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The BIG Little Book of Thank You Notes
Nancy has written The Big Little Book of Thank You Notes and it is available now!
This week only, get free shipping via media mail or free shipping via priority mail on 5 or more copies. When you check the box and click the add to cart button at the bottom of the page, you will be taken to a shopping cart page where you can increase the quantity.
The BIG Little Book of Thank You Notes $11.95
Lauren got the fun of opening the boxes when Nancy's other new book Taking Care of Grandma's Quilt arrived.
Taking Care of Grandma's Quilt $8.95
THE ORPHANS ARE BACK!
We have some more orphan quilt blocks. They are all lined up with bright shining faces calling "Pick me, pick me". Your orphan will come with an Adoption Certificate on aged parchment, suitable for framing in your sewing room. Please -- limit of 5 per person. When they are all gone, they are all gone.
Orphan Quilt Block $10, price includes shipping. To order more than one use the "increase quantity" button once you get to the order form.
Do You Love Antique Quilts?
Today you can get Nancy Kirk's new e-book Collecting Antique Quilts. In it you will find 18 years of her experience as a quilt dealer, appraiser, historian and collector. In an informal, readable style she walks you through the life cycle of collecting:
- Inheriting a Family Quilt
- Buying Startegies to Build Your Collection
- Quilts as An Investment
- Maintaining the Value of Your Collection
- Cleaning, Storing and Displaying Your Quilts
- How to Value Your Quilts
- How to Sell Quilts
- Donating Quilts
Buy it today and get over $125 in bonuses and coupons. This new e-book is available as a download or on CD with help for new and experienced collectors -- it will help you build your collection, buy wisely, become a curator of your collection, maintain and conserve your collection, and finally sell or donate prized quilts when it is time for them to go to someone else.
Nancy brings 18 years of experience as a dealer, appraiser, collector, quilt historian and teacher, and has gathered in one ebook the hours of advice she gives out in individual consultations and workshops. You will learn to buy smart, what to look for when you buy a quilt, how to save money when you buy, and what to look for in investment quilts.
Once you are a collector - anytime you have three or more quilts - you need to learn to become a curator for your collection, setting a curatorial policy to guide future purchases and a de-accession policy which will help keep your quilt numbers of check.
Maintaining a quilt collection is a big responsibility. Nancy shows you how to store, display and clean your quilts, with low-cost alternatives for home collections as well as a professional approach to storage and exhibiting.
How to sell a quilt is always an issue. Nancy and her late husband Bill raised their children and built an international business selling antique quilts and fabric. She gives you the inside secrets of successful sales, from local advertising to local or national auctions to web selling and on-line auctions. She helps you understand the costs and advantages of each type of selling and equips you to make the greatest profit by selecting the right sales venue and timing.
For those who want to donate their quilts to a non-profit organization or museum, Nancy explains the process from the point of view of the donor and the recipient. It's a lot more than just dropping off your quilt. Some donations can take years to negotiate and run to dozens of pages of legal contracts and multi-million dollar pledges. Learn the realities and how to make plans so your quilts can be enjoyed by future generations.
It's like being one-on-one with Nancy to get all your collecting questions answered. The ebook is optimized for viewing on the computer screen, with large sans serif type and dozens of wonderful quilts to look at.
On the CD version we have included a bonus version optimized for printing with a slightly smaller typeface which saves ink, and a serif face which is easier to read on paper. If you think you want to print a complete copy for repeated reference you may want to order the CD version which has both the screen and printable versions of the book. NOTE: You can certainly print the download version, but the typeface is larger and there are more total pages
We are offering bonuses worth $135.
First, everyone who buys the books will get a $25 coupon toward the registration fee of one of Nancy's Antique Quilt Weekends.
Everyone who buys the book gets coupons for $25 off the price of either of the Quilt Restoration DVD Sets by Nancy. This is a total of $50 off. If you already own the DVDs you can give the coupons to a friend or to your quilt guild so they can enjoy the discount.
Third, you will get two coupons for $25 off the registration fee for the Beginning and the Advanced Quilt Restoration Workshops - these can be used at any of the Omaha workshops. Details are at www.quiltrestoration..com.
Finally, if you will send in a short review of the book, you will receive a $10 gift certificate which can be used toward anything on The Kirk Collection website at www.kirkcollection.com. It doesn't even have to be a positive review - constructive criticism helps too! We'd like at least three sentences and it helps to have specifics about new things you learned, what was most helpful, and what you would like to see covered in future editions.
Add it up - buy one copy of Collecting Antique Quilts with Nancy Kirk and get $135 in bonuses!
So how much does this new e-book cost?
For the downloadble version, only $19.95. If you prefer the CD version, it will be $24.95 (will start shipping July 1). Order today and we will throw in FREE SHIPPING.
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If you have more than one antique quilt or if you have been thinking of buying one, you want a copy of Collecting Antique Quilts with Nancy Kirk. You could save yourself hundreds of dollars in mistaken purchases. You could save a quilt from damage by storing and displaying it properly. You could earn hundreds of extra dollars when the time comes to sell your quilts using Nancy's time-proven strategies.
Buy today and get $135 in bonuses, plus free shipping on the CD version.
Check here to order. $19.95 for the downloadable version, $24.95 for the CD.
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The book is in the form of a PDF file, readable with the free Adobe Acrobat program. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat you can download it free from www.adobe.com. It is always a good idea to make sure you have the most recent version even if your computer came with Adobe Acrobat pre-loaded. It takes just a minute with a high-speed connection and a few minutes through a telephone line to get the program.
The PDF format is safe to download to your computer. It will come as a zipped file. Not only do we virus-check everything at our end, but PDF files cannot carry viruses as there are no executable parts of the program - it is simply a visual file of a document.
You can print a PDF file on any printer and expect it to look like it does on the screen except that the print version could be higher or lower resolution than the screen depending on your printer settings.
Remember on the CD version you will get two files - one for reading on-screen and one optimized for printing. If you order the downloadable version and later decide you would prefer the CD version, we will credit you for the FULL PRICE of the downloadble version. All you will owe is $5 plus $4.95 for shipping. You can upgrade any time in the next three months on these special terms.
A note on copyrights. E-books are covered under the same copyright laws as printed books and videos. Your purchase of one copy gives you the right to maintain one copy on your computer. In addition, you are granted a license to print one copy for personal use and to make one back-up copy to a disk or CD for back up purposes only. You do not have the right to distribute electronic copies to friends or others, but you can certainly invite your friends over to read the book on your computer. : )
Get your special bonus materials by placing your order today:
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A $25 discount on the registration fee for an Antique Quilt Weekend with Nancy Kirk.
Two $25 coupons for the Quilt Restoration DVD Sets.
- Two $25 coupons toward the registration fee at the Quilt Restoration Workshops.
- A $10 gift certificate if you send in a short review - three sentences which should take you about two minutes. At an hourly rate that means you'll be making $300 an hour as a quilt book reviewer! Sorry -- I can only afford two minutes of your time.
Buy today and get all these bonuses.
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If you have any questions, please drop me a note at kirkcoll@aol.com. I'll try to get back to you as quickly as possible.
Warmest regards,
Nancy Kirk
The Kirk Collection
LEARN QUILT RESTORATION AT HOME
SAVE OUR QUILTS!
NEW! NEW! NEW!
The Advanced Quilt Restoration Workshop -- Restoring Crazy Quilts is out on DVD. Like the Beginning Workshop (see below), it is a 4-DVD set.
Order today and we'll ship it tomorrow. Help save our rich heritage of Victorian crazy quilts and other silk quilts, many of which are breaking apart as the weighted silks deteriorate.
4-disc DVD Set Advanced Quilt Restoration Workshop -- Restoring Crazy Quilts $129.95 with FREE SHIPPING
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Quilt Restoration Workshop 4 DVD Set
FREE SHIPPING
And THREE SPECIAL BONUS OFFERS
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Order today and get three special BONUS offers!
Maintain your investment
Quilts are highly collectible and generally appreciate in value. A recent study by two professors at Creighton University show quilts gaining in value between 10% and 17% a year - doing much better than most stock portfolios. On the other hand, if quilts are used or abused, they can drop dramatically in value. This is a great dilemma for quilt collectors, because the greatest pleasure from quilts comes from physically touching them, while the greatest danger to quilts is physically touching them.
What can you do to protect your investment?
Learn from quilt expert Nancy Kirk how to preserve your antique quilts, learn more about dating them, displaying them properly, cleaning and storing your quilts, and when needed, how to do both simple and complex repairs. All this in the four-DVD set on Quilt Restoration with Nancy Kirk.
If you send your quilt to a professional restorer, you will pay $25, $40 even $80 per hour. Replacing a simple 2" diamond and requilting it can take 45 minutes, so a double wedding ring quilt with 10 segments missing might cost $200-$400 to repair and many quilts have much more damage than that. With the skills and knowledge you will gain from these DVDs you will be able to make simple and complex repairs on cotton patchwork and applique quilts which can save hundreds or thousands of dollars.
Everyone who owns an antique quilt has an investment in history and in the future. Antique quilts teach us so much about the past, about the lives of the women who made them, and about the development of this important art form. But quilts are fragile and have often been "loved to death" as they covered marriage beds, baby cribs and all the life events in between. Quilts tell the stories of our families and of our country, whether they come from Colonial times, pioneer days, the Great Depression or more recently.
You can learn to repair and restore your antique quilts yourself studying at home with leading expert Nancy Kirk. Whether you are just beginning or have been caring for antique quilts for years, these new home study DVD's on Quilt Restoration will give you the guidance and advice you need to successfully and carefully repair antique cotton quilts working at home at your own pace.
ORDER THE FOUR DVD SET NOW! RECEIVE TWO SPECIAL OFFERS
4-disc DVD Set Quilt Restoration Workshop $129.95 with FREE SHIPPING
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Interested in a career related to quilting? Professional quilt restorers are in high demand. Most have backlogs of several months to several years of work. While this first DVD set is a Beginning Workshop, with further study and practice you could enter the profession of quilt restoration earning $25 to $85 per hour. Many people combine restoration with quilt appraising as well.
The DVDs were filmed at a live workshop with Nancy. You get to work alongside the students in the workshop, seeing the same demonstrations, the same techniques, the same professional "tricks of the trade" that Nancy shared in-person with her students. You will go through a "triage" session, looking at many damaged quilts, and see a restoration plan made for each one.
You can pick up your needle and thread and stitch along with the video while Nancy shows you how to make a truly invisible appliqué stitch and teaches you the three other stitches you will use to repair and restore quilts.
She even gives suggestions for working with quilts that are beyond restoration but are important family icons.
It was great actually seeing you and being able to access so much information. You have done a most awesome reference and I wanted to thank you so much for that and for all that you do for a most fascinating and important art form.
Toni O'Keefe, North Carolina
ORDER THE FOUR DVD SET NOW! RECEIVE TWO SPECIAL OFFERS
4-disc DVD Set Quilt Restoration Workshop $129.95 with FREE SHIPPING
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Learn in the comfort of your home
For 11 years, quilters from around the country have traveled to Omaha to study with Nancy or to national and regional conferences where she has taught. Now you can take the same workshop by sitting at home by your television instead of flying around the country, staying in a hotel and spending two long days in a classroom. That's not to say you wouldn't really enjoy taking the workshop in person. In fact, we have a special offer for you at the end of this message for a discount on the upcoming workshops Nancy is offering in person.
I ordered your workshop as soon as I saw it mentioned (in a magazine). It is wonderful!I just love it and have learned so much . It is so wonderful that I am seriously considering taking the two workshops in 2005. Thanks so much for putting this into a watch-at-home format!
Every year when Nancy teaches quilt restoration, we always get calls from people who can't travel - they have small children at home, they are too old, have health problems, or just can't take off from their day jobs but really want to learn about quilt restoration.
It was because of these calls that we taped the workshop and edited it for home study. We wanted to tape it at a live workshop to give students the feeling of actually being a part of the workshop rather than doing a series of demos in a television studio. The filmmakers from Soft Science were used to doing documentaries - usually on nature subjects. They found working with a dozen quilters a little more challenging than the black bears and beavers that have starred in their films for the Canadian Broadcasting Company!
But they did a great job using both a stationary camera for the parts when I lecture and hand-held cameras for zooming in on the students' work and details of the quilts.
Two Special Offers
Special Offer #1
We are offering FREE shipping. This will save you an additional $5.50. You don't need to do anything extra to receive free shipping, except order now.
Special offer #2
Want to study in-person with Nancy? She teaches two Quilt Restoration Workshops each year, one in the fall and one in the spring. You can get details of the next set of workshops at www.quiltrestoration.com. When you purchase the DVD 4-disc set Quilt Restoration, you will receive a coupon good for $25 off the registration fee for each workshop - a potential savings of $50.
Those three special offers add up to over $55. The regular price of the DVD set alone is $129.95. You do the math.
Why are we making you these offers?
For the Love of Quilts
It's simple. Nancy has made it her mission to help rescue as many quilts as possible. But she can't do it alone. To save even a small fraction of the estimated 5 million quilts in this country currently in need of restoration, many more people need to be doing this work and doing it well.
Disc I
- Becoming a Quilt Restorer
- Basic restoration stitches and techniques
- Professional tips
- Special supplies and tools for restoration
- The business of restoration
Disc II
- Can this quilt be saved?
- Analyzing damaged quilts
- Making restoration plans
Disc III
- Dating Fabrics
- 1820-1860
- The Civil War Era
- Late 19th Century
- 1900-1920's
- 1930's-1950's
Disc IV
- Creating fabrics
- Aging fabrics
- Cleaning Quilts
- Storing Quilts
- Displaying Quilts
"It's not enough to just fix quilts. We need people who have trained themselves to be able to properly date quilts, select appropriate fabrics and do restorations which enhance the value of the quilts rather than destroy their value," says Nancy. "I also want to make sure that new restorers learn good judgment so they know when to leave a quilt alone. There are some quilts whose value comes from their historical interest that should never be restored."
"I want to focus my time on teaching and training restorers who can carry on this important work with sensitivity, dedication and creativity. The technical parts of restoration are not terribly difficult," she says. "It's the knowing what to do and what not to do that is important, and is what we focus most of the time on in the workshops and on the DVDs."
So whether you are saving your family quilt or a recent auction find, take advantage of our four special offers and buy your Quilt Restoration DVD set today.
4-disc DVD Set Quilt Restoration Workshop $129.95 with FREE SHIPPING
A note for our international customers. These DVDs are coded to play in any country, but require a DVD player compliant with NTSB standards. Not compatible with PAL players.
CRAZY QUILTING BOOK
Crazy quilting is a particular passion of mine. Chris Dabb's book Crazy Quilting is one of the finest written -- I believe in it so much I bought out all the remaining copies and am now the sole distributor!
Crazy Quilting by Christine Dabbs $22.95
Crazy Quilting by Christine Dabbs
Covers the history of Crazy Quilting as well as beautifully written and illustrated instructions for making Crazy Quilts.
The Antique Fabrics Have Moved!
Our antique fabrics moved last year to a new website, www.antiquefabric.com, which is owned and managed by Flinda Terteling. She has been a Kirk Collection customer for more than 10 years, has a true love for antique fabrics, and can provide the kind of customer service you came to expect from The Kirk Collection. We're so excited that Flinda will carry on the antique fabric part of the business.
If you are interested in antique fabrics, we recommend Dating Fabrics by Eileen Trestain. You can purchase it with a single click from Amazon.com.
We have moved all the Kirk Collection Civil War reproduction fabrics to a new website, www.civilwarfabrics.com.
This site is run by our good friend and colleague Margie Wallace who will be filling your orders, cutting kits and handling all the billing through her company Quilter's Confectionary. It is a completely diffferent site and shopping cart, so if you are looking for the reproduction fabrics, finish shopping at the Kirk Collection, then go on over to www.civilwarfabrics.com to get your Kirk Collection reproduction fabrics.
In April, we moved all the conservation and restoration supplies to www.quiltcare.com.
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The Kirk Collection, 3516 Lincoln Blvd. , Omaha, NE 68131
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