Hey, What’s Going On?

This is something I get asked often and to which I usually reply, “Not much.”  Sometimes, I think to myself it might be funny to actually recount everything that happens in the day at the store…I’ll bet you don’t want to know what’s really going on!
Like most sewers, I spend a lot of time dreaming [...]

Lost Files

My husband always mocks my digital camera.  When our kids were young, I had an SLR camera with all the lenses, bounce flash and more, and, if I don’t mind saying so myself, I took some pretty good photos even though I’d never taken any photography lessons.  Of course, I had some awesome subjects to [...]

Late Night Fun

We had our Open House last night and I hope everyone enjoyed themselves.  There was a little mingling, but everyone took their seats, anticipating the special guest, Patty Young.  Patty gave us her background and her budding success story.  It was really fun to see how many people were interested in how her career has [...]

Sewing. Again.

This sudden rush of fabric in the store has given me cause for “sew much more” sewing that I’m hardly able to sleep these days.  So many ideas run through my head at all hours of the day and night I can barely concentrate.  I recently suggested to both of my daughters a tunic pattern [...]

Face-ing the Future?

My son loves giving me business advice.   His “sign-off” in phone calls to me isn’t “I love you, mom”, but “ABC”, which means “Always Be Closing!”  What a guy.  Lately, he’s been after me to set up a Facebook page for the store, and so, reluctantly, I signed up for Facebook.  I really didn’t [...]

Cherry Lollipop!

We’ve had the cute Lollipop baby doll halter dress pattern from Bananfana in the store, and right away, it caught my eye.  You know I am a sucker for jelly rolls, charm packs and now (of course) honey buns, so I picked up the cutest honey bun pack with a favorite theme of mine, cherries!  [...]

Spotlight on Quest Plus

In the last month, we’ve sent quite a few new Baby Lock Quest & the newest Quest Plus machines home with happy sewers and quilters.  There are a lot of reasons why the Quest Plus is such a great machine:

PDQ – Precision Dual-Feed Quilting!  What’s this?  Well, it’s a built-in walking foot.  Even if you [...]

We’re Here

In the last week, we’ve heard many times from new customers, “I never knew you were here!”  Well, we’re coming up on 2 1/2 years now, and we’ve welcomed more new customers in the last couple of months than ever.  Our 1-day “EVERYTHING*” sale on Saturday was proof, with customers lined up at the door [...]

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 [...]

Spotlight on Evolve

I spotlighted my favorite sewing machine yesterday, the Espire, and wanted you to know a bit more about my all-time favorite serger, the Evolve.  I was getting ready for our Serger 4-1-1 class tonight and worked on a toddler dress, completely made on the Evolve.  I always wanted a 5-thread serger, and those of you [...]