Posted by alteredtome on 2005-09-01 09:38:02
Post Subject: For Colorado Springs, CO
There have been some of us over on craftster.org, trying to get some kind of craft night together, but alas, there's only 2 women interested here in the Springs (me and someone else). Anyone else here?
I also wanted to let the Colorado community know about a new craft store I just stumbled upon on in the east end of the Springs. I'm not associated with them in anyway, but I was very impressed and I wanted to let Coloradans know about it, so I hope it's ok to post here. It's called Quilts and Crafts, run by a mom and daughter team, Omega and Trina. It's a quilting and scrapbooking supply store on the NW corner of N. Carefree and Powers, next to Diamond Shamrock. They are having a grand opening on Sept. 1st, 2nd and 3rd, with discounts, and they are also giving away prizes, including a crazy expensive quilting sewing machine (Trina said it's worth over $1000). You can enter anytime between Sept 1st and 3rd and you don't have to be there to win, they'll call you. Omega will be teaching quilting classes and Trina will be teaching scrapbooking/altered books/stamping/etc classes. The store is very well organized, with some scrapbooking and quilting supplies that you apparently can't get anywhere else (like this very pretty stained glass paper that Trina was showing me). Very cool, so check these ladies out before you head to the big stores, especially for all you east-enders, since it's in the same vicinity as Joann's and Micheal's. Support your local craft store! :)
Posted by Diana on 2006-04-18 18:59:47
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Lucky you to have a whole room to craft in!! I have a small breakfast nook off from my kitchen that is now my sewing space. And I use baskets and plastic totes with lids (they stack nicely) in my craft closet. The totes are clear and the large ones are the perfect size for a cross stitch graph. Then I can keep the graph, fabric and threads for each project all together. My crazy quilting supplies are stored in the same totes--several for fabric, more for embellishments, several for specialty threads. I got my totes at Joann's as they put them on sale 40-50% off quite frequently. I have a big cork board up in my sewing area to pin bits of inspiration on and to preview quilt blocks and colour choices on. I glued antique buttons on to thumb tacks for fun. And I framed several antique quilt blocks to dress the space up a bit.
