Holiday Sales!

Just wanted to let all know this month we have 3 holiday sales lined up!

Black Friday, or for us..Fabric Friday..all our in stock fabric will be 25% off!

Our hours are extended for Fabric Friday only… 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.!!

Small Business Saturday or Supply Saturday for us 🙂 all supplies and notions, i.e. rulers, thread, cutting tools and mats, patterns… 20% off.

And Cyber Monday or Maker Monday!       all our pre made, hand made items on sale for 15% off!    Note cards, embroidered items, Hand sewn items, and crocheted items! Wonderful!!!

We would love to see you!

Podcast about our shop! Fun!

These girls are our new friends! we met over talking with Maureen about longarm quilting some of my quilt tops.

Her daughter Steph and her husband are piloting a quilting community on line called Quilt Swag, check it out!  And enjoy the interview!

Dress a girl with Hope

This past Tuesday we had the privilege of having a Dress a girl with Hope sew in..Dress a girl is an organization in the United States that serves women and little children mostly girls with dresses and other things that are helpful to them. The dresses are sent to your dress a girl ambassador, usually one per state. The ambassador recieves requests from missionaries stateside that are going back over seas and want to take some dresses to bless little girls..many of these girls have never had a brand new dress! Fun! Wonderful!! The Ohio Ambassador is Michelle Berkes, pronounced Berk – es..

Michelle is very friendly and helpful.  She came Tuesday to give a little talk and show us the ropes of having a sew in.

We made these “kits” that include everything you need but thread for making the dress.Then you just bring your machine and sew up a dress with a little instruction or help from a friend if you need it.  We put a tag from Dress a girl on the dress and it is ready to go to Michelle, who will then forward it to missionaries..She has two requests in right now for 400 dresses each!!!!

The dresses we made were the sundress style, but you can make other dresses, ideas on their site

The girls made snacks for the hard workers!! We had fun making friends and sewing together! Plus I just love to live out the truth that it is more blessed to give than receive…It just kept going through my mind as I was sewing. And when my machine was acting up on me! 🙂

We post our sew ins on our facebook page and if you would like to make a dress one dress is fine! We would be happy to send you a kit, or if you are local, you can come in and pick one up!..We don’t have any on hand we gave them to Michelle, we would just need a couple of days to make one up for you!

Also if you would like to attend a sew in closer to you just consult the Dress a girl site, or Ohio Dress a girl’s facebook page.

Lastly if you would like to attend a sew in and just hang out that is fine! You don’t have to sew, you can just come..there are other things to do besides sew!

We are hoping to do a sew in in January 2020…stay tuned!

Our first quilt class

Just wanted to share our first class, technically Victoria taught a table runner class but this jelly roll race class was our first quilt class!

We had the ladies bring their sewing machines and scissors and their jelly roll..(a.k.a. 2.5 inch wide strips of fabric 44 inches long.)  

Each one was racing  to get a quilt top done.

And everyone save 2 finished their top.  The two ladies that wanted a larger top, ran out of time..Here are some of the ladies finished tops! We are so happy for them!

Aren’t these beautiful???

 

 

We had a good time and we hope to have more fun classes coming up.  We have a list of classes on our website 

 

Grand Opening!!

We have been working at getting acclimated in our new shop.  We have set our Grand opening date for next weekend!

The girls have figured out some make and takes for anyone who would like to do that. And we have door prizes and 2 themed raffle baskets. Both will have sewing goodies and other fun things in their theme!  We will draw winners Monday morning and you can pick up your basket any time after that during business hours!

There will be snacks, water, coffee and tea.

Sign ups for classes.. and 10% off everything in the store..

So bring a friend and come see us! We are looking forward to a fun weekend!

Pomegranate Place at work

Walked around this  morning after  doing  some  book-work  with  Olivia  and  this  is  what  was  happening!

Today our shop is closed..Hmmm… 🙂

Victoria is working on our friend’s wedding dress…bustling…let it be known every time we do this type of alteration we say…we are Not doing this again…Hmmm.

Olivia is doing books with me…mind you..Daddy’s books, Sewing books, and family books…

Kezia is taking care of our on line fabric sales..getting them ready to ship.. so thankful for our Etsy shop and the orders from our Etsy friends..

And here I am, I thought I was going to get out of this post, but the girls took a picture of my sleepy self being up since 3:30 this morning. We took some of our roosters to a farmer today and were there bright and early! I love farmers! They understand my time clock, early to bed, early to rise! Now 3:30 is terribly early, but 5:00 or 5:30 is nice..

So just a peek into what we do on the days the shop is closed!! 🙂 I am also so thankful for these young women who are happy to work with us in all our endeavors..They are such a blessing from God! May He bless them for their servant hearts!!

First days of brick and mortar business..

We had some good first days of our store being open.

We met new people, some from nearby and others from farther away.

Supportive friends stopped in for a visit..and even an opening gift! Sew sweet!

We had technical difficulties from our card reader. But we got some internet help and hope that is fixed!

We will be open again this Friday, Saturday, and Monday.. Having our Christmas in July Sale!

We have a google business page with our hours… Look up Pomegranate Place Ltd. ….it feels more and more real each day.

Still stocking our shelves and working out kinks before our grand opening..

Date to be announced!

A little sneak peak of our shop!
I am so thankful to my Father for this miracle!

Come in and see us! We would love to chat a little!

Opening our door tomorrow

We have been working all week to set up our quilt shop. It is an undertaking. Selling on line doesn’t require pricing on each bolt of fabric since we always have the price in our online listing… Wow, we have been pricing for 3 days!

So, we are taking the plunge. Tomorrow we will open at 10:00 a.m. and be open until 4:30 p.m.

We haven’t cleared our sign with zoning yet, so just look for the white building with a brick front and a pink door! 🙂

We have fabric, pre-cuts, some wool pieces, quilts, and children’s clothing pieces to start…modest beginning.

We will also be open Saturday 10:00 to 3:00 and Mondays  10:00-4:30!

A new venture

An update from our sewing business.  Over the last 10 years my daughters and I have sewn and sold designer cotton and other fabrics on line through the Etsy marketplace.

This spring we purchased a house with a shop on the property and we are in the middle of remodeling and getting ready to open a quilt shop!  We are humbled and excited! Humbled because we see this is bigger than us, way bigger!  And excited because, well, it is exciting to do a new thing, providing we have the energy and stamina to walk this big new thing.

So, updates will be coming and we hope to open some time this month!

We will be opening in process, so please as we move forward excuse our mess!

Here is our new logo:

 

Pomegranate Place Ltd.

Where there will be fabric, design, creativity, and friendliness 🙂

 

 

Quilting, memories saved..

This month we have been on a new adventure..

A dear friend of over 30 years who is now in her 80’s invited us to help her restore a quilt that is over 120 years old.  It was raveling because of the age of the fabrics.

This amazing quilt was hand done by her father’s mother..Back in those days her grandmother embroidered her children’s initials on separate blocks.

She also embroidered flowers on many of the squares. On one square there are little chicks. The whole quilt is pieced in the crazy quilt fashion and the pieces are ALL hand embroidered together.

Being a seamstress I noticed how well these fabrics have held up for over 120 years!

Very well made, high quality fabric.  The main fabrics that seemed to be in tatters was a black velvet that she embroidered some of her children’s initials on and a cream silk piece, where only the warp of the weave was left in tact, there was no weft or latitudinal weave left on that cream silk, interesting…

Also, being a needlewoman, the intricate embroidery stitches, and the variety of stitching, this dear woman was clearly a detail oriented woman. And a patient woman..she literally worked this quilt in patience.  She also was an industrious woman, this quilt was stitched on many a day and took many hours.

Being a mother this quilt speaks of a mother’s love for EACH of her children, how each is special and unique..This quilt is a treasure to my dear friend for many of these reasons on top of it’s visual beauty…

Another project she enlisted us to do was a little dutch girl quilt that her mother appliqued.  Many of the blocks were done by her mother and she enlisted some other women to make more to be enough for a quilt.  This quilt, we will stitch together with sashing and will put a back and then I will machine quilt it.

We are in process on this quilt, but it will be a precious memory of her mother to her.  She also mentioned to us how some of the fabrics she recognized from her childhood as her mother’s aprons and a neighbor lady’s aprons! How fun is that!

It is a joy to work on these because of their history and the love that is sewn into them.

It is also a joy to bring joy to our dear friend! She is a treasure to us! We love you Mama A!!!