Darren's cooking Dinner on Thursday! (oh, and shop news lol)
Hello Beautiful Golden Anchor Quilting Community!
YouTube Live Tuesday: Click HERE to join us live! The link will still work later, but the prize drawing is only for folks who watch live.
Shop Update
We have finally had some of those wonderful crisp fall mornings! Some of our community members have even mentioned seeing some white stuff falling from the sky at their homes in the morning! As winter approaches, we are really enjoying getting to see more of our community coming back inside to quilt, sew, and embroider again! We’ve been working hard to build a robust class and event calendar to keep the excitement rolling!
New Shop Hours Started November 1
Monday - Closed
Tuesday - Friday 10:00am-5:00pm
(you can always call ahead if you need us to stay a little bit later one day!)
Saturday - Sunday 11:00am-4:00pm
For planning ahead, we have a family gathering on
Sunday, December 1, and the shop will be closed.
We are continuing our search for guest instructors! If you have a project you love to make, and have an inclination to share the fun with others, reach out and let us know what you would like to teach! We enjoy other kinds of crafts in the classroom too! We would love to chat about how we can incorporate your talents into our community!
Now for this week at the shop!
Tuesday:
November 5 is National Donut Day We are keeping this one simple! Donuts are Darren’s favorite! Come in to see us on Tuesday, and enjoy a donut with your purchase!
We have heard you ask for more embroidery classes! Come have fun making up to 4 towels in our Pumpkin Machine Applique Towel classes! This class is offered twice in November, Tuesday 11/5 @ 2:00pm or Friday 11/15 @ 2:00pm. You bring the towels and fabric you think will make a cute pumpkin, we supply the rest! This is a great introduction to machine applique! If you’d like to learn on your own machine, call to let us know what brand you have to make sure it will work with this design and pattern! Otherwise, we have Luminaires in the classroom for your enjoyment!
Join us live for our weekly YouTube broadcast at 6:00pm! This week we will share shop news, upcoming classes, a quilt of the week, draw our weekly $10 gift card winner for folks who paid with cash or check, teach you how to make a 20 minute catch all caddy, and draw a winner for the sample we sew on this week’s broadcast. Click HERE to join us live, or watch later if you happen to miss the live!
Wednesday:
November 6 is National Stress Awareness Day, we are celebrating by reminding everyone that there is a whole body of research showing that quilting and other crafts are incredible stress relievers, wonderful for our mental health, and great at fending off dementia and other cognitive decline! Stop by for your dose of stress relief, and enjoy a treat from the golden basket!
Wednesday is also All Inclusive Learn to Quilt Week 2! This week our new quilters will learn about color theory, fabric selection, pattern scale, and how to play with color values and depth in designing quilts! This group of 5 ladies is so much fun!!! We can’t wait to see how their quilts turn out! Watch on Facebook for pictures of the bundles they choose for their quilts!
Thursday:
November 7 is National Men Make Dinner Day! Darren is actually a pretty great cook! Let’s celebrate by handing the kitchen over to the men! This Thursday is an open sew day, and we will stay late and Darren will feed us all his wonderful Zuppa Tuscana! There is a separate registration for our dinner sewing time on our website! You can come all day 10:00am-8:00pm, or just until 5, or just after 5!
Thursday is also Open Sew Day! We have up to 8 spots for sewing in the classroom on open sew days! These days are designed for us to work on projects of our own choosing, in a social setting, with use of classroom tools and thread! We have enjoyed watching the friendships that have developed in open sew days! Sometimes we have potluck lunches, or order out together! It’s just $10 to come when you bring your own machine, and $15 to rent one of our machines for sewing or $25 to rent a machine for embroidery.
Friday:
November 8 is International Radiology Day! Did you know we have an Ambas-SEW-dor at the shop who was an x-ray tech for many years? Stop by on Friday to celebrate her, and enjoy 15% off black, gray, and white fabrics! (or any fabric you can convince us looks like an x-ray LOL)
Come make a Tippy Tote with us! Friday, November 8, or Saturday, November 9! This is part of our Sassy Sunflower Half-Pack-Quilt program.
Saturday:
November 9 marks the end of National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week! We have ties to some of our local animal shelters, and highly value what they do for the animals they rescue, and the community around us! Share your rescue story with us, or share a local animal shelter you’d like us to partner with, and enjoy a treat from the golden basket!
Come make a Tippy Tote with us! Friday, November 8, or Saturday, November 9! This is part of our Sassy Sunflower Half-Pack-Quilt program.
Sunday:
November 10 is International Tongue Twister Day! Let’s celebrate by sharing tongue twisters! If you bring one to the shop on Sunday, you can enjoy 10% off your purchase!
This is also the second day of the Scrappy flying geese doll quilt series! Our students made their first flying geese last week, this week we start with the actual fabrics for the project! We will share photos when they are all done!
Now that you know what’s up this week, we want to help you look a little further out in your calendars and see what you will enjoy!
Our monthly pillow case classes continue to help folks learn the love of sewing, with a fun and easy beginner project! They are also a fun time for experienced sewists who just want some social sewing time! In November we Sunday November 24th at 10:30am! These classes are a great “bring a buddy” option if you have someone in your life who you have been wanting to introduce to sewing! We have had students as young as 7, and even some with English as a second language! We have brought folks from never using a sewing machine before to a beautiful pillow case in three hours! It’s SEW much fun! We have a pattern that works with regular yardage, double border prints, or panels! Class is just $15, and materials are typically less than $20! We also offer the pillow case class as a birthday party or private event, call or email for details and to book your gathering today!
The Twelve months of gifts class for November is on Thursday November 14 at 10:30 and 4:30! These classes each have a stand alone project that is completed before you leave the shop! These projects are designed to be beginner friendly, easy to make, and something you can make more of as gifts throughout the year, or in preparation for the big holiday season! This month we are going to play with some machine embroidery In-The-Hoop projects! We think we can get 3 of them done in the class! Class is $25, and includes the stabilizers for machine embroidery, and use of our machines. We will have more information about fabric requirements once we finalize our three items, but typically materials are less than $20!
Our First Annual Holiday Ornament swap is December 7th for the swap and some festive refreshments! We currently have 10 folks registered, and would love to include more! Registration will close on November 16 so we can give everyone a final head count in time to make ornaments! In case you don’t know what this is, each participant makes several of one kind of holiday ornament, and brings them to the party. Then each participant gets an ornament from each other participant. If there are 24 people participating, you come in with 24 of your ornament, and leave with 24 different ornaments made by other folks at the party! We will cap the event at 24 participants, so that it doesn’t get too overwhelming! We had a request to make virtual participation an option, and we are happy to offer this! If you can’t make it in person to the swap, just register, ship your ornaments to us before December 3, and after the swap we will ship you your newly crafted ornaments from other participants! We will figure out a way to have a zoom link to join in the fun too! (The only thing we can’t zoom are the cookies and refreshments lol)
We continue to be enchanted with this amazing community and all the beauty that is created in and around us!
Thank you for your ongoing support! We look forward to your next visit, and hope you can join us LIVE on Tuesday at 6:00pm!
In Stitches,
Louisa, Darren, and the Crew at Golden Anchor Quilting Where Community is the fabric of our dreams!
Golden Anchor Quilting
367 Washington Street Suite 6
Claremont, NH 03743
603-543-3311
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