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Deadline for May-June is April 1
Use Patchwork Classifieds to Advertise Your: •Business For Sale •Craft Show •Quilting Bees •Shop Space Available •Web Site •Craft Related Service. Not for shops unless used with a display ad.
Just mail your ad & check to:The Country Register • P O Box 365 • New Market, MD 21774
You can advertise in the Patchwork Classifieds! A 2 x 2 space is only $40 for 2 months of advertising!
Classified Ads
City IndexAfton .......................................................Page 14Binghamton .......................................Page 13Brockport...........................................Page 5Bouckville ...........................................Page 10Caledonia ...........................................Page 4Campbell .............................................Page 12 Canandaigua ...................................Page 7Candor .................................................Page 13Cazenovia ..........................................Page 9Chatman .............................................Page 17Chautauqua ......................................Page 3East Greenbush ............................Page 17Elma ........................................................Page 3 Endicott ................................................Page 13Findley Lake .....................................Page 3Fly Creek ............................................Page 15Glens Falls ..........................................Page 18Groton ...................................................Page 9Greene ..................................................Page 13Greenwich .........................................Page 18Hamilton ...............................................Page 10Hammondsport .............................Page 12 Harpursville .......................................Page 14Hudson .................................................Page 20Jamesville ...........................................Page 9Latham .................................................Page 16Little York ...........................................Page 9Marilla ...................................................Page 3
Medina ..................................................Page 5Mumford ..............................................Page 4Munnsville ...........................................Page 10Naples.....................................................Page 12Newark ..................................................Page 8 Newport ...............................................Page 11North Troy ..........................................Page 16Norwich ................................................Page 15 Oneonta ...............................................Page 15Ontario ..................................................Page 6Owego ...................................................Page 13Pavilion ..................................................Page 4Potsdam ..............................................Page 19Queensbury ......................................Page 18Rensselaer ........................................Page 17Rome ......................................................Page 11Saratoga Springs ..........................Page 18Schoharie ...........................................Page 16Scotia .....................................................Page 16Somers ..................................................Page 20South Glens Falls .........................Page 18 Tupper Lake ......................................Page 19Utica .......................................................Page 11Valatie ....................................................Page 17Vernon Center ...............................Page 10Victor ......................................................Page 7
Walton.....................................................Page 15Wampsville .........................................Page 10 Watkins Glen ...................................Page 12Waterloo .............................................Page 8West Sand Lake ...........................Page 17
Are you organizing a local arts, crafts, quilt or antique show?
Need exhibitors and crafters?
Advertise right here with The Country Register classifieds.$40 for 2 months of advertising!
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Call Toll Free 1-866-825-9217
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Glens Falls, Greenwich, Queensbury, Saratoga Springs, South Glens Falls & Shop Hop
Shop Hop ............................................Pgs. 12, 18
Potsdam, Tupper Lake
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Country Style Furniture, Wrought Iron, Candles, Candle Holders, Potpourri, Pictures,
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Bring in this ad and receive 15% off a regularly priced item (excluding machines) Exp. April 30, 2013
Quilters Quest Shop Hop - 11th AnnualApril 25-28, 2013
11 participating shopsPassports available Feb 1st at Adirondack Quilts
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Heirloom Sewing Center We inspire, you Create! 11 years in business!
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Heirloom Sewing Center We inspire, you Create! 12 years in business!
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. QUILTING FABRICS
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. PATTERNS . KITS
.ACCESSORIES
Heirloom Sewing Center We inspire, you Create! 12 years in business!
HUSQVARNA VIKING SINGER
SEWING MACHINE SALES SERVICE OF ALL BRANDS
EMBROIDERY MACHINES Largest selection of embroidery thread
for 60+ miles, save with our thread club!
Shop online @ Www.heirloomsewingcenter.com 820 Route 9, Northway Plaza, Queensbury, NY—518-761-6619
FLORIANI SEMINAR MAY 4TH & 5TH
$30.00 Free Gifts
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JUNE 16TH $30.00
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FABRICS . NOTIONS
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Heirloom Sewing Center We inspire, you Create! 12 years in business!
HUSQVARNA VIKING SINGER
SEWING MACHINE SALES SERVICE OF ALL BRANDS
EMBROIDERY MACHINES Largest selection of embroidery thread
for 60+ miles, save with our thread club!
Shop online @ Www.heirloomsewingcenter.com 820 Route 9, Northway Plaza, Queensbury, NY—518-761-6619
FLORIANI SEMINARMAY 4TH & 5TH
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Heirloom Sewing Center We inspire, you Create! 11 years in business!
HUSQVARNA VIKING SINGER
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Shop online @ Www.heirloomsewingcenter.com 820 Route 9, Northway Plaza, Queensbury, NY—518-761-6619
Kaleidoscope of Quilts QUILT SHOW
Sat, May 4 9AM-5PM Sun, May 5 10AM-5PM
ADMISSION $5Wheatfield Comm. Center
2800 Church Road N. Tonawanda, NY 14120www.twincityquiltersguild.org
at theWashington County Fairgrounds, Greenwich NY
May 4th & 5th, 2013
$85 - Dealer Spaces Still Available:Accepting Antiques, Collectibles, Crafts,
& Flea Market Dealers. Large Indoor,Outdoor and Covered Spaces
(all 1 price)
For Dealer Info or Early Buyer Info:FAIRGROUND SHOWS NY
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$3 admission, $2 seniors and under-14 get in FREEOld-Fashioned Antique Show featuring 200+ dealers, free parking, great food,
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Antique Fair and Flea Market
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85 Broad St., Tupper Lake, NY 12986
• Full Service Quilt Shop • Over 400 Fabrics• Notions • Buttons • Handi-Quilter Dealer
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Stitching B’s Quilt Guild meets at shop 2nd Saturday each month. Everyone is
welcome – beginners to advanced.
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Longarm Quilting - the only full service
shop in a 70 mile radius
Cabin Fever 10 QUILT SHOW April 19,20,21, 2013
Fri & Sat 10-5, Sun 11-4
ADMISSION $5Silent Auction to Benefit Clarence
Community Pantry
Clarence Town Park ClubhouseClarence Town Park
10405 Main St. (Rte. 5), Clarence, NY
More info: 716-759-6683
Wings Falls Quilters Guild
Celebrations!Quilt Show
June 1 & 2, 2013Sat. 10am-5pm & Sun. 10am-4pm
Adirondacks Sports Complex326 Upper Sherman Ave., Queensbury, NY 12804
Admission: $6www.wingsfallsquilters.org
13th Biennial Quilt Show “Quilted Journeys” Fri, Apr. 19 11AM-8PM
Sat, Apr. 20 10AM-4:30PMADMISSION $7/$10 one/two day
Sophia Greek Orthodox Church440 Whitehall Rd.Albany, NY 12208www.quiltinc.org
Quilt Raffle~Vendors~Silent Auction~Guild Boutique~Mini-
Mart~Greek Food
by QUILT Inc. of DelmarThe Dropped StitchWORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
If you learned to knit/crochet from written instructions only and now the popular use of charts are intimidating to you, fear no more. Please read on….
Charts have several advantages as they provide a visual image of the design. They are used to show parts of a knitting pattern, such as color work motif or the repeat of a stitch pattern to be used multiple times in a project. Since each square represents a stitch, charts help you learn to read the stitches to avoid mistakes or recognize them early to avoid disasters. They, also, make it easier to use stitches and patterns published in foreign lan-guages. However, not every pattern needs a chart. For smaller motifs or simple stitches, written instructions suffice. Charts usually occupy less space which is important to the publishing business. To many, they are often more clear than a long written form.
The easiest charts to read are those printed in color, such as Fair Isle. Black and white instructions use symbols instead of colors to depict color work patterns. Chosen symbols often resemble the stitch they represent. Sadly, not all designers or publishers use the same symbols. However, the lack of a uniform system of symbols is being addressed. The Craft Yarn Council of America has set up a series of guidelines and symbols to bring uniformity to knit/crochet pattern charts. Always consult the symbol legend provided and become familiar with them before beginning a project.
The numbers along the sides of charts indicate the rows. A number on the right side defines a right-side row, which is worked leftward from the number. A number on the left marks a wrong-side row and is worked rightward. Read a chart at the lower right-hand corner, proceeding across to the left. Your next row goes back the way you came, moving up one row and working from left to right. If you are working on the wrong side, follow the key’s instructions for the symbols designated for a wrong-side row. With circular knitting, every round is a right-side round so every round starts at the right-hand side of the chart, working across to the left. Bold lines within the chart represent repeats. These set off a group of stitches that are repeated across a row. You begin at the edge of a row or where the pattern indicates for the required size, work across through to the second line, and then repeat the stitches between the lines as many times as directed, and finish the row. Black or gray squares are used when the stitch number has been reduced by decreases in a previous row. The legend lists them as a “no stitch.” Skip over them to the next symbol.
Sizes of a garment are often labeled with beginning and ending marks on the chart. This avoids having to chart each size separately, thank goodness!
Tips to avoid working the wrong row: Enlarge a copy of the chart. Use a magnetic board for the chart, moving the magnetic strip to mark your place. If the pattern is re-peated only once, highlight the row once it is completed or check off the row in the mar-gin as it is worked. For a more complicated pattern, list the rows on a separate sheet of paper and check off rows as they are worked. Move a Post-It note to cover rows already worked. On that same sheet make notes and keep track of the last row worked to avoid counting rows when you begin again. Row and stitch counters available at local yarn shops belong in every knitters/crocheter’s tool bag.
Charts or written instructions? The choice is yours.© 2013 Sharon Greve Reach her at [email protected] No reprint without permission.
StashBy Andrea Springer
Creative people are collectors by nature. We turn carefully curated things like yarn and fabric into final products like socks and quilts. Sometimes we spend as much time and energy gathering the things we need to produce finished items as we do producing the finished item itself. There are even a few of us who get more satisfaction from planning a project than executing it. However we roll, we wind up with what appears to the outside world as “stuff.” Crafters call it by the proper term – the stash.
Stash is serious business. It’s an investment account you build up for your craft by making regular deposits. Stashes can be big or small. I consider mine to be of average size, al-though my husband is always a little stunned when he sees it all in one place. I once met a woman who confided that she had secretly given one of her knitting friends a key to her house. She instructed her friend, if she ever died suddenly, the friend was to go over to her house immediately and clear out half of her yarn so that her family would never know how much she actually had. That’s a good friend -- and a bodacious stash.
Like most crafters, I clean things out periodically. I start with a practical purpose but always find that pulling the yarn out of the boxes is like looking through a scrap book. I find the hand painted lace yarn from that little place I found on vacation, or the wool that was on sale at the local yarn shop (LYS) two years ago and had every intention of making that sweater out of. I open the bag with the cotton yarn that was worked into a sweater I absolutely hated when finished. It’s been ripped apart, rewound and is waiting for new inspiration. I find the odds and ends from finished projects that I hate to throw away, but haven’t found a use for - yet. Beautiful raw materials live in our boxes and bags and clos-ets just waiting to be transformed. The unlimited potential is half the fun.
A well-collected, well-used stash tells stories. Any crafter can “read” their stash and tie moments of their creative life to the materials they find. A year ago, our LYS held a charity event. We’d lost two of our own in the preceding months, and their families had delivered their stashes to the shop, at a loss as to what to do with them. Volunteers sorted and catalogued the skeins, and we got together, brought in an auctioneer and started bidding. We raised over $1,700 that night for the local cancer support organization and added a little of our friends’ yarn to our own stashes. We continue to turn the yarn they loved into finished objects and as we create, we remember them fondly. Their stories are now knitted in with ours.
Andrea Springer blogs at www.knittingsavant.com to help folks remember that they have every-thing they need to be successful in knitting and in life.
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Clarkson University • Cheel Center • Potsdam, NYSaturday, June 8 10am-5pm & Sunday, June 9 10am-4pm
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Save The Dates!Borderline Quilters
10th Biennial Quilt ShowThe Seasons of the North Country
Quilters Quest Shop Hop - 11th AnnualApril 25-28, 2013
4 Days of Quilt Shopping Fun!Passports with Charm Bracelets available at all
11 particpating shops!Adirondack Quilts LLC • Flying Geese Fabrics
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