Hope you enjoyed our little Christmas/Sewing jingle!!
Until next time,
Susan
Hope you enjoyed our little Christmas/Sewing jingle!!
Until next time,
Susan
Our Surrey/Langley store is looking for a part-time sales associate to add to our creative & hard working team.
This position will include retail sales in our storefront as well as some work in our warehouse & shipping department. Other duties may include sewing samples for the store and/or for classes, re-stocking, answering phones, using the cash register, possibly teaching classes and more.
Our ideal candidate:
To apply for this position, please reply to susan.m@agreatnotion.com with your resume and a cover letter. Please include in your cover letter how long you have been sewing and the amount of customer service experience that you have.
Here is our latest Class Schedule for the month of June. These are all the classes that we offer, but please confirm with each store class availability before you attend. Many classes are cancelled due to insufficient numbers one week prior to the class. Also remember we do require a full week notice if you have to cancel out of a class to get a full refund. This extends to 30 days if it is a traveling instructor.
As we head into warmer weather and summer holidays, we would like to remind you of our open hours. We will be open Monday to Saturday; 9:30am to 5:30pm starting July 2, 2018. We are closed every Sunday and all Stat. holidays. We will not be open any late nights for the months of July and August.
Until next time,
~Susan
Here is our April 2018 Class Schedule. Please make sure you check with each store for class availability.
Until Next time,
Susan
As the flowers start to bloom and the days get brighter and warmer, we welcome all the new things that Spring has to offer. We have just published our newest class schedule and we think you are going to like the assortment of classes we have for the Spring and Summer 2018 class schedule. Our basic beginner classes fill up the quickest, so if you have ever wanted to get started or back into sewing or quilting, now is the time to sign up.
In the Beginner Sewing class you will learn to use the basic functions on your machine, learn how to lay out and cut out a pattern, learn some basic sewing techniques and then sew a couple of projects together. In this class you will make a square pillow and a pair of yoga pants.
How about if you would like to learn to quilt, we have a wonderful instructor that has been teaching this class for years. Join Jean as she takes you through the basics of quilting, cutting and piecing together a quilt top. She also starts with a refresher Rotary Cutting class and finishes with Quilting with your walking foot and perfectly bound classes.
Some of the most popular classes in the past few years have also been repeated. Learning the basics of how to make a T-Shirt quilt, a Landscape quilt, paper piecing or how to recover a lampshade and even doing some quilt blocks in an embroidery hoop are offered. Below is just a small sample of the projects in our class schedule.
We like to encourage people to take classes as we always hear such positive comments about how fun and informative they are. Come and take a class, learn something new, make some new friends and leave with an awesome project.
Click on the link at the top of the page, Class Registration and see what would be right for you!!
Until next time,
Susan
At this time of year we like to look back and reflect on what has happened over the last 12 months. 2017 started with our Annual Customer Appreciation day in January as well as many classes for our winter schedule. We taught many “newbies” how to sew and quilt, many more how to use their embroidery machines, even more how to make things like bags, wreaths, rag quilts, slippers and more. The stand out class early in 2017 was our Tuffet class. People were amazed they could make a lovely piece of furniture for their home. 2017 saw the start of celebrations for Canada’s 150th birthday and we offered many classes focusing on that. Leading into March, we spend some time getting ready for the CreativFestival out at the Tradex in Abbotsford. We not only had our big A Great Notion booth, but also had representatives in the Bernina, Babylock, Pfaff and Husqvarna booths. We are always very happy to sell just the right machine to the right person.
Jumping into our Spring Schedule of classes was next and we were very happy with the turnout of students again taking all those beginner classes as well as other creative classes. The ladies in both stores really try their hardest to come up with classes they think many people would enjoy. In May, Judi was off the Quilt Market where she got many new ideas and was inspired by what is hot in the quilting and sewing market. She came back with new fabric lines, new notions and an eagerness to get more people hooked on quilting, sewing and embroidery.
Ron Collins was here in June to teach a class full of ladies the importance of fit and to show them many tips of the trade in getting that perfect “store bought” look in a homemade project.
As we entered the summer things started to slow down, but with Row by Row- “On the Go” starting the first day of summer we were visited by many regulars as well as tourists that were out collecting their patterns. We always have such fun meeting new people from around North America.
September is always the start of the new year for us. We feel once the kids go back to school and everyone gets back to some sort of regular routine, our classes seem to fill up. Again we taught many how to use their new machines, how to sew and how to do many quilting projects. We again offered the Tuffet class and as always it filled up fast and the ladies were amazed at how their finished projects looked. Ron Collins was here again for another Ultimate fit class, which was very popular. Between classes and training, our staff is kept quite busy helping customers with all their sewing and quilting needs. In October Keith and Judi were off to visit their daughter as she gave birth to a precious baby boy, making him their fourth Grandson!! Judi is always over the moon when she gets to make a new quilt for one of those boys!!
As the year was quickly coming to an end, we had a very successful Black Friday sale, the 12 Days of Christmas is always a hit with our customers (but oh so much work for our little elves) and now we have a wonderful “Everything you wanted, but didn’t get for Christmas” sale going on until January 6.
We would like to thank all our customer both near and far, those that support us through our catalogue and those that support us by buying local and from a small business. As life online gets more prevalent, we understand the need for people to do their shopping online, but also feel there is an important need for the Brick and Mortar shops to stay in the communities. We love what we do, we love helping you pick out your fabrics and notions, we love teaching you how to use that new machine, we love teaching all the “newbies”, we love helping with your sewing and/or quilting problems and we love to see your finished projects!! Having somewhere to go, to get that “hands on” approach is something the online stores can not give to their customers.
We have seem many new staff members join our family this year, we welcome them with open arms and are happy for their insight, eagerness and energy as they help you with all your sewing, quilting and embroidery needs. For the staff members that left us this year, we thank you for your service, your friendship and dependability.
We wish you nothing but health, happiness and prosperity in the New Year and hope to see you in 2018!!
Until next time,
Susan
Welcome to our post about our Saturday Sampler for this year. We have chosen two groups of fabrics; modern bright and vintage floral. One block is released each month in class that takes place on the last Saturday of the month at 9 am. We have close to 50 participants, in each store, all squeezed into the classroom to learn about the latest block and the techniques that were used. It is in this blog that we will post the latest photo of the block taught in class. The blocks are 12″ finished.
Until next time,
Susan
We are please to announce our new fall schedule. We think you are going to like the variety of classes we have come up with as we “Welcome you back to Sewing”!! September is always the start of our NEW YEAR and we hope you like some of the class samples we have come up with. We still offer the stand-by classes; Beginner Sewing, Beginner Quilting, Intermediate Sewing and all the Master classes for all the machine brands we sell. Tuffets have been very hot the last year or two, so we will be offering another round tuffet class at our Abbotsford Store as well as a square tuffet at our Surrey/Langley Shop. Saturday Sampler is back, the last Saturday of every month with with either the Vintage Florals or Modern Jewels fabrics to choose from. We are also pleased to offer our 4th annual “Jelly Roll Race”; buy a fabric jelly roll and come race to finish a quilt top in less than four hours.
Our annual “Welcome back to Sewing Sale” begins on September 5, 2017 and runs for 2 weeks. This is a great opportunity to buy some great notions at wonderful prices as well as stock up on that fabric that you have been eyeing!!
Attached is the PDF version of our latest Class Schedule, machine sales as well as our very special “What’s New” presentation nights.
We hope to see you in the shops very soon
Click on the image above and it will take you to our Class Schedule brochure
Until next time,
Susan
Just a reminder of our hours for the summer!! We will go back to our regular hours starting September 5, 2017
We hope to see you over the summer!!
Our class schedule for the fall will be ready by mid August!!
We are participating in Row by Row, On the Go, we also have kits for the Row by Row Junior available at each store as well as kits for the 9th Row.
Have a wonderful Summer!!
Until next time,
Susan
