Sergers

I have never owned or operated a serger. I was a garment sewer for a lot of years, made all my own clothes in high school. But after awhile, it got to be more expensive to make them than to buy them off the rack. And that was about the time I was having babies [...]

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Sewing cabinets

One thing that’s been on mind for more than a year is that I need a new sewing cabinet. One where my machine will sit flush with the table top so that I can bone up on my machine quilting skills. Right now, my machine sits on a folding cafeteria table and has one of [...]

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Tablerunner project

I have been remiss in posting for the past few weeks. It seems getting ready for vacation and then the vacation itself pulled my attention elsewhere.
I should have been very excited to show you that over the Labor Day holiday I actually made something! It’s not quilted yet (as are so many of my UFOs) [...]

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Quick tip for better accuracy

If you don’t have this book, you’re missing out:

I highly recommend it. Sally Collins is an incredible quiltmaker and she’s got a lot of good advice to help improve the accuracy of your cutting and sewing.
I’ll give you one tip from the book. Using super-fine pins when matching seams and points gives you greater accuracy [...]

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A tip for keeping track

Since I’m working on my design wall, I thought I’d share a tip for keeping track of blocks and rows.

I took a bunch of flat head pins and numbered them with a permanent marker. This way I can keep track of which block is the first block in which row and then once they are [...]

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Weekend Wrapup

I had a very productive weekend this time. The house wasn’t so dirty after having been cleaned top-to-bottom last weekend, so I didn’t mess with any of that, except for laundry. That left more time for photography, sewing and yard work. I intended to give the quiltmobile its first bath yesterday, but the sky couldn’t [...]

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New project teaser

Those of you who read my blog looking for quilting posts have been very disappointed for the past couple of months. For that I sincerely apologize. I have been in some kind of major slump and haven’t been able to energize myself at the sewing machine. It’s making me crazy, too. I’m having a tug-of-war [...]

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Molas!

My friend and co-worker Sue (who declined to be photographed for this article) spent an extended Memorial Day weekend in Panama with her daughters. I can’t wait to see her pictures because her description of the experience is fascinating.
They stayed in a hotel on an archipelago island. They were the only ones in residence (besides [...]

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Speaking of sewing

So…
My Grandma Young was “the” sewer in my family, closely followed by her daughter, my Aunt Robbie. My mother never sewed to my knowledge, nor did her other sister, my Aunt Ginny. Grandma Young was self-taught, I’m sure. I don’t remember what-all kinds of things she made but I always got a flannel nightgown every [...]

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