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11/24/2021

I would love to have you stop by my online shop anytime now through Monday to stock up on ChiaoGoo needles, sets, and more at a great price.
https://shopsmartisans.com
We're having our sales event of the year -- our
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, BLACK FRIDAY, SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY, and CYBER MONDAY SITE-WIDE SALE
We're off this week to celebrate the holiday with family and friends. While we're away, I invite you to save 15% on all orders over $50 -- even sale items. This offer is good now through-and-including Monday, November 29, 2021.
Orders placed during the sale will not start shipping ship until Friday, November 26th. We expect 2 - 3 days handling times for a few days after we start shipping. Please keep this in mind when ordering.
During the sale, we will also donate 5% of all purchases on this site to TAKE (The Ankeny Klothing Exchange), a local non-profit whose mission is to provide clothing and household goods to people in need.
https://www.facebook.com/TAKEThe-Ankeny-Klothing-Exchange-1324332490938420

Shop Smartisans for textile arts and crafts (quilt, sew, knit, crochet, weave, spin, paint, print, or mix your media) books, videos, patterns, tools, notions...

06/30/2018

Tee hee!

Even in 1815 we could be interrupted from our embroidery by a crazy tweet. (This was one of my favorite paintings at The Clark in Williamstown, MA this morning.)

02/23/2017

We currently have free shipping to USA addresses for everything on the web site. If you need a large quilt ruler, for example, this is quite a bargain. Hope you'll stop by for a bit of shopping and take advantage of this offer. https://shopsmartisans.com/creative-grids-quilting-rulers-free-shipping

Shop Smartisans supplies Creative Grids Quilting Rulers at the Lowest Prices & Offers Free Shipping in the USA

01/25/2017

We have a huge sale on Lucy Neatby knitting DVDs along with one of her books (as well a few knitting books and DVDs by some other awesome authors/teachers).

https://shopsmartisans.com/lucy-neatby-knitting-dvds-on-sale-today

I think Lucy Neatby's DVDs are as good as they get. They're super-professionally shot and produced. She's a fantastic teacher and covers every knitting technique imaginable in great detail. Plus she has really colorful hair. ;-)

Many are reg. $29.95, now $19.95. Buy 4 or more from the list of Super Sale DVDs and Super Sale Books and get an additional $15 off -- no coupon needed.

01/14/2017

Turn complicated into easy with these Creative Grids triangle and circle quilt rulers. We have a new shopsmartisans.com blog post about them:
https://shopsmartisans.com/blog/turn-complicated-into-easy-with-creative-grids-triangle-and-circle-quilt-rulers/

01/10/2017

Lesley Riley's TAP Transfer Artist Paper - $40
Hancock, MI (49930)
We just got in the first of two shipments of Lesley Riley's TAP Transfer Artist Paper. This stuff is incredibly useful for transferring images to fabric paper, wood, glass, metal, and more. For the last couple of months it has been difficult to find. Most shops are still out of stock and it isn't clear when more will be available. I don't expect it will last long but wanted to let everyone know we have it again.

https://shopsmartisans.com/lesley-riley-s-tap-transfer-artist-paper-18-sheet-pack

FREE SHIPPING to any address in the USA :)

BRAND NEW in manufacturer's packaging. Transfer your imagination into art with TAP, a premium-quality transfer paper that allows you to transfer images to virtually any surface with the heat of an iron. Have more fun with fabric, paper, wood, glass,

01/06/2017

We sell LOTs of quilt rulers and we ship them all over the world. They come in all shapes and sizes, and many of them are all-too-each to break. So you should know that we take extreme care to pack them for shipping so that they will arrive ready for you to use in your next project.

Please check out our recent blog post about how we pack large square quilt rulers...

https://shopsmartisans.com/blog/professional-protective-packaging-absolutely/

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11/16/2016

More about Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn... They are incredibly talented, creative, and skilled fiber artists. They written many books and taught and exhibited in the UK and around the world. Here's an interview with them, which will give you a sense of their artistry.

http://www.textileartist.org/jan-beaney-and-jean-littlejohn-interview/

If you are not familiar with their art -- or even how fiber art truly is both a fine art and a fine craft -- I would encourage you to explore their work. To that end, I've set up a special sale on one book and one video by the pair -- with each one being more than 50% off.

Stitchscapes book:
https://shopsmartisans.com/stitchscapes

"Beaney - Littlejohn In Action" dvd:
https://shopsmartisans.com/beaney-littlejohn-in-action

11/16/2016

My niece took this photo on the shore of Lake Superior last July. It was a perfect day for relaxing -- warm sun, cool breeze, sound of water gently lapping the shore.

I love the meditative feel it gives by having the stack of rocks in focus and everything else softly out of focus.

This wonderful photo brought to mind a page from Stitchscapes by Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn -- showing some sketchbook ideas that combine stones with sea and skyscape (https://shopsmartisans.com/stitchscapes)