Sewing
I love the idea of crafting-specific guilds, bees, and stitch ‘n bitch gatherings—clearly, therein I will find my people. So, it is with absolutely no embarrassment whatsoever that I will admit to the following: When my Modern Quilt Guild membership package showed up in my mailbox today, I squeaked out loud, then tore open the …
Fact: AccuQuilt’s new English Paper Piecing Hexagon Dies are currently my favorite tools in the craft studio. I mean, cutting perfectly matched fabric pieces AND paper templates at the same time? Goodness, yes! Available in both a ½" size and a 1" size, the AccuQuilt English paper piecing dies basically take the ease of buying …
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. …
