MINI EVENT

WHAT A GREAT DAY with SUE!

On Saturday,
October 15, 2011
Sue Hausmann came to Portland.
MAINELY SEWING MACHINES hosted Sue Hausmann's visit to Portland to share her sewing secrets and tricks with you. She brought her passion for sewing and an enthusiasm for teaching unmatched by any other educator.

Our winner of the drawing to attend our program as "Queen for the day" was Karol Gooch.
She sent us this thank you note:
Good Morning Jean and Molly!

I had a wonderful time being "Queen for a Day" at the Sue Hausman Seminar. Sue had so much information to tell us and so many things to show us that I had information over load. My head was full by 4:00! Everyone in the room looked like they were enjoying themselves so much. I hope you will invited Sue and Herb again in the future. Thank you very much for a very special day!

Sincerely,
Karol Gooch

Sue & Karol at our luncheon.

Program a Success:

We got our help with stabilizing and hooping.

This was a great informative program we were able to offer our embroidery customers.

Our Husqvarna Viking educator Marsha had a wealth of knowledge to share in a charming manner that made everyone comfortable speaking up and getting their personal questions answered.

Even though our space is small, we managed to get everyone in and have room for the coffee too.

MAINE QUILT 2011

Barbara B. demonstrates on the Husqvarna Viking Designer Diamond deluxe at the 2011 Maine Quilt show.

In addition to all the wonderful new quilts to see at the show (many which will be judged), there are antique quilts to view, dozens of venders, lots of classes, raffles and quilting friends to run into.

Thankyou Barbara

BARBARA MOORE
Husqvarna Viking Educator and Martha Pullen heirloom specialist.

Karol Gooch was the big winner
of our super door prize.
She won a free ticket to and a
front row seat at our October
event with Sue Hausmann.

Great Event

On April 14, 2011
Carmen Geddes showed us how to make a beautiful applique quilt square and made us smile.

The Call is Out Again

Beth has asked us to have another event to make more bags for cancer patients.
We have too much on our events list at this time, but we told her we would be willing to make them when we have a break between customers.
She has brought us some donated fabric and we have started the sewing.
We would welcome more donated fabric and donated sewers. We can provide the pattern.

Charity Event

We turned our quilt samples into pillow cases.
We sold them and donated the proceeds to the Patrick Dempsey Cancer Center.

TUESDAYS with DON

We have just found out that Don will be leaving us to move to Florida.
We thank him for all the great information he has shared with us in his Tuesdays with Don class.
I know the "regulars" will miss him.

Thanks again Don. We will all miss you.

WE ARE TAKING A BREAK!

2011 was such a busy event year that we are taking a break. We had 3 big events and 1 smaller event in our department, in addition to our participation in the Quilt Show. We usually just have one big event, 1 small and the Quilt Show. So we need to catch our breath & come up with something special to offer our customers this year. The feed back from our events tells us we are on the right track.

Thank you all for particpating in our programs. It is a lot of work. But it is also a lot of fun and very gratifying to be able to share our sewing passion and knowledge with our customers.

PAST EVENTS:

SEW & QUILT with Sue Hausmann

Internationally known educator, author and star of the PBS television series America Sews came to Portland!
There were loads of "how to", plus the tips and techniques that Sue is known for. She brought some of her favorite projects from America Sews for you to enjoy! Her husband Herb was on hand to tell you what it is like to be Sue's CEO [Carry Everything Out]!

The feed back is great. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. We all went home with our heads swimming with all the information Sue shared. Billy e-mailed us:

Good morning Jean and Mainely Sewing Machines Team,

I just wanted to thank all of you again for an awesome Saturday. Sue is a very dynamic speaker/presentator and the day just flew by with awesome ideas. I had a wonderful time! I really appreciate how smoothly everything is set up and how organized everything is. All the planning and preparation work the Mainely Sewing Team does to get ready for us makes the event awesome! Thank you again for everything.

Thank you also for the coffee/tea in the morning, a great lunch – it was just the right size, and the coffee/tea and fruit bars afterwards. That really hit the ‘spot’. I’m already looking forward to the next event.

Billie Gherardi

THANK YOU SUE HAUSAMANN
americasews.com
sewandquiltwithsue.com

Stabilizer Fun and More

DOES YOUR EMBROIDERY LOOK LIKE THIS?

HELP IS ON THE WAY.

MAINE QUILTS 34th Annual Show

Pictured is Jean L. (owner of Mainely Sewing Machines) at our booth demoing on the fabulous Husqvarna Viking Sapphire 875Q (for "quilting")
We had a great Quilt Show experience this year.
Our theme this year was "Quilting & Embroidery, the tradition continues."
We had lots of beautiful samples of the union between embroidery and quilting made by our employees and teachers and customers. Thank you all for your contributions.

For more info go to: www.mainequilts.org or info@mainequilts.org or call 207-415-4417.

Sew What's New?

Every year Mainely Sewing Machines holds an event to educate and inspire those of you who, like us, love to sew.
We look forward to a new experience each year by inviting an educator we haven't had before.

This year it was Barbara Moore.
She has years of experience teaching and selling Husqvarna Viking products, including time spent as a Husqvarna Viking Dealer. Barbara is a Martha Pulllen educator (heirloom sewing specialist) as well. She also offer's classes and workshops in home dec and serging. So she brought a wealth of ideas to our program.
Barbara lives in North Mississippi. She teaches locally as well as nationally.

Our event was held Thursday, June 23, 2011 at the Fireside Inn on Riverside Street in Portland, Maine.

The response from our attendees is overwelmingly positive.

Kate was the winner of our "People's Choice" award at our "Sew What's New?"event.

Beautiful work (as usual) Kate.

Quilting Educator came to Portland!

The feedback is positive.
The program was a success.
Everyone liked the new event location.
The room was great. The parking easy.
The buffet lunch was good: the food was fresh the soup was not too salty.
The instruction was excellent.
It was fun.

Thank you Carmen.

Find out more about Carmen and her business at: www.tensisters.com and carmengeddes.blogspot.com

We are looking forward to our next charity event.

We have "sewed for the cure" by making cancer caps, quilts to be auctioned, and last fall we made tote bags.
This year we will try to present another such event as they are so successful and so much fun.

In 2010 at the request of Beth Beers we made tote bags for the Maine Center for Cancer Medicine
to be filled with helpful items donated by another group. After the event we continued to make more bags to give to Beth using the donated fabric we had left over.

We are looking forward to our next in store mini event

Two years ago we started having mini events in our store to introduce new products or showcase special techniques of interest.
We had several last year including a pre Christmas event to present last minute gift ideas from our employees.

We had an evening with Kathy S.(one of our long time customers) showing us her enchanting fairies, fairy cottages and fairy mats.
To learn more about her company The Silver Penny and see her products go to thesilverpenny.com.