The new year has come and January flew by.  Hopefully you have been sewing on these cold days and out on the nice days! I have grand plans… to use up my scraps this year. I have saved multiple pictures of other peoples scrap quilts and started organizing my scraps.  There are many sites out there online that will help you determine the best way to use your scraps.  Sorting them into large pieces, into precut sizes, into strips or into crumbs.  (this is what I am in the process of doing.) I recently had a group of local 4H girls in the store and we used a small portion of my strips to make a quilt as you go “fanny pack”.  My purpose was to get them to understand right sided together and to sew straight and to see how long a piece needed to be to fit the space when doing a quilt as you go.  If you see our post on Facebook you will see they did pretty well.  I was happy that they seemed to understand the process. 

In planning to scrapbust… You need to have some organization or plan for your scraps.. I have been reading from several bloggers..  I liked what I found from stringandstory.com

Destashing doesn't have to mean getting rid of fabric. Destashing means taking the fabrics that have exceeded their "shelf life" and giving them a job. Make some quick and easy projects. For example, pillowcases are useful for storing and transporting quilts as well as for sleeping or organizing the linen closet (store a set of sheets or towels inside a pillowcase so that all the pieces stay together and stack neatly on the shelf), and they use up over a yard of fabric! Make practice sandwiches for free motion quilting. Two fat quarters and a bit of batting makes a perfect practice size. Make backings.  Hope this helps you use up some of your “Stash”.

Our Winter Hours are:  M-F 9-4, Sat 10-3. If you need us to stay later or are on your way and realize it's close to closing time, just give us a call. We will try to accommodate you. We will spring back to our regular hours when daylight savings time approaches in the spring.  

Charm Club: 

Charm Club meets  the second Tuesday of Each month. Feb 11th  is our next meeting.   If you watch us online, you can get 20% off one time purchase the week of the club. Code is told during the FB Live.  See new fabrics; We will have a free project for the month.  Check us out on Facebook. “Anderson Fabrics Outlet and Quilt Shop”.  Come and join the fun.

Some New Fabrics: 

New fabrics are starting to come in. We just received:

 Moda’s new Songbook line called “Things Above”

New Batiks from Island Batik

Hoffman’s "Nature Woven" - Earth

Some New Kits:  

Wilder by Hoffman Fabrics                       Winter Jays/Westerland Quilt Kit            Space Dye Mini Brick Runner

             Botanical Quilt by In the Beginning fabrics

Mark your Calendars for April/ May.  The All Minnesota Shop Hop is just around the corner.  Fabrics & magazines should be coming the middle of this month.  This is the shop hop to follow on Facebook as they work hard to get prizes and give out prizes to those who follow them on facebook.  You can win prizes by going to just a few regions. Check them out on their website : https://minnesotashophop.com/

From Our Customers: I was at your quilt shop on August 21, 2024, while on vacation at Dunrovin Resort in Hines, MN.  I fell in love with a wall hanging in your store.  Clare explained that it was completed by using the One-Block Wonder technique.  She explained how to cut and assemble it, so I purchased 7 panels and went home to try this new project. It’s been 4 months and I finally completed my 1st One-Block Wonder lap quilt and wanted to send you a pic.  It’s not perfect but I learned so much. Thank you, Clare, for taking the time to explain something new to a new quilter.  Jeannie Grauel, Cleveland, MO

Earlier this summer I was in and you helped me with fabric and a pattern choice for a wedding quilt. Well we had not measured the panel I chose before we decided on a pattern. So I used all the fabric , same panel but different pattern and I had promised you a picture so here it is. Thank you so very much for all your help!!!   Caroline

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Sales: 

Feb 10 - 15      Cuddle Fabric 20 % off

Feb 17- 22       Wideback fabric 20% off

Feb 24- Mar 1   Quilt room sale 15% off

March 3-8th      Batiks 20% off

March 4th         Fat Tuesday Sale Precut Fat Quarters $1

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