There are signs hanging by our fashion fabric now. “Carefully Curated” they say. This blog fills out that story.

One of the questions I get a lot is “so, do you make everything you wear?” And I always reply “I wish!” Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of time…

Maybe you noticed Toronto going mad this Wednesday, maybe you didn’t. Either way, the Jays won the pennant for the American League East, and it inspired this project! Colouring on…

This week I was shopping in the thrift store and came across a gorgeous pink striped angora sweater which was hung in the wrong section. It was way too big…

Yesterday we got to take in a demonstration of the new Premier+ embroidery software via the internet. In the last few months, we were told it was like Christmas every…

When I googled the title of this post to see if others had already written about it, most of my results were actually about needles. Which is weird because they…

We help so many kids and adults get set up for sewing, and one of the first questions we address is “what do I need?” Sewing machine aside, there is…

A few weeks ago I wrote about combining sewing and scrapbooking and I dubbed it Cross Crafting - my own term that has nothing to do with making crosses. It’s…

One of the most wonderful things about the craft industry is that there is next to no one who does just ONE craft. We all dabble, and we are always…

Not everybody does, you know… need a serger, that is. We have some good reasons for and against, depending on the type of sewing you do.

As gardening season approaches, you may be thinking about sewing for your outdoor living space. Most projects will ask for waterproof fabric, which has its own special requirements.

Have you tried printing on fabric? If not, start now and create this easy baby ball project!

Valentine’s day is coming and nothing says romance like lace. Have you tried to make some on your embroidery machine? If not, why not give it a go… It is…

Accuracy. Precision. Perfection. The pressure! The consistently straight line can be hard to achieve, and in sewing it is often critically important. How do you relieve the stress, the pressure,…

There are all sorts of storage solutions for organizing your bobbins, but have you thought about organizing your THREAD by colour coding them with your actual bobbins?

I think a lot of us are mainly concerned about matching the thread to our fabric, and don’t necessarily worry about the fibre content of the thread. And often time,…