New quilt shop resource - Alaska
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We have something similar at my LQS, they call it the Yard Sale. People bring in their excess fabric, measured and marked with the price. The seller gets store credit not cash when the fabric is sold. I have bought some very nice pieces for pennies on the dollar.
#12
Originally Posted by ktbb
Originally Posted by dglvr
They have some great ideas. Wish I lived there. Anchorage is beautifal. Now I know where to go when I come visit my aunt. :thumbup:
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Originally Posted by dglvr
Have you been to the Alaska Fur Exchange?. I'm not sure of the address. She use to work there until recently. She had a stroke so won't be working anymore. I have an exchange student here until June so I'm hoping to go up sometime after that. Would love a quilt shop tour. :thumbup: Oh my aunt lives on Sentry Dr.
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Originally Posted by ktbb
Originally Posted by dglvr
Have you been to the Alaska Fur Exchange?. I'm not sure of the address. She use to work there until recently. She had a stroke so won't be working anymore. I have an exchange student here until June so I'm hoping to go up sometime after that. Would love a quilt shop tour. :thumbup: Oh my aunt lives on Sentry Dr.
#16
All this talk about Anchorage has made me long to come back. It has been years. I used to work at Three Sisters Fabrics - not a LQS... Quilting was not the rage at the time. DH and I enjoyed the fishing when we had time off.
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Originally Posted by Quilt Mom
All this talk about Anchorage has made me long to come back. It has been years. I used to work at Three Sisters Fabrics - not a LQS... Quilting was not the rage at the time. DH and I enjoyed the fishing when we had time off.
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Because of all this interest in Anchorage and quilting, maybe we ought to plan a real Quilter's retreat for folks that want to come in from other states....get in your quilting fix while seeing the most beautiful country in this country (IMHO!)...Hmmmm! have to talk to the shop owners about this idea when I get home.
#19
Glad to hear the take-over was not hostile...
If you plan a retreat, I hope you post it on the board. I'd like to know about it.
Another time to visit might be just before the regular tourist season... We came in May one year, and saw the last of the snow on the mountains. Before we left, it was gone, and we had had a lot of fun outside.
If you plan a retreat, I hope you post it on the board. I'd like to know about it.
Another time to visit might be just before the regular tourist season... We came in May one year, and saw the last of the snow on the mountains. Before we left, it was gone, and we had had a lot of fun outside.
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Originally Posted by ktbb
Because of all this interest in Anchorage and quilting, maybe we ought to plan a real Quilter's retreat for folks that want to come in from other states....get in your quilting fix while seeing the most beautiful country in this country (IMHO!)...Hmmmm! have to talk to the shop owners about this idea when I get home.
She was very talented. She signed stuff in the name of Von.
Now that she has had a stroke she is no longer able to make these beautifal items :( . I can't wait to come see her and if you do get a retreat together let me know. Would love to come for it. ;-) Oh this doll is called Mountain Man Trapper
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