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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Monkey Around Lunch Bag Project
Today we’re kicking off National Craft Month with our first free project. Visit us here and stoke your creative juices once a week, through the month of March.
Bring on the Monkey lunch bag! Creative Troupe member Sherry Payne took on our Insul-Fleece™… Read more. challenge and produced this adorable lunch bag. When you aren’t using it for lunch it could certainly
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Fan mail: Little Girls, Big Style
Viv from Sew Inspired Quilt Shop & Studio in Simsbury, CT sent us this photo:
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Here’s what she had to say:
This was one of the best written/edited books I’ve seen on these clothing techniques and the photos are excellent. A beginner could make one of these outfits and be successful. We make a lot of kids clothing samples for
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Introducing: Inspired to Sew by Bari J.
It was over two years ago when I invited Bari Ackerman to bring a selection of her completed work to a lunch meeting to discuss the possibility of putting together a book proposal. She arrived with handfuls of her creations, a bunch of ideas, and a lot of questions.
I had been working for C&T Publishing… Read more. for three weeks. I
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Yule House Ornament project from Scandinavian Stitches
I am absolutely infatuated with Kajsa Wikman’s Yule House Ornament project in Scandinavian Stitches. Not only are they adorable, but everything you need to make them can be found in your stash, and they are perfectly lightweight for those of you who have holiday gifting obligations overseas.
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Introducing: Little Girls, Big Style
Little Girls, Big Style by Mary Abreu No one can dispute that sewing children’s clothes—especially for girls—is a hot trend at the moment. I was seeing patterns crop up with more and more regularity over the past three or four Quilt Market trade shows. I was still on the fence as to whether we would catch the trend in book form until something fabulous happened: Mary Abreu sent in her book proposal!
Instead of a book filled with random patterns, Mary’s proposal for Little Girls, Big Style was all about building a wardrobe on just four straightforward basics: A bodice, a top, a pair of trousers and a skirt. Really. Just four basic patterns and the rest is all variations and embellishments that encourage you to make endless iterations of the basics. What could be simpler than that?!
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Socks to the Rescue
Socks Appeal author, Brenna Maloney… Read more., recently received a letter from a fan of the book. After reading about how the book made a 27 hour car trip a little more delightful, we knew this letter was too cute not to share.
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Greetings from Northern Canada, land of many socks…I mean Land of the Midnight Sun.
We had the
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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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Alltop’s quilting topic
I love the website Alltop.com because it’s a fantastic tool for finding the top sites on pretty much any given topic. The blogs of a few of our own Stash Books authors show up under the Quilting topic, including Camille Roskelley’s blog Simplify and Cherri House’s blog Cherry House Quilts… Read more.. There are many more great blogs listed, but I
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