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Happy New Year!!

 

Hi, I know it has been a long time between posts, but 2011 was not kind to me and it is only now that the year has ticked over that I feel renewed and ready to join the functioning world.

My Mum died last year, my marraige dissolved and I struggled..it was difficult but with the help of my beautiful children I got through it. The shop would not have kept going without my wonderful staff, Sue, Carmel and Eva. I will always remember your kindness and support. The girls who come every week to class, the champagne we shared, all helped me to keep going.  I am looking forward to a busy 2012 and to starting some exciting new sewing projects.

Tinkers Cart will be stocking the fabrics and kits for Homespuns project of the month, a collection of luggage items, made using the new Amy Butler range. Make sure to get the magazine every month to get the patterns for the items, including one designed by Amy Butler, herself!

New items at the moment include the kit for Leanne Beasleys "a few of my favourite things sewing roll" the kit incudes everything and costs $45.00.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stay tuned for more updates, I did manage to post photos of the retreat for 2011, look in the right hand column and see if you can find a pic of yourselves, it was a great day and again staff, family, Leanne, Rosie and Melly, and a lot of hard work made the day a huge success. News on this years retreat will be out soon, all the best for now  xxxxTracy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cherry Fizzzzzzz

Forgot to mention this entire range of fabrics called Cherry Fizz, if you like gingham, cherries, spots and stripes, then this is the range for you!!

 
22 bolts of fabulous fabric at $22.00 per metre, check out the full range in the left hand column.

fabric and books galore!!

A sweet new book by Me and My Sister Designs, 3 times charm, 7 small, funquilts, use charm squares to quickly and simply piece a table topper, wall hanging or baby blankie in one day!! This vaue packed book is $21.00 and is in stock now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some Kind of Wonderful is a beautiful new book from Anni Downs. Containing 16 new designs, this book is packed with projects featuring applique, patchwork, punchneedle and hand stitchery, this book is also in stock now and costs $48.00.

 

 

 

This pinwheel book shows you how to make continuous pinwheels using the "Twister" tool. Its fun, fast and easy with endless possibilities. The "Twister" tool is due in any day now, but the book is in stock now and costs $24.00.

 

 

 

 

I know its still May, but Christmas has come early to Tinkers Cart with the arrival of Nancy Halvorsens new book Jingle All The Way, packed with an array of projects to decorate your home this Christmas. We also have in store Nancys new range of Christmas fabric,also called Jingle All The Way, the book is priced at $32.00 and the fabric is $22.00 per metre and the panel $13.80.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The beautiful new fabric range from Terri Degenkollo, Whimsicals, called Winterberry Lane and the book Make It Merry, will make your Christmas warm and merry. The book is in store now and costs $32.00 and the fabric will be any day now. The panel on the left is $13.80. The fabric is $23.00 per metre. 

All of our ranges can be seen in the fabric column on the left hand side. Enjoy!!

more news

These are a few new fabrics we have added to our range of black, white and red fabrics, I absolutely love the Newspaper fabric, the colours are so crisp!!

 

I have also uploaded the remaining Wild Rose fabrics, used in the "My Town" BOm in the Homespun magazine, I have written the quantities we have available next to the pictures, please contact us if you would like to order some, this is the last of the fabric and we are unable to get any more!!

The remaining pieces of fabric for Leanne Beasleys queen size quilt in Vignette have come in, so full kits are available now. You can also go onto our mailing list to have your copy of Vignette posted quarterly. Don't forget our retreat in July with Leanne Beasley, Rosalie Quinlan and Melanie Hurlston. Tickets are selling fast, its looks like it will be a great day. 

 The Janome Mothers Day sale is in full swing at Tinkers Cart, the Horizon is a steal at $3499, and comes with a free standing table valued at $499. Machines are in stock now, with lots of specials, so go on, spoil yourself, you deserve it.

Happy Mothers Day to all Mums on Sunday xx

 

 

 

Wild Rose kits for My Town BOM

 

 

 

 

Tinkers Cart is happy to announce that we do have more kits available, but numbers are strictly limited. The kit is $260 plus $20 post in Australia and $45 post to New Zealand. We have sustituted the love letters beige for the love letters olive, as we weren't able to get more of the beige, we have also substituted the silhouette for autumn rose, same yellow background, just a slightly larger flower, please call us on 0747552336 to place your order, or email your credit card details and address to tinkerscart@yourhub.com.au.

We are now in full Retreat mode and are taking bookings for our

 "When Friends Gather" day on 30.07.2011, our guests will be Leanne Beasley, Rosalie Quinlan and Melanie Hurlston. So why not book a trip to visit tropical Townsville for a balmy weekend away. Our winters truly are beautiful.

The cost for the day is $120.00, a nonrefundable deposit of $50 is payable on registration. The 3 designers will produce a project each and each goody bag will have a copy of all of the projects, a starter kit for one project and lots of other treats. Morning tea, lunch with champagne and afternoon tea are also included. The event will be held at the C.W.A hall in Denham Street, Townsville city. We would love to see you there.

Our fabrics for Leannes mystery quilt in her new magazine "Vignette" are almost all here, sorry it has taken so long but we can't control our suppliers!!

It is certainly worth waiting for, so don't forget to sign up for your subscription to "vignette" and kits will be available for the quilt. Take care, and we will be back soon.....the sun came out today..hip hip hooray!!!

P.S. Janomes Mothers Day catalogue now out, come in and bag a bargain for Mothers Day. The Horizon is a great buy at $3500, with a FREE $499 table, and FRee scissors with every machine sold. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tinkers Cart is happy to announce that we do have more kits available, but numbers are strictly limited. The kit is $260 plus $20 post in Australia and $45 post to New Zealand. We have sustituted the love letters beige for the love letters olive, as we weren't able to get more of the beige, we have also substituted the silhouette for autumn rose, same yellow background, just a slightly larger flower, please call us on 0747552336 to place your order, or email your credit card details and address to tinkerscart@yourhub.com.au.

We are now in full Retreat mode and are taking bookings for our "When Friends Gather" day on 30.07.2011, our guests will be Leanne Beasley, Rosalie Quinlan and Melanie Hurlston. So why not book a trip to visit tropical Townsville for a balmy weekend away. Our winters truly are beautiful.

The cost for the day is $120.00, a nonrefundable deposit of $50 is payable on registration. The 3 designers will produce a project each and each goody bag will have a copy of all of the projects, a starter kit for one project and lots of other treats. Morning tea, lunch with champagne and afternoon tea are also included. The event will be held at the C.W.A hall in Denham Street, Townsville city. We would love to see you there.

Our fabrics for Leannes mystery quilt in her new magazine "Vignette" are almost all here, sorry it has taken so long but we can't control our suppliers!!

It is certainly worth waiting for, so don't forget to sign up for your subscription to "vignette" and kits will be available for the quilt. Take care, and we will be back soon.....the sun came out today..hip hip hooray!!!

P.S. Janomes Mothers Day catalogue now out, come in and bag a bargain for Mothers Day. The Horizon is a great buy at $3500, with a FREE $499 table, and FRee scissors with every machine sold. 

More new stuff

This is a fabulous set of 5 metal teeth zips, 1 yard of each colour, $24 for the set, and we also have the patterns for $15 each, you can make your own bugs and flowers, or whatever takes your fancy!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also new in store today is the 5 - 10 -15+Fat Quarters books, bursting with projects to make with fat qtrs, $35 each.

Adding to our range of rulers we have the massive 18 1/2 in square creative grids ruler at $60...its huge!







 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have sold out of our Wild Rose, lot of kits..it has been hugely sucessful and Tinkers Cart has been proud to support PK Fabrics and Australian Homespun with this project. Back with more tomorrow...

Our Town Block of the Month

 
 
This beautiful range of fabrics from Blackbird designs is used in Homespun Magazines Block Of The Month "Our Town". We are delighted to have full kits available for this BOM, the cost is $260 for the kit and $20 post, anywhere in Australia. This kit is strictly limited, the fabric will not be reprinted so don't wait too long to place your order!!!

At this stage we are selling full kits, we will have individual pieces of fabric from this range available for sale in 2 weeks.

Please call us on 0747552336 to place your order, all the best Tracy

Vignette Vol 2

Hi, just a quick note to let you all know that Vignette Vol 2 is now in store, the "Where the wind blows" fat qtr sets are also in and most of Sweet Broderie and the Lecien basics, we should, fingers crossed, have the rest of the fabrics in a couple of weeks.

 
Don't forget our retreat in July, come and meet Leanne, Rosalie and Melly for a day of fun and sewing!!

 

Cyclone Yasi continued...

 

This is our pool, before and after Yasi.

 

This is the view from outside our house, before and after...note the gum leaves are all gone...

 
 
 This is the army cleaning up in front of our house, yesterday..

 
I have posted photos in the album on the right hand side, Yasi. We lost power at home on Wed night at 8.30pm, and still don't have it now, Sun 2pm. We have power here at Tinkers Cart and we slept here last night, John, me and Elle, Frosty, Sasha and Kitty, it was so nice to have air con.

People in Townsville all say we are grateful that there was no loss of life and it appears the main damage was to trees, note..see my nieghbours house in the album, a gum tree broke his house in the centre when it fell on the roof. I would like to share what it was like, and yes I am grateful that we are all alive..the noise was deafening, the winds howled and roared around us, we were downstairs and in the centre of our house and heard the full volume when we went to the loo, very scary. The pressure in the house changed and we had to keep popping our ears, the winds went on and on,from about 8.30pm wed night to 6am thurs morning. We have a 4m x 3 m window upstairs and everytime there was an extra strong wind gust, I waited to hear if the window would break, wondering what noise it would make, if indeed it did break. We had our radio and listened to reports all night, we finally fell asleep just before dawn and woke at 7am to look outside, the winds were still cyclonic, the light was grey green and very eerie, we looked across the road at our beloved river and were shocked, all the leaves were gone, it felt like we were the only people in the world, the wind was still howling, yet it was strangely quiet, we carried the dogs outside, they had to pee, I looked at the debris, but didn't register it, picked the dogs up and went back into our coccoon. We made a coffee on the gas camper cooker thing and then decided at 8am to go to the shop to check for damage. The number of trees down on our road was amazing, we live on the road that travel alongside the river and at least every second tree had fallen. All that day we stayed in our house, the winds were too strong to start cleaning up outside, on Friday the airport opened and planes started flying overhead, govt planes and defence and ses helicopters, we only had our tiny radio, and conserving power, we only listened to it for an hour at a time, so we didn't have a great picture of what was happenning around us, we felt isolated, we cleaned up our yard yesterday and the army came and cleared our road yesterday, that was surreal, to see so many soldiers and their equipment, they powered through the debris. We are starting to feel a bit more normal, and the shop will open tomorrow as usual, but of course life isn't "as usual" many people have been affected by Yasi and it will take many sewing mornings, coffees and cakes, and in our case champagne classes to completely recover. So my advice is too certainly"get on " with things but to be sure and talk about the terror of that night and the recovery period that follows. Stay in touch with friends and let people know if you need a helping hand or a friendly ear....thats all for now..hope I haven't rambled too much..but it has been quite a week..all the best Tracy

cyclone yasi

Hi, just a quick note, we are just a few hours before cyclone yasi hits, this storm is more life threatning than any other storm in Qld history. Several thousand people have been evacuated from low lying areas in Townsville, we have prepared the shop as best we could, storm water inundation is now our biggest worry, if the roof doesn't blow off first. Here at home we are ready,,it is just a waiting game now, our thoughts and prayers go out to all who will be affected by this "super storm," take care, see you on the other side!!!