February 2010 Newsletter

Hello from Boonville and The Village Mercantile.
We're getting lots done here - what about you? We've got a new back room - well, not really, it's just getting cleaned up. Hopefully I'll get through the whole store cleaning and reorganizing. It's amazing what we're finding. 17 years of "collecting" - I refuse to be categorized as a 'hoarder'!!!! Anyway, it won't be nearly as scary for you to go to the restroom in the back, as the mannequin is not staring at you anymore and Steve put in lots more lights!

For those of you who signed up for Civil War Tribute - it's ready. We have the first 3 blocks available to be picked up. You can do 1 at a time or more. Everyone seems to be very pleased with their blocks. I am offering a help session this Saturday at 9:30am (or as soon as we're done with 1st Saturday presentation) for anyone interested. For 1st Saturday attendees, you can pick yours up this Saturday or the following Tuesday.

We're going charm square crazy! We have prepared more charm packs of Evening Mist, plus we've done a pack of Moda neutrals! It seems like we never have enough neutrals when we do some of the patterns. I think these are going to be a great addition to those "Schnibbles" fans out there. We have several of the Schnibble patterns done from Charm squares, and have kits for most of them. We've also just finished making charm packs for Bonnie Blue's designer Paula Barnes' new line called French Quarter. It's a gorgeous new line from Marcus - rich colors with a reproduction flavor. We've put 2 each of 22 fabrics in the packs.

The shop hop this year is being called Vintage Summer, and we will be doing the quilts using Twelve Oaks fabric line from Marcus and Judie Rothermel. Can't wait to see all of the quilts - it's a civil war line. The hop will again be in June. Check the shop for more info.

I'm gearing up for our first show of the year, in just 2 more weeks! This is the one in Hampton, VA, where we got in that huge snowstorm coming home. I'm going to have my camera at the ready this year ----no more passing up good photo ops like trees across the interstate. Hopefully, I'll learn how to upload some pics for you. The first weekend in March, we'll be at the Bloomington show. Those of you who can should really plan to come...it's a great show. Then the 3rd week in March, we're heading to Lancaster, PA. It's the first year for us to do that show, and I'm really excited. AQS took over the show this year. Our booth will be at the Continental Inn - down the road from the convention center. It's always been referred to as 'the renegade show'. Hope lots of our PA customers will stop in and see us there. You can ride the shuttle between the two venues for free with your show admission ticket.

Okay, enough rambling. I'm off to quilt a Mary E Schnibble -- sound like fun??? Come on,,, get Busy! Do Something!

Betty

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