The Penultimate Posting and 4 Sawmillers Shopping Days Left.

Hi Everyone,
As the title suggests there is only one more posting to go before the Holidays. We hope you have all been able to get those last minute jobs done, if you are stuck for quilty gifts call and see us, don’t forget we close on Sunday until early January.
We have also just received some [...]

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Dancing With Upper Hutt Stars and 5 Days To Go.

Hi Everyone,
Yesterday was a busy day for Kevin and I as it was the final Medal Test for the year at DancZport, Kevin’s dancing school, we were very lucky to have Carol and Julie look after the Tea House and Sawmillers, freeing us up for the afternoon to partner our pupils through. We had great [...]

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8 Sawmillers Shopping Days ‘Til Christmas.

Hi Everyone,
Just a quick posting today to remind you the days are passing very quickly before the ‘big’ day, mind you there will be those who would prefer not to know yet, and I have to say I would be one of those, why does it seem that every year we say we are going [...]

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Christmas is at Sawmillers

Hi everyone,
It doesn’t seem possible that Christmas is only 23 days away, we seem to have only just got home from Houston. Anyway the Sawmillers Tree is up with its’ famous quilt block lights and bows, but more importantly to all our visitors we have also got a huge variety of quilters block pins to [...]

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Beautiful Totes, Fabric, Peonies and Day.

Hi Everyone,
After the terrible weather yesterday it is glorious here now, we have had lots of out of town visitors including the Vauxhall Car Club, great cars. I had a lovely afternoon yesterday when I went to the Capital Quilters Christmas meeting, there was lots of fun and hilarity, the challenge bags were displayed, lots [...]

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Jim Shore Range at Sawmillers

Hi Everyone,
After the great success of the Houston Info Evening we still have some of the Jim Shore Figurines remaining, for those of you who are unaware of this delightful and clever man, his figurines are becoming famous throughout the world for having either a quilt block design or applique design somewhere on the piece, [...]

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Houston Info Evening and Winners

Hi Everyone,
I am sorry I have been so slow getting this post done, but we had a great evening on Saturday, when those visitors to Sawmillers who filled out our survey during October were invited to our Post Houston Info Evening and their names went into a draw for a Houston Goodie Bag, the winner [...]

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New Range,New Thread, New Stand and Quilt Festival.

Hi Everyone,
My apologies, I haven’t been very efficient with the blog this past week, but we do thank all those who have visited us despite this. As you can see from the above picture we have another lovely range of fabric, it is ‘Celebration’ by Lecien I don’t feel the pictures are a true representation [...]

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It’s Halloween, Our New Welcome Banner and Cooper.

Hi Everyone,
It is almost Halloween and to celebrate we have our carved pumpkins and lights along with our window decorations. In the northern hemisphere it  means that the winter weather has arrived, with snowfalls already in many places, in New Zealand it is a way of welcoming the spring weather and the temperature getting higher. [...]

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Barney is Back in Residence.

Hi Everyone,
Well Barney Official Greeter and 2nd Assistant is well and truly settled, he has really enjoyed seeing everyone again, and has just found out that he has a little cousin in USA, a Jack Russell named Cooper, he has just been collected from Fredericksburg and is now in his new home with Samantha and [...]

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