SunFlower Quilts January 2009 Newsletter
*January 2009 is here and in the year 2009 we will celebrate our 5th year anniversary! We can’t believe it is going to be 5 years this year! We want to thank all of you our wonderful customers for making SunFlower Quilts what it is today and for all of your support! We know without our wonderful customers we would not still be here 5 years later! We have some great anniversary specials this year to announce. Every month, look at your newsletter for a special anniversary coupon to use during the specified month! Each month will be a different anniversary coupon so be sure and check your newsletter. You must present your coupon in order to get the special of the month.
*SunFlower Quilts Mystery Quilt Club starts this month! You can register for our new mystery BOM Club. All the info is ready. Come by the shop, call or go to the web site to get all the info. The first meeting is Thursday January 8th from 6-7pm or Sunday January 11th from 2-3pm. We are very excited about this new club! The quilt was designed by Debbie Caffrey called “Treasure Hunt” and we are going to have lots of fun in this club! The Mystery club is open to all walk in customers only, sorry it is not available for internet customers as requested by Debbie Caffrey. We would love for you to participate in our new club!
*Idea Saturday: Our next “Idea Saturday” will be Saturday January 17th , 2009 at 9am sharp! Come by and we will share at least 5 ideas and have free instructions for each idea! We will have refreshments as well! You can get the instructions free at 9am; if we have any “Idea Saturday” booklets left they will be $5. See you January 17th as we start our 4th year of “Idea Saturday”!
*Our next Charm School is Saturday February 21st at 9am sharp! Remember if you pre pay by February 14th you receive 5% off. If you don’t pre pay for the Charm School Project Pack we can’t guarantee there will be one left for you as we have a limited amount of extra packs. You can get all the info andregister for Charm School on the web site or come by the shop to register! We learned some good tips about working with charm squares at August ,October and December Charm School. You can see December’s quilt on the home page of our web site. The February project Charm pack will contain121 charm squares and cost $34.99. Remember if you pre pay your cost for the Charm pack it will be $33.24 with your 5% discount. There is also a registration fee of $5 plus tax to receive the pattern and tip sheet. Get ready to learn lots about using 5” Charm squares! We are going to have sew much fun! Let us know if you have any questions. It’s fun to be “Charming” in 2009.
*Christmas Ornaments: A great big thank you to all who participated in the Christmas Ornament Contest to help decorate our tree! We received around 100 gorgeous handmade ornaments from our customers this year! We took our decorated tree to The Cottage of Spring Branch for their residents to enjoy. The Cottage of Spring Branch residents and staff were so surprised and felt much love by all the beautiful ornaments made especially for them! The Cottage of Spring Branch is an Alzheimer residence care facility. Thank you so much for helping spread the holiday cheer to Alzheimer patients and their family and staff! Go to our blog to see photos of the tree and ornament winners!
*One Yard Hugs: It’s that time of year again to start making “One Yard Hugs” for the preemie babies born at local hospitals! Thanks to all who helped us with the Hugs, we ended up with 540 “One Yard Hugs”!! Way to go and a great big THANK YOU to all our customers who helped in this wonderful cause! We will do “One Yard Hugs” again this year and start collecting them in October! Its not too early to start for 2009 “One Yard Hugs” campaign!! Keep your eyes open for flannel fabric on sale!! All you have to do is take 1 yard of flannel, cut off the selvages and finish the raw edge.
*That Quilter Donna Warnement will be here the first Tuesday January 6, 2009 from 10am – noon. You can bring your tops for Donna to quilt or pick up a quilt that is ready from Donna, or just come for the fun show and tell of all the beautiful quilts! Donna does a great job!
* Block of the Month Kits Garden Friends BOM kits are ready Dec. 23rdand January 25th.
* New fabrics: Laurel Burch “Secret Jungle”; Marsha McKloskey “Staples” 25 bolts of beautiful tone on tones; “Critter Jamboree” a very cute children’s line of storybook animals. More fabric will be coming in January, we are so excited to be getting new fabrics in for the New Year!
* Ovarian cancer awareness and research update: We want to thank everyone for all of the Ovarian blocks that are pouring in! The blocks are beautiful and will touch so many lives! The joint sew in is scheduled for January 18th(Sunday) 2009 from 2-8pm and this is when we will put all the blocks into quilt tops. Then we will ask for volunteers to quilt and bind them and turn in the completed quilts to the shop or MD Anderson by July 1, 2009. The quilts will then be auctioned online in October 2009. That means it is coming up quick! Please call, come by or email us if you can come help at the sew in. We need volunteers for sewing, cutting, pressing, designing and helping with the potluck supper. You will have the time of your life and it is a wonderful cause. Let’s all help MD Anderson, they have done so much for so many in our community that we feel honored to be able to help them! Lets see how much money we can all raise for MD Anderson again with the quilts! For more info you can contact us or MD Anderson at www.mdanderson.org/departments/ovarianquilt. Last Spring’s online auction that MD Anderson sponsored was a wonderful success!! The quilts and all of the wonderful hands and creative juices that made them raised $11,440! Let’s see if we can raise $22,000 for next year’s auction! I know we can do it. All proceeds go for Ovarian Cancer Research. The sew-in is January 20, 2009 so please put it on your calendar!
* Quilt Classes will start back up in January 2009 we will start to add new classes to the web site next week so keep checking!
Blessings,
Logan and Jill
