News & Announcements
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)!
December 4 (Sunday), 12 pm - 5 pm
Marc and Jensi are pleased to again host the Community Holiday Gift Wrapping Party! We will have paper, ribbon, tape, and bows on-hand for you to package up your holiday presents and gifts. Come enjoy hot cider, great company, and fun wrapping!
The holiday gift wrapping party is FREE! Donations will be accepted for Our Neighbor’s Table. We will accept money, non-perishable foods, and toiletries to be distributed to local people in need.
Please note that responsible, well-supervised children are invited to attend this event.
Point Shore neighbors: give a call if you would like a ride to the studio! Marc will pick you and your presents up to help reduce the parking at our building. Our phone is 978-388-8000. See you there!
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.
A women’s group from Main Street Congregational Church (MSCC) in Amesbury MA is happy to announce their first “Supporting Women in Wellness and the Arts Fair” to be held Saturday, October 24, 2009.
They are inviting all vendors selling arts and crafts as well as those with products or services relating to wellness to participate in this event. They are looking for vendors related to:
- Wellness - such as yoga, massage, essential oils - sharing a service or product
- Education - local services for women such as Jeannie Geiger Crisis Center, breast cancer awareness, child oriented services such as Amesbury Parent Coop
- Arts and crafts - such as handcrafted pottery, jewelry, textiles, soaps
- Spiritual - music (live or recorded), poetry or book readings
The fair will run from 10am - 2pm on Saturday, October 24, 2009 in the Parish House, Fellowship Hall and sanctuary.
There will be a $20 charge for a space + a donation of one item from each vendor, such as a gift certificate for a service or a piece of art/craft work. This will help create a basket or two for a raffle. The purpose of this fair is to raise money for missions work at MSCC and to support women’s art and wellness in general. Publicity will begin in August and will be conducted via local newspapers, cable TV, flyers and the church website.
Vendor application forms will be available from their website as well as by emailing Jane Ansaldo Church at j.ansaldo@comcast.net or Nancy Frick at nancy.frick@verizon.net. They reserve the right to accept or deny registrants so as to offer a well rounded fair. First come, first served! Applications will be accepted up until Friday October 9, 2009.
If you have any questions, you may call Jane at 603 929 4919 or Nancy at 978 388 6833. They look forward to having you join us at this exciting service-to-women fair!
