More than 40 quilts and receiving blankets were donated! They will be taken to Bangladesh in the middle of February, to help refugees who are in the most desperate poverty. We will have pictures as the quilts find their homes – stay tuned!
Donate Your Quilts and Help Refugees
Burlington Electric Quilters is collecting quilts – new or gently used (and clean) – for refugees in Bangladesh. We’ll take any size, from baby to queen.
Please drop off quilts at:
Burlington Electric Quilters
264 Cambridge St.
Burlington, MA 01803
We are open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 9 to 5.
The deadline for donations is January 28th.
Sewing with Friends
Sewing with Friends is this Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. We start at 10 AM and go to 4 PM. Sue Pedersen will be available from 12 noon to 4 to help you with projects and questions.
Bring your equipment, projects, a snack to share and all your friends!
T-shirt Quilts, anyone?
Looking to make a t-shirt quilt? These instructions will help: https://blog.accuquilt.com/how-to-make-a-tshirt-quilt-in-4-easy-steps
In addition, we have a t-shirt press and an Accuquilt Studio 2 cutter with a 12″ block to simplify the process.
The t-shirt press is a mini-ironing-board, just right for attaching your interfacing to your design squares. Your home iron stays clean from little glitches in pressing!
Have a Sew-Sew Holiday!
Burlington Electric Quilters wishes you the best and most joyous holiday season.
Our Holiday Hours:
- Dec. 24-26 – Closed
- Dec. 27 – 29: 9 AM to 5 PM
- Dec. 31: 9 AM to 2 PM
- Jan. 1-2: Closed
- Jan. 3-5: 9 AM to 5 PM
Our Thursday hours are changing to 9 AM to 5 PM. If you need a late-afternoon or evening appointment, give us a call for special arrangements.
Black Thread
One of our customers had problems using King Tut black thread this week. The thread broke more than King Tut threads of other colors, and since she was doing a large quilt, we ended up frustrated before we finished.
I have since done some research on black thread and want to share what I learned. In general, it seems like black thread is more over-dyed than other colors, in order to get the black color. This applies not only to quilting threads, but other black threads, such as embroidery threads, as well. Cotton threads tend to be more fragile than other colors because of the amount of dye used.
There are a few ways to deal with breakage of black thread. Some quilters suggested putting the thread cone in a plastic bag and storing it in the freezer for several days. This won’t solve problems in the moment, but if you plan to use black thread, let me know a few days before your appointment, and I’ll try this.
Other suggestions include liberal use of Sewer’s Aid and a larger than normal needle, storing the thread in the original wrap to keep the moisture content in, slowing the stitching down, and loosening the quilt sandwich. And if you want to use black thread without the risk of breakage, I also stock Superior Thread‘s OMNI thread – a poly-wrapped poly core thread.
Our Statler patterns are now online!
To see all available Statler patterns, click on the menu item “Statler Pattern Catalog”. Each of the links on that page bring up approximately 100 patterns that are available. Pattern designations are as follows:
- e2e
- edge to edge patterns. This includes patterns that are nested when set up.
- b2b
- border to border – patterns that can fit inside a border. Contains no nested patterns.
- blocks
- patterns or motifs that can fill a block. Includes squares, rectangles, triangles, diamonds, etc.
- border/corner
- these patterns can be used to quilt a border separate from the interior of the quilt. Most of the border patterns also include a corner pattern that can be used with the border.
- sashing
- similar to borders/corners, but smaller and less complex.
- posts
- similar to blocks, but smaller and less complex.
- similar to blocks, but smaller and less complex.
Back to School Special – Save 12%!*
UFOs – you know you have them. Clear some space by turning them into beautiful and useful quilts with our Back to School special.
Call 781-229-0734 or email louise@burlingtonelectricquilters.com for an appointment to rent one of our great Gammill machines or to drop a quilt off for our quilting service.
*
Offer expires August 31, 2018.
January’s AccuQuilt Project
This month we are featuring the Wonky Heart GO! die on our AccuQuilt Studio 2 cutter. Bring a Layer Cake or 35 10″ x 10″ squares and cut the pieces out using the Wonky Heart die. Swap out the centers and sew the pieces together to make the blocks; add sashing and a couple of borders and you are done!
Here’s the quilt I made for new baby Anne Elizabeth. Love the soft colors of orange and aqua in the Layer Cake, Lullaby, by Kate and Birdie Paper Co. I got mine from amazon.
This lovely collection of fat quarter batiks came from equilter.com. The combination of lights and darks makes it perfect for the Wonky Hearts quilt.
Sign up for an hour on the AccuQuilt cutter for $10, and add an extra $5 if you want supervision in sewing one block together.
The weather outside is frightful…
But the quilts are so delightful!
Take 12% off quilting or rental time for the month of December. Call or email now for a rental appointment or to drop off a quilt.
781-229-0734
Louise@burlingtonelectricquilters.com