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Celebrations

Let’s Celebrate: February Holidays

It's the first Saturday of the month so that means it's time list all the days we have ahead of us to be celebrated in February! At our house we always celebrate National Tortilla Chip Day and Candlemas Day (one of our favorites).  But this year I've also got something planned for White T-shirt Day and Random Act of Kindness Day.  (And I'm thinking about Do A Grouch A Favor Day....)  How about you?  Any days that look like fun?   February 2014 Holidays: 1:  National Freedom Day, Change ... View the Post

Announcements

What We Wish We HAD When We Started Sewing Giveaway

  Now that we've shared some of the things that we wish we would have known when we started sewing we want to give you some of the things that we wish we would have HAD when we started sewing!  So we got together with some of the terrific seamstresses here in blogland and put together a fun package for one lucky seamstress!   Here's the list of the goods...and the fantastic ladies who are gifting them: A Girl and A Glue Gun--Sewing Machine Cleaning Kit Package Flamingo Toes---An ... View the Post

Learn to Sew· Tutorials

Tips For Sewing Smooth Curves and Creating Crisp Corners

Today is the last day of our "What I Wish I'd Known When I Started Sewing Series".  We know there are so many sewing tips, tricks, and techniques that we didn't cover...but hopefully this gave you a good spring board to use to jump into the new year and start sewing.  And we promise we will continue to sprinkle these kinds of posts into our regular posts through out the up coming year. Now, before we jump into today's topic we just wanted to give you a little heads up....tomorrow we have a ... View the Post

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What I Wish I’d Known When I Started Sewing: Melissa from the Polka Dot Chair

Today we have an extra special guest as a part of our "What I Wish I'd Known When I Started Sewing Series".  It's our friend Melissa from the Polka Dot Chair.  We've been lucky enough to spend a lot of time with Melissa...talking, eating, sewing...all even though we live hundreds of miles apart.  She is warm, fun, and the kind of person that you not only want to be friends with...but to sew with as well!  So we are so very happy to have her here today sharing some of her sewing advice with us.  ... View the Post

Techniques

Zipper 101

Did you all have a good weekend?  I hope so.  Liz and I are both home again and happy to be back to a bit of normalcy.  We were both laughing about how we have never had so many days in a row of wearing "real clothes" and not our usual mom uniforms of yoga pants, jeans and tees or sweaters.  We do have a few more stories to tell you about our conference over last weekend...and some things we learned, but I feel like I am still processing a lot of it.  But I promise we will share soon! And now ... View the Post