Date: 6/11/09 11:27 PM

It's finally time to share the details of PR Weekend Philadelphia!


Where: Philadelphia, PA
When: May 14-16, 2010

As you know, PR Weekend is a weekend get-away for PatternReview members held to bring the community closer, support local sewing-related businesses and share our love of our craft.

As always, this PR Weekend promises to be a fun-filled weekend with lots of activities, fabulous shopping, great food and plenty of time spent with fellow sewists, talking and learning and feeding on each other's creativity.

Philadelphia is a great city full of vibrant neighborhoods, loads of restaurants for all budgets, great shopping and - as the first capital of the United States - lots of history. If you're bringing along a loved one (or more), there are plenty of things to occupy them while you're fabric-shopping!

Read on to find out what has been planned for you!

Our guest speaker for this PR Weekend is:

Kenneth King


The Sheraton Society Hill Hotel will be our base for the weekend. Located in the Old City/Society Hill section of Philadelphia, it's only a few blocks from Fabric Row and most of the hsitoric sites.



We have reserved a block of rooms at a special rate just for PR Weekend attendees. Rooms are available at $169 plus tax, and the room plan includes breakfast. Make your reservation here. Check the Roomshare/Rideshare topic if you want to find someone to share with.

PR Weekend registration fee is $70 (non-refundable) and includes:

- Presentation/workshop with Kenneth King
- Visit to the "Great Designers" exhibit and study room at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Costume Collection.
- Friday night group dinner
- Bus & conference room rental

Sounds like fun, right?


PR Weekend registration is now closed

When we've filled the spots, we WILL close the registration. Because we need to make a lot of arrangements ahead of time, we're going to close the registration on April 30, 2010. So make sure you register sooner rather than later.

Program

Friday, May 14


8:15 - 8:45 AM Registration packet pickup
9:00 - 12:00 Noon Sewing workshop with Kenneth King
12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch Break (location TBA)
1:30 - 5:00 PM "Great Designers" Exhibit at Philadelphia Museum of Art
7:00 PM Group Dinner - Restaurant TBA (will be vegetarian-friendly)



Saturday, May 15

9:30 AM Bus pickup for fabric shopping - meet in hotel lobby, first stop, Fabric Row!
12:00 noon Lunch Break on South Street near Fabric Row
1:30 PM Bus pickup and trip to London Textiles in NJ (wholesaler - cash only sales)
3:00 PM Bus pickup and trip to Jomar Fabrics in South Philadelphia (deep discounts - lots of fabrics for $1 per yard)
6:00 PM Return to hotel - dinner on your own (restaurant suggestions will be included in your brochure)

Sunday, May 16

Group Breakfast at Hotel
Optional - Sightseeing and self guided tours. Sites to see and places of interest will be included in your registration packet.

PR Weekend Organizer:
Karen6790


Volunteers:

Andrea670

Elaray

Kisha

ElaineSews

Silknmore

yardbird

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Karen

There's always room for one more cat, one more book or one more yard of fabric.

http://sewingbytheseatofmypants.blogspot.com/

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Reply to Karen6790
Date: 6/15/09 10:12 PM

Thanks, Karen. I'm going to make it my business to come to the Philly PR weekend. Oops. First, I need to check with my DD on graduation date. She finishing up the BS.
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Date: 6/16/09 10:43 AM

I just found out that we are moving to Pennsylvania in December so I am definitely going to go. I'm so excited this will be my first PR weekend!

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Bonnie

http://gelbeansews.blogspot.com/

2010 Fabric bought - 235.75 yds
2010 Fabric used - 96 yds
2010 Completed Projects - 73

2011 Fabric bought - 43 yds
2011 Fabric used - 64.25 yds
2011 Completed Projects - 45

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Date: 6/18/09 9:42 AM

Yay! I am looking forward to this. I've wanted to join in on one of these for a long time. Philly is just an hour + drive so very doable for me!

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Date: 6/18/09 10:26 AM

I heard tell there is great swing dancing in Philly and my fiance has some friends there, so even though we're in Louisville, I'm really hoping to be able to make it to this PR Weekend. It'll be my first!

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http://www.cisasews.blogspot.com

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Date: 7/17/09 9:45 AM

I'll be there! I can't wait to go to Fabric Row and get a corn beef sandwich on Fourth St!

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Ivalyn "Tee" Jones-Actie
"FEAR" False Evidence Appearing Real

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Date: 7/17/09 9:49 AM

So exciting! I can only imagine an entire PR weekend descending upon Jomar...

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http://theslapdashsewist.blogspot.com
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2007: purchased 115+, sewed 105+
So close to parity, yet so far

Trying again in 2008
Yards purchased: 133
Yards sewn: Somewhere around 95

2009? I give up

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Reply to nicegirl
Date: 7/21/09 11:04 PM

I think I'll have to warn the nice people at Jomar that they might want to have more than one person cutting fabric that day or the poor man will take his shears and run away when he sees all the shopping carts full of bolts descending upon the cutting table. That might be my BIGGEST contribution to PR Weekend Philly.

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Karen

There's always room for one more cat, one more book or one more yard of fabric.

http://sewingbytheseatofmypants.blogspot.com/

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Reply to Karen6790
Date: 7/22/09 7:42 AM

Plan on attending!

Woggy

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Date: 7/30/09 3:50 PM

wow, Philly is two hours from me so I'll make a plan to go!

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