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April Showers Bring May Flowers!


Happy April! April showers bring May flowers! Or in my case... brings my very first ever retreat!

Few Spots Available At Retreat

The retreat is May 2-5 at Grandover Resort in Greensboro! I'm so excited to meet so many from my group! Three days of sewing...day and night! Sew in your jammies if you like! Field trip to Leisure Fabrics where they sell leather, vinyl, upholstery, home decor and drapery fabrics at best prices around! Jenny is opening the store for 2 hours just for us! How special is that!

We have an exclusive Simona Businell pattern designed just for us and will not be available anywhere! Simona took a new direction career wise and is super busy. We wish her well in her new career but will surely miss her awesome designs! Thank you sooo very much, Simona, for all you did for our retreat! Thank you seems so little!

We have awesome known teachers including ...

Awesome Prizes

Top it all off with awesome prizes from some awesome donors!

  • Grand prize will be an industrial compound cylinder machine donated by...yours truly...Barb’s Bags...got interfacing?
  • 5 - $100 gift cards from David at GoldStar Tool in LA https://www.goldstartool.com/!
  • There is also an industrial zigzag machine donated by Barb’s Bags...got interfacing?
Fabric will be available. Almost all quilt shop quality for $4 a yard! Extra entries will be given for fabric purchases (excludes interfacing, which will also be available.) Emily Fisher, a local quilt shop owner from Studio Stitch, will be setting up a pop-up store for our convenience. We are hoping Decovil will be available before then. Credit card service will be available.

Few Spots Available

Only few spots available for $550, Inclusive of rooms, breakfast, lunch and one dinner, tons of supplies including Decovil and wovenFuse for main project. And all this will take place at an awesome classy resort! This is an awesome deal for a price you won’t find anywhere else! Come expecting to just have FUN!

And a special thank you to Kris Macintosh for ALL the work she’s done to help Simona finish writing the pattern! Unbelievable! I can never thank you enough! www.facebook.com/krisykreations

Two Tips This Month!

Don’t forget that winners are notified in my newsletter only!

Do something kind for someone this month and share what you do in my group! Might be a prize involved 😜

Edge Coat Leather

This month’s first tip is given by Christi Lee! Watch her video for this one! And her tutorial http://alterednotions.com/painting-edges/. For edge coating leather or vinyls, mix acrylic paint with Elmer’s glue! Awesome tip Christi! PM me for your prize!

painted edges

Hidden Strap Connector

Second tip goes to Mae Zimmerman, Isabella Sparsh...How To Make A Hidden Strap Connector! https://youtu.be/fo39CgFxMiQ

hidden strap

Sew-a-long

Talk about fun....Christi Lee is doing an AWESOME and detailed job of our live sal, staring maggy55 Journey! What a super-star instructor! Im sooo impressed with the job shes doing! Come join in the fun!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/248462965608268/events/.

Thank you sooo much Christi!
sew a long event

Featured Bag

This month the spotlight goes to ....drumroll...

Jan Alig! Beautiful job, Jan! PM me for your prize!
Jan Alig

Bag Making Tips & Patterns


Be sure to check out all my helpful tips, tricks and videos on my website! Lots of useful information there, plus some sew-a-longs!
pattern page

Decovil On Hold

Decovil is still getting closer to being available! My supplier reported that my order is being shipped soon!! Yahoo!!!

Happy April Everyone!

Keep sewing and don’t forget your wovenFuse!

https://www.gotinterfacing.com/