Bag Making is FUN!
December 14th, 2022
 a bi-monthly publication of StudioKat Designs
 Issue #236
 
Hello and Welcome! 
and with Christmas only 10 short days away, I hope you're about ready to wrap things up (literally) in time for a peaceful holiday with many if not all of those you love. Things have been quite unsettled for us however, and the coming days are likely to be stressful in many ways with some difficult decisions looming in the coming year.
But there's a time and a season for everything isn't there, so we'll work hard to look for and find JOY wherever we can. And sometimes unexpected joy is the best kind of joy to have, right? That'll be our motto anyway, so let's all have the best Christmas possible and I hope you enjoy this issue of "Bag Making is FUN!" 
 
Our Advent Calendar Sale is In-Progress!
 
Our Advent Calendar Sale is already underway! Every day a window in our Calendar opens at 12:01am EST revealing at least two items that will be on sale at an amazing 30% off!

It's a GREAT way to stock up  for your winter projects! Click HERE to get started.

But don’t delay! That window will only stay open for 24 hours!
AND-- if you think you might be ordering again during the course of this sale, just let us know to hold your items & roll them all into one shipment at the end of the sale (or whenever you're done) to save BIG on shipping costs!
 
What Was I Blogging About Back Then?
 
 
 
I have such a large archive of writing on the blog that sometimes I like to go back and see what I was writing about  during this particular week in the past.

1 Year Ago: 12/14/21- Why I Love Giving Handmade
2 Years Ago: 12/16/20- What We're Not
4 Years Ago: 12/20/18- PPC18- the Last Two of Four
10 Years Ago: 12/18/12- Can I Make a Copy of My Pattern
 
 
A Chuckle for the Day
{Click HERE to read more}
special thanks to Sharon McKinney
for sending us this cartoon
 
An Update on our Next New Pattern 
 
 
 
 
Just recently in a post on our website we revealed the latest of the samples we've created as we perfect what will eventually be our 1st new pattern of 2023!
To get more information about this bag design and to see WAY more pictures of it, click HERE

 

 
Rest in Peace Christine McVie
 
 
Christine McVie either wrote or co-wrote half of the sixteen tracks on Fleetwood Mac’s Greatest Hits. (I love “Everywhere.”) She was a marvelous talent!
 

 
12 Christmas Dangers for Our Pets
 
 
 
While there's nothing better than letting furry friends join in with the festivities, items including glass baubles, roasted turkey, poinsettias and pine needles may present a world of hidden dangers to our pets.
It may be the most wonderful time of the year, but unfortunately, many traditional decorations and foods are harmful to pets.  {Click HERE to read more}
 
It's Time for our Annual Holiday Sample Bag SALE!
So...most of you know that once a year we throw open our closets & offer you some fantastic deals on sample bags that will no longer be traveling with us to road shows. 
And here's the exciting news!
This year's sale will start TOMORROW!!! 
In order to make sure that access to the sale bags is fair for everyone across the US time zones, this sale will start tomorrow, Dec 15th at NOON EST.  
The sale will begin when we publish a Blog post describing the bags that are for sale this year. We'll follow this almost immediately with an announcement for our FaceBook page, our FaceBook Sewing Group and on Instagram. If you aren't following us on any of those sites you can use one of the red hotlinks (above) to join now, or if you prefer you can go directly to the Holiday Bag Sale page by clicking HERE (please notethis page will not be available until NOON tomorrow). 
 
 
 
Here's Our Upcoming Show Schedule
 
Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival 2022 - Feb 23-26, 2023 - Hampton, VA
AQS Quiltweek Paducah 2022 - April 26-29, 2023 - Paducah KY 
International Fall Quilt Market 2022- Oct 28-30, 2023 - Houston, TX
International Fall Quilt Festival 2022- Nov 2-5, 2023 - Houston, TX
 
In closing- 
Thanks for reading this month's edition of Bag Making is FUN. I appreciate all of you, and can't wait for things to be better for ALL of us! So that's it until later this month when we'll write to you again!
 
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