The Gifts We Give Ourselves

Happy New Year!
Another year has come! Welcome 2014. We survived the Christmas Crunch and now that the last party dishes are washed and put away we get to contemplate the new year.With snow everywhere and a soft grey sky.

Did you get what you wanted for Christmas?  Maybe yes, and maybe no. But the best gifts we give to ourselves are the gift of something new tried, some new experiment or expression of who we are.

So what will you give yourself?

• Will you try a new quilt block?
• Learn a new skill?
• Use a color you've never used before?
• Try out a new machine?
• Pull out an old machine?
• Use up all your scraps?
• Make a quilt that is totally planned as new?

All those possibilities await you. They'll blow away your winter blues in the hint of new things happening, new goals reached, new ideas brewing.

As always, we're here at Threadbenders to help you start. Our Friday Morning Block Party does a new block every week. 

We have a color blog series to help you think about colors in new ways.

We have mountains of fabric for you to pick something yummy from, and books full of inspiration, waiting to open new doors.

And most of all, we are quilters like you, who love to share our quilting with everyone who comes through the door.

We hope the year has a million new possibilities for you. We hope for happiness, joy and more fabric. We hope you'll make us part of your new year gift to yourself. Together we'll help blow the blues away.