Placemat Palooza for Meals on Wheels

This is our annual drive to make and collect placemats to go out to seniors and shut-ins served by the Meals on Wheels program. The placemats we collect are delivered by MOW Drivers with clients' Holiday Meal in December. Our goal is to collect 500, so we need everyone's help!

This year, we're doing things just a little different, holding our placemat sewing days in our own classroom! Also this year, we will teach a different pattern or technique on each date. The class is free to all who register in advance and donate two or more placemats to our Meals on Wheels cause. Why not come and learn a new technique that you can later use to make gifts of your own? Join us on September 7 and/or Sept 23. Click here to sign up or call 231-922-6766. The room will be open 11am to 4pm.

We provide fabrics (fabrics donated by anyone wishing to help, or wanting just to clean up their stash!) Bringing your own fabric is fine as well. We also provide flannel as a replacement for batting, because we are asked to make the Meals on Wheels placemats thin. Bring a dish to pass if you want to participate in a pot luck lunch, or simply bring your own lunch.

Other ways to help: Get together with friends to make placemats; enlist the help of your guild; Clean out your stash and donate fabric.
We will be accepting donated placemats until early December.

Calendar

Aug 23

UFO with Jean

Bring your unfinished projects and Jean will help you with any problems you have with it or just come and sew with us.

Aug 24

Landscape Art Quilt Class

You can make an art quilt that truly is a work of art!

Aug 26

Beginner Quilting Finishing & Binding

Once you have made a quilt top, you'll need to learn how to finish it into a quilt! This class is recommended for all who complete the Beginner Quilt Top Class and anyone who would like to learn basic machine quilting and binding.

Aug 27
Lucky Penny Wallet

Aug 29
Bee Creative

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Monthly Stitch Clubs		Fabric of the Day
Our new Meadowbrook Acres Wool Stitch Club is now meeting monthly on the first Wednesday of the month at 11 am. Starting in September we will be adding a 2pm session. It's not too late to join this fun group - beginners are welcome! Sign up now, on our Classes Page Hand Embroidery Club: If you enjoy the art of hand embroidery, or want to learn to embroider by hand, this group is for you! Each month, we come together to learn and practice new stitches and work on a small project, designed especially for this group. Finish them as small individual projects, or combine them into one larger piece. Pattern and prepared background fabric is included! Meets monthly, with Thursday and Saturday options. Sign up now, on our Classes Page Our Penny Gathering Wool Stitch Club begins a new project each January and meets monthly, with one session offered on a Thursday and another session offered on a Saturday. This group works on a different 6 inch block each month. The Woolies Flannel background and the wool is included. Choose light background and traditional colored wool, or dark background with bright colored wool. Coming Soon: UFO for Hand Stitchers		Each day, we feature a different fabric as our "Fabric of the Day" and offer it at a super special one-day-only price of just $5 per yard! First come, first served, and when it's gone it's gone! Minimum cut is one yard. Fabric of the Day is sold in-store only, no phone or internet orders. It's a fantastic chance to purchase a quilt back! Our Fabric of the Day will be posted each morning on our Facebook page, so make sure to "Like" us on Facebook!

Teach-Me-Tuesday September 10

Mitered Borders

Teach-Me-Tuesday is our FREE class on the second Tuesday of the month. Our mission is to present a variety of techniques and good, basic information helpful to quilters of all experience levels. The topic changes each month. No equipment or supplies needed. Bring a pencil, because you'll want to take notes! Bring a show-n-tell and receive 10% off your purchases for the remainder of the day!

Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event. To reserve your seat for this free event, please go to our classes page and sign up. This class will cancel if fewer than 3 people have signed up by the day prior.