This really pretty ribboned cuff project is a freebie from us to you in celebration of National Craft Month 2011. It’s one of seven chic projects in Me and My Sewing Machine by Kate Haxell. Click here to download the PDF.
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Technique of the week: Piping
We are two weeks in to National Sewing Month and the chosen technique of the week is… piping! We are celebrating piping with an excerpt from Kate Haxell’s Me and My Sewing Machine that covers the topic. Secondly, I have linked to 20 tutorials using piping. Try some fun piping tutorials to practice your technique!
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Technique a week for September
As September begins, so begins National Sewing Month. I’m never sure who it is that decides about these events but when it comes to sewing, I’m in.
With the Modern Quilt Guild announcing their Project Modern this month, that seems more than enough of a reason to celebrate, but if you are looking for some additional inspiration, check out our blog each week for a new featured sewing technique.
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The Joy of Vintage Sewing Machines
We’re celebrating the publication of Stash Books’ Me and My Sewing Machine with a series of posts on one of the best helpers you can have in the handmade life—your sewing machine.
I learned to sew on my mother’s old green Elna, the machine she got as a bride in the late 1950s and used until she died forty years later. That machine was a war horse, built from the same aluminum alloys they use in airplanes, with a tough green metal case that reminded me of an Army jeep and even a little tool kit to keep the machine running—a world away from the sleek space-age Pfaff I sew on now.
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Stash Books Giveaway!
All four Stash Books titles being released this spring have arrived in our warehouse, and we are celebrating by doing a Stash Books giveaway! One lucky blog reader is going to win a sweet prize pack that includes:
* Socks Appeal by Brenna Maloney
* City Quilts by Cherri House
* Little Birds by Design Collective
* Me and My Sewing Machine by Kate Haxell
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Available now: Me and My Sewing Machine by Kate Haxell
In her Introduction, Kate Haxell states that as a beginning sewer she “learned piecemeal from better sewers, from magazines, from getting it wrong the first time, and from books.” To everyone like me, i.e. you who are prone to taking the “learning from getting it wrong the first time” route, I have three words: Get this book!
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