Author: sarah

It’s been a wild ride!  Blisters, sore feet and full out exhaustion but we are finally open in our new space!!!  It is amazing, and roomy and bright and full of fabric!  I can hardly believe how full it is!  We thought there would be no way we could fill this new store so fast!  Well, we proved ourselves wrong, AGAIN!  LOL!

Here are the pictures you have all been waiting for!

We have been extremely blessed the last few months, with help from our amazing friends and family!  Bob, Bernice, James and Deloris we could NOT have done this with-out you!  ( They helped us with all the shelves for the fabric bolts!  And anything else that we needed help with!)  THANK YOU, is just not enough!

We really do appreciate everyone’s help!  Moving day was crazy!!  We had so many helpers.  Carolyn and Kenny….without your truck and trailer, we would still be hauling bolts over!  (seriously, oh my goodness, that was a lot of fabric to carry!)

I hope you enjoy the little sneak peak! I have to get back to pricing and labeling and re-arranging.  We are looking forward to the bus trip this weekend!

I’ll post more pictures and show off more of the building this week!! Check out our facebook page for the picture of our sign going up!

Have a great Monday everyone!

Sarah

I have been so busy lately I forgot to mention to you all that Moda asked us to give a school house at Market.  Well, I have no trouble at all talking your ear off in person, but put me in front of a crowd, and I get nervous!  (like, knees shaking-forget everything I am supposed to say-nervous!)  Luckily,  we only had 15 minutes to fill, and I don’t have to tell you that Mom can fill up 15 minutes just getting warmed up!  LOL!

Basically, we  gave some tips on how to use online resources to help customers in your shop! (like using our youtube videos for classes or demos, using Moda Bakeshop patterns, and all the other free resources that are out there!)  It was fun to see so many people and share a bit about what we know.  (or are at least learning about, more and more!)

Then after we were finished we got to stay and see the Moda Designers and hear all the buzz about Moda!  It was such a blast!  Here are a few pictures of a few designers that we saw.

I hope you enjoyed the little sneak peak into our day at School House.  We had a blast!  (thank you Moda for the opportunity!)  I’ll have more pictures from Market to show you soon!  Have a lovely day.

So I really should have named this post ‘Buying an old building and trying to remodel it in an efficient manner’ is a NIGHTMARE!  I have kept you up on some of the issues we’ve had with our new place, and some I’ve just kept quiet on.  I really, really want to to be moved in already!

But, now there is an issue with the carpet.  Several issues.  I am only going to focus on one….after the seams were all matched together (some off by a bit) we noticed that the carpet was different shades of color.  One more brown and one more grey.  Really?  They swear it’s from the same dye lot.  The flooring place we are going through couldn’t believe it either.  They want to fix it and make it right, however this puts us weeks behind.  We are waiting for them to finish the install anyway, and then when they get the decision back from the carpet mill we’ll decide what to do from there.  So potentially, what we are looking at is moving everything in, setting up shop, then moving it all again while they replace the messed up carpet.  OH BOY!

So anyway, I know it will all work out eventually….won’t it?  I am however really, really excited about what I am about to show you!  Dad and Al built this amazing thread display!  We got the shipment of thread in and couldn’t wait for the dumb carpet to be done!  We just had to put it all out!   (thanks, Spenser for making it look so pretty!)

Hello, rainbow of color!  So, so excited to announce we will be selling the entire line of Omni thread from Superior Threads!  We are also going to have every single color of King Tut variegated thread, too!

So excited and I just CAN HARDLY WAIT TO BE IN OUR NEW STORE!!!  I’m hoping it will be sooner than later!

The rest of the week we will be off to quilt Market!  Can you believe it’s that time already!?  I can’t!  I am so glad that Market is in Kansas City, this time!  (just an hour away!)

We are presenting a school-house for Moda.  To say that I am nervous would be an understatement!  I am SCARED silly!  Al and Mom, both aren’t nervous one bit.  Why did I have to inherit the ‘chicken gene’?  LOL.  Well, wish us luck!  Hope you have a great-amazing-fun filled-weekend!!

We’ll be back with snippets from Market!!

~Sarah

So much fun stuff has been happening and going on and I am quite excited to share it with you all!

Last week was a week full of progress!  We got the walls painted, shelves painted, bathrooms painted, tile started, and even the awning painted!  We also got 60 tons of rock spread out on our parking lot and un-covered the old brick sidewalk!!  I KNOW!  BRICK!  So exciting!

Here are a few pictures to keep you up to speed on what is happening!

I chose this great turquoise color for the awning stripe, because I liked how it complimented the brick!  I was going to do a pink, but when I started ‘auditioning’ colors I just liked the turquoise better!  It’s a bit sloppy, though.  We were leaning over it (it is much bigger than you expect!) We even rigged up our own painting stick with duct tape!

This was a really late night, trying to cram as much as we could get done.  Painting the center check-out island!  Trying to bust it all out before carpet install begins!

This week we are getting carpet,new doors and windows and the main light fixtures up!

So, here you go!  A little peak into what has been consuming us for the past two weeks!  Throw in Mom and Dad’s crash, and you’d be safe to say we are exhausted!

Life just keeps getting more interesting, no doubt!

I do know one thing though, and it’s that we all feel so blessed!

Mother’s Day is just around the corner – and if you are like me – you want to surprise the special Moms in your life with a unique gift.  And we’ve got the perfect solution!  Gift a seat on our 2^nd annual Quilters’ bus trip, June 8-9.  You’ll get to shop at seven “All Star” quilt shops plus the Kalona Quilt Museum.  Price of the 2 day trip including transportation, lodging and meals is only $139!

And if you feel you are too far from Missouri Star Quilt Company, you can catch a ride in Brookfield or Jamesport in Missouri or in Iowa at Mt Pleasant, Kalona or Williamsburg.  Contact Carolyn@quiltersdailydeal.com and she’ll help you get connected!