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The third Annual Romancing Eastern North Carolina shop Hop is being planned for 6 through 10 February 2008. Mark your calendar today for next year and standby for ticket selling information and more scoop on the quilt!

The second Annual Romancing Eastern North Carolina Shop Hop is currently underway with pre-sales of the passports available at all local shops. The dates for this years hop are: February 7th through the 10th, with all shops open the same hours! Purchase your passport today for just $5. The prizes this year are: Pfaff Sewing Machine, Pfaff Serger and/or one of six $100 gift certificates. Remember there are only eight stores participating this year!

The first Annual Romancing Eastern North Carolina Shop Hop was a huge success!! Hoppers bought a passport and Hopped to 9 different and unique quilt stores and received a different block pattern from each store. Those who hit all 9 stores turned in their passports and got a chance to win one of these great grand prizes:

Elna 3230 sewing machine, Pfaff sewing machine, Pfaff serger or one of the $100.00 gift certificates. A big thanks goes out to the following stores who participated in the first Romancing Eastern North Carolina Shop Hop:

All About Quilting- Jacksonville, NC
The Country Collection- Jacksonville, NC
The Cotton Patch- Jacksonville, NC
Ann's Sewing Basket- Greenville, NC
Sew it Seams- Morehead City, NC
The Quilted Butterfly- Morehead City, NC
The Country Collection- Kinston, NC
Sewing Solutions- New Bern,NC
Cotton Fields- Washington, NC

It was such a huge success that we are doing it again, stay tuned for more details - only real change so far is that Ann's Sewing Basket in Greenville has closed - so that will limit our hop to 8 shop for February of 2007! Stay tuned and save your money!

Did you know that there ia a local pattern designer here in Jacksonville? Two Kwik Quilters is the name and quilting is the game. Come in and check out these quick and easy patterns from purses to quilts, you are bound to find the one thats right for you. New!! The Elna Xquisit 9020 is here, sewing and embroidery all in one. The only embroidery machine with a built in bobbin winder. Some other features are the automatic needle threader, built in scissors, knee lift and more. Come and check it out today. Come in and test drive our newest member of the Elna line-up, the 7200. This machine will speed up your quilting time with 1000 stitches a minute, you will be able to finish all of your UFO's without any excuses! Some of its features are its built in needle threader, built-in scissors, knee lift and quilting table, not to metion the 126 built in Heirloom, quilting and decorative stitches. You can go to Our Friends and click on Elnausa and find more information on this great machine as well as our other fabulous sewing machines. I'm sure you will find one to suit your needs.Just when we thought the Quilters Dream couldn't get any better! Introducing the new Quilters Dream 2 Elna 6600. You've gotta see this machine in action. With 200 plus stitches, 3 alphabets and a Personal Stitch Memory setting, you will have all the machine you will ever need. Some of the great features are the knee lift, start/stop capabilities for use without pressure foot, acrylic quilting table extension, walking foot, free motion quilting foot and 1/4" guide foot to name a few. Click on the link to elnausa.com and check out this machine or come into the store and take it for a test drive. It won't let you down.