Summer and schedule

I hope everyone is enjoying their Memorial Day Weekend. This is the traditional first weekend of the tourist season, and when I was growing up, the weekend that the local beach started charging to drive through the toll booth. Although I have traded the white hot sand of the ocean beach for the concrete poolside, this holiday still kicks off summer. If you have children in your life, you know that in summer, the schedule changes, so too here at the shoppe. Beginning Tuesday, June first, our hours are 11-5 Tuesday-Friday, and 10-5 on Saturday.

Tuesday is handstitchers, which will meet at the regular time and continue English Paper Piecing. If you are interested, we can easily show you the technique and get you started. We are having a great time with this and many of us have elected to work on a larger scale project. Everyone is doing a different pattern and it is very exciting to see them all.

Thursday is the second half of the NY Beauty workshop. Hopefully one or two of the class members will let me take a photo or two to share, these are coming along great.


Today is the opening of the Nancy Crow exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center, and it is a rare chance to see an almost retrospective show of her work, here in NY. www.schweinfurthartcenter.org/exhibits/2010/nancycrowpress.html is the link to the site, If you want more click on the Press release link and you can read a bio, and artist statement and more. This weekend coming ( June 5 & 6), is the Wiltwyck Quilt Guild Show, Quilts in the Valley. Don't miss it. www.wiltwyckquilters.org for more information.

The new schedule should be back from the printers in a day or two, and it should all be up on the website very soon. In the meantime, Registration week is June 8-12, and our first event of the summer is Art Camp. June 15, 17, 22, & 24, 11-1 with free studio time till closing. I will post more next week.

Lastly, the special for the weekend of June 4 & 5 is on Themed button packs. These usually sell for up to $6.00, but this weekend the sale price is $3.00. They might just inspire you. Enjoy!!