America has enjoyed a long tradition of textile manufacturing, from Betsy Ross cross-stitching the Constitution to Neil Armstrong knitting the Eagle lunar lander. Start your own textile tradition with today's Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of quilting and sewing supplies at Quilts Olé in Corrales.
The fabric hunters at Quilts Olé maintain a stockpile of over 3,000 bolts of fabric and an encyclopedic selection of patterns and kits. Wax-dyed batik fabrics can be found en masse, and a cornucopia of flannels await transformation into huggable bed sheets or basketball jerseys for a team of lumberjacks. Patterns such as the chili quilt ($20) are scalable into crafts of multiple sizes, so the finished product can be used as a wall hanging or lap throw, and quilters can add shimmer to quilts with fabric in colors such as shell and mint ($9.35 / yd.) from Michael Miller's Fairy Frost collection. New fabrics are delivered often, and seasoned sewers lead free demonstrations of quilting techniques and advanced calculus on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Creative Discipline Ideas
Children sleep for about 18 hours a day, but they will sometimes act out during their brief windows of lucidity. And though any parent can teach right from wrong with a timeout or by withholding attention, it takes a special parent to discipline outside the box. Here are some creative punishments for unruly children:
- The child must eat two dinners before bedtime.
- The child must read your Toy Story fan fiction in which Buzz Lightyear spends 47 pages feeling sad about his life.
- The child must watch you smoke an entire carton of cigarettes while you explain precisely why doing so hurts your body.
- The child must get a boring art degree instead of a trendy business one.
- The child must defeat a robot version of his/herself.
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