Tip of the Day Tuesday

Here's another great tip from the MCQS brain!
Ever have the ucky gunk on the soleplate of your iron? If it's not taken care of, you can actually ruin projects by continuing to iron with the gunk. Here are some suggestions:

* Use a teflon Applique Pressing Sheet over items that you're ironing that may have fusibles to prevent the sticky from even coming in contact with your iron.
*OR - use kitchen parchment paper or a thin towel as a cost saving measure.

* If the gunk appears anyway, use a product we recommend called Iron Clean, which is formulated specifically to remove the gunk. It's a sheet that you place on top of a paper towel and simply iron the gunk away.
* OR - use a fabric softener dryer sheet in the same manner as above for a cost saving measure.

Remember, every penny saved is fabric earned!

Amanda's Other Hobby

Most of you probably don't know that in addition to all the sewing and crafty things I love, I LOVE to cook! My whole family looked at me funny 2 weeks ago when I announced that I wanted to cook the Thanksgiving meal. But what a meal it was! Grilled turkey (yes, the whole turkey in a pan on the grill), sweet potatoes complete with marshmallows, Grandma's corn casserole, Aunt Kimmie's green beans, Grandma's orange jello salad, frozen cranberry salad (that thaws in the bowl while you're putting everything else on the table), rolls, stuffing muffins (what a hoot they were to make!), pumpkin pie and shoofly pie. A tradtional Pennsylvania Dutch Thankgiving Dinner! From our family to yours, Happy Holidays!

Tip-of-the-Day Tuesday

Tired of your cutting ruler slipping around on you while you're cutting? Instead of spending hard earned fabric money on tools to help with cutting, simply use your leftover small pieces of fusible webbing!
You know you have lots of small pieces of Steam-a-Seam fusible webbing leftover from your fusible applique projects, so simply peel off the paper and stick it to the wrong side of your ruler. Webbing won't harm your fabric or your ruler and will keep your ruler nice and secure while you cut.

Small Business Saturday

This year, the retail world will be promoting the world of independent businesses with Small Business Saturday. Shop locally on Saturday November 27th to be part of the wave! We'll have some special deals on Black Friday and Small Business Saturday so stayed tuned.

Our Top 10 Quilting Gifts list is now available as well as a wish list that you can fill out for the elf in your life. Stop by to pick one up today! You elf will receive a special coupon towards purchases made for you!

We have an exclusive item on our gift list - Stocking Stuffer Assortments! Perfect for quilting friends, people just getting in to sewing, and for all of us who know that we have those notions in a very safe place but can't remember the place!

Three different assortments priced at $15, $25 and $35.

Assortment 1 includes a seam ripper, tape measure, machine needles, thread and scissors.
Assortment 2 includes all of the above plus a rotary cutter and a charm pattern.
Assortment 3 includes all of the above plus a charm pack and hand sewing needles.

Hope to see you soon!

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