Saturday @ Fab-Etc...

So, Saturday was the last day of our Spring Cleaning Sale. The day started out with the monthly meeting of the Swallowtail Stitchers - the local chapter of The Applique Society (TAS). Here's a picture of Pat Shaw, who leads the group, and a couple of other members. They meet at Fabric-Etc on the third Saturday of the month. The group has decided to create a quilt to raffle for the local Laurendeau Foundation. Their applique work is stunning on the project - watch for tickets to go on sale!

In the afternoon, Jan taught the second installment of "Wildberry Vines". This is her "girlie quilt". Every one in the class is doing it using different fabric choices - they are all gorgeous! There is both piecing and applique in the quilt. Our Tracey is one of the students in the class, and yesterday (Sunday) was her birthday. So....in between customers and setting up for class, Harriet, Linda and I tried to secretly get ready to do a Fab-Etc celebration for her birthday. We decided it should be a purple theme (to match her cool purple featherweight!) We had purple writing on the cake Jan picked up, purple Hershey kisses, a purple tiara and pinwheel-sceptre! Isn't this a great picture? It was loads of fun!

Well, today it was back to "business as usual". Linda and I started trying to clean up after the sale. We were moving a bit slowly! Got some notions today, but no fabric. In the next week, we will be changing things around in the shop - giving fabrics new homes, just to confuse ourselves! (It's so fun to be vintage.) Will check in soon with any new stuff. Hope your week is FABULOUS, as Tony, my old boss at Fabricland would say!

P.S. I can still see the top of my desk!!!