Sierra Sewing Center – Reno, Nevada

Last week I stopped at Sierra Sewing Center in Reno, Nevada, on my way to see my grandchild in California. Ohhh... I felt like a child in the candy store!

They carry over 4,000 bolts of beautiful fabric by major manufacturers, tons of patterns, wool, kits, as well as sewing machines by Pfaff, Viking, Baby Lock, and Artisan (industrial sewing machines). Sierra Sewing Center also offers long arm quilting services. With a second location in Carson City, it



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Category: giveaway, quilt stores

Learning and Sharing plus Giveaway


Geta Grama from Geta's Quilting Studio is hosting a blog hop this week, so we can share with each other tips we learned in our quilting journey. I am always amazed at quilters' willingness to share what they know with one another (why reinvent the wheel, right?).

What is a blog hop without a giveaway?  I have two gifts for a lucky quilter:

Smart sponsor!
$10 Gift Certificate from my favorite online source for fabrics,



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Giveaway Winners

You might remember the giveaway I hosted on my FB page and on the blog to encourage you to sign up for email subscriptions.

Well, I chose the winners over the weekend. I was waiting to tell you the good news until I heard back from them.

One winner was Susan R, who participates in the CPP. You can see her photography on Flickr. She signed up for the email subscription.

Nina M. won for liking the FB page. I have ‘known’ Nina for a long time through a group called the Quilt Mavericks. Nina



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Giveaway Reminder

It might be worth your while to check out my latest book review post and read to the end for special instructions about my giveaway. ;-)

 

Update 5/5/2013: Giveaway closed. Thanks for playing



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Episode 77

Congratulations to LAURA!  She is the lucky listener that won the Quilter’s Newsletter subscription giveaway.  Woot!

Check out some of my coworkers and their sewing handiwork:

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We made a total of 42 pillowcases to benefit ConKerr Cancer.

This is the backpack that I’m making.  In the episode I incorrectly attributed it to Oliver + S.  It is actually Liesl + S, which I think may be an offshoot of



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And The Winner Is …

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The drawing for the little kit to make the hexagon mug rug is done and the winner is Joanne H. of Everyone Deserves a Quilt who left a comment on the April Showers blog hop post on Tuesday!

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Congratulations, Joanne. I have e-mailed you for your address. Soon you’ll have this little kit to make the hexagon mug rug.

There were 164 comments which, after taking out double comments and those from people who didn’t want to be



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Giveaway Winner

We have a winner!

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Thanks to all of those that took part. It seems that, like me, you thought those sewing notions were a good idea. Thanks also to Noble Notions for donating the prizes.

And the winner is ……..

Random Number Generator

 

Well done Lizzie. I will be contacting you for your address details and despatching your goodies to you very soon.

For all those who were not so lucky, I do have another Giveaway coming up very soon. So, do stop by again.



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Sewing Notions Review and Giveaway

I recently received a couple of samples of some sewing notions to review for you on my blog.

I was very excited about the first one.

Needle Recycler

The Sewing Needle Recycler. It may sound a little boring, but I have often worried about disposing of my used sewing needles and trying to come up with a safe way of doing so. Well, Noble Notions have saved me the worry.  This nifty little plastic tube will safely store your old needles until it is full and you are ready to dispose of



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Winners!

The winners for The Giving Quilt paperback book (as chosen by Random Number Generator):

Quilting Babcia
Raewyn from LovetoStitch

The winners of the lapel pins:

Helen
Gill
Joanne
Summerafternoon

Everyone get your addresses to me!!!



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Big Giveaway!!!

the-giving-quiltJennifer Chiaverini’s book, The Giving Quilt (hardback released in October), has come out in paperback!  Click here to see the original review.  I love, love, love this book and I’m pleased to be able to offer a copy of this book to two lucky winners.  Not only that, but 5 more winners will receive a collectable lapel pin. That’s right:  7 winners in all.  So get signed up.  Just leave a comment about one of your



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