Spool of Thread

We are excited to announce that we are teaming up with Elna to share with you a super special Employee Pricing Event. As you know, we really love our Elna sewing machines. They are outfitted with all metal parts, a great warranty and an everyday great price. They are a dream to use and produce excellent results. What more could you want?

Our new Elna’s with the 1st + 2nd generation Elna’s (top, green) from the 1940s.

The Special Pricing extends to all of our in stock models, plus two new sewing machines models that just arrived on Tuesday!

We’d love to introduce you to the new Elna 220: A solid machine with 16 stitches and automatic needle threader.

Elna 220 with easy to find backstitching button.

And the new Elna 520: A new big sister to our beloved Elna 5200. A computerized model with 30 stitches including 6 automatic buttonholes. The 520 also comes with a bonus quilting kit full of sewing machine feet useful in many sewing projects.

The Elna 520 with tortoise + hare speed control.

This special Employee Pricing Event extends to all machines in stock. You will find a selection of prices ranging between $149 to $492. If you’re looking for something different, our flyer also features a number of machines that are not part of our regular inventory and easy for us to special order for you.

Our sale starts now and will run till the end of February. Quantities are limited!

Check out our sales flyer for information. You’ll find even more deals when you visit the shop!

Christmas Cracker project featured on Poppytalk by Janis of Pinecone Camp.

Happy Holidays! Just a short note from us, wishing you the very best this holiday season and a very happy New Year.

Our hours over the next little while are:

December 25th + 26th: Closed

December 27th, 28th, 29th + 30th: Noon – 5:00pm

December 31st, January 1st + 2nd: Closed

We’ll be back on track on January 3rd with new fabric and lots of exciting things planned for 2012.

In case you missed it, the super amazing Janis from Pinecone Camp created the above Cracker DIY for another super amazing Vancouverite, Jan at Poppytalk. The fabric is from Spool of Thread and Janis picked some great ones. I love her idea of making napkins and using them to wrap the crackers! You can find the full DIY instructions on Poppytalk.

We wanted to make these for our Christmas celebration but we ran out of time. Instead, I think they will be perfect for New Years Eve!

This is one of our favourite times of the year at Spool of Thread. With all of the hustle, bustle and needing of that last bit of fabric to finish a project, we decided to extend our hours starting this Saturday, December 10th, to make all of this Holiday sewing, gift making and buying easier on you.

We’re not just extending our hours, we’re also very excited to announce that between now + Christmas we will be open 7 days a week! We are now open on Mondays and super late during the week! Till 9:30pm!

Of course, if you are considering giving a Spool of Thread Gift Card this Holiday season, you can always purchase one anytime on our website using Paypal.

We have also updated our Sew-In schedule and have a few evenings + weekend days set aside for you to come in and rent a machine for an hour.

A full list of our upcoming hours:

Wednesday, December 7th, 11:00am – 6:30pm
Thursday, December 8th, 11:00am – 7:30pm
Friday, December 9th, 11:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday, December 10th: 11:00am – 6:00pm
Sunday, December 11th, 11:00am – 6:00pm
Monday, December 12th, 11:00am – 9:30pm
Tuesday, December 13th, 11:00am – 9:30pm
Wednesday, December 14th, 11:00am – 9:30pm
Thursday, December 15th, 11:00am – 9:30pm
Friday, December 16th, 11:00am – 9:30pm
Saturday, December 17th, 11:00am – 6:00pm
Sunday, December 18th, 11:00am – 6:00pm
Monday, December 19th, 11:00am – 9:30pm
Tuesday, December 20th, 11:00am – 9:30pm
Wednesday, December 21st, 11:00am – 9:30pm
Thursday, December 22nd, 11:00am – 9:30pm
Friday, December 23rd, 11:00am – 9:30pm
Saturday, December 24th, 11:00am – 4:00pm

It’s becoming a tradition to have our Spool of Thread Do-It-Yourself table at Got Craft?. We couldn’t be happier to be back again on Sunday, December 4th for the latest edition of this awesome craft show.

If you haven’t stopped by our table at past events, perhaps to make a Pinwheel Pin or our Prized Ribbon Pin, then be sure to mark the date and come visit us next week. You are in for a treat this year with our darling Bow Pin.

Spool of Thread’s free DIY table has all the supplies + tools needed to make a Bow Pin. Familiar faces from our shop will also be at the event with instruction sheets to help you out if you are stuck creating your Bow Pin.

We even bring pins so that you can place your bow on your sweater or jacket as soon as it finished! The best part of the day is watching everyone match their favourite printed cotton to felt, each colour combination tested with each person coming up with their own spin on the project.

The Bow would also be darling turned into a holiday ornament or tied to a special package, or as Andrea from Got Craft? suggested, add a bobby pin and turn the bow into a holiday hair fascinator.

After stopping by and seeing us up on the stage, be sure to visit all of our crafty friends at the show. Got Craft? hosts over 50 vendors and great for rounding out your holiday shopping list with gifts you are not making myself.

The Details

Spool of Thread DIY table @ Got Craft?

Royal Canadian Legion, 2205 Commercial Drive (@ E.6th Ave), Vancouver

Sunday, December 4th, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

$3 at the door, once you’re in the DIY table is free

We’re very excited to announce our first Social Sew-in!

On Thursday, October 27th from 6:00 – 9:00pm, we’re hosting a get-together of some of the loveliest and most talented people we know… you guys! You are invited to stop by the shop, share a finished project if you’d like, and hang out and sew with us.

Henry and I are planning to work on more of our quilt, or maybe I’ll be sewing some last minute touches on my Birdie Sling bag. Either way, we’re looking forward to seeing all of you.

Plus, being so close to Halloween, what would a sew-in be without treats! Feel free to bring a snack for yourself, or to share if you’d like. $4/hr (half off our regular hourly sew-in price).

RSVP on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/SpoolofThread

This coming Thursday, Spool of Thread is honoured to be hosting the official book launch of Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery.

Hoopla is the newest offering from Leanne Prain, super cool Vancouverite and co-author of Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti. When Leanne stopped by the shop with a copy of the book, we couldn’t have been more impressed. The book beautifully explores and profiles 28 artists that rebel against traditional embroidery designs of flowers and little birds. Instead,  Hoopla focuses on the unusual work that is embroidery with a new, guerrilla-style. I think Leanne put it perfectly when she wrote, “it demonstrates that modern embroidery artists are as sharp as the needles with which they work”.

Thursday night, we will be hosting Leanne and her lovely new book. To celebrate we’ll have a few treats on hand and Leanne will speak a few minutes about the book. Hoopla includes embroidery artists from near and far, but to top Thursday night off, we will have a few of the Vancouver artists on hand as well as their work. Plus, Spool of Thread will have plenty of copies of the Hoopla book, so you can head home with your own copy!

Join us on Thursday, September 22nd from 7:00 – 9:00pm.

We can’t believe that Labour Day is already here!

Our weekend hours are:

Thursday: 11am – 7:30pm

Friday: 11am – 2:00pm

Saturday: 11am – 6pm

Sunday: 11am – 5pm

Monday: Closed

Spool of Thread is open this Labour Day weekend, but we will be closing a few hours early on Friday.

Be sure to stop by on the weekend and find supplies for your beginning of September project!

Everyone here at Spool of Thread is so excited over our newest quilting project, the Ready! Set! Quilt!. When Nicole, one of our instructors, brought the finished quilt by the shop, we couldn’t have been more pleased. The quilt has found its home on our retro chair, and ever since has been touched and picked up by sewers of all levels.

Ready! Set! Quilt! class covers Quilting 101 knowledge from good tips for using a rotary cutter, putting together the quilt top and even quilting the project together using a walking foot. Plus, the best part of the class is hanging out at Spool of Thread with the other students, and sewing. We love the days our quilting classes run, as the shop feels like a day camp for sewers. People sit, drink their tea, chat and stitch away on their new quilts.

For the sample, we picked a gradient color range for the quilt, but we think it would look equally darling using rows of prints, using different prints with all the same colors or anything you can imagine!

For more information visit the Ready! Set! Quilt! class description page.

Ready! Set! Quilt!

Sundays, September 18th, 25th and October 2nd.

11:00am – 3:00pm. $199

Note: A small amount of homework may be required. We scheduled the class first thing in the morning so that students will have time later in the afternoon if they need it to complete the day’s tasks.

Happy early Canada Day, friends! Spool of Thread will have special hours over the long weekend. We will be closed July 1st, 2nd and 3rd. We will also be closed Monday July 4th, but that is a usual Monday for us!

The hours are:

Thursday, June 30th: 11am – 7:30pm

Friday, July 1st: Closed

Saturday, July 2nd: Closed

Sunday, July 3rd: Closed

Monday, July 4th: Closed (per usual Monday)

We’ll be back to normal on Tuesday, July 5th with hours from 11am to 6:30pm.

Thanks!

- Henry + Lili

Swap-O-Rama-Rama is this Saturday and we are going to be there!

What is Swap-O-Rama-Rama (SORR)? It is giant clothing exchange which encourages reuse and creativity in your daily wardrobe. We’ll be at the event with our sewing machines and supplies, ready to help you alter your finds from day.

$6 + a bag a clothes will get you in, and you can take as many clothes as you can carry.

Swap-O-Rama-Rama is this Saturday, June 18th from 11am – 4pm and will be held at the Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut St.

We helped to organize sewing stations 2 years ago, and we’re really excited to be hosting them again!

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Spool of Thread is also excited to be a sponsor of the Powell Street Festival Fundraiser which is tonight at Performance Works at Granville Island. Doors open at 5pm and they’ll broadcasting the game and serving sake and sushi. Plus, 10% of the ticket sales will be donated to the Japanese Red Cross via the Canadian Red Cross.

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Spool of Thread will close at 5pm tonight. Stop by before 5pm to pick up your sewing project for tonight’s game! #BringitHome