Craft Tools
Guys, I’m desperately in love with the fancy new Oliso Pro iron that I won at this year’s Quilters Take Manhattan. At first, I was skeptical that a high-end iron—even one that automatically raises the soleplate when I’m not touching it to avoid scorching—would really make that much of a difference in my sewing projects. …
Ladies and gentlemen, please allow me to introduce Betty, my new Singer Featherweight sewing machine! Betty was made on November 5th, 1936, and is a Singer Featherweight 221. She’s an AE series machine with a lovely scrollwork faceplate, and was just one of 15,000 machines made in Singer’s Elizabethport, New Jersey factory on that day. …
You could say that I reviewed the AccuQuilt GO! Baby Fabric Cutter on Craft Test Dummies, but that wouldn’t be quite accurate. I like to think of it more as a heartfelt love letter!
When I first started knitting, I made an embarrassingly large number of hats (and mittens and cowls) that I couldn’t even wear when they were finished because the openings didn’t stretch wide enough for me to actually put them on. For a while, I was convinced that I was an utter failure at knitting, because, …
