Scrappy Squares – a postcard project from Jen Kingwell Designs – is this week’s giveaway – going to Patricia! One of several postcard projects we carry, you use the template to cut your squares and can handsew them together to any size you desire. A great take-along project for the holidays. Videos on our website (click here to access) demonstrate how to use the template and the hand-piecing stitch.
I’ll be back with another Giveaway next Wednesday. Until then you can shop for all sorts of sewing notions, books, and other fun stuff at pieceocake.com!
This week we are passing on a tool from one of our vendors to our lucky winner, Caroline Doyle! The pink Dritz Seam Fix tool has a sharp seam ripper on one end and the ridged rubber head on the other end to grab and brush away the snipped threads and to help close up needle holes.
(The version we carry in our store has a seam ripper and a stiletto/awl with both ridged and smooth ends. And it’s currently on sale! Click here to shop.)
I’ll be back with another Giveaway next Wednesday. Until then you can shop for all sorts of sewing notions, books, and other fun stuff at pieceocake.com!
Adding a label to your project makes it an even better gift! We carry several of the KATM labels (click here to see what’s in stock). Although I’m personally drawn to the “Nana made it” label, I’m giving this week’s winner, Pam Dempsey, the more general “Handmade” one. Enjoy, Pam!
I’ll be back with another Giveaway next Wednesday. Until then you can shop for all sorts of sewing notions, books, and other fun stuff at pieceocake.com!
In the interest of assisting you in making beautiful and practical gifts, we are giving our lucky winner a set of Kraft-Tex Kraft Paper Fabric! This consists of 6 hand-dyed sheets, each in a different color, that feels like leather and can be sewn like heavy fabric. Perfect for so many projects, including my zippered pouch, gift card holder or scissor sheath (click here for instructions and videos).
I’ll be back with another Giveaway next Wednesday. Until then you can shop for all sorts of sewing notions, books, and other fun stuff at pieceocake.com!
I shared the Flutterbye Butterflies pattern with Margery Tadder, an internet friend, a while ago. I asked her to keep it a secret until the book was closer to release. The book, 100 Whimsical Applique Designs, is available now for presale so it is time to share Margery’s Butterflies :-). I love it so much!
At long last, I’m sending a picture of my butterflies using your lovely Flutterbye pattern. I’ll be 93 December 1st and compared to some of my contemporaries, am doing wondrously well. After surviving a long bout of pneumonia and slowly regaining energy, am back out and about and grateful for it! I used the butterflies for a pillow. Am really happy how they turned out after a couple false starts.
Over the years I have saved family signatures thinking to use them in a quilt. It never happened but on the pillow back will trace the names of those who have passed away. It will be the perfect place.
This is my finished(yay!) Flutterbye pillow and also one of the back although it didn’t turn out as I had hoped. My plan was to scatter a number of signatures in a freeform way, but about went out of my tree trying to trace them so they didn’t look like a jumbled mess! After wasting a couple pieces of fabric, got serious and did a few the easiest way possible!
Love the butterflies and tulips and they are such pretty and cheery spot on this cold and snowy day! But what’s not to love about this darling pattern?! The pillow does need to be stuffed again as this form is too loose. You probably know the story…the Navajo women purposely make a mistake in their weavings so the gods won’t be angry because only the gods are allowed to be perfect. I tell you, if there are any Navajo gods looking down on my pillow they definitely aren’t mad! haha.
Thank you many times again, Becky, for your generosity and kindness, and Best Wishes to you and your family for a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Margery, thank you for sharing your pillow and the story to go with it. I think the signatures on the pillow back are perfect as they are and I’m not entirely sure that it needs more stuffing—but that is your call :-). I hope you keep right on stitching because it does bring joy, both in the doing and the finishing!
Just in time for decorating for Christmas, the kit that will make a reusable 24′ long paper chain goes to Suz Kuhns! From eeBoo. Click here to see all the products we carry from this excellent company.
I’ll be back with another Giveaway next Wednesday. Until then you can shop for all sorts of sewing notions, books, and other fun stuff at pieceocake.com!
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