Peppermint Stitches

Just a quick newsletter today with the new class list. I Hope you find something you would like to make!

Regards,

Stacey

Bookings are now being taken for the classes listed below. Places are limited in each class so make sure you book early to avoid disappointment. A non-refundable deposit of 50% will be required at the time of booking and the balance paid seven days before the start of class.

Bookings can be made by calling 3161-6606, or by visiting the store.

A refund of the deposit will only be given if a class does not go ahead.

Beginner’s Class

“All About Me” with Fiona

All About Me is a easy rotary cut and pieced beginners quilt. The four lessons cover how to use your mat, ruler and cutter, 1/4inch piecing, borders, pinning, basic quilting and a sample of how to bind your quilt. A wonderful introductory class in patchwork and quilting.

Friday Morning’s 10am-1pm May 14th,28th June 11th, 25th

OR Saturday Morning’s 9.30am-12.30pm May 22nd June 5th and 19th July 3rd

Paper Piecing School House Quilt

Learn how easy paper piecing can be!  Fiona will take you through this fun technique using a traditional Schoolhouse block quilt.

Taught over two lessons: Thursday 6-9pm May 27th, June 17th

Cost: $75 includes pattern

Quilt Top In a Day

Come along and join a small group of quilters and go home with a completed quilt top all in a day!!

Saturday 9.30am - 4.00pm 29th May

Cost: $120 includes pattern

Jelly Stars Quilt

How many of us have a jelly roll in our stash… or two, or three!?! This class is a great way to use up a jelly roll and gain a gorgeous quilt under Christine’s expert guidance.

Tuesday 9.30am - 12.30pm June 1st and 15th

OR

Tuesday 6 - 9pm June 1st and 15th

Cost: $75 includes pattern

Hand Applique

This 3 hour lesson will cover all the basics for students to tackle larger appliqué projects.

It covers tracing the design, needle-turn appliqué, creating sharp points, concave, convex and curves.

Cost: $35 for a 3 hour lesson

One Lesson With Christine Tuesday 6-9pm June 8th

Double Irish Chain Quilt

Learn to make a traditional Double Irish Chain quilt with Fiona.

(Image from Wikicommons and shows a traditional Double Irish Chain quilt.  Class quilt is similar in style.)

Taught over two Lessons: Thursday Night’s 6-9pm July 15th, 29th

Cost: $75

Modern Sampler Quilt

Come learn the  traditional techniques used in patchwork in a modern way!  Taught over 6 weeks this course extensively covers techniques such as applique, Hexagons, and piecing.

Taught by Christine on Monday Night’s 6-9pm July 5th, 19th August 2nd, 16th, 30th September 13th

Cost: $180

Hi Everyone!

Let me wish you all a very Merry Christmas/Silly Season! I cannot believe we are already into December - time truly has flown by!

News

At the end of November we added a new staff member to our Peppermint Stitches family - Marjorie Poole. Some of you may remember her from when she owned a cross stitch store in Toowong, or when she worked at the Quilters and Embroiderer’s Store. She has extensive knowledge in needlecraft and patchwork so we are very grateful to her for joining our team!

Two weeks ago we renovated the fabric room. We removed the tables and boxes of fabric from the center of the room, and put in proper shelving for the fabric! It looks fabulous, the fabric is displayed in a much friendlier way!

Christmas Trading Hours - we will be closing the store on the 24th December at 1pm, and will re-open on Monday 4th of January.

We are currently not updating our online store. A new store is being prepared to go live in late January, if you are after new stock that is not listed on the website (which is most of the store- eek!) please contact us via email or phone.

Christmas Gift Guide - Stacey’s Top 5 Christmas Gifts for 2009

5. Gift vouchers - the guaranteed way to get what you want! Our gift vouchers start at $5.00 and are valid for two years.

4. Kaffe Fasset’s new book Quilt Romance - Beautiful quilt patterns made from his stunning 2008 and 2009 fabric lines. Includes a pattern from an Australian applique designer Kim McLean.

$54

. Rouenneries Layer Cake - One of our best-selling fabric lines of the year!

$77

2. Gingher Scissors - My personal favourites. We are currently stocking the 2009-2010 series. Worth every cent!

$62.20

1. Moda Bakeshop’s Sampler Box. 2 1/2″ squares from all of Moda’s Autumn 2009 Collections (due into the store early next year). There are a lot of beautiful fabrics in all different styles to drool over! A great way to buy a little of everything!

$57.20

Sale Items

It’s certainly not too late to start your Christmas craft, if it’s not done for 2009 - you can have it finished for 2010…!!

So, for the month of December all Christmas fabric is 25% off!!

Coming in 2010

* New Classes

* Lots of new fabric - we are expecting into the store early next year from Moda; Whimsey, Plume, Freebird, Verna amongst many!

* For our cross stitchers we are running a 2010 Ornament of the Month club from Little House Needleworks. The first two designs are pictured below. Contact us for more details on the club.

* New and Improved website - with ALL our stock on the website!

Final Notes

I want to thank all my loyal customers for your business during 2009. We appreciate every one of you! So I hope you all have a fantastic festive season, and will look forward to seeing you all soon!

Happy Stitching!

Stacey

Just a brief update to let people know that we will be open on the Ekka show day, Wednesday 12th August from 10am to 2pm.

We have a class running on the show holiday as well, it is a basic Machine Applique class from 10am to 1pm with Fiona, so if you are interested please email or call us as there are still a couple of spots still available for this fantastic class.

And some good news for our online shoppers, the Secure Socket Layer is back up and running and it is now safe to place orders with credit cards on the secure site. Thank you to all who have patiently waited, and emailed us to let us know the SSL was down.

Stacey

This is just a quick update to all Peppermint Stitches customers that we are changing our shop hours as of Monday, 3rd August. We are pleased to annouce that we will be extending trading to include Mondays!

The new shop days and hours are now:

Monday 10am - 5pm

Tuesday 10am - 5pm

Wednesday 10am -5pm

Thursday 10am - 5pm

Friday 10am - 5pm

Saturday 10am - 4pm

Also, you may have noticed the website has undergone a makeover! We are still in the transition phase, and a couple of links are broken. I am working on fixing them, as well as implementing a new shopping cart to include patchwork fabrics and wool with the cross stitch supplies. We are also having issues with our SSL layer, and I am working with my wonderful web tech guy to correct this issue. If you are wanting to order stock please email us the orders and we will process them manually.

Lastly, we are starting to put out all the new Christmas fabric. There are some lovely ranges, so if you intend to start any Christmas projects you may want to come in soon, as - dare I say it - Christmas isn’t that far away!!

Happy Stitching!

Stacey