Small Projects – Sewing, Coffee, Chocolate

This past week, I have been on a mission to find some small projects that our guild area group can make for our shop at the show next year. Knowing it will take some time to find the right ideas, I've been looking for quick projects with pizzazz. Thank you, dear readers, for your input …

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Fall Fortnight Kitchen Towel

Today's project is specifically designed for those who have embroidery machines, but it can also be done with fussy cuts and fall fabrics. Who could use a new pretty kitchen towel? Just about everyone, I think. So, even if you do not have an embroidery machine, read on anyway for a great giveaway today and …

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Embroidered Table Runner

I have been bitten by the machine embroidery bug, and February is National Embroidery Month. It is a good time to explore more ideas and projects to use this machine capability. Now that I have a good combination of stabilizers, the designs are coming out well. I still have the problem of some thread breakage, …

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Autumn Jubilee in the Sewing Room

For our last project post of Autumn Jubilee, we are going to play with Mason jars in the sewing room, and then preview a few new releases from our giveaway sponsor. Using Mason jars to separate buttons by color is a fun way to display your button collection. I put bits of Harvest Festival fabrics …

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Autumn Jubilee Embroidery Sew Along

So many sewing artists have embroidery capability now, so let's put that to use in a sew along! If you don't have embroidery on your machine, don't fret, you can just find a cute motif on some of your stash fabric to fussy cut for this step. Or you could do a quick hand embroidery …

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Autumn Jubilee Embroidery Sew Along

Ready to have some fun with your embroidery machines? Get out a bunch of fall color rayon threads, and sew along as we are going to do a fun and quick project that can be finished in just a couple of hours. Today we'll so some stitch outs, as you'll want more than just one! …

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Machine Embroidery Project

I'm still working on using my embroidery machine for projects. I stopped using it for some years as I just lost interest. I didn't have that many designs on the cards, and the machine is too old to use the new ones available online. It doesn't have a USB connection, and I didn't invest in …

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