks Appeal” and Christy’s samples in the front of the shop.
Wait, your machine may not need fixing -- What’s worse than having your sewing machine sitting in the repair shop while that project you’re so close to completing has to wait? How about finding out the problem was something you could have easily fixed at home?
Before you pack it up to bring it to Always In Stitches – we’re an Authorized Service Center for Handi Quilter and Janome – check a couple of things yourself. The two biggest problems we see on “broken” machines are bobbins out of position, needles that aren’t threaded correctly and needles that need to be changed.
Neil Sedaka was right: Breaking up is hard to do -- We know the pain. We all loved our mothers’ sewing machines, and losing them is like saying goodbye to an old friend.
But sometimes – usually after about 10 years – a sewing machine has to be replaced.
An old machine may sew, but will it sew well? Parts for older machines can be hard to find and expensive when they are found. When old machines are repaired, the fix may only last a couple of years.
Always In Stitches sales associates can help you determine when it’s time for a new machine. It’s hard to say goodbye, but this may make it a little easier: Our new machines come with free classes, a 20 percent discount on accessories and 10 percent off your next purchase for every $100 invested in a new machine.
Get quilting this month -- Thangles make it easier to make quilts. Always In Stitches makes it cheaper.
Quilters can buy one Thangles block kit for just $1 – a savings of as much as $5 -- each month for a year after registering during October in our $Buck a Block program. Bring in that sewn block the next month to get your $1 block kit price for the new block. Additional block kits will be available for $3.
Sign up or get more information in the store. Program registration is $6, which includes a Thangles 2” Finished Pack and your first block kit.
Scraps today, quilts for service members tomorrow -- The Thangles Scrap Quilt Challenge comes naturally to the ladies at Always In Stitches. After all, we were taught to use every scrap, make things simple and do good things for others.
We challenge you to gather scraps that take up space in your sewing room, buy a pack of Thangles out of the basket by the cash register, get a free pattern and start quilting. Bring in the finished quilt by Nov. 30 so you can be registered for a Go Baby! Fabric Cutter Package or a Janome Jem Gold 3. We’ll donate your work to the Quilts of Valor, a program that provides lovingly made warm covers to service members and veterans touched by war.
Donate as many quilts as you want; each one entitles you to an entry in the prize drawing, which will be held at 1 p.m. Dec. 3. (Winner does not need to be present.) If you decide you can’t part with your creation of scraps, bring it in to show us and receive a special door prize.
And then, when you can see the shelves in your sewing room again, you have a great excuse to buy more fabric.
K2tog(ether) at Thrifty Knitters Club -- Beginner to advanced, the new Thrifty Knitters Club is for you.
Two patterns will be featured every month. In October, just when days are starting to get a little chilly, we’ll make hats. Club members will knit a child’s pumpkin hat or the butterfly hat, and either uses one skein of Cascade 220 Superwash.
Here’s the thrifty part: You get the pattern for the project and 30 minutes of class time during Tink-er’s Night for a monthly $5 fee (plus a one-time $10 membership fee). We do ask that you purchase all supplies at Always In Stitches.
Whaddya think your quilt’s worth? -- Get ready now for Always In Stitches’ version of Antiques Roadshow.
We’re bringing Caryl Schuetz to the store Nov. 19 to appraise and explain the history of your quilts. Caryl is certified by the American Quilter’s Society and is a member of the Professional Association of Appraisers – Quilted Textiles. For $45, Caryl will appraise one quilt in a private, 30-minute session. Additional quilts can be brought in, but each must be signed up for an individual session.
Quilt Guild opens 2-day show Oct. 28 -- More than 400 quilted items, with patterns from traditional to contemporary, will be on display at A Quilter’s Journey, the biennial show of the Quilt Guild of Indy.
Responding to the show’s challenge, some quilts will depict the quilter’s favorite trips. Appraisals, lectures and demonstrations are scheduled, as well. Small quilts, some made by nationally known quilters, will be auctioned on Oct. 29.
The show is 10 a.m. -5 p.m. Oct. 28-29 at Westfield Middle School. The school is at U.S. 31 and 181st Street. For more information, visit quiltguildindy.net.
OCTOBER SPECIALS
Fat Tuesday – Receive one free fat quarter with your purchases every Tuesday this month.
Your Birthday – You’re special! – Show us your ID within one week of your birthday to get 10 percent off your purchase that day.
Always Awesome Clearance Areas – Anytime you’re here, walk around the store to find clearance displays. All are top-of-the-line items being sold at deep discounts.
End of Bolt Discounts – Every day and any day, you can save money on bolts. If the one you like has three yards or more and you buy it all, we’ll take 30 percent off your total. If the bolt has less than three yards and you buy it all, save 20 percent.
End of the Month Sale – Visit on Oct. 27 to get:
• 1 free fat quarter when you buy 4
• 3 free fat quarters when you buy 10
• 8 free fat quarters when you buy 20
• 1 free skein of yarn when you buy 3
• 50 percent off the original price of all clearance items.
Show us Your Great Stuff -- Bring in a finished project any day this month to get one free fat quarter. Limit: one free fat quarter per person per day.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
December Newsletter
Our new Newsletter, Calendar and Class descriptions are now available online at our website: http://alwaysinstitches1.com
ANNOUNCING THE NEW HQ AVANTE QUILTING MACHINE
We are so pleased to offer the exciting new Handi Quilter 18 Avante’ mid-arm quilting system. This new machine will be available November 30th, 2009. Features and benefits include: full 18” throat with 9” of height clearance, over 15” of quilting space, quilt up to 1800 stitches-per-minute, two types of stitch regulation and much more. But here is the best part: even with all the additional technology, space and functionality we are launching the HQ18 Avante at the current HQ Sixteen prices. As your local
HQ Representative we are pleased to offer a machine, hand crafted in the United States, that offers new technology, size, features and benefits that quitter's want, while maintaining current value pricing.
For those of you who may have considered purchasing the HQ Sixteen machine Handi Quilter is offering a special price to the first 250 orders received after October 13th, 2009. The savings on an HQ Sixteen machine package can be as much as $895! So please stop by to talk with Capi about how you can expand your quilting options with the new Avante or the existing Sixteen Quilting machines.
We are so pleased to offer the exciting new Handi Quilter 18 Avante’ mid-arm quilting system. This new machine will be available November 30th, 2009. Features and benefits include: full 18” throat with 9” of height clearance, over 15” of quilting space, quilt up to 1800 stitches-per-minute, two types of stitch regulation and much more. But here is the best part: even with all the additional technology, space and functionality we are launching the HQ18 Avante at the current HQ Sixteen prices. As your local
HQ Representative we are pleased to offer a machine, hand crafted in the United States, that offers new technology, size, features and benefits that quitter's want, while maintaining current value pricing.
For those of you who may have considered purchasing the HQ Sixteen machine Handi Quilter is offering a special price to the first 250 orders received after October 13th, 2009. The savings on an HQ Sixteen machine package can be as much as $895! So please stop by to talk with Capi about how you can expand your quilting options with the new Avante or the existing Sixteen Quilting machines.
AI'S Embroidery Club
For those of you who own those wonderful embroidery machines we are offering a special discount program: When you buy two regular priced DAKOTA Collectibles Design CD’s from our current stock you can buy the third at ½ price! AND if you buy 2 spools of our favorite Robison-Anton 1100yd poly thread spools you can buy the third for ½ off too! This great deal is just in time for all those special Christmas projects you want to embroider.
Our ongoing program requires that you have a punch card to keep track of what you purchase. So stop in the shop to pick up your card and start accumulating those sales. As always we love to see your finished projects, so bring them in for a free fat quarter. Happy Sewing!
Our ongoing program requires that you have a punch card to keep track of what you purchase. So stop in the shop to pick up your card and start accumulating those sales. As always we love to see your finished projects, so bring them in for a free fat quarter. Happy Sewing!
LET US HELP YOU
Christmas wish lists are here!!
1.) Come in or fill out our online wish list.
2.) Send your friends and family in to shop from your list.
Christmas gift giving is just around the corner
How about an Always In Stitches Gift Certificate?
Available in any amount and easily purchased with a credit card over the phone. This great gift makes your shopping so easy. Give us a call and we will mail it to your favorite “stitch-er” at no additional cost! .....
How about an Always In Stitches Gift Certificate?
Available in any amount and easily purchased with a credit card over the phone. This great gift makes your shopping so easy. Give us a call and we will mail it to your favorite “stitch-er” at no additional cost! .....
What’s New In The Yarn Department?
Sugar & Cream Cotton!
Perfect for homemade dishcloths. Come check out our color options.
Be sure to check the website for pictures of our knitted scarves for the holiday season. The patterns are available free when you purchase the yarn.
Sugar & Cream Cotton!
Perfect for homemade dishcloths. Come check out our color options.
Be sure to check the website for pictures of our knitted scarves for the holiday season. The patterns are available free when you purchase the yarn.
We will be closed Friday December 25
Christmas Celebrations
Hope you have a blessed day!
Christmas Celebrations
Hope you have a blessed day!
After Christmas SALE
All Christmas Fabric 25% off and 25 Fat Quarters for $30
All Christmas Fabric 25% off and 25 Fat Quarters for $30
Teachers Wanted
Always in Stitches is looking for teachers who would like to teach classes in the 2010 season.
We are also looking for someone who would like to hold a weekly Bible study in our Faith Classroom
Always in Stitches is looking for teachers who would like to teach classes in the 2010 season.
We are also looking for someone who would like to hold a weekly Bible study in our Faith Classroom
 HOLIDAY FOOD DRIVE December 1-20 Bring In 5 non-perishable food items and receive a 20% discount on your purchase, (excludes machines and service) Help us make the holidays brighter for those who have been hit hard In this economy. All donations will go to the local food pantry. |
NEW YEARS DAY EXTRAVAGANZA
This year will be bigger, better and trust me, we will be better prepared.
This year will be bigger, better and trust me, we will be better prepared.
Gingers Café is now open on Sunday!
Check out the great menu on their web site:
www.gingerscafe.net
Check out the great menu on their web site:
www.gingerscafe.net
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