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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.
Latest Articles
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Good Days, Long Sleeves, and a Little Salt Air
Hi friends, Judy here. This morning I pushed my sleeves up to press a seam, pulled them right back down (my sewing room runs chilly before the iron warms up), and decided the universe was telling me something ~ sleeve weather is sewing weather. Sound familiar? -
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. -
Move Over, Plastic Lawn Flamingos: These Pretty Birds Can Sew
Somewhere in every neighborhood there is a pair of pink plastic flamingos stuck in a flower bed, standing on one leg and doing absolutely nothing. We quilters respect the look. We simply think a flamingo that pretty ought to have a hobby. Stitching Pretty is our flock of flamingos who found theirs, nearly all of them with a hairdo that says Quilt Hair Don't Care, and every one with a quilting habit to match.
