News & Announcements
First Friday of every month, 6 pm - midnight
Quilt ‘Til You Wilt!
Ann Cummings
Starting in September, use your scraps and those available at CQ to create one of the most popular quilt patterns ever, the log cabin. Ann Cummings will show you how to chain-piece multiple blocks at a time. You will be surprised at how many you can make in one sitting. Before you know it, you will have enough blocks for whatever size quilt you want to make! With so many fabulous layouts you will never get tired of making log cabin blocks. Ann will also share tips on how to make two-color and controlled-scrappy log cabin quilts. Read more >
August 28 (Saturday), 10 am - 3 pm
Carol Entin
Creating pastepapers is akin to sophisticated finger painting for grownups. Carol will show you various techniques to make absolutely gorgeous colorwashes and elegant designs on quality paper. Come and rediscover your inner kindergartener! Every piece of paper is attractive, no matter what you do!
To create our pastepapers, we will use a cooked paste to which acrylic paints are added. The thick colored paste is brushed onto wet paper and textured using anything for a tool - hands, spatulas, banana peels, combs, sponges, sneaker tread - anything goes! We will also use Carol’s collection of textured rollers specifically designed to create beautiful repeating patterns.
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June 5, 2010 - 8:30am to …
Hostess: Sue Coppinger
Note: This trip is limited to CQ Studio Members and Oh, Scrap! Club Members. Please give us a call to learn more about membership in one or both of these fabulous clubs!
CQ Member Sue Coppinger is a Rhode Island native and has generously offered to caravan with interested folks to fabric mill stores in her old stompin’ grounds! You will be able to shop at three fabric mills in Southern MA and Northern RI:
You must RSVP to Crafters Quarters by Friday, June 4th. Please let us know if you would rather be a passenger or a driver (and how many people you can take with you). 978-388-8000
This is a FREE Member-to-Member event. We only ask that you contribute something to your driver for taking you down to Rhode Island. 
Wednesday May 26, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Bring your scissors and shears to the studio and have our repair expert Carmen Morreale sharpen them up! He even smooths out pin-nicks!
- Regular shears: $10
- Knife-edge shears & left-handed shears: $12
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Pinking shears: $15
Although we welcome drop-ins, it would be helpful if Carmen knows about how many shears to expect that night. So, please, give us a call at 978-388-8000 if you know you will be bringing by something for him to sharpen. Thanks!
Now through February 14th!
Any item with either PINK or RED on it — anywhere on the packaging or in the fabric — is now 10% off!
This particular discount is additive so, if you are a member, the item is 20% off (including your member discount)!
Oh my goodness — look at these!
During the Topsfield Fair we met a wonderful woman — Gail — with 3 heirloom machines — all owned and passed within one family. She will soon be moving to a small place, though, and can’t take them with her! Gail wants to make sure they go to loving homes with people that respect just how beautiful the machines are. Take a peek at the detail work and how well kept these lovelies are…
Interested? Just write to Gail to learn more: gshphd@verizon.net. She has priced these similarly to those that have sold through eBay, but you don’t have to pay for shipping.
(Crafters Quarters is not taking any commission from these sales, we’d just like to see someone love these machines with the care they’re used to getting from their former family.)
1952 Singer Featherweight 221-1
(yes you read that correctly — an adorable, working Featherweight!)
Serial number AL011325 — in working order with case, attachments, and manual. Heirloom owned by one family. Asking $350.
1928 Singer 66-6 electric
Serial number AC021052 — in working order in cabinet with attachments and manual. Heirloom owned by one family. Asking $250.
1900 Singer Antique Treadle model #27
Serial number N466772 — 5 drawer oak cabinet. Heirloom owned by one family. Asking $200.
Crafters Quarters member Denise Coulson won a first place blue ribbon for her beautiful quilt at this year’s Topsfield Fair. After designing and piecing the quilt, Denise consulted with Georgette Gagne at Black Wolf Quilting studio on the quilting design and had her quilt it. Congratulations, Denise! You make us proud.
Besides quilting, Denise’s other interests include riding her motorcycle, taking beautiful professional-grade photographs, and dressing up in vintage clothes, like the 1933 wedding dress she’s wearing in the picture below.
We welcomed members of the Essex County Needlecraft Guild (ECNG) to Crafters Quarters today as part of the ECNG’s mystery trip to Amesbury. While here, guild members assembled and sewed 50 very cute chemo supply bags to donate to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. 
The whole chemo supply bag idea started when cancer survivor Sara Gallet was ending her treatment and was given her chemo supplies in a wadded up paper bag. Gallet said that she felt like that bag–and didn’t want anyone else to feel that way. So she went to Zimman’s to shop for fabric to make her own bags to donate. Word about the bags got around to Kristin Hunter at ECNG and the guild decided to pitch in. And we are so glad that they did because we got to meet them and they are wonderful and we hope they come back soon. (Especially since they shared their lunch and candy with us!) 
Also! ECNG welcomes new members. If you are interested in attending a meeting, please email Kristin Hunter at the following address: kristinhunter@comcast.net .
We have been lucky indeed to have renowned artist and FAU professor Janet Siegel Rogers in the studio this week, wowing new and returning students with her Experiments in Color classes.
Participants have reported seeing the world around them in an entirely mind-blowing way with their newly-acquired color sensitivity and awareness. . . to the point where they’ve had to pull over while driving so they can see what all of those colors on the side of the road are doing to each other! Although we consider this to be the very best kind of rubbernecking, we do advise caution on your way home from this eye-opening class.
