​ I have been hitting the “unsubscribe” button a lot this week.  I even unsubscribed to some of my favorite places to shop, like Bombas socks and Taos footwear.  I love both of these products but once and sometimes even twice a day is just too much!  I know everyone is fighting for your dollars and they want to keep the face of their business out in front of you but eventually it just annoys me more than brings me pleasure.
Many quilt shops have a 12 days of Christmas event during this time, where they send you emails and posts on Facebook for 12 days in a row.  I almost feel like it is cruel and unusual punishment to subject you to all of those emails, even though some of the deals are great.  Besides, I think it would be more fun to give away things to you than tempt you with some bargains.  This year our theme has been generosity, so we are going to continue that through the end of the year.  Beginning on December 12th we will post an item on the facebook page each day.  You will have a full 24 hours to respond to the post, then we will randomly choose one of the posts as a winner.  So stay tuned, we promise we will not bombard you with emails, and hopefully you will get a little Christmas gift for yourself!

​Day Three – The tradeshow floor opens at market. This day there is no problem in reaching the 10,000 steps of my daily goal; the place is huge. There are so many vendors that it can be overwhelming to anyone attending market for the very first time.  I have been coming for 16 years, where has the time gone?  With well over 400 vendors and 117 fabric companies, it takes over a day to just get through it. I walked about 75% of it before the doors closed, and I was going very, very, fast.  We will be here two more days but it will take that long to do a thorough walk through. Then Lita, BJ and I get into a final huddle of what we feel is the very best of market to bring home to you.
Kent flew down for just a day to check out long arm quilting machines. It looks like we will be offering the Handi Quilter machines!  He tried every long arm on the floor and found this brand to be by far the smoothest to drive and the best built.  The features are incredible.  If you are in the market for a long arm machine then this is great news, we will be closing out our two Tin Lizzie machines we currently have at a huge discount. Check with Kent if this might interest you.