Twice each year, Sew,Mama,Sew! does this awesome thing called Giveaway Day. I haven’t been able to participate in a while with life being a bit crazy, then forgetting, and thinking I’ll do it the next time, then not. But this year I am doing it! And what am I giving away you ask. How about […]
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Lyn shared this adorable picture from one of her last days at the Tam Ky orphanage. Can you pick out the boy hidden in a dress? I only have my guess, but I know his name is Khang and no one batted an eye about putting him in one of the dresses we made. This
Have I told you how much I enjoy teaching people how to sew? It’s a surprise even to me! I mean, I knew I liked teaching after leading the EFL classes in Vietnam and it’s blatantly obvious that I love sewing, but putting the two together has been a slow merger. Silly, I know. This
Who doesn’t get a little thrill when there’s a package with your name on it at the front door? It’s one of my favorite ways to come home. On Tuesday, I got two packages–an order and a surprise. Abby Glassenberg‘s newest book, Stuffed Animals: From Concept to Construction, came across my desk at work late
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Thanks to each and every person who helped out with my sewing drive last fall. I think we may have lost one box along the way, but I realized with this last shipment that if I forked over the extra for Express Mail, it really does get there faster. I mailed two boxes last Friday
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I first heard of Thomas Knauer back in 2011 when he was releasing his first line with Andover. It was a lovely collection called “Pear Tree” and I remember seeing him in Houston at Quilt Market carrying a bag he had made out of this lovely large-scale partridge-in-a-pear-tree print. I was too shy to say
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Thanks to the support of Gen Q mag and Teri (craktpot on Flickr) I was able to pay for a second box of items. I paid for this first one, filled with pants and dresses. And they paid for this box, double the size and cost, but filled with 40 Popover dresses, 12 pairs of
Sewists , crafters and quilters are always willing to lend a hand and thanks to the help of dozen, in 2012 I was able to gather more than 200 items for the children in Tam Ky. Since then I have sent package to the Quang Nam Baby Orphanage as my own budget afforded. As more
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Learn more about interlining and interfacing for couture jackets so I can re-do my daughter’s and make it perfect. Print out these maps and make something cool. Make this tote/clutch, even without the tutorial (it seems to have completely disappeared?) Make every item in the new Stuffed Animals book by Abby Glassenberg.
Finally got one of Great Grandma Massingill’s quilt tops from my mom. She’s been holding onto three of them since her grandmother passed away in the mid-80s. For nearly thirty years they’ve just been waiting for someone to finish making them into quilts. Well, the time has come.
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