Off the Bolt
Stories, stitches, and the little wins between seams ~ pull up a chair.
Off the Bolt
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The Ghosts Took the Night Shift and the Skeleton Is Still Not Done
Somewhere around the first of October, our sewing rooms change hands. The Halloween Shop is Chic Quilter's record of who moves in: skeletons who never quite finish the binding, ghosts working the late shift at the machine, a jack-o'-lantern who has claimed the whole table, and a coven piecing a quilt top faster than any guild we know. It is the quilter's Halloween, drawn with the same rotary cutters, rulers and fabric heaps that fill your sewing room all year. -
The Sewing Room Is Haunted. The Quilter Is Thrilled.
October gets to the sewing room before it gets to the rest of the house. The lamp goes on earlier. The good scissors go missing in a way that feels personal. And somewhere around the eleventh hour of “one more block,” every quilter hears it ~ a small sound from the stash shelf that was definitely nothing, probably.
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Boss's Day in a Room Where Nobody Takes Orders
Hi there. Boss's Day is coming up, and we have a small confession from the sewing room: nobody in here has a boss. Not one of us. We looked. There is a chair, a machine, a stack of fabric that keeps growing on its own, and a dog, and not a single person who gets to say what happens next. Sound familiar?
