Here are the winners and alternates”:

Place	Number	Prize	Person
Winners
1	3014490	Janome 6600	Janet Rll
2	3014343	$300 LongArm	?
3	3013819	$200 LongArm	?
4	8674817	$100 LongArm	?
Alternates
5	3012322		?
6	3014425		?
7	8674301		?
8	3014326		?
9	8674014		?
10	3012389		?
11	8674552		?
12	3012354		?
13	8674794		?
14	3012409		?

The winning numbers and their prizes are shown. Claim your prize by September 20, 2008. Every prize must have a winner!

We need to know who the alternates are to award unclaimed prizes to the alternates. More information is at: www.fisllc.com/id400.html,

Thanks for participating. We had a great time and we hope you did too.

Ultimate Christmas Surprise

Win yourself the “Ultimate Christmas Surprise”! Starting Thursday, September 4, 2008 we are offering a Christmas Surprise! The “surprise” is a Janome Memory Craft 6600 Professional or one of 3 $100 shopping sprees at Forever In Stitches. Tickets will be awarded for each $10 of quilting product purchases [services excluded]. The winning numbers will be drawn on November 30^th at the end of business. The winning numbers will be posted on the web and our window.

Houston’s “Internationals”

We are very excited! We have been chosen to have booths at both International Quilt Association’s Houston events.

The International Quilt Market, for shop owners, is from October 25 – 27, 2008. The International Quilt Festival, open to the public, is from October 30 - November 2, 2008.

We will be offering:

· Raggedy Ruth Designs’™ patterns

· Raggedy Ruth Designs’™ Block Of The Month programs

· Forever In Stitches™ Statler Stitcher™ quilting designs

If you go to either event, please stop by and say “Hello”.

Our Perpetual Sale

Remember, we offer you a perpetual discount on all your quilting product purchases, including sale items! These are the “Velvet Value Vouchers.”

They start at 10% for a purchase starting at $20 and continue up to a 20% in a graduated scale.

BOMC I Available As A Pattern

Bock of Many Colors I” sold out because it was so popular. Many people were disappointed that they could not participate.

It is now available as a Raggedy Ruth Designs™ pattern for those of you who loved the design yet were not able to participate in the BOM.

Long Arm Drawing

Congratulations Jill Sielschott for being drawn as our bi-monthly Long Arm 20% off Coupon winner. As part of our newsletter publishing, we draw a name from our Long-Arm appointment calendar. Eligible entries include anyone who scheduled & kept a quilt check-in appointment during the prior two months.

Please call in advance for an appointment so that we may focus on your project and you can be eligible for this drawing.

“Quilt Pink for hope” Book

We have received a limited supply of the “Quilt Pink for hope” book featuring Mrs. Juliane Boehm’s Trinity Janera’s school 3^rd and 4^th grade quilt from 2006.

New Fabrics

The following fabrics are:

Title	Manufacturer
Sew Much Love	Clothworks
Newton All Year	Clothworks
Gelato	Tara Collection
Midnight Mischief	Clothworks
Winter Wonderland [Flannel]	Maywood

Classes

Classes for September and October are:

Class	Date
Beginner’s Quilting	Tues. Sept. 16, 23, 30 ~ 10-1 or 1-4 Or Tues. Sept. 16, 23, & Oct. 7 ~ 5:30-8:30
Beginner’ Paper Piecing	Tues. Sept. 2 ~ 10-1 or 1:30-4:30
Stained Glass	Thur. Sept. 18 ~ 10-1 or 1:30-4:30
Christmas Runner	Thur. Sept. 25 ~ 1-4 or 5:30-8:30 Or Tue.Oct.7~1:30-4:30 Or Tue. Oct 14 ~ 1-4 or 5:30-8:30

12 Days Of Christmas Kit Available

The beautiful “12 Days Of Christmas” quilt designed by Raggedy Ruth Designs” using Nancy Halversen’s panel of the same name is now available as a kit.

For those who were in the BOM, September is the month to pick up the finishing kit.

Mark your Calendar

Dates to Remember:

Description	Date
Check your ticket numbers from the Summer Sizzle Single Stop Shop Hop	‘Til Sept. 30
Finishing kit pick-up for 12 Days – Now available in Kits!	Starts Sept. 2
Block of Many Colors II Block of Many Colors III	Starts Sept. 2
Beginner’s Quilting Class	Tues. Sept . 16, 23, 30~10-1 or 1-4 Or Tues. Sept. 16, 23, Oct. 7 ~ 5:30-8:30
Beginner’s Paper Piecing Class	Tues. Sept. 2 ~ 10-1 or 1:30-4:30
Stained Glass Class	Thur. Sept. 18 ~ 10-1 or 1:30-4:30
Christmas Runner Class	Thur. Sept. 25 ~ 1-4 or 5 – 8 Or Tues. Oct. 7 ~ 1:30-4:30 Or Tues. Oct 14 1-4 or 5:30-8:30
Quilt submission for Fall Festival Quilt Show	Tues. Sept. 9 ~ 6 – 8 p.m. or Thur. Sept 11 ~ 6 – 8 p.m.
Festival Quilt Show by Bluffton Scrap Artist Quilters	Sat. Sept, 27 ~ 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Bluffton Fall Festival	Sat. Sept, 27 ~ 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Call For Quilts

The Bluffton Scrap Artist Quilters club is calling for quilts from the Bluffton Area Community for the annual Fall Festival Quilt Show at Maple Crest on Saturday, September 27^th. There is a limit of two quilts per person. Call Pat Scheidler for information at 419.358.0593. Quilts are to be submitted at Maple Crest on September 9^th and 11^th from 6 – 8 p.m.

Update Your E-mail Address

Please update your email address information if you have stopped receiving, or never have received the email version of the newsletter and notices even though you requested it.

When an e-mail is returned to us as an unknown address, we switch it to postal mail or, if there is no postal address provided, the person’s entry in the database is deleted.

To change or update your e-mail address, complete the form at www.fisllc.com/id25.html or stop by the shop.

When you receive e-mail from any of the following addresses, it is ours: anyone@fisllc.com, rgrihalva@aol.com or rickg@rgrihalva.com.

Fall Festival

Bluffton’s annual Fall Festival is Saturday, September 27^th from 10-5 [times vary by event]. This year it has been expanded from 5 venues [Downtown, Mennonite Memorial Home, Maple Crest Senior Living Village, the Swiss Historical Society’s Homestead, and Suter Produce] to six, with the addition of the Health Fair.

Many of the events are free. And there is free transportation between venues. Enjoy the quilt show, horse drawn wagon rides, entertainment, kids’ activities, fishing derby, bike rodeo, and displays of Life Flight Helicopter, Fire Trucks, Ambulance, EMS & medical equipment. Participate in the drawings, cholesterol glucose, blood pressure, bariatric solutions, and health screening.

See you there!