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The Pine Needle Newsletter January 2010 in this issue :: Book Review: The Farmer's Wife :: Super Bowl Sunday Sale :: Winter Winds Shop Hop :: New Classes :: Did you know... Greetings! Happy New Year! With the winter solstice and the holidays behind us, and a new decade before us, we are energized with new ideas! We have stocked the shelves with lots of new color and designs. Be sure to stop in to see wonderful new, bright batiks to warm the rest of winter, and beautiful Gees Bend solids. Engage your creativity this winter by taking part in Sandi Ray's new mystery quilt adventure. Batik House Divided Quilt Kit Join our A Mystery of 'Olympic' Proportions Mystery Quilt Adventure We look forward to rolling out new tools, quilts, classes and patterns for you all year long as we celebrate our 18th year loving the quilting business. Celebrate with us our 18th year of business! 18% off *sale Monday, January 18th Come in for inspiration, celebration and connection through quilting as we launch this new decade. Happy quilting! *18% off your entire purchase of regular priced items excluding software, gift certificates, wool block of the month, mystery adventure Book Review The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt This delightful book by Laurie Aaron Hird is causing quite a stir and we are happy to be a part of the excitement. Inspired by the 1922 The Farmer's Wife magazine contest, Laurie created a queen-sized sampler quilt with 111 traditional blocks. The book includes a bonus CD with 106 piecing templates. As you read through the book, you'll learn fascinating things about "the changing American culture of the 1920s". In 1922, the editors of The Farmer's Wife, a popular women's magazine of the day, asked their readers the following question: "If you had a daughter of marriageable age, would you, in the light of your own experience, want her to marry a farmer?" As you move through the block samples, you'll read excerpts from the letters, which are heartwarming and heart-wrenching. Sandi Ray has created a year long class based on this book. Our customers enthusiasm and the interest in this project is proving to be contagious: a year of fun and learning, as you move through the blocks, stories and history. The Farmer's Wife book Super Bowl Sunday Sale February 7th - mark your calendar This is the day many of our loyal customers wait for all year! The game plan calls for store samples to go on sale! Kick off begins at 11 am, so get here on time! 25% off ten yards of fabric or more plus other sales throughout the store! Who says we don't know anything about football? The Winter Winds Shop Hop is on... Bounce to The Pine Needle by January 23, pick up your passport and start your hop and continue on to the eight other participating shops or if you have your passport, stop and have us stamp it. Collect goodies as you hop from one store to the next and become eligible for great prizes. New Quilting Classes Come register and attend our many new and returning classes scheduled for the winter including the Snow Country Embroidery Series, Maggie's and Sandi's "Sew With..." series, Billie's Bag is back, as is Quiltmaking I for our new students and those wanting to improve their basic skills. See our website for a listing of our Winter classes. To enroll, please drop by The Pine Needle or phone (503-635-1353) . Class list Did you know.... A quilt sampler is made up of many different design blocks and if often used as a teaching tool for beginning quilters or for those quilters wanting to learn new techniques. The sample blocks can be related in some way as design, theme, or color, or be completely different pulled together with sashings, cornerstones and borders. Pattern quilts Did you know... that before 1840 pieced quilts were not common. With the advent of cheaper factory made fabrics, ordinary women no longer had to spend hours spinning and weaving their own cloth and could invest more of their time with creative sewing. Although a few patterns were published in early America, it wasn't until the late 1800's that quilt patterns were readily available. Quilters found ways to share patterns by making up sample quilt blocks, physical replicas of other quilters' blocks. These quilt block patterns sometimes appear to have been quickly sewn together to give the quilter an idea of how the pattern went. Some were more carefully sewn. Sets of pattern blocks have been found bundled together by string or sewn as if bound and some were later sewn together into what is now called "pattern quilts", because the blocks were initially patterns for future quilt blocks. For more information of the history of American quilting, go to www.womenfolk.com Spotlight Special Ladies' Art Company Block Tool This pocket sized, take-anywhere tool packs a punch with 160+ authentic blocks from America's first mail-order pattern company. Includes simple, no-math yardage charts for each block in 5 sizes! Our Price: $13.49 List Price: $16.95 We begin this new decade with an even deeper appreciation for our customers, knowing that you are the reason we are celebrating our 18th year! Thank you for your continued patronage. Sincerely, Geri, Patsy, Julie and The Pine Cones The Pine Needle www.pineneedlequiltshop.com E-mail The Pine Needle