It's been a very long time since I sent out an email newsletter for Shakerwood Woolens.  My website server changed the 3rd Party host of the email (sort of) and I somehow fell off the bandwagon.  In doing so I lost my email list.  I have signed up with a new host.  If you would like to receive a newsletter from Shakerwood Woolens, go to my website home page and sign up.  I promise you won't be bombarded with emails.  I could barely get one out once a month!  

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I have a finish for this year already!  Really just had to quilt and add the binding from last year's quilt but Hey, I'll take any finish I can.

This is Pleasant Thoughts by Cheri Payne and is available on my patterns page.  It may need some more quilting - I just echoed the wool applique and the sawtooth border - but it will hang in the booth better than it did.

Blessings, Cathi

Back on the show circuit ......

This weekend starts the new show season.  I hope everyone had a restful holiday season and is ready to start shopping and sewing again!  Below is the information that was sent to us by the promoters.  Read it all the way through.  There are sewing machine giveaways and Early Bird Specials.

I will be giving away a special kit to all customers that shop with me from 9am to 10am and spend more than $20.  This offer is good on BOTH days.

The next show is The Quilting and Fiber Art Marketplace in Sanford, NC. 

The date and time of the show is Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 and Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, from 9 am – 5 pm at the Dennis Wicker Civic Center, 1801 Nash St., Sanford, NC 27330.  Admission is $5.00.  This show is all about Quilt and Yarn Shops!  This show is  a celebration that features small businesses and the people that run them.  Join us for a day of creativity, fabric, fiber, and food.  We have tried to feature the best vendors, with the best selection of merchandise available.  We have assembled more than 30 vendors for your shopping pleasure.  If shopping for fabric and yarn is not enough to entice you to Sanford, then let me tell you about our food!  Mrs. Lacy's Magnolia Tea House will be doing our food this year.  She will have wonderful sweets and coffee ready as you arrive and fabulous sandwiches and more sweets during the day. 

The Early Bird will get the Worm!

On both days we will be giving away a sewing machine at 11 am and a gift basket at 4 pm.  We will also be giving away a grand prize basket at 5 pm on Saturday.  

On Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 we will have a drawing for a Bernette 46 sewing machine at 11 am.  This drawing is sponsored by Loving Stitches of Fayetteville and the other vendors at QFAM.  The Bernette 46 is a nice little portable machine with 8 stitches, a thread cutter, snap-on presser feet and an automatic bobbin winder.  This is a fabulous machine for a beginner, a grandchild, or to carry back and forth to quilting class.  

Loving Stitches has also donated a gift basket, valued at $200 that we will draw for at 4 pm on Friday. 

On Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013 we will have a drawing for a Pfaff Hobby 1122 at 11 am.  This drawing is sponsored by Find X Designs of Sanford and the other vendors at QFAM. The Pfaff 1122 has a great selection of stitches, including a buttonhole.  It also has easy threading, many accessories and a hard carrying case.  

At 4 pm on Saturday, we will give away a gift basket donated by all the vendors.  

In order to win either machine, you must have your entry in the box by 11 am each day and the drawing will be held shortly thereafter.  You must be present to win either the machine or the gift baskets.  If you REALLY want to win, be one of the first 100 people in the door each morning and get two chances to win that day.  All entries collected throughout the day will be entered to win hourly prizes and the gift baskets at 4 pm each day.  

The Grand Prize Basket will be drawn on Saturday at 5 pm from all the names and phone #s/emails collected during both days.  The winner will be notified and arrangements made to collect the prize.

So plan to get up early and spend the day with us, shopping, eating and just having fun.  You might even win a prize, and if that’s not enough, many of the vendors will be featuring early morning specials on selected items from 9 am to 10 am.  
  
Hope to see you there!

Blessings, Cathi

This is going to be a GREAT year!

Happy New Year, all!!

Blessings, Cathi

She's finally here !!!!!!!

Do I sound excited enough yet?!  Sweet Baby Girl finally made it into the world this afternoon.  She is going to be as stubborn as the aunt that is holding her!

And at 8lbs. 5oz., she is a little butterball ......... I almost look like I am struggling to hold her up!

I think the new Papa is thinking more like the size of a football.  Sure hope this little girl likes football and pizza 'cause she sure was born into a family that likes a lot of both!!

I'm off to take a nap.  The waiting can be VERY tiring!!

Maybe now that she is here, I can get this blog back to the quilting ...... and I can get to more hugs and kisses!!

Blessings, Cathi

Not a creature was stirring, not even a baby .......

The Married One and SIL this afternoon.  As you can see ...... we're still waiting.  Only 3 days late ......

And she has hung around long enough this evening for all my babies to be in a group picture.  As they said, "All four and a half" of them.

Merry Christmas from my family to yours!

Blessings, Cathi