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Category Archives: Sew & Craft Industry News

Threads and Breads

Thanksgiving is coming soon, and amid your hustle to find the right turkey and the polish the silverware, you can take time to help others in need with your sewing and cooking skills.

November 26th is National Tie One On day! Not what you might think–we’re talking about tying on a custom-sewn apron. The idea is [...]

Fabric Beads

One of the fun things about attending Quilt Market, and also Quilt Festival which is open to consumers, is that you can go to lots of classes. I went to Kristal Wick’s class about making fabric beads. In case you’re not familiar with her work, she’s the author of a new book titled Fabulous Fabric [...]

Quilt Market, Fall 2008

I’m back from Houston, TX –the home of the annual Quilt Market trade show. Encompassing the entire convention center, this show is where shopowners come to buy fabric for their stores, and this year there were 551 exhibitors with fun booths to show off their wares. And the good news is that 60 of them [...]

National Sewing Month

Hopefully, you know by now that September is National Sewing Month. It was proclaimed as such by President Ronald Reagan in 1982 to recognize the importance of sewing to our country. Since then it’s been celebrated by stitchers around the country in various ways. The event is now co-sponsored by the Sewing & Craft Alliance (www.sewing.org) and by [...]