I can’t believe it’s time for the fall newsletter! Hopefully, everyone had a relaxing summer and completed lots of projects! Carol has done another fantastic job of filling the schedule with interesting classes to inspire you for new ones. Be sure to stop by our Open House on Thursday, Sept. 3^rd from 6:30-8:00 pm to meet our teachers and see our new projects. This fall we are heading back to school and taking donations for our Resource teachers at Forest Elementary School again. Students bring supplies to their home base teachers but the resource teachers (art, PE, computers, library, speech, reading, etc.) are not so lucky. Please help us help those teachers who see our kids every year and know them best by bringing in any of the following items: paper towels, tissues, hand sanitizer or antibacterial wipes. You will receive a stamp for your donation that will get you 20% off your regularly priced purchases during Open House (a few exclusions apply)!

Our 4^th Annual Rainbow of Hope auction is this quarter! Do you believe it’s time already? What a great event this continues to be. If you have made a quilted item in honor or memory of someone affected by cancer to donate, it is due at the shop by October 3^rd. I am genuinely amazed at your generosity each year and because of that generosity, we have given the Hospice House almost $80,000. The quilt show will be at Lynchburg General Hospital. Please stop by the First Colony Conference Center located in the new Tower Friday, October 23^rd from 3-7pm, Saturday, October 24^th from 9am-7pm and 2-6pm on Sunday, October 25^th and vote for your favorite. All items will be available at the Auction on Saturday, November 7^th at Mountain View United Methodist Church. There are so many ways to participate – check out more details on the back page, click on the Rainbow button on the website or ask any QE staff member. If you are interested in volunteering to help make this year’s auction another huge success, please let me know!

Don’t forget to ask for your raffle ticket for each $25 purchase starting the night of Open House and going through the month of September. We will draw a winning number October 1^st to receive 25% off regularly priced purchases through November. Congratulations to Karyn Hutcherson who won our Summer raffle! Happy Piecing - Tamera

Check out the website, www.quiltedexpressions.com and click on “join QE mailing list” to sign up to be the first to know anything that is going on at the shop. You can also check out pictures of some of our samples. We might even sneak in a secret sale every once in a while! When an e-mail address is returned as undeliverable, it is our policy to give it another try. If your address is returned twice in a row, it is deleted from our database. If you feel your address might have been deleted (or has changed!), please “re-join” our list!

Special Events:

OPEN HOUSE:

Thurs Sept 3^rd 6:30pm-8:00pm

Meet the teachers and check out the fall projects. Bring in paper towels, tissues, hand sanitizer or antibacterial wipes for our FES Resource teachers and get 20% off regularly priced items (exclusions apply).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! Shop once within 7 days of your birthday and receive 25% off your bolted fabric purchase! Proof of birth date required. Discount applies to fabric on bolts only.

BAG LADY DAY:

Third Saturday of each month

Come join us with your QE bag and get 20% off! Ask for details.

DEDICATED QUILTER CLUB

For every $500 spent at QE you will find a reward waiting for you. Nothing to punch, just be sure to use your name at checkout so we can keep track. A big QE thanks for shopping with us.

CLASSROOM USE

Our classroom is free to use for a small group activity or to baste your quilts. Please call ahead to check when the classroom is available.

JELLY ROLL CLUB

Thurs Sept 24^th 6:00pm

Have you jumped on the jelly roll train and don’t know where it’s going? Join Chris and get this monthly club going with great project ideas, strip exchanges, pick your own jelly roll opportunities, idea exchanges and more!

RECOVERY BAGS

Third Thursday of each month

Did you know a fantastic group of ladies meet once a month at QE to make recovery bags for local Cancer patients? They need your help! You don’t even need to know how to sew! Ask for details.

QE’s ANNIVERSARY SALE

October 15^th-17^th

Thurs 10am-7pm Fri/Sat 10am-5pm

It’s going to be a party! Come help us celebrate 17 years in business with storewide savings and fun.

25% OFF RAFFLE

Get a ticket for every $25 purchase in the month of September. We will announce the winning number October 1^stand the winner will receive 25% off until Nov. 30^th.

We are offering a new Block of the Month that you will not be able to find anywhere else! These are original blocks designed by our customers and you get to choose which ones you would like in your quilt!

· Come in or go online and pick out your 12 blocks – blocks may even be repeated if you would prefer!

· Choose your personal kit – Batik or Civil War. Most kits are unique so can choose the colors you like best!

· Register for $20 and receive your first block in Oct.

· Turn in your finished block in November and make a $10 full price purchase and you will receive your next block FREE! Otherwise, your block will be $10 (and so on, and so on).

· When you turn in your last block on time, you will receive a $10 gift certificate towards sashing/binding or backing (we are hoping this will encourage you to finish that last block!!).

· We are going to try to have the pattern makers available the 2^nd Saturday of each month to answer any questions you might have!

· In case you didn’t do the math, you could get all 12 blocks for $10!!

Rainbow of Hope Events:

· October 3^rd: final deadline for projects for 2009 auction - please include registration sheet. Dinner tickets sales will begin.

· October 15^th-17^th: QE anniversary sale (OK, this is not really one of the Rainbow events but I thought I would throw it in there).

· October 23^rd - 25^th: Quilt Show at Lynchburg General Hospital and voting for the Viewer’s Choice award.

· November 7^th: Dinner/Auction

Please join us at Mountain View United Methodist Church on Rte 221 just past Perrowville Road.

5:00pm - closed dinner, private preview and bidding registration for ticket holders

6:30pm - open to the public for viewing and bidding registration

7:00pm - auction begins

(As well as the 10% discount for class supplies)!

Please call ahead if the weather is bad (434) 385-6765. We open the doors when someone can make it in safely. Check our website at www.quiltedexpressions.com

QE HOURS: MONDAY – SATURDAY 10AM -5PM THURSDAY 10AM – 7PM

If you see the flag flying, come on in!!

We are open until 7:00pm on Thursdays

QUILTED EXPRESSIONS, INC

3622 OLD FOREST ROAD

LYNCHBURG, VA 24501