OCTOBER 2025 Stash Newsletter
October is here. WoW! It sure seems like it is still summer which doesn't bother me at all. We have some fun events coming up. We are heading to Quilt Market in Houston on Thursday. Woot. Hannah, Marilyn, four sisters and I are all going so we are sure to bring a lot of fun stuff back with us.
We have a Minky class, Sew Stitchers and a Ball Ornament class scheduled in October. We will keep trying to have classes, one of these times, we will get three people to join us!! If you are interested, please call the stash and let us know.
September was a fun month. Sew Stitchers learned all about jelly rolls and had a fun Chatbot story. The ladies had a great time at the retreat and got a lot done. The barn door sew along from QATD was a hit and the Mystery Quilt starts today. If you want to join, we still have a few kits available.
The new UFO club also started in September. We have a few UFO's to finish. It is nice to encourage and challenge each other to finish them.
We also celebrated our 8th Birthday/Anniversary the end of September. Thank you to everyone who came, wished us well and shopped. We appreciate you!!
Our hours will remain Tuesday - Friday from 9:30 - 5:30.
New Fabric Collections are EE Palette in Purple (more has arrived) along with some other colors!!, Little Seedlings Collection, kits and panels (Farm animals), Stars and Stripes by Northcott fabric, panel and kit, Fall Quilt kit, Fall table runner kit plus more!
Classes: We are excited to offer classes again. We need a minimum of 3 students with maximum of 6 to hold the classes so if you are interested, please call the Stash at 701-974-7899. All details are on our website.
- Sewing With Minky: Oct. 15, $40
- Christmas Ball Ornament Nov 5, $25 includes supplies
- Nativity Wall Hanging: Nov. 12, $45 includes supplies
- T-Shirt Class: Nov. 19: $50 includes interfacing for T-shirts
- Open House: Week of Dec. 3
- Christmas Quilt Show: Dec. 6
See our website at www.SuzysStash.com for more details
STASH UFO September 2025 - August 2026
- Submit your list of UFOs (any amount as long as it is at least 12 - can be more). Make a numbered list along with the name of each UFO and make a copy for yourself.
- Send me the list via snail mail to PO Box 33, Richardton, ND 58652 or bring it to the shop along with $1 for each UFO ( if you have 12 - it is $12, if you have 25 it is $25)
- Each time you get a project done on your list, post a picture to our private FB page or else email it to me at suzysstash@ndsupernet.com and you will get in on a drawing for that month.
- Prizes will be awarded in two categories. One will be the monthly finished projects and the second will be all the projects overall. The monthly drawing will be put into the overall projects.
- Your Duties: Make a list for me and you, Send it to me with $1 per project - get to work beginning Sept. 1
- My Duties: Draw for monthly winners and send prizes. (I am using all the money for prizes - I am not going to keep any of it so there will be some wonderful prizes) The biggest prize will be to get those UFO's DONE!!!!
Sew Stitchers: September celebrated Jelly Roll Month and learned what you can do with a 2 1/2 inch strip. We are going to have Open Sew from 1 to 3 and 4 to 5 with Sew Stitchers inbetween from 3 - 4. Come and sew on your own projects, or come help on charity quilts. It is Free to attend for women and men of all ages that share the joy of quilting and sewing. We will meet the 3rd Wednesday of the month from 3:00 - 4:00 pm in Richardton at the Senior Citizens Center. We will have demos, show and tell, plus other fun stuff. The challenge for October which is totally optional is to bring a Halloween Project.
Prizes are drawn for those who kill bolts and pay with cash or check. We will date the prizes and you have 3 months to pick them up. You can have someone else pick them up for you. Just tell us, you won a prize because we don't always remember. Bolt killer winner is Angie Kunkel. Cash drawing winners are Cindi Ridl and Chris Kleinwaechter. Please remind us you have won a prize!
Other prizes in our prize box are Paula Grady and Cash/Check winners are Kathy Richards & Heather Quandt for August. Nancy Wirrenga and Julie Lambourn for QATD.
Our hours will remain Tuesday - Friday from 9:30 am to 5:30 on mountain time. Look at our website calendar to see when we are open on Saturday. We will stay late if you give us a call. We also will be open by appointment if it works out. Just give us a call if you would like us to be open. We aren't at the shop usually during off hours so you will have to make an appointment early.
The Stash Bag Customer Reward program will remain the same also. You must bring your bag and purchase at least $25 of regular priced items to receive your stash cash. You can use your stash cash on anything but in order to receive more, you need to bring your bag. That's the only two rules - bring your bag and spend $25+ on regular price items to get more stash cash. You can use your Stash Cash bag or Your Stash Warrior bag (you get a warrior bag when you attend a retreat). When you bring your Stash Warrior Bag, you will receive an additional free gift! If you forgot your bag and lost it, you may purchase a new one for $10.
Villa Rosa Pattern Club. You will receive 5 new patterns a month for $9 which includes shipping. Each month six new patterns will be sent to you. You can also opt in for the Table Runner which will cost an extra $1. Call us for more details or to sign up. 701-974-7899.
Eclectic Elements Palette bundle subscription. Each month for 12 months Tim Holtz is releasing a colorway in the Palette collection. We will walk around the color wheel with new fabric. Club members will receive a monthly quilt pattern and a monthly fabric pack of your choice of fat quarters, half yard cuts or yard cuts. You will be guaranteed to be first on the list to receive them. Fat Quarter bundles are $35/month, Half Yard are $65/month and Yards are $130/month. Released so far are Pink, Red, Orange, Yellow, Neutral, Green, Teal, Blue, Indigo, and Purple with a Seasonal bundle.
We are an AccuQuilt dealer and we will match the prices that are shown on their website plus we offer other incentives like stash cash.
Every Wednesday at 9:15 am - FB Live at 9:15 am on Wednesdays. It is a less then a 10 minute video on what is new and what is happening! https://www.facebook.com/stashsuzys is the address on Facebook . We feature about 10 - 12 items each week. They will be listed in a special category called Weekly Specials and New Items under Shop Now. We will list the new items that were shown on our FB Live plus 3 - 6 items that are deeply discounted for one week only or until they are gone. We are also doing a prize drawing each week. Watch the video, share it please (helps get the word out about our shop) and respond in the comments the item you liked the best.
LONG ARM QUILTING SERVICES We are excited to offer Long Arm Quilting Services. Cost will be 2¢ a square inch for most edge to edge computer quilting. Add on Services will be Sew together backing - $5/seam, Binding - 10¢-20¢ inch, Pressing Back or Top - $10, We still have a list of long arm quilters if you are interested in them or want custom quilting done. We are accepting quilts as your bring them in. When you bring your quilt in, we will measure it and have you answer a few questions about quilt design, thread color ect. and give you a date that we hope to have it finished by.
RETREATS Retreats will be on a first come, first deposit, first saved basis. Registration policy is a $50 nonrefundable deposit to save your spot. The retreats will only be held if we have a minimum of 10 quilters including people who attend that are not staying.
You can register for any or all the retreats with a phone call - you can send a check for the deposit or give us a card number over the phone. Any questions please call.
2024 Retreats: Cost will be $225 for 3 days / 2 nights and 7 meals and $150 for 3 days, no lodging and 7 meals. Additional day charge is $25/day and $75/Night. A non-refundable deposit of $50 is needed to reserve your spot.
When you make your reservation, we will assign a room to you and have you put down your non-refundable, non-transferrable $50 deposit. Listed below are the 2025 dates. Nov 7 - 9 Dec. 12 - 14
We will release the new 2025 dates soon. I will post them on our website, our FB page and send out an email.
Quilt Block History
We covered the Nine patch, Log Cabin and Pinwheel in April. May we went over the the eight pointed star, crazy quilt and Rose of Sharon. June was Friendship Quilt, God's Eye, Wild Goose Chase, July was Corn and Beans, Churn Dash and Schoolhouse. August brought us Drunkard's Path, Basket, and Anvil. September was Dresden Plate, Grandma's Flower Garden and Sunbonnet Sue. October will be Double Wedding Ring, Lincoln Platform and Liberty Star Block.
Double Wedding Ring: During the early 1900's women's tastes shifted from dark colors to a rainbow of pastel colors -watermelon pinks, mint greens, and lemon yellows. The Double Wedding Ring was a pattern that lent itself well to the pastel fabrics.
Many of these quilts were made using quilt kits which could be ordered through catalogues. Some of the kits supplied patterns and instructions. The more expensive kits included pre-cut fabrics. These saved the quilters hours of work, as the pattern used hundreds of small pieces which needed to be cut exactly for the pieced quilt to lie smoothly when completed.
A feature of many Double Wedding Ring quilts was its scalloped edge created by the circles that made up the quilt
Lincoln Platform: Deeply engaged in a bloody Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln did not hesitate when Congress presented him with legislation that could energize a weary nation. When he signed the Homestead Act of 1862, President Lincoln sent a clear message that he believed the Union could, and would endure, and that it would prosper.
As a result, 270 million acres of land, owned by the Federal Government, in 30 states, was offered for homesteading, thus creating the Westward Movement, one of the largest migrations of people in our nation's history.
The quilt patterns or blocks that are displayed in the Quilt Discovery Experience were in the quilts used by pioneer women as they traveled West and homesteaded the prairie. They also depict other popular patterns used in 1862, and in successive years, until the Homestead Act was repealed in 1986.
Liberty Star Block: Through the years, women have been closely connected with political issues. Women listened to the men, and from their discussions, formed their own opinions. Their needles became their pens; their quilts their texts.
Patriotic quilts have been made ever since the Revolutionary War. They portrayed love for one's country and celebrated American heroes such as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Quilts featuring the American Eagle enjoyed wide popularity from the late 1780's until the 1840's, were revived during the Civil War and again for our country's Bicenten-nial.
Women used quilt designs to make their political statements. Patterns, which for years had Biblical or household names, were given relevant names by women who had social concerns on their minds. The pattern known as Jacob's Ladder became the Underground Railroad. The renaming of the Job's Tears pattern to Slave Chain, demonstrated northern women's political sentiments.
Happy Sewing!