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Quilters Lifestyle
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Today's Forecast for the Quilting Heart: Breezy, Bright and Scattered Scraps
Here is the weather for the week, read straight off the radar in the sewing room. A warm front of good ideas is rolling in, the winds are picking up color, and conditions are ideal for pressing seams flat. Gifts for the Quilting Heart is the collection built from that forecast: sewing machines caught in gusts, tides and sunrises, plus a handful of sayings the quilter you love would gladly repeat to anyone within earshot. -
Roses Are Red, Bindings Are Mitered, and Other Quilter Valentines
Every February the world talks about true love, and every quilter quietly nods, because she found hers years ago in a fabric store. Valentine Specials is our collection of love notes to the craft: sweet sayings with hearts tucked into the letters, rainbow declarations of devotion, and one very romantic rabbit. Think of it as a box of valentines from quilters, for quilters.
Latest Articles
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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. -
Two Grand Marshals Lead the Sewing Room's Hometown Parade
Small towns do a parade right. There are lawn chairs staked out along Main Street by eight in the morning, a fire truck that toots its horn for the kids, and somewhere near the front a float wrapped in red, white and blue bunting with a quilt draped over the side. Stars, Stripes & Stitches is the float we quilters would build. It carries two American icons, both reimagined by someone who has clearly spent a lot of hours at the machine, and both wearing the same unmistakable expression: Resti -
While the Bobbin Winds: The Sewing Room's Official Break Schedule
Nobody sews straight through a Saturday. There is always a pause while the bobbin winds, a stretch after the last seam in a row, and one long, lovely break when the whole block finally lines up. Sips Between Stitches keeps those pauses company with wine sippers and quilter's flasks, each one carrying a member of our wild-haired Quilt Hair Don't Care flock. Every bird comes in both, so the only hard choice is which break you are planning for.
