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Quilters Lifestyle
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Threadcation Season: Beach Towns Where the Sewing Kit Comes Along
Threadcation (noun) : a trip to the water where the sewing kit gets its own tote bag. Stitched by the Shore is our seaside corner of the Stitchin' In series, full of lighthouses, piers, palm trees and waves drawn in wavy lines of stitching, and if you look closely, a few spools of thread that clearly packed themselves.
Latest Articles
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Hello, My Name Is: Guild Name Tags That Say a Little More
Every guild meeting starts at the same little table by the door, with a roll of sticky name tags and a marker that is almost out of ink. Hello, my name is Linda. Fine, but it does not tell anyone that Linda has a chocolate drawer in her sewing table and firm opinions on pressing seams open. Quilting Tees with Sass are name tags that finally say what matters, in bright rainbow lettering on tees made for sewing days, guild nights and every trip to the fabric store. Peel one off and pick your table -
Walk-Ins Welcome at the Quilt Hair Salon
There is a salon every quilter visits, whether she books it or not. The chair is the one in front of your machine, the dryer is the steam off the iron, and the styling product is a full afternoon of batting static. Nobody leaves looking the way they came in. Quilt Hair Don't Care is the appointment book for our wild-haired regulars, the birds and friends of Chic Quilter who wear the results proudly. Let's see who is on the schedule today. -
Sunrise on Haleakalฤ Is Chilly, and Other Good Reasons to Pack a Hoodie
Here is a secret every park lover learns the first time she gets up early for the view: the prettiest moments are almost always the coldest. National Park Wildlife Hoodies is our collection for those moments. Each hoodie carries one of our Stitchin In Beauty park badges, a delicate drawing of a park's wild resident nestled in wildflowers, with the park's name arched above and a little stitching motto below. Zip up the tote, grab your hand project, and let's go where the hood comes up.
