Bumble Bee Quilting

We have not been writing much recetly, not that there has been little happening but lack of opportunity (ie I’ve been lazy)

But, meantime, Linda has sent us an email with comments on our online fabric shop.

A critique would be a better word, but all her points are worthwhile and entirely valid. We might be able to design and construct a quilt from scratch to a high standard but doing the same with a website is a completely different ball game.

So, Thank you Linda - we have taken on board your comments and have already actioned some. Other changes along the lines of your suggestions are in the pipleline.

Our online fabric shop is here if you wish to see developments, or even buy fat quarters online from the comfort of your own home or library - now with Free Shipping.

Some will recall that we were ram raided a few months ago - see here

Well, those good people of Heddlu Gogledd Cymru (North Wales Police) have been most diligent. We have previously reported that the scoundrels who committed these henious acts had been apprehended. We also understand that the judiciary has dispensed justice in whatever form was deemed appropriate.

Well, we have now been reunited not just with our lost fabric bag (battered but still useable as a freebie) but we have had over 90% of our cash returned! Whoever else has lost cash as a result of crime before and yet got it back? Certainly, we poor naive fools have never heard of such a thing.

Furthermore, the courts, in their infinite wisdom, have made compensation orders for the physical losses we have all sustained.

We therefore salute the much maligned members of the local constabulary and thank them for their fruitful efforts.

After the damp dark months of Winter we now have sun and bright skys.

Our season is starting again and we are full of vigour and keen to get on with our patchwork and quilting in our little craft unit.

The underground operations have restarted and our craft centre is again full of happy smiling faces and cheery squeals, and that’s just from the crafters themselves.

We are looking forward to welcoming all our happy visitors to our shops in Corris and we know that we shall have something to delight you all.

We have nearly completed the shopfitting! Seems to have taken months, but winter is not an easy time to rebuild and restructure the shop.

But, we shall be ready for Easter - tell us if you like the new shop design or not, We hope it makes the shop seem larger with easier access to the retail area and more room for us to design and make our patchwork and quilting goods.

The builders have also finished all the repairs from the ram raid at Corris Craft Centre - varnishing aside, which had better be soon as the doors are already warping in the damp.
Shame that the locks they fitted do not meet British Standards. We shall replace these soonest.

Otherwise, we are on course for another busy season at the craft centre, we hope to meet another several thousand quilters this year and swap more yarns (wrong thread, sorry)

To those who turned up over the half-term expecting to see Bumble Bee Quilting

Apologies

We have both been struck down with the bug - very rare for either of us to be ill, rarer still for both to be ill at the same time.

We are now, however, recovering and hope to see you all again soon……

For those searching for fabric deals, our online shop still has a range of quilting fabrics at sale prices, all cut into fat qarters. While stocks last — see our online shop here

“Wow - its cold in here, I’m going outside” …..

How many times have we heard that this winter. Loads. Yep, our quilting workshop is cold, it even freezes the corns off our sewing fingers. Not good.

Anyway, we have splashed out and got ourselves a gas heater. So, no more blasts of cold air as you enter from the outside. But now a pleasant and comfortable ambience so that you can watch us quilt, browse our shop, puchase or even join the sewing experience here in rural Wales.

So, drop by Bumble Bee Quilting at Corris Craft Centre and take advantage of our risen thermometer, just dust the icicles off yoursleve first and savour the moment….

Our quilting fabric shop (selling mainly 100% cotton fat quarters) also has a sale.

Bumble Bee Quilting online shop may be found here and all those sale items here

Peruse our online shop - we hope you find some fabrcs you like.