Craftsy Best of 2014 class sale

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Okay, you've been a good girl - you've made all the gifts for your favourite people, you've got 12 different kinds of Christmas goodies in your freezer and your house is decorated from top to bottom - you deserve a treat! How about a Craftsy class at $19.99 or less? Sounds like a great deal to me!








From December 20th all the way through Christmas, Craftsy is having the Best of 2014 Sale! ALL classes are on sale for only $19.99 or less. Shop now to stock up and save.

Once you enroll you'll own your Craftsy classes forever, so you can watch them at your pace in the comfort of your home, anytime. Hurry, offer expires 12/25/14 at 11:59 PM MT. 

Now you can put your feet up with a cup of tea and learn something new. You deserve it!

Note: I am a Craftsy affiliate and will be compensated if you purchase an item through the above links. Thank you!

Black Friday Sales from Craftsy

Hi everyone:

Have you had your fill of turkey and pumpkin pie? Ready to do some Black Friday shopping? Well, you're in luck because Craftsy is having a Black Friday Sale. All of their classes will be on sale for $19.99 or less!

You can treat yourself - or a friend - to one of Craftsy's classes, which will all be on sale for $19.99 or less! Yes, that's right - or less! The class sale starts on Friday, November 28 and runs through Sunday, November 30. 

While this sounds like a great after-Thanksgiving gift for yourself, you might want to consider gifting a class to a creative friend for Christmas. At these prices, you could gift one class and buy one for yourself! 

This is a great time to try out some of the newer quilting classes, such as Playful Textures for Easy Appliqué Quilts with Kim Christopherson and Kris Thurgood or The Secrets of Free-Motion Quilting with Christina Camelli. 

Have fun shopping and happy quilting!

Pre-Black Friday Deals from Craftsy

Hi everyone:

Happy early Thanksgiving to my American friends! While we in Canada will be busily decorating and buying for Christmas this week-end, you will be eating turkey and celebrating Thanksgiving with friends and family. 

If you are considering creating fabric-y gifts for Christmas, you may want to check out Craftsy's Pre-Black Friday Sale on Wednesday and Thursday where you can save on Yarn, Fabric and Kits.  

Shop now because you won’t want to miss these incredible sales! 

Happy quilting and don't eat too much turkey and pumpkin pie!


Please note that I am a Craftsy affiliate and will be compensated if you purchase using one of my affiliate links. Thank you!

Happy Thanksgiving - Celebrate with Craftsy

Hi everyone:

Finally, my favourite time of the year - turkey time! Yes, it's Thanksgiving in Canada and I can hardly wait until Thanksgiving dinner with turkey and all the trimmings. This is going to be a great week-end as my daughter will be joining us from university and it will be great to have her home if only for a few days. 

There's another reason this week-end is special: Craftsy is celebrating the fact that they have over 5 million - yes, that's million with lots of zeroes - members. Wow, that's a lot of crafty people! To celebrate this milestone, they are having a Flash Sale and you can get up to 50% off select online classes for a limited time only!

I've recently signed up for more Craftsy classes: Leah Day's Free Motion Fillers Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 classes. I always find I learn a great deal about free motion quilting by watching Leah Day and like her down to earth approach. She uses a domestic sewing machine - the same Janome machine that I currently have - and has helpful tips to make free motion quilting easier. Of course, there are many other classes on sale this week-end, so browse the classes and save up to 50% off.

Hurry, this offer expires on October 13th, 2014 at 11:59 PM MT. Shop Craftsy's 5 Million Member Flash Sale now and save.

Enjoy your week-end and your Craftsy classes - and don't overdo the pumpkin pie!

Happy quilting!

P.S. I am a Craftsy affiliate and as such will receive monetary compensation if you should purchase an item using the links above. Thanks!

You Can Never Have Enough Fabric, Can You? Part 2

Hi everyone:

If you haven't read my last blogpost, you might want to do so before you read on…

So there I was with my bags stuffed full of fabric, buttons and trims and there were still more rooms and items to look at buy. 

While I wasn't really interested in the yarn - and there were balls and balls of it - I did think it would be worth my while to check out the specialty fabric room. Surprisingly enough, I found a few items that I had to add to my purchases. 

Wooly fabric - perfect for a sheep applique or stuffie

Love the colours in this oriental brocade 

The reverse side is just as beautiful

And there were also quilt stencils, and I picked up a few of these too. I can definitely justify these purchases as I only have two quilt stencils in my studio. Now I have a few more.

Quilt stencils to add to my studio 

I had to pick up just a few more stencils

I had finished the main floor shopping - well, I did go back to the button room to grab a few more bags of buttons - and it was time to go upstairs to the books and patterns area. I couldn't miss out on the books at this sale as they were two for $1.00. 

Such a deal! The only problem was  that it was difficult to get near the quilt books and then I had to  remember if I already had these books in my library! 

With over 400 books in my craft library, I sometimes forget if I own a book. In any event, for the price it didn't really matter if I did buy a duplicate book, which I didn't.

BOM patterns from Indygo Junction

I also picked up a few patterns and a magazine. This issue of Sew Somerset is a few years old, however there are lots of creative sparks in it.

Lots of design inspiration in this issue

By now my bags were full, my arms were sore and I still had to carry everything down the stairs and several blocks to my car. Thankfully, my quilting friend helped me carry my purchases out as I'm not sure that I could've made it on my own. Then it was home and time to sort everything out and put it away. And get the cat's approval.

Teeka approved

And it's snuggly too

You Can Never Have Enough Fabric, Can You? Part 1

Hi everyone:

Don't you think there's room for a few more fabrics in this cupboard?

I was recently perusing my fabric and realized that I could use a few more wool fabrics. Some cottons as well and perhaps a linen or two. 

Some of the items in my embellishment bin

I then moved on to the trim bin. Buttons - yes, I had some, but these could always be supplemented. Lace? Well, I really could use a bit more in a narrower width. 

Am I stocking a store? No, just my own "I have to have more of this in case I need it someday" stash. Thankfully, the annual Ujamaa Grandmas' sale was happening in Calgary and I knew that I'd be able to find a few (!) things to top up my cupboards.

And did I! I decided to go on Friday afternoon (they are open from 4:30 to 7:30) rather than Saturday morning just in case the good stuff would be picked over by then. Besides, it was supposed to snow on Saturday (which it did!) and I didn't want to be standing out in the snow waiting to get in to the sale. 

Yes, Spring in Calgary means snow

Good thing I went Friday! I could hardly find anywhere to park, but managed to abandon the Zoocrew about two blocks away. I ran into a quilting buddy, so I had someone to chat with while waiting 40 minutes in line. They were only allowing a certain number of people into the building (it's held in a church) at one time. Apparently the Fire Department was a bit concerned at the number of people crammed in the building at previous years' sales - I can't imagine why. But I digress… 

After getting into the sale, I had a tough decision to make: go downstairs where the fabrics, notions and yarns were or go upstairs where the books and patterns were. I decided to go downstairs: it would be easier to go upstairs with fabric later than to go downstairs and drag around books while I fabric shopped. A good choice I thought. 

First I went into the Notions room where I managed to find some bags of buttons. Just a few.

Vintage button love

I also noticed some lace trim, which I tucked into my shopping bag. 

Ooh, Battenburg Lace trim

And there were even some embroidery hoops. Couldn't leave them.

Love the little oval hoop

I passed on the large bag of shoulder pads (one of the parents at my school scooped these up after the sale - can you believe that nobody bought these?) and the many sewing machines that were available at $10.00 or $15.00 - that's Canadian, eh? Prices are a bit cheaper than that if I was talking American $$$. I then proceeded to the quilt room.

This year there were actually two quilt rooms and then the books and patterns were upstairs. I only bought a few pieces of cotton. 

Gotta love cat fabric

Really, it's so cute

And look - there's a Featherweight in part of the fabric

I know, hard to believe, but I had just purchased lots a bit of fabric while at the Central Alberta Quilters' Guild show a few weeks previous. (If you haven't seen what I purchased there, you must check out my recent post). 

Yup, only four cuts of cotton

I wanted to check out the wool fabrics, so I stuffed the cotton in one of my shopping bags (I had brought three of these) and made my way out to the main room.

Luscious woollen fabric

The main room had fabrics sorted by colour and size of cut and then these fabrics were folded and piled up on tables. I mean, piled up! There were volunteers available to add purchases to your tally sheet and also pull fabric out for you - an almost impossible task if you were already hauling around a bag or two of buttons and trims, like I was. Thank goodness there was a volunteer to point out the wool that matched the plaid that I already had in hand and managed to find more fabric that would coordinate. At $3.00 for a 2-3 metre piece of fabric (again Canadian measurements, so that's 3" more per metre than a yard), I couldn't, and didn't, pass up these gems. 

Wool fabric and linen-type fabric

Love the colours in this wool

I also found a brown Harris Tweed type fabric and purchased the 3-4 metres for $4.00. I almost feel guilty that I won't be using these for garment construction - almost. More fabric to feed my shopping bag.

See the Harris Tweed type fabric on the left?
I have lots of it

By now I was loaded up with two bags full of buttons, lace and fabric (sounds like Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, doesn't it?) and I still hadn't checked out the books, the other quilt room or the fancy fabrics. While cottons aren't too heavy, wool fabric is and this was what one of my bags was completely stuffed with. But there was more fabric to be inspected and those patterns and books upstairs. On I went. 

Wow, I'm starting to feel as hot and tired as I was getting at the sale just writing about it. I need to take a break and put away some of my purchases. In my next post, I'll continue  the Ujamaa Grandma's sale saga. 

Did you go to the Ujamaa Grandma's sale this year or have you ever been to a similar sale? Post your story in the comments. I'd love to hear about your experience.

Welcome Spring with Special Savings

Hi everyone:

Spring Flash Sale This Weekend Only on Select Craftsy Classes!

Just a quick blogpost to let you know about the Spring Flash Sale at Craftsy this week-end. There are huge savings on select classes and some of these are even quilting ones! I've even found a few that I'm not yet enrolled in - I know, hard to believe, isn't it?

The Spring Flash Sale is only on for a limited time and expires at 11:59 MT on Sunday, April 13, 2014. Visit Craftsy to reveal what classes are on sale, but hurry, this offer expires at 11:59 MT on Sunday, April 13, 2014!

**This post contains affiliate links and I will be compensated if you click on one of my links and make a purchase. Thank you.

Craftsy Black Friday Class Sales

Hi everyone:

Have you been shopping for the holiday yarn and fabric sale at Craftsy? Well, now I have even more exciting news: Craftsy classes are on sale at savings of up to 66% off the regular class prices. You can take advantage of these savings from now until December 2.

If you still haven't tried a Craftsy class, what are you waiting for? Now is the perfect time to try a class in fine art or cake decorating or even quilting (my personal favourite!). 

There are so many choices and each one comes with Craftsy's money-back guarantee - although I can't imagine anyone being disappointed in one of their classes. Click here to choose from a variety of classes on sale now until December 2, 2013.

Have fun shopping for a class to try at great savings.

Craftsy Pre-Black Friday Yarn and Fabric Sales

Hi everyone:

Just a quick post to let you know about the great sales that are available at Craftsy from now until December 2 (can't believe it's going to be December in a few days!). 

You can save up to 80% off yarn and up to 65% off fabric for these few days. Best part is you don't have to wait until Friday to start shopping! 



These are the best prices of the year on craft supplies, so make sure you don't miss out on these fantastic savings! 

Now I'm off to do some shopping myself before the specials are all gone.