Thanks for your patience!

The shop is up and running, finally, on a regular schedule: Thursday, Friday and Saturday, noon to 5 pm. Sometimes visitors come by on another day, or earlier or later in the day, and I always open for them. If my Chevy is in the driveway (with the Happy Quilter license plate) and I am not out on a walk, I'll be in the house. Just ring the back doorbell and I'll happily invite you into Quilters' Quarters. Or call me to arrange a time that better suits your schedule and mine.

This month I have been laying bricks to connect the new driveway to the front door of the shop ~ it is a work in progress, and I've asked shoppers to enter by the side door to avoid jostling the bricks before I finish the task with sand in the crevices. It's a job Rick and I intended to do together once his shoulder had healed, but I'm learning to do more things independently now without his strength and patient skills. I'm sure he is still guiding me, though, as laying and lifting bricks and re-tamping pounds of sand is beginning to come naturally to me. I'm more than half-way there.  (And yes, I'm working carefully to use this task as good therapy for my healing broken arm.) I'm sure the arrangement I've chosen has a quilt block name, but don't know what it is... two vertical, two horizontal ... almost a post rail fence?

New bolts of fabrics continue to arrive, one or two at a time. These are stragglers from the orders I'd placed last summer, and each arrival is a surprise! Here are a few that came in this week, from Wilmington Prints ~ one horizontal and one vertical panel that could be used as a center block for a quilt or wall hanging; the other could be fussy cut for appliques... 

Panels are priced at retail, but at Quilters' Quarters all fabric is at least 20% discounted ... more for members and charity work! These panels measure 24", and the fabric retails for $12.00/yard, so the 2/3 yd. panels are priced at $8.00, and the discount lowers that to $6.40 each! I have beautiful blender fabrics that will enhance each of these scenes ...

Come see us soon!

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Uncle.

Okay, snow this morning but it has stopped for the moment ... so Quilters' Quarters is giving up waiting for warmer weather, and is now open for 2018 ... Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 12-5pm. And remember, ... Button Up Your Overcoat!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UliCMEdTFE

As promised, all fabric on the bolt is 20% discounted ... members' discount is 40% ... and all fabric purchased for charity projects is 50% off to all shoppers.  

Sorry ... yet another snow prediction and another delay in opening date ...

Sorry ... more snow predicted later this week, so Quilters' Quarters will remain on winter hiatus until Spring makes more than a brief appearance. The barn has been so cold for so long that it will take a sustained sixty degree spell of several days to allow the building to warm up to a tolerable level. See you later this month ... Now looking toward the middle of April ... maybe Thursday April 19th? Or, perhaps by Mothers' Day weekend in May? Only time and temp will tell...

Easter Sale

As the shop's reopening for 2018 has been delayed until after Easter this year, I am offering a special price reduction for online orders of fabrics that feature beautiful spring bunnies and flowers.

Beautiful bunny fabrics~ click on this link to access the fabrics by mail through the web store for Quilters' Quarters!

Any overage of shipping calculated by the website will be revealed at the post office when the order is mailed, and you will be refunded the appropriate amount via Paypal.

Of course shopping in Quilters' Quarters on site will save you not only the shipping, but an additional 20% discount~ cash and check orders will also save the equivalent of the sales tax!

Garden Gathering by Wilmington Prints

blender on left, panel on right

Sweet fabric book panel of Garden Gathering

I look forward to seeing shoppers on or after April 5th ... but if you want this fabric sooner, please order online or call to arrange a visit to the snowbound Quilters' Quarters!

Leprechaun's are influencing Mother Nature's temperament this year

The vernal equinox, March 21-22, has always been 'the first day of Spring." But the network meterorologists began 'simplifying' the calendar a decade or so ago, proclaiming it 'easier' to label Spring as beginning on March 1st ... and, ever since they brazenly ignored the revolution of the earth's path around the sun, winter has taken a later, not earlier, hold on our portion of the planet (and yes, the north and south poles do move gradually every year.) Seems to me that Spring weather (which is what meterologists are supposed to be aware of) arrives later rather than earlier ... we've even had snow as late as April Fools Day in recent years ... that may have been Mother Nature's taunt at those weather fools ... her effort at bringing them back to her reality ... and her punishment of the rest of us seems to be her arbitrary shortening of Spring and Fall, and her extension of the blasted heat of summer and the bitter cold of winter ... or maybe that is her collusion with those who choose to live at the highest and lowest latitudes... just sayin' ... I'm going to call Spring the brief four weeks between Tax Day and Mothers' Day ... Let's be real about this. Thanks a lot for ticking her off, meteorololgists...

And so she is threatening another snowstorm this coming week ... which makes re-opening Quilters' Quarters on the first day of spring impractical. There is no heat in the barn. It is presently 40 degrees outside and 30 degrees within. I can't cut fabric with frozen fingers. Customers are not comfortable shopping for fabric and notions while wearing winter coats ... they cannot feel the 'soft hand of quality fabric' while wearing mittens or gloves. Spring is dilly-dallying somewhere else on the planet, and is sorely being missed here.


The revised plan for the re-opening is now set for Thursday, April 5th. My apologies to all ... I clearly have no pursuasive power with Mother Nature, nor with the weather pattern we are enduring here. Three classic nor'easters in the past two weeks? Over two feet of unmelted spring snow? More ahead? Really? Can we all say "Global Warming's Extreme Effects? Or shall we all just blame the foolish meteorologists' tinkering with the calendar date for First Day of Spring (read that: Vernal Equinox.) Apparently, she's offended. 

See you in April?

March came in like a sleepy, grumpy old lion...

February closed with beautiful, Spring-like temperatures ... but wait-a-minute-weather lurks. Strong winds, heavy rains, full moon with accompanying rising tides and coastal flooding brought March's reputation to the forefront on this, it's second morning.

We had replaced the old, worn roof of the barn just three years ago ... the driveway was leveled and paved two years ago, and I had the bough-dropping eighty-foot Eastern white pines removed a year ago. So, short of a heavy wet snow, the shop is okay with whatever our fickle New England / Mother Nature's mood brings our way ...

Come real Springtime, the temperatures will allow comfort in the fabric shop... Looking forward to seeing and sharing new tools and fabrics with you!

Quilters Fabri-calc will be here
for opening day sales!
Suggested manufacturer's retail price:
$29.95
Opening Day 30% discount price:  $19.99

This handy gadget will be 50% off suggested retail price for Quilters' Quarters members ... and 30% off for all QQ customers ... limited # in stock ... reserve yours now via e-mail at needlesandpens@comcast.net. Six have already been reserved ... only six remaining. Visit this YOU-TUBE link for a tutorial on this basic, handy new tool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=b7XW7LpWsgs


       Remember:   March 21, 2018

March 21, 2018
12 noon- 5 pm

More surprise sales in store! 

Welcome back Spring with Quilters' Quarters!

It's always six more weeks of winter... the coward!

  The barn without its furnace has been bitterly cold this winter, and my few forays  for fabrics have been brief and expedient ... there will come a day of reckoning when sorting, restacking and display -shuffling will have to occur. But not until we have a span of at least 48 hours above 50 degrees... 'til then, the clutter and dust bunnies will have their way.  

I haven't added much to the contents, but a few items were ordered on request... 

Someone who has added winter weight ...
I ordered extras, just in case.

Nice to have a spare in case you don't have a sharpener...
or time to use it.

Thread Snips ... ordered a dozen as bonus/giveaways ...
apparently ordered twice! Received two dozen!

And, whenever that lazy rodent ever does decide to come out for spring, and the temperature rises to accomodate his wishes, and ours, I'll have a new promotion in store for you ... think of it as a new lending library of sorts ... I mean, of tools! Stay tuned ... and be sure to add your preferred email to our followers' list.

Oh, fabrics...  yes, there will be new Spring fabrics ... some have already arrived ... here's a sneak-peek:

blender for Wilmington Prints "Garden Gathering"

Panel

Quality cotton

and book pages to match!