December 2017

It is December already. If you look around, you are going to find many ornaments and decorations that remind you it almost Christmas time. Most people believe it is a time for reflection, getting together with the family and enjoy the holidays as much as...

Embroidery is the art of creating designs on fabric using thread and needles. This technique was derived from one of our oldest skills—sewing. For centuries, trading textiles was a very lucrative business. The trade saw the exchange of ideas between people from many different countries....

Have you ever thought about learning to quilt? Maybe you’re an aspiring quilter who’s just getting started sewing and would like to make a quilt for a friend or family member. Perhaps you already know how to sew or are learning, and you’d like to...

As you may have noticed, sewing is rapidly becoming a useful and trendy skill to have, and it’s getting more and more popular all the time. While sewing used to be a skill that nearly everyone knew, it went out of fashion for a while...

They say there’s nothing new under the sun. And it’s pretty much true; there are new versions of some things, but most everything is recycled, and everything that’s popular now has been popular at other times in history. However, each thing that comes back into...

Did you know that September is National Sewing Month? If you like to sew, hopefully you have been celebrating some this month. It’s not too late to participate! Of course, sewing is a year-round activity anyway, and we hope that National Sewing Month simply serves...

If you’re new to sewing, you most likely have high aspirations of making something very nice—an item of clothing, maybe, or perhaps a quilt. While there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, you’ll want to start out with a few projects that are easier initially—just...

So you’re interested in the wonderful world of sewing– that’s great! But where do you start? What are notions? What’s a stitch? How do you know what fabric to use? Where do you even get all the stuff you need? These are all important questions that...

Sewing: you probably think of it as a hobby your Grandma took up to fill her days of retirement. But guess what? It’s so much more than a hobby for old people. Sewing is for all ages, any gender, and for many purposes— it’s not...