On the first night of Intro to Sewing class, a young woman walked in with a brand-new sewing machine still in the original box and set it on the classroom table.…
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Were you hoping to join the League of Adventurous Dressmakers this year? Today could be your lucky day! Over on Sew, Mama, Sew you can enter to win THE ENTIRE…
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I am deep in the trenches of hand-matching our Sewing Buddies for 2016!! If you haven’t signed up yet but would like to join us, TODAY is the very last day…
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I was watching an old Hepburn & Tracy movie over the holidays, Desk Set, all about replacing a crack reference librarian with a computer, back in the 50s. And it occurred to…
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So, not too long ago, I made my very first rope bowl. One minute, the words “rope bowl” were some vague 70s-era shady memory and POOF! the next minute, it seemed…
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The other day I walked into our kitchen and found this on the counter. The children had taken the giant trifle bowl filled with random buttons that I keep in my…
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Now open for registration! Both the Murder Mystery Quilt AND the League of Adventurous Dressmakers are now ready for you to join! The League of Adventurous Dressmakers is a monthly subscription club…
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FOR THE 2020 PROJECT, VISIT The Murder Mystery Quilt SITE! In the first grade, when I was six years old, my class did a unit on Ancient Egypt. I was, as most children are,…
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VISIT THE NEW-AND-IMPROVED LEAGUE SITE FOR 2019 AND BEYOND! When I was in college, I was required by the School of Theatre to do a semester in the costume shop. Most of…
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Hooray, hooray!! A whole bunch of you have already registered for the 2016 Sewing Buddy Project. I am beyond delighted to welcome back some familiar faces and to greet some new…
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The Sewing Buddy Project is BACK!! Registration is open NOW through January 30, 2016. All Buddy pair matches will be emailed out no later than February 1, 2016. The Sewing Buddy…
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Today, on a whim, I searched my own blog to see what I’d posted in past years during Christmas time. If you had asked me, I would have told you there…
