We had 3 sessions of our ever-popular Kid’s Club sewing group this Saturday. The girls are improving their skills each month, and this month they finished their windsocks easily. It took almost as much time to line up the colorful ribbons in an eye-pleasing pattern as it did to complete the sewing. These socks are [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 25, 2009
Sashiko Embroidery
I couldn’t wait to get the new Designer’s Gallery Interactives for Sashiko Embroidery! You’re sure to appreciate the detail and the unique, hand-stitched look of the designs in this collection. You can also select single or double stitching, so you can use the designs to quilt fabric right on your embroidery machine! We are [...]
March 23, 2009
Trust Me
Pam came by to take a look at the little vest I made using the Natty Vest pattern and thought it was so cute. She said she never thought it would be so cute from the packaging. I told her to “trust me”…sometimes I just have a feeling about a pattern. And, most of the [...]
March 21, 2009
Fancy Feet
I got a chance to begin a new sewing project–Natty Jacket & Vest from Pink Fig Designs. I’m making the vest using our new Loralie Wild Cat Women fabric, grey coneflowers and the new pink polka dot. It is going to be very cute and I’ll post photos of the finished product. (I didn’t like [...]
March 11, 2009
Bits & Pieces
It was a great 2 days down at Tacony, where I got some advanced training in servicing our two newest Baby Lock machines, the Jewel and the Ellisimo. I was totally captivated by the Ellisimo before this weekend, but after seeing this technological advances in this machine, I am even more impressed! The Baby Lock [...]
March 4, 2009
More Fabric Fun
I can’t sew this new fabric quickly enough! There are so many ideas floating through my head. I see a toddler dress from the pastel pink zebra stripe, a little girl’s spring dress out of the silver coneflower fabric, including a smocking insert of the silver marble, and purses and tote bags galore out of [...]
March 2, 2009
More to Sew
The newest Loralie fabric, from the WildCat Women collection, finally arrived last week. We have loads of great ideas for this fun fabric, but only had time to finish up the tote bag below, for show & tell at Embroidery Club yesterday. How much fun is the panel and the coordinating prints will make fabulous [...]
March 2, 2009
Kid’s Club
Our Kid’s Club Sewing Club has been such a huge success in its first months. We’ve grown from one session to two and have to expand to 3 groups in March to make sure all of our young sewers have a spot! This month’s project was a pillow, and the girls did a marvelous job, [...]
