Ready, set, shop!  What a deal!  With a threshold of only $20 before the deal begins you can’t help but save.

Quilting for Christmas is such a bonus.  You indulge in your favorite pasttime of quilting and you are able to gift a beautiful hand made item.  It doesn’t matter if it’s a large quilt or a small wallhanging or a little bag . . . the feeling is the same.   You, the giver, have warm feelings for the gift recipient as you are making the item.  The recipient will have warm feelings for you everytime the see or use your quilty gift.

Here’s a couple ideas . . .

The Mini Miranda Bag is a gift you can give most any girl on your list.  Make it special for her – her favorite colors or favorite fabric theme.  And you know it will be easy to construct because it’s by Joan Hawley of Lazy Girl Designs.

With instructions for four sizes, you can use the It’s A Breeze pattern for a baby quilt in soft pastels and then in a lap size with bold colors for a teen.

Table runners make a great gift.  Little Charmers 2 has three table runner patterns (just like all the other “Little Charmer” patterns).  The construction is simple and each look is quite different.  That’s three people to cross off your shopping list!  Don’t forget to add a charm pack or two (or three!) to your shopping cart.

Look over the rest of the quilt patterns and fabric and really take advantage of Cyber Monday.  Enter CYBERMON in your shopping cart before checkout.  Happy shopping and then happy quilting!

Visit QuiltersWarehouse today so you can be ready for Cyber Monday. This might be a good time to use the Wish List. Select what you plan to buy so that Monday you will be able to take advantage of the one-day-only deal. You will get 20% off orders of $20 or more. Use the code CYBERMON. Enter this coupon code on your shopping cart prior to checkout. It’s that simple. Quite the deal, isn’t it?!

Don’t miss out – be sure to shop Monday.  You can use your discount on patterns, fabric, batting, anything you want!

We’re taking a break from Monday Madness and concentrating today on Monday Blues . . . patterns and fabrics.  Turn your Monday blues into a beautiful quilt.

Cornflower Blues is a 24″ x 28″ wallhanging that will help you through the winter with a promise of Spring flowers.

Gather your blue (and blue/green and blue/purple) scraps for Blue Sherbet.

Carol Hopkins, whose inspiration is Civil War era quilts, says this Uniform Blues quilt represents all the blues to be found on the battlefield. . .faded uniforms, new uniforms,  worn uniforms, soiled uniforms.  Jacob’s ladder blocks are surrounded by a pieced chain border to create 29″ square wall hanging.

And a few fun blue fabrics . . .

Medieval Medallions Blue

Midnight Cowboy Dots & Moon

Maisy Blue Stars

There are soooo many more blue fabrics and lots more quilt patterns to see.  Browse your blues away.

Village Green is the name of the 2010 Thimbleberries Block Of the Month.  We are offering the quilt in two different color ways.

Dawn

or Dusk

You can also choose the size: a large lap quilt 72″ x 84″ or a queen size 96″ x 106″.   Each quilt has a village of ten homes along with trees, flowers and stars.  The queen size quilt has an extra border of stars between the two borders shown here.

Unlike other Block of the Month quilts which don’t matter when you start, the Thimbleberries will begin in January and continue through December of 2010.  So don’t miss out!

Here’s how it works.  Join the Thimbleberries Club.   Each month you will receive a pattern for a portion of the quilt along with all the fabric you will need for that portion.  The finishing kit will include the binding fabric; you will need to purchase the batting and backing separately.  Also included will be a pattern for a separate project.  Sometimes it will be a table runner, or a small quilt, or a wallhanging.  Something different each month.  Both of the patterns will be in one full color booklet with plenty of illustrations to make construction easy.  You will also receive a personal newsletter from Lynette Jensen of Thimbleberries.  Membership in the Thimbleberries Club entitles you to take advantage of special discount offers.

If you have been trying to decide if you are ready to buy a sewing machine, NOW is the time.  Shipping costs on the Threadbanger machines will cost you exactly ZERO dollars.  Yep, that’s right, zero, zip, nada.  Free shipping is available on either machine.  

These machines are made with the Do-It-Yourselfer in mind.  Either one would be a good purchase for a first sewing machine or for a back up machine. 

The Thread Banger TB-12 is the lower priced of the two, with 12 stitches plus multiple stitch functions, accessory storage and is relatively portable. 

The Thread Banger TB-30 is computerized with 30 precision stitches.  This machine also has a whole lot of extras.  You know,  all the bells and whistle that we love…. needle threader, start-stop button, six buttonholes, programmable needle up/down and more!

If you have been wanting a back up machine, you know – just in case - the price tag is low enough.  Either of these would make a good option.   So if you have your main machine set up for some free motion quilting but want to also work on other projects . . . . you can.   And, as anyone with a sewing machine knows (and dreads), at some point your current machine will need to go in for a minor repair.  For some odd reason, this never happens when it is convenient.  Nope, it happens when you are in the middle of a project with a deadline!  Or it happens when your creative juices are really flowing and you are just smack dab in love with sewing.   Think how happy you will be at that point if you have an extra machine to fall back on.