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JOIN US FOR INTERNATIONAL QUILT FESTIVAL IN CHICAGO! SEE more than 500 great quilts and fiber art works in nearly 25 exhibits! SHOP at nearly 300 booths! LEARN in classes for all skill levels! FREE demos and educational exhibits. JUST SOME OF THE EXHIBITS INCLUDE: • A Celebration of Color • HERstory: A Celebration of Strong Women • SAQA: Masterworks: Abstract and Geometric • Creative Stitching • Quilts for Scrap Lovers • Anthems • SAQA: Textile Posters • Traditional Midwest & Canadian Quilts CHICAGO, IL Show Dates April 12-14 Classes begin April 12 Hours 10am-6pm Thurs. & Fri. 10am-5pm Sat. At the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois (Just minutes outside of Chicago) CALL: 713-781-6864 E-MAIL: shows@quilts.com WEBSITE: www.quilts.com MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW! /quiltfestival @quiltfestival @quiltfestival…
DEAR READERS, There’s a fair amount of controversy surrounding Barbie’s influence on young children, despite recent efforts to ensure a more realistic body type; the advent of career-minded Barbie; and the addition of different skin tones, facial features and hair colors to the doll line. I haven’t yet been swayed by Mattel’s effort to make Barbie more universally accepted. But I have to admit: Growing up, I had tons of Barbies! I gave my Barbies haircuts, I took my Barbies to the swimming pool, I made my Barbies clothes using scraps from my mom’s sewing bin. Even though my feminist ideals are strong, I’ll never deprive my children of having Barbies so I can encourage conversations about self-image—plus we can use her as a muse for starter sewing projects. So…
DELPHINE COLBEAU 10×10 Fashion Challenge — page 66 In 1994, a French magazine was advertising a doll named Tatiana. You could get her by mail order and certain issues of the magazine included sewing and knitting patterns to make Tatiana an entire wardrobe. After much begging, I convinced my mom to buy Tatiana, and at 9 years old, I picked up a needle, thread and fabric for the first time to hand stitch a “skirt” for my doll (a cylinder with one seam). I come from a family of makers, as one of my grandmothers was a professional seamstress and the other one a professional knitter. Within a couple of months, Tatiana was the best-dressed doll by three generations of women. sewingtidbits.wordpress.com RAE CUMBIE Curve Appeal: Jacket Focus — page…
There is no name more closely linked to ornate and fanciful fabric design than Tula Pink. Sewists and quilters have long delighted in using her fabric to create whimsical sewn creations. Now hand embroiderers, too, can join the fun and stitch her signature designs with needle and thread! In Coloring with Thread, you’ll find 17 of Tula’s animal and floral designs from her best-selling fabric collections rendered and primed for hand embroidery. Step-by-step stitch instructions for over 20 embroidery stitches are included to help you bring adorable bunnies, chipmunks, octopi, and elephants to life right in your hands. Each motif features a color guide and thread color suggestions selected by Tula herself to insure a gorgeous finished design. Plus, you’ll find every motif on CD-rom, where they are ready to…
1. COOKING UP TURNS Use a cooking chopstick (approximately 17”-long) to turn long, thin tubes right side out without harming the thread or fabric. The chopstick has a blunt end that won’t poke through seams. Carla B., Facebook 2. PRETTY NOTES Collect paint chip sample cards and use them as notecards for your sewing room. They’re not only handy (and free), but also pretty! Janet, email 3. SPICE IT UP Place broken and/or old needles in an empty spice bottle that features a flip-top lid for safe disposal. Rhonda R., email 4. SEPARATE WITH TAPE Use washi tape to decorate fabric scissors so they’re easier to differentiate from paper scissors. Loren H., letter 5. GLOBE TROTTER Hang a plant globe from the ceiling near your sewing machine to easily toss…
Play & Win! What is it? Pictured at left is part of a photo from this issue.When you find it, enter online at sewnews.com or send a postcard with the page you found it on to Sew News, Hide & Seek, 741 Corporate Circle, Ste. A, Golden, CO 80401. Responses are due Feb 28, 2018. From the correct responses, we’ll randomly draw five winners, one of which could be you. The Feb/Mar ’18 winners will receive a wonderful prize! Congratulations To the Dec '17/Jan ’18 Hide & Seek winners! We randomly selected five winners to receive a fabulous prize. Lamona A., Portland, OR Beth S., Toledo, OH Dorothy C., East Setauket, NY Donna D., Cedar Rapids, IA Joyce M., Vadnais Heights, MN…
