a contemporary quilting boutique designed to tingle your heart and inspire your creative soul
and the winners are...
and receive 50% off everything red in the store. this one day only 2.4.11 we have many fabrics and notions to choose from. do it for your daughter, your sister, your mother, your grandmother. do it for you. 
free pouch of coffee with your purchase of anything java. we have the entire collection of deb strain's java in the house, including pre-cuts. all yardage is $8.00 per yard. charm packs are also $8.00. jelly rolls and layer cakes are $30.00. hurry though, the pre-cuts are going fast.
the fabric gates opened. and time stood still. or rather it blurred in a state of frenzy. by about 4:50 i was about done. my arms, my legs, even my brain were yelling stop, stop, please stop. yet not to fear, my higher power was watching over me knowing just what i needed and a knight in shining armor, or in this case a brown hoodie, arrived for my rescue...
"joyce (i melt when he says my name) how are you going to get out? wait, i'm coming in..."
meet ammon one of my favorite customers. ammon and james, who i must get a photo of the next time he comes in. adorable, be still my heart little boys, who love to come to the quilt shop. such a great way to close out 2010. 
i thank you. words truly can't articulate how much we appreciate the support of our customers. 
thank you so much. thank you for your friendship. thank you for giving us a chance and thank you for supporting our first year end clearance sale. according to the register tape at closing, we sold 1,331 yards of fabric this week. amazing. simply amazing. wishing you a fun and festive new year's. see you in 2011.
yesterday we sold over 200 yards of fabric so it is going quickly. come in today for best selection.
50% off anything and everything 
You asked and we listened.
All things Halloween will be 50% off our already low prices. That means Haunted Mansion by Sanae for Moda, Halloween Night by Minick and Simpson for Moda and Boo to You by My Mind's Eye for Riley Blake will be just $4.00 per yard. All patterns with a Halloween Theme too. And all orange, black and purple rick rack, pom-poms and buttons also will be 50%. Hurry. Hurry. Stock is limited to what is on hand and sale prices do not apply to previous purchases. We will not be able to stamp frequent buyer cards during this event. 
Sarah and Sari have been working very hard to have treat bags ready for our first Charity Event.
The Charity Table includes:
we have created a display in the front room with 12 days of christmas, kate's christmas collection. it is so charming. we have already been cutting lots of it this week.
when i opened the newspaper last evening and spotted our first ad, i was overcome with pride really. we truly did it. a dream come true. thank you so much to everyone for supporting us. i will write more about the grand opening week soon. 
i started by taking two close up photos.
one of each side. i then printed them on one piece of paper and slipped it into a page protector.
then i brought in empty copy paper boxes. i put the items i would need first in two of the boxes and marked them 1 and 2. it all fit very nicely into seven boxes. i kept the bolts of fabric in the tub as they were and left the two pieces of grid wall anchored together. the load in for this expo is very quick, so you need to be extra prepared. the pictures proved incredibly helpful so the display went up in an easy thirty minutes.
our location was awesome. we were directly opposite the entry doors with nothing blocking us. we also had the sunshine behind us during the afternoon. i loved how you could see the design of cross-pollination behind our sign during that time. the colors of frolic created such an eye catching display. we had so many comments about that.
once the sun set, the lights around the top of the display were just the perfect touch to make us stand out from the crowd. sarah gets all the credit for spotting those in the store. 
...yet somehow seeing owlivia sitting up there where she was placed in my original sketch, makes all the stress and worry disappear. to be replaced by the excitement of showing your friends what you've got. for me, this will be a dream come true. presenting our little shop to the world...well my little world on the eastside of cleveland. i will be among friends and colleagues, many who i've known for several years. yet this will be the first time my name tag reads jellen's house of fabric. it will also be the very first time that sarah will be by my side, not as my daughter, rather as my business partner. that in itself is worth all the time invested.
this weekend it will get moved upstairs for a trial run of the complete setup. i am excited to see the backdrop which the quilts will be hanging from. we even have some fun lights that will give us some cool illumination.
it is very endearing that our shop will be directly below his medical billing business. it is also quite convenient that i have been able to have our deliveries already going to our soon to be address since he is already there. today some signs arrived and i asked him to hold it up so i could take a picture. pretty sneaky of me i know. i bet you will see him in the store more often than he is letting on right now. i think he is sorta diggin' it. thanks honey. i love you.
