Ivy News!

Hi Everyone….this email is FULL of all sorts of great stuff happening at Ivy Thimble!
Friday, November 26 & Saturday, November 27...25% OFF STOREWIDE (excluding sale items)...last chance to get holiday fabrics on SALE!!!

Some wonderful NEW lines have arrived just in time!
Dr Seuss is HERE finally! Everyone has to have it!
Jo Morton’s latest Embers & Evergreens is here…
a great line for your latest Civil War project.
Wildflowers by Blackbird Designs arrived…very pretty
stop in this weekend to check it ALL out!

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Ivy Thimble’s Holiday Open House
Wednesday, December 1
We will be hosting the open house throughout the day.
Come and go as your schedule allows.
We have a wide assortment of ideas and demonstrations to help get your creative juices flowing for the holiday season.
We will also have kits available for you to purchase so you will be able to go home that day and make that special little gift for that someone special.

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Ivy’s Gift Boutique is OPEN!
We are full of completed gift items next door.
You’ll find a wide assortment of quilts, bags, tablerunners,
aprons and store samples available for you to purchase for your holiday gift list.

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For the 2010 Holiday Season Ivy’s Giving Back Event we have decided to work with the Ontario County Literacy Program. We are all excited to be able to help this organization out. Beginning this week we will accept books for children up to the age of 12 or a monetary donation towards the purchase of books. We will accept these donations until Dec.17. Our donation will be given to the Community Reading Partnership that is part of the county’s literacy program. Their program, “Little Red Bookshelf” places books on many ‘red bookshelves’ free for families to select and keep throughout the county.
A few places you might see these ‘red bookshelves – banks, pediatrician’s offices or laundromats. Many places the little ones are with their moms or dads waiting…where having a good book to read would make life a little nicer. In years past you have all been so generous in helping us with the local food cupboards or when we’ve had events for Safe Journey. It is our hope that you once again would like to join in with us helping children learn to read…something so very important in their lives.

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Be sure to check our website and calendar daily…I have begun to add NEW classes for 2011. Joanne has a couple of small block of the month programs starting in January – 6months each. We are doing a ‘tea towel’ each month - helping you learn applique with a small project and having something finished right in class! How nice is that! Cindy is working on some monthly jacket classes, a block of the month program with the This & That pattern company and she’s also having a class out of Kim Diehl’s book Simple Traditions. Don’t forget along with Cindy having her non-stop beginner class she also follows up with a Beginner “GRAD” class…ANY of us could take and brush up on our basic quilting skills. Her next class is out of the book, “Six Halves Make a Whole”…GREAT BOOK! Barb is continuing her monthly Breakfast get togethers (YUM!) … check her projects, always something fun. Please remember if there is ever a technique or a pattern/book you’d like us to have a class on let me know…we’d be glad to do it!

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Because of Thanksgiving this week we will NOT be having “OPEN SEW” on Friday…BUT if any of you would like to join us on SATURDAY to do something just for YOU….spend the day sewing at Ivy call the shop…we have a few spaces open.
I will be posting a few “open sew” days in December shortly…
keep your eye on the calendar and call to sign up. Space is LIMITED!

Think this is it girls! I know I got a little long-winded, there’s just so much to tell you about!
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving…enjoy your day however you spend it…with family and friends or quilting…it’s a day for all of us to enjoy and be thankful all the friendships quilting has brought us.
I know everyone at Ivy Thimble is thankful to ALL of YOU…
we have been blessed by so many friends we’ve made these last years…
we thank each and every ONE of you….

Hope to see you THIS WEEKEND for OUR HOLIDAY SALE!