I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! I’m looking forward to having everyone home for a few days and spending time with them. This means the studio will be closed for a couple of days this week. Check out our hors for the weekend below. Wednesday, November 22: Open, 10am-5pm Thursday, November 23: CLOSED […]
We’re starting a new tradition here at Quilted Joy. Every month or two we’ll be changing out the quilts hanging in the studio to display work by some of our local quilters. Our first featured quilter is our very own Liz Kodner! Liz is one of our longarm teachers , but before getting her own […]
I recently got a big shipment of some pretty amazing rulers. The problem was that I didn’t have any place to display all these new fancy pants rulers. The answer? TJ Maxx! Well, not exactly the store- more like the remnants of a store. One of my local TJ Maxx stores was being liquidated and I […]
We will be open on Monday from 10-2pm for those last minute shoppers. We will be open on Christmas Eve from 1-4pm. We have gift certificates here if you’d like to swing by and pick one up to nestle beneath your tree.
I did a quick video tour of the showroom for you so you can see all the progress that has happened over the last month. Don’t forget to sign up for our monthly e-newsletter so you are notified any time we add new classes or events. Get in here! You will LOVE it!
We had a wonderful turn out for the Grand Opening of the APQS showroom inside Quilted Joy Studios. Lot of people stopped by to play on the machines and do a little shopping. We also announced our upcoming classes which you can find listed here. Sign up soon as the spaces are limited! Plus, I’m […]
Before… After…. Tomorrow is the big GRAND OPENING of the APQS Showroom and Education Center inside Quilted Joy Studios from 10-4pm We will be giving away door prizes every hour (must be present to win). Everyone who stops by in person tomorrow will be entered to win a Janome Mini Sewing machine too! Stop by […]
Yesterday I drove up to the Cincinnati area to install an Intelliquilter system on a customer’s new APQS Freedom. I got to her subdivision and noticed that the whole subdivision was covered in rumble strips. I thought that was a little odd. Who covers the ENTIRE subdivision in rumble strips. They weren’t positioned every 50 […]
While cruising through my local Habitat Restore I stumbled upon this pile: What does it look like to you? I adore the green color. Who knew I’d fall in love with GREEN cabinets, eh? Plus, they were $10 each! Of course they had to follow me back to the shop. Where they were bolted together and […]
I’m so excited to finally announce the date of the new Quilted Joy Studios and APQS Showroom! Please join me on October 26 from 10am- 4pm for our Grand Opening at 10302 Bluegrass Parkway in Louisville, Ky. Click here for a map to the showroom. We’ll have refreshments and fabric loaded on the machines in […]
I’m a little hesitant to show you the before photo but you really need to see what I started with to understand how excited I am. Here’s what the space looked like when I started. Those shelves were used to store shoes for the Jazzercise folks who came to this space before me. The shelves […]
Today I rented a Uhaul to move over the longarm machines and all the fixtures & tables I was storing in my garage. When I walked in to rent the truck the Uhaul manager said, “You’re the one! My wife has been talking about you non stop for two weeks. She is a quilter and […]
Anyone who knows me well knows that I have a secret desire to operate large industrial equipment. I don’t want to do it as a career but I’d really love to operate an excavator, dump truck and bulldozer- to name a few. My new store has 18′ ceilings in the work studio where all the […]
I love my Habitat Restore. They had this listed as a kitchen island. But you and I know it is a checkout stand, right? 🙂 These cabinets are solid wood with dovetail drawers. They are in excellent shape and already painted white. It looks like a perfect checkout stand to me! The other cabinets in […]
I got the keys! This October the Ohio Valley APQS Regional Showroom and Longarm Training Center will open to the public. It is located inside Quilted Joy Studios. There will be oodles of longarm machines, a large classroom, a retail space for notions/wide back fabrics/batting/thread- all in 2700 sq ft of space in Louisville, Ky […]
