Settle into your chair. Rest your hands flat on the extension table. Let the hum of the machine be the only sound in the house. Sewing Machine Serenity is the collection for that feeling, where every design puts a sewing machine somewhere peaceful: rolling on the tide, glowing under a rising sun, or sitting quietly in the middle of a rainbow. Ready? Close your eyes. Well, not while the needle is moving.
First, picture the water
Imagine your machine floating on a calm blue sea. In Sewing Tides it rides quilted waves beside a pleated fabric sun, and in Lakeshore Breezes it rests inside a round window of deep blue water under a pale moon. Surfing the Fabric Sea catches a curling wave with the sun beaming overhead, Seam Surfing tucks the machine into a little circle of swirls and stitched light, and Threaded Dreams by the Sea wraps sun, surf and spirals around it like a hand-appliquéd medallion. Seaside Stitcher lets a whole wave crash right over the machine, shells and coral tumbling at its feet. Breathe out slowly. Nobody is going to ask you what's for dinner here.
Now, let the sun come up
Wake up and Quilt paints a sunrise so bright you can almost smell the first pot of coffee. Patch of Sunshine sets the machine in the center of a stained glass starburst, every ray pieced in jewel tones, and Quilting on a Cloud carries it along a rainbow ribbon beneath a warm morning sky. Gale Force Quilting streams color off the machine in every direction, as if the whole rainbow just blew in through the sewing room window. Sound familiar? Some mornings the ideas really do arrive that fast.
Let your mind drift somewhere new
If the ocean is not your happy place, wander a little. Alpine Stitching draws the machine in fine white lines, snowy peaks and pine trees tucked inside its curves. Threaded Wings lets a fan of rainbow feathers trail from the needle, Tropical Sewing glows in neon with hibiscus blooms at its feet, and Thread Mandala arranges spools of every color into a slow, spinning circle that is lovely to stare at between seams. And for the days when you just want to say it plainly, My Sewing Room Is My Happy Place says exactly that.
For the quilter who finds her calm at the machine
You know her. She hears a machine start up in the next room and her shoulders drop an inch. She calls a retreat weekend "recharging," and she means it. This collection is for her, whether she sews with the sunrise, the tide or the wind in her hair, and the Watercolor Retreat Crew and Material Girl designs are waiting for her retreat friends too. Now take one last deep breath, open your eyes and wind a fresh bobbin. The quiet hour starts whenever you press the pedal.
Written by Jacqueline. Thanks for reading.
