This Week At The Shop August 19-25
Hello Beautiful Golden Anchor Quilting Community!
We have been making some big changes at the shop, moving things around to get a better flow, and more visual space for sharing inspiration with our community! Come check it out and let us know what you think of our new look!
Our other big news is that we posted our video to the Jaftex Video Challenge! The more views we get, the better chance we have of winning prizes! The prizes will help us bring more wonderful fabrics to all of you! Please check the video out on Facebook at: HERE The video challenge introduces our shop and some of the things we enjoy most, and leads up to the #ScottSentMe2024 program. This program encourages sewists, quilters, and creative folks of all types to visit quilt shops across the world! By getting a photo of you at the shop, and/or with the owner, you can enter so win prizes! You can explore the #ScottSentMe2024 challenge! We will be a participating shop!
Monday:
Monday is National Potato day! To celebrate, we have shared a pattern for making a microwave potato bag from Make It Simple on our Facebook Page! Although we are closed on Monday, we will be at the shop this week getting ready for the upcoming All New England Shop Hop! The hop starts September 1, and we are busy cutting more fat quarters, making more kits, creating more Half-Pack quilt bundles, and making room for the shop hop fabrics!
We have a few more sample quilts we would love to have done for the shop hop, so if you have time in your quilting queue, stop by and see if any of the samples we need inspires you!
Tuesday:
Tuesday is OPEN SEW! Come work on a project of your choosing, meet an old friend and stitch together, or make new friends! 10:00am-5:00pm! You can bring your own machine, or rent one of ours. $15 for sewing and $25 for embroidery!
Tuesday is also our YouTube LIVE day! We go live at 6:00pm and share shop news, upcoming classes, and a quick project tutorial. We have a drawing from folks who watch live for the sample we sew on air, and have brought back the “quilt of the week” too! This week we have a special guest! Sharon Miller-Dombroski will be joining us for part of the show to help us decide which charitable organization to support as a community this fall! Click HERE to join us!
Tuesday is national Bacon Lovers Day! We found a pattern for a quilt block of bacon and eggs from a lovely Etsy seller! Check it out HERE
Wednesday:
Wednesday is the first of two Never Give Up Days! Join us from 10:00am-5:00pm to work on a project or projects that you have put in time out! You know the ones…..you started it, and then it got boring, or frustrating, or you had ripped out one too many seams! Then you put it in the back somewhere and try to forget about it! Break them out this week! Come work on them together! We can cheer one another on, and make progress, and NEVER GIVE UP! We are also offering this opportunity on Saturday 8/24! Register HERE
Wenesday is National Senior Citizens Day! Stop by the shop to enjoy a 10% senior citizen discount!
Thursday:
Thursday is Tooth Fairy Day! We are hunting for our favorite tooth fairy pillow patterns to share! If you have one you love, please share it on our facebook page! HERE
Friday:
Friday is Hug Your Sweetheart Day! You may know that we are all about hugs at Golden Anchor! We believe we should hug way more people than just our sweethearts! Hugs are so very good for mental health and well being! To celebrate this day we found a pattern for post-operative patients to “hug” to help brace their chest and belly while they recover from surgery! Join us to make one of these pillows for someone you know with upcoming surgery, or to donate to local hospitals! Register HERE
Saturday:
Saturday is National Waffle Day! Maybe we should all have waffles for breakfast? In the sewing world, we like how a pin tuck pillow cover looks like a waffle! We found a tutorial to share with you in celebration of Waffle Day!
Saturday is also our second Never Give Up Day! Join us from 11:00am-4:00pm and work on a project you may have given up on before!
Sunday:
Sunday is Kiss and Make Up Day! We have some fun In-The-Hoop makeup wipes we will be demonstrating at the shop on Sunday! It’s also a great reminder to let things go, and forgive, and move on!
We love when you come to see us! Stop in to see the new fabrics arriving, the new kits being cut, and the new look at the shop this week!
In Stitches,
Louisa, Darren, and the crew at Golden Anchor Quilting