Pfaff offers in September

Back to school can be an exciting time of year - for the moms! Celebrate with a new sewing machine for some "mommy" time while the little ones are in classes. We have terrific new prices on older models of Pfaff sewing and embroidery machines, pop in and try one out this month!

Pfaff Hobby 1142

The Pfaf Hobby 1142 is a wonderful, reliable mechanical sewing machine with some funky decorative stitches and fantastic stitch quality. It's priced at 1,270dhs (regular 1,585dhs), and for our special offers, it comes with a sewing kit valued at more than 100dhs.

Pfaff Grand Quilter

Pfaff Grand Quilter is the standard in home quilting. It is strong, fast and simple with a huge throat area for fitting large quilts and a giant extension table too. It does only straight-stitch, but it does it really well! Piece your quilts with the included 1/4" foot, and do all your free-motion quilting with the floating foot. For 4,460dhs (regular 6,680dhs), and with a sewing kit worth more than 150dhs, it's a quilter's dream machine!

Pfaff Creative 2170

For machine embroidery, check out the Pfaff Creative 2170. It has an intuitive touch-screen for easy use, does beautiful machine embroidery, and is also an excellent sewing machine. At more than half off the original price, it's a total steal -- you get a lot of functionality for just 8,370dhs (originally 17,000dhs +), plus we will give you 500dhs worth of accessories: get extra hoops, feet, or embroidery designs for free!

Trade For Aid 2012

Ramadan Kareem! 

Drop your unwanted craft items in our collection bins

Join Craft Land in celebrating Ramadan and the spirit of giving. During Ramadan, we are accepting donations of working sewing machines and other unwanted craft items to be donated to RAEY, a community school in Ethiopia: http://raeyfoundation.org/demo/

Trade in a working or new machine and get 10% off

For each sewing machine donated, you will receive 10% off a new machine at Craft Land. It's a great time to upgrade your older machine! You can also donate a new machine and get 10% any of our machines. That means you can pick up a basic machine from us or elsewhere and get up to 2,600dhs off a new machine! It's a great time to buy one of our premium machines and get a substantial discount.

You could get 2,450dhs off a Pfaff Creative Sensation!

Let's Give Generously This Ramadan

Join in the spirit of Ramadan this August by donating your used sewing machine and crafting tools to the Manzil School for Special Needs in Sharjah.

This Ramadan, Craft Land is collecting used sewing machines, crafting tools and materials to donate to the Manzil School for Special Needs in Sharjah. And if you donate an old sewing machine, Craft Land will give you 10% off the price of a new sewing machine* – Craft Land’s thanks for your generosity! It's a great opportunity to upgrade to a new sewing machine, and still put an old machine to good use.

The Manzil School for Special Needs relies solely on private funding and generous donations to provide care and development to its students. The school’s main aim is to develop the students’ skills and confidence to a level that enables them to be a part of society – they call it “destination inclusion”.

Through crafting and creative activities the students learn to focus their attention and produce goods that they are able to sell, such as beaded jewellery and hand-crafted gifts. Donations of sewing machines, crafting tools and materials through Craft Land will enable the students to learn new skills and try new crafts.

So if you have an old sewing machine at the back of the cupboard, or a bunch of materials and tools you no longer use, why not have a clear out and donate them to a good cause? Craft Land only asks that all items are in good working order. For a working sewing machine, you will receive a voucher to redeem for 10% off ANY new sewing or embroidery machine at Craft Land, valid during August, 2011. You could save hundreds of even thousands of Dirhams while you help Manzil school!

Please bring items for donation into the Craft Land store where collection bins will be on display.

For more information about the Manzil School for Special Needs see www.manzil.ae

*Offer valid during August 2011 only.

Pfaff Easter offers

Now's a perfect time to get the Pfaff sewing or embroidery machine you've been dreaming of! Craft Land has the premium ranges of Pfaff sewing/embroidery combination machines, sewing machines, and coverlocks, the and for the rest of the month of April you will receive a terrific bundle of goodies with each machine purchase!

The CREATIVE series of sewing/embroidery machines gives you excellent embroidery features with a high-end sewing machine. From the Creative 2 to the Creative Vision, choose the machine that's right for you and start creating beautiful clothing and home decor. Each comes with a unique gift; the Creative 4 and Creative Vision come with Professional 4D software to help you create your own designs to stitch, and all machine come with threads and other helpful accessories and tools to get you started. And as always, they all come with classes in our shop to help you learn how to make the most of your new sewing machine.

The EXPRESSION series of sewing machines offer a nice large sewing area, many beautiful decorative stitches and excellent sewing features, and all are equipped with the Pfaff exclusive IDT system -- a special feeder foot that helps you sew evenly no matter what fabric you are using. Stretch and fine silky fabrics, as well as thick fabrics will sew evenly and easily.

The Expression 2.0 and 3.0 machines come with a bundle including many specialty presser feet and sewing tools in a wonderful wooden sewing box, and the Quilt Expression 4 comes with a bundle of goodies to make any quilter swoon!

Pfaff overlock machines come in two sizes -- the Hobby Lock 2 gives perfect finishing for regular home users, and the Coverlock 4 5-thread machine offers many more stitch options, sophisticated operation, and an extended acrylic work table for higher-end users. Each comes bundled with many useful tools to get you serging right away, and each comes with our new Machine Overlocking class.

...and don't forget, Pfaff also has an excellent starter machine for younger users, beginners, or just those who want a reliable sewing machine for projects and repairs. The Hobby 1142 is a little workhorse, ready to take on various fabrics, quilts, and any other projects you might have in mind. For our Easter offer, it comes bundles with a fab starter kit of tools to get your sewing going!

We also have many accessories and hoops for the Creative 2170 series of embroidery combination machines. See our staff to get some ideas about how to add function to your machine!

Congratulations to the lucky winner!

Helen Howard accepted her brand new Husqvarna Designer Diamond sewing and embroidery machine, along with embroidery design software. Riana Auret-Dubois, manager of Craft Land, presented Helen with her fantastic prize, valued at over 30,000Dhs, after the draw at the end of Dubai Shopping Festival. Helen, we all hope you love your new machine! Have fun designing, embroidering and sewing!

For the rest of us folks not fortunate enough to win a top of the line machine, Craft Land has a comprehensive range of sewing and embroidery machines. Our knowledgeable staff is always ready to show, explain, demonstrate, and test drive with you, and can help you choose the best machine for what you want to create. Drop in anytime for a try! Remember, we also service and repair sewing machines.

More offers on Brother sewing machines

Free X-large Madeira Rayon thread chest valued at 2,400dhs with the NV4000!

Craft Land has more great offers on Brother sewing machines for the rest of January. We have put together some great add-ons for some of our more popular home sewing and sewing/embroidery combination machines. Check out the awesome free stuff you'll get:

FREE SOFTWARE with the NV1!
PELite with PE Design 7 upgrade - 4,000dhs+ value

2-drawer thread chest with starter colors of Madeira rayon embroidery thread
and more, 600dhs value with the NV1250

Comprehensive starter kit with the NV400, one of our most popular sewing machines

Great basic starter kit with the NV50, the favorite starter machine

Free sewing tools and a free Intro to Overlocking class with the 3034D overlocker

Don't forget, as of the beginning of 2011, all our sewing machines come with FREE LESSONS! See in the shop for full details.

And, for the rest of the month, we've got the new Brother PR1000 and PR650 embroidery machines humming away, stitching up lovely projects in our January launch. These professional machines include free PE Design NEXT embroidery software for this month only.

Summer School

classroom is full

It's our fourth week of summer school this week, and what a week it is shaping up to be! We have a full class of students learning applique & embroidery, eight new crafters escaping the summer heat with a fun pillowcase decorating project.

We have SEVEN more weeks of classes scheduled, so if your kids (ages 8-16) are looking for something to do this summer, check out our schedule: http://www.mycraftland.com/

applique pillow

The classes are divided into 2 categories, crafting and sewing with machines. Coming up for the crafters: felt embroidery, cross stitch, applique, knitting, and crochet. Still to come in sewing: quilted pillow, soft toys, teddy bear, lunch bag and messenger bag. Don't forget that for new sewists, we are offering a terrific sewing machine package! You get an excellent quality sewing machine, a haberdashery starter kit, and two free week-long sewing classes, all for only 1995dhs.

Come on in to the shop to see the full schedule, check out the project samples, and talk to our staff about the program.

keen crafters

Welcome to Summer

happy birthday, Jennifer!

Summer is here in Dubai! It's hot and humid outside, and nice and cool inside. Especially now that the repaimen have figured out our air conditioning! It's nice and cool in the shop, and finally also in the classroom! We all enjoyed some birthday cake yesterday to celebrate our Jennifer's birthday, yummy.

Our summer classes are now underway...we had a nice little group of cousins enrolled in the Town Center summer camp. They learned cross-stitch on Monday, did a scrapbooking project on Tuesday, and painted ceramics today. There are five more weeks of fun classes for ages 8+, morning and afternoon, so come to Town Center for info.

Our Craft Land classes are also going for kids, see our website for schedule and other info.

http://www.mycraftland.com/

Take advantage of our fantastic SEWING MACHINE offer: for 1,995dhs, you get a new sewing machine, basic sewing supplies, and 2 weeks of classes. It's valued at around 3,000dhs if you purchase it all separately!

Check out the gorgeous felt Story Pictures, made by one of our customers, Nabila. She is a kindergarten art teacher here in Dubai, and will use these wonderful pieces to tell stories to the students.

The veggies get sad when the clouds cover the sun

Three Billy Goats Gruff

Last but not least, have a look at Bino, trapped behind the wall of boxes that arrived this morning! We're anxious to see all the scissors, trims, elastics, etc that will emerge over the coming days...