The MILLION Pillowcase Challenge comes to Pieceful Quilting

We're off to a great start with the Million Pillowcase Challenge at Pieceful Quilting. We already have almost 50 pillowcases done. Thanks to Wendy Rottner and company shown here in these great pictures. Wendy hosted a sewing session at her home and using their own stashes managed to finished a load of pillowcases.

The Million Pillowcase Challenge is a year-long national initiative to create and donate one million pillowcases to local charities.

Pieceful Quilting will be hosting our own party to git 'er done. The price of admission to these parties is canned goods which will be donated to Island Harvest, a Long Island wide service organization that rescues food for shelters throughout Long Island.

Come into either Pieceful Quilting Shop and sew a pillowcase using our machines and our fabric. We'll give you copies of the pillowcase patterns too. We will be donating these pillowcases to local women's shelters. If you would like to host a party at your house and use some of your stash, let us know and we'll get your pillowcases into the right hands.

Riverhead Parties will take place on Tuesday March 30 from 1 - 8pm and Saturday May 1st from 11 - 4pm. The East Northport Parties will take place on Friday April 2nd from 4 - 8pm and Monday April 26 from 11 - 4pm.

See you then.

Why We Sew

I just HAD to share this homework assignment done by my 8 year old niece, Sophia.

Sewing can make you happy. When you finish you can lie down with the quilt you made! Fist you need someone to instruct you. But when you are done with lessons, you're making spectacular quilts in a jiffy. Sewing is a calm thing to do.

Sewing can be fun! If you try doing a quilt you will be warm when you get it. And also when you're finished you can show your friends.

Sewing can be easy. Look at a picture of a quilt I made. It's easy.

Well, What do ya know!

The Clayton Family has some incredible genes. Sue Clayton, the mother of our first prize winner in the Stocking Challenge in Riverhead, was the winner of the Viewer's Choice award. Now these two can live peacefully under the same roof! Sue's work is incredible. Her stocking was beaded from head to toe. And the viewers loved it. Here's Sue accepting her BIG stocking full of quilters good stuff.

Wendy Won the Audrey!

Congratulations to Wendy Rottner, the winner of the Baby Lock Audrey machine. Now Wendy has a friend to take to class. Our Baby Lock Shower was a wonderful success. So many of you enjoyed coming in to test drive the new Baby Locks and make an adorable scissors keeper. You can make them for all your friends, now that you know how easy it is.

And again the generosity of our customers is just astounding. We collected lots of baby food, diapers and other great stuff for Island Harvest. They were VERY happy with your donations, including one wonderful quilter who hand crocheted TWO beautiful baby blankets. Island Harvest was just so happy to receive all this. Thanks so EVERYONE who participated.

Check out THIS young designer!

Here's a message I received via email from one of our customers, Maria Tobiasz.

Hi, I am an aunt of the 6 yr old nephew for whom I have made 'The Rocket Quilt'. The story goes like this, last February when visiting my family, my 6 year old nephew, who is fascinated with rockets, drew on the piece of paper design for a quilt the he wanted me to make for him.In the next few months I have searched the web for rocket or rocket related designs or fabrics, visited your store several times as well, but could not find anything that would inspire me, until one day, I have stopped in you store and all was there. Beautiful fabrics that were so perfect for the design.Since, he has the quilt. He shows it to everyone who visits.

Somebody, please call Benartex Fabrics!

And the Riverhead Winners Are.....

Well, these challenges sure are a challenge! The competition in Riverhead was steep. You MUST come in to see what our most creative quilters have come up with. Angela Clayton of Manorville was the first prize winner. Angela is a home schooled young lady. The second place winner was Ann Kurz of Riverhead and third place was Sherri Guthrie. of Calverton.

East Northport Stocking Challenge

Boy, the judging was VERY tough in the East Northport Pieceful Quilting Stocking Challenge. This time our participants were REALLY presented with a challenge. And they did not dissappoint. Do come in to see what our creative elves have made with the difficult raw materials we gave them . All the stockings are just fabulous and it was very hard to narrow it down to just three winners. And the winners are: Gloria S from Farmingdale won the first prize sewing machine, Claudia H from Smithtown was the second prize $100 gift certificate and Margaret K from Commack won the third place $50 gift certificate.

Gloria S.

Please come in and vote for YOUR favorite in the viewer's choice category. That lucky winner will receive an extra large stocking chock full of the things that quilters dream of. Stop by before December 7th.

Claudia H. on left

Margaret K on right.