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Sewing for tsunami victims: 'She's got a servant's heart'
KVAL
"I love sewing," said 8-year-old Abby Hoggard. And that love of sewing has turned into a labor of love for victims of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami. "My dad was watching the news and I saw all the video clips and I wanted to help and ...

Apartment residents sewing diapers for babies in Haiti
Stow Sentry
Residents at Stow Kent Gardens in Stow cut and sew cloth diapers that will be taken to earthquake-ravaged Haiti. by Mike Lesko | Associate Editor Stow -- Mary Ann Jones used to sew clothing for her family, but she never figured she'd be sewing diapers ...


Quilters get sewing for tsunami victims
Westmorland Gazette
By Steven Bell » As community groups and businesses continue to hold collections and fundraising events, local quilters are sewing 'comfort quilts' to send to the thousands of people displaced by the earthquake and tsunami. The Mere Quilters, made up ...


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Review: Crafty Chica's Miss Scarlet's School of Patternless Sewing
BlogHer (blog)
I can't sew very well and I'm not particularly crafty, but those themes are a hook for me. Miss Scarlet's School of Patternless Sewing by Kathy Cano-Murillo, aka Crafty Chica, has both and when I was offered the chance to read it I jumped. ...

Hundreds of quilts donated to local charities
Wink News
The group took their love for sewing and turned it into a major charitable organization by donating thousands of quilts over the years. "I still have my health and family and so on. I just like to give to people who are not as fortunate," said Jackie ...

A sewing fix in Bloorcourt Village
Metro Canada - Toronto
She's the proprietor of a magical place called The Make Den, where the city's Scottys, aspiring artists and future fashionistas alike come to get their sewing fix. A 30-year old entrepreneur with a degree from Ryerson and a previous life as a ...

Quilt show brings patchwork of friends together
Herald & Review
“I quilt every day,” said Stine, who prefers hand-sewing and has done it for 30 years. “I always tell my family it gives me my sanity. I just kind of put my mind in neutral.” For 15 years, Stine has joined friends in a sewing group on Wednesday ...

Make your own Max from Where the Wild Things Are Costume
Examiner.com
Additionally, you can sew socks to the feet of your sweatpants or get your sewing machine out and add feet to the sweatsuit to resemble footed pj's You will ...


Adding or Altering Sewing Patterns - Example: Modifying McCalls 5252...
By Chloe Findlay-Harder
All I've done is copied the basic pattern that I'm using, and just added the extra elements on top. That way I can plan my sewing, instead of going “what's next!?”. So next time you're altering a pattern, ...


Wisconsin: Sew much for 'a drab life'
Dubuque Telegraph Herald
But she laughs about the state of the spare bedroom she uses as a sewing room. "This table never gets empty," she said, patting her sewing table. ...


'Men of Cloth' features colorful quilts
Muskogee Daily Phoenix
Sewing has traditionally been a skill learned by men for survival. Soldiers carried sewing kits and repaired their uniforms around the fire at night. ...

New From the World of Sewing

New From the World of Sewing

Sewing quilts is purpose, friendship and support is payoff for ...
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA
Members bring their sewing machines, irons and fabric pieces. In addition to working on their own project, members collectively have sewn about 25 quilts ...

Century of clothes-making
Galesburg Register-Mail - Galesburg,IL,USA
The plant opened with 10 sewing machines. Cox was the salesman, traveling to seven states, Mosser managed the business, remaining in Abingdon. ...

`Sew Much Comfort' for our wounded vets
Edmonds Beacon - Mukilteo,WA,USA
Merilyn Beck provides the services through a group called “Sew Much Comfort,” a nationwide band of volunteers who take donated clothing and alter it for the ...

How to Save Money on Sewing Patterns: Finding Frugal Fashions and ...
Sewing enthusiasts can find a variety of ways to save money with patterns that are $3 are less, 40 percent off, or even free.

Project Linus, Quilting news and more

Knitting for Project Linus
Manchester Journal - Manchester center,VT,USA
MANCHESTER — Throughout February, Yarns for Your Soul will continue with the year long charity knitting campaign, Knit for Your Soul and Theirs. ...

Original Sewing and Quilt Expo
Decide Twincities - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Original Sewing and Quilt Expo at Minneapolis Convention Center Thu. Nov. 6, 10 am Minneapolis Convention Center 1301 2nd Ave. S., Twin Cities, MN Original ...

From sewing buttons to owning 16 shops
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: Thirty years ago, a friend who ventured into the clothes-making business taught Helen Read to sew buttons. Today, 55-year-old Read is the ...

Pillows made with tender love and care
Maryville Daily Forum - Maryville,MO,USA
Five of Evans' friends arrived at her home Wednesday morning hauling in stacks of fabric in a variety of colors and prints, pins, thread and sewing machines ...

Crafty quilters display creations
Imperial Valley Press (subscription) - El Centro,CA,USA
Quilt Show attendees are sure to be dazzled at the array of colors, patterns and designs, no matter their background in the craft.

Code quilts presentation Feb. 20
Cape Gazette - Lewes,DE,USA
I had done some sewing but quilt making was not something I was interested in.” But after she retired, things changed, and she joined a group of women who ...

Cover-up lets kids be kids, but stay clean
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
Lynne Peterson, a fourth-grade teacher, started sewing hundreds of "bibbies" during her free time. The two women approached Lynne Peterson's sister, ...

Fashion, Knitting, and Sewing for Community

Jewel tones brighten black at NY Fashion Week
International Herald Tribune - France
That was emphasized with an interesting accessory: a knit band worn around the models' waists, like a scarf for the bodice. Many of the women's pants had a ...

Patterns make dressmaking hot
Bundaberg NewsMail - Australia
Dressmaker, designer and Bonnie Jean Fabric and Sewing Studio owner Annette Blair said she had recently seen a rise in numbers for her dressmaking classes. ...

An interview with Kaye Wood - part 1
Examiner.com - USA
Kaye said that PBS is gradually dropping quilting and sewing shows from their line up or putting the show in a block with generic "crafts" shows making them ...

Crafty girls with style
This is London - London,England,UK
The last time I used a sewing machine I was 11. I was so bad at sewing straight lines on tracing paper that I wasn't allowed near fabric. ...

What the world needs now: Hints from England about life, love ...
Examiner.com - USA
She also loves knitting, and offers columns on that subject as well. She even wrote about and displayed her biggest knitting disaster, which nonetheless ...

Pupils square up to knitting challenge
Reading Evening Post - Reading,England,UK
The children in the knitting club at Aldryngton Primary School in Silverdale Road have been using their lunch break at school to practise their knitting ...

Knit one, purl two, hook one thousand
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
Forget the image of a grandmother knitting while sitting on a rocking chair surrounded by balls of wool. Contrary to conventional ideas, knitting is not ...

Santoni gets government help with job layoffs
Knitting Industry - Manchester,UK
The group’s leading brand Santoni has suffered in recent years after seemingly saturating the market with its seamless circular knitting technology. ...

Albinos receive Sh1.5m sewing machines
The Citizen Daily - Dar Es Salam,United Republic of Tanzania
By Frederick Katulanda, Mwanza The Mwanza City Council has donated nine sewing machines worth Sh1.5 million to albinos in Mwanza Region. ...

Choiseul women start sewing business
Solomon Star - Honiara,Solomon Islands
The women’s ministry of Supizae Island in north-west Choiseul Province officially received their sewing project Wednesday week. Delegates from the EU Micro ...

Sofa's transformation was long weekend project
MLive.com - MI,USA
Basic sewing skills are required for most upholstery projects. If you don't know how to sew, recruit a friend who does to help you out. ...

Shop caters to tight-knit crafting community
Bristol Press - CT, United States
In fact, the store sells a yarn made especially for socks, with different colors that alternate in a “self-striping” pattern. ...

Interweave contest
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
The online store will offer a large selection of knitting and crochet books, magazines, DVDs, patterns, etc. Grand Prize is a $500 gift certificate; ...

Latest Sewing and Craft Ideas

Modish Vintage: love: Japanese craft books
By Cathy
Happiness is sitting at Kinukuniya Bookstore one whole afternoon thumbing through pages of Japanese craft books or better yet buying as many as you can afford to add to your collection. I bought a couple of these books ... I managed to make one just like this which turned out pretty good, I think. I used dark brown corduroy for the handles. For the bag I used brown wool and some lace for the details.
Posted by Cathy at 6:05 AM. Labels: books, crafting, pattern, sewing ...


Books you missed: Custom Knits and A Fine Fleece
Examiner.com - USA
by Jessica Loring, NY Knitting Examiner As knitting gains in popularity, the quality and diversity of related books also grows. 2008 was a fantastic year ...


"Knitting-for-Dolphins" returns to needle Navy security proposal
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
The yarn is out, the gloves are on and the women of Puget Sound-based "Knitting for Dolphins" are back. The group that attracted international attention in ...

Learn to Sew: The Effects of Cheap Thread
She has shared with friends and family their way of learning to sew, as well as, the projects patterns that built their skills. ...

Sewing, Knitting Roundup

Do You Buy Knitting Patterns?
Now Sixth & Spring, publishers of Vogue Knitting, Knit.1, Knit Simple and others, is planning its own pattern store, and its planning to pay the designers a paltry 10 percent of pattern sales. I first learned about this ...

Knitting guild shares love of an ancient art
Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
By Laurie Fry • Special to the Statesman Journal As vice president of the Millstream Knitting Guild, Bailey is one of the forces behind keeping the art of ...

Granby knitting pro Jeanne M. Crosby hopes to learn more
The Republican - MassLive.com - Springfield,MA,USA
She learned to crochet at the age of 11, but says she likes knitting better. "I like the finished product better," Crosby said. "I can follow the pattern ...

At the library
Wicked Local West Roxbury - Needham,MA,USA
Please donate your unused yarn and knitting needles to the program. Or pick up some yarn and a pattern to make a child’s hat. The library will donate all ...

Designer encourages knitters to make own clothes
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By Deborah Deasy, TRIBUNE-REVIEW A career in knitting seemed unlikely when Maggie Jackson first tried the craft at age 6. "My mother taught me. ...

Costume designer Patricia Field shares her Confessions
Houston Chronicle - United States
Chronicle writer Joy Sewing talked with Field about Confessions of a Shopaholic: Q: What fashion style did you go for with this film? ...

Recessionista fashion: re-make your clothes
FashionUnited US News - Amsterdam,Netherlands
SANS digital sewing pattern series are easily executed and with basic sewing skills and a single needle sewing machine standing by, all you have to do is ...

USA: The Third Annual Independent Handbag Designer Awards
BharatTextile.com (subscription) - Mumbai,India
... CURVY(™) sewing machine and will be featured on the SINGER website where the winning designer will also share a handbag pattern from his/her collection. ...

Fab Fabrics: Vintage Feed and Seed Bags
Crafting A Green World - USA
Want to add a little kitsch to your next sewing project? We’ve got just the thing! Pam Knott over at Mad Creek Designs stocks these fabulous feed bags, ...

The art of quilting
Hot Springs Star - Hot Springs,SD,USA
... rug patterns, art books, images on the Internet, her imagination. Once she decides on the design, she selects fabric from the shelves in her sewing room ...

Community Knitting, Engineer Turned Crochet Designer, and Blue Jean Story

Sharing the warmth
Daily Freeman Journal - Webster City, IA, USA
Knitting and crocheting are definitely fall and winter hobbies for me. For some reason, it's just not as appealing to work with wool when it's 110 degrees ...

Engineer hooked into a second career making crochet designs
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
What: Robyn Chachula, knitting designer Maggie Jackson of Maggiknits and other knit and crochet experts will be on hand to lecture on an array of subjects. ...

Share your peace with the origami crane project
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
The knitnotwar 1,0o0 project involves more than a hundred artists knitting 1000 cranes for a community based public art installation, according to Knit ...

Meiko: a bit nervous but loveable
Argonaut - Moscow, ID, USA
31 at the Knitting Factory in Spokane and was a bit overwhelmed by the large crowd. “There’s so many people here right now,” she said. ...

Knit & Crochet Festival to offer classes, shopping
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
"He makes knitting needles, also, and crochet hooks," says festival organizer Barb Grossman of O'Hara. Last year, more than 1500 people from multiple states ...

Organization knits to warm up needy
SJU The Hawk - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Each afghan is comprised of 49 separate squares, which means that more than 12250000 knitted and crocheted squares have been donated. ...

NSFW: Every Sopranos expletive, in one handy video
guardian.co.uk - UK
Director Victor Solomon has spent lord knows how long knitting together every instance of swearing in every episode of The Sopranos. ...

Holly Springs students have service all sewn up
Cary News - Cary,NC,USA
The schools participated in a sewing project that had Family and Consumer Science students making children’s dresses for needy girls in Haiti. ...

Brush up on sewing, help kids learn
Longview Daily News - Longview,WA,USA
By The Daily News Do you have sewing experience? Would you like to increase your own sewing skills? Do you enjoy sharing your knowledge with others and ...

Blue jeans and hems
The Citizen.com - Fayetteville,GA,USA
Mama was always big on sewing and saving money. Growing up, I wore home made clothes but I developed an appreciation for the art of sewing. ...

Kingsbury store's sign draws mixed reaction
Glens Falls Post-Star - Glens Falls,NY,USA
By NICK REISMAN Barb Manley, the owner of SACS (Sewing, Arts & Crafts Store), an art supply store at Kings Plaza, knows how people feel. ...

Sewing and Crafting Roundup

Sewing & Stitchery Expo signups filling up
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
The knitting classes are already filling up for the Sewing & Stichery Expo in Puyallup set for Feb. 26, 27, 28 and March 1. This year is the show's 25th ...

90 years: Sew far, sew good
Dubuque Telegraph Herald - Dubuque,IA,USA
BY MARY NEVANS-PEDERSON TH STAFF WRITER
As long as she has nimble fingers and good eyesight, Ida Mulert will keep on sewing. After all, why give up her ...

Project Red Dress features up-and-coming local fashion designers ...
Seattle Times - United States
The first-place winner will receive a $3000 scholarship, the second-place winner will get a new sewing machine from Sewing Machine Service Company and the ...

Fremont woman quilts for sick children
The Argus - Fremont,CA,USA
She didn't do much canning after she and her husband, Howard, moved to Fremont and got teaching jobs in 1960, but she never stopped sewing. ...

On the job: Susan's Sewing Creations
Westerner - Samford,Queensland,Australia
What services does your business offer? Furniture upholstery and refurbishing, car and motorbike seat repairs and upholstery, tonneau covers, ...

Downtown business changing hands
Daily Democrat - Woodland,CA,USA
By ELISABETHSHERWIN/Special to The Democrat Friday, was the 34th birthday of the new owner of the Woodland Sewing and Vacuum Center at 523 Main St. The new ...

Craft to make from recycled materials: Bumper pads
Examiner.com - USA
Use as a fireplace hearth bumper pad (see image for one suggestion) or a window cornice. You can use either 1/4" plywood or foam board which can be purchased at a craft or home ...

Craft Center exhibits student, staff art
Oregon Daily Emerald - Eugene,OR,USA
by Brenna Houck | Freelance Reporter |
The annual Craft Center Staff Art Show began its display in the Adell McMillan Gallery on the second floor of the EMU ...

Craft your own valentines at Sno-Isle library branches
HeraldNet - Everett,WA,USA
W. Families can make cards, crafts or decorations for loved ones or for distribution to senior citizens. Details at 425-778-2148. ...

What's happening Wednesday: Kids' craft project; exhibits
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com - Kalamazoo,MI,USA
by Kalamazoo Gazette "Valentine's Day Crafts for Kids" is being offered at the Antwerp Sunshine Branch Library, 24823 Front Ave., Mattawan. ...

Niagara Falls Hotels Craft Valentine's & March Break Packages with ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Niagara Falls, Ontario (PRWEB) February 10, 2009 -- Niagara Falls hotels have prepared an array of appealing packages - for an extravagant Valentine's and ...

Repair shops thrive as many keep using what they have
Houston Chronicle - United States
At Alief Vacuum and Sewing Center, owner Stuart Miller has taken on repairing battery-operated toys, as vacuum and sewing machine repairs decreased three ...

Daily Planner: February 9
Enterprise-Record - Chico,CA,USA
6: 10 am Sewing. Noon lunch. Masonic Family Center, 1110 W. East Ave. SPEAKEASY TOASTMASTERS: Noon-1 pm Casual lunch. Bureau of Reclamation, 1140 W. Wood ...

Lead weight: Small businesses decry law spurred by China toy scare
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier - Waterloo,IA,USA
Her bucket of vintage buttons, passed down from her mother's collection, collected dust on the shelf near her sewing table. Designing new clothes for her ...

LDS senior humanitarians serve the world
Mormon Times - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
The words are pinned to the bulletin board in sewing room next to the lists of items and number that have been made for the month. ...

Survivor on the Main
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada
Barry Shinder, owner of Maple Leaf Hat and Cap Manufacturing, hunches over the same sewing machine his father did 79 years ago when the Mile End company was ...

Show goes on for 'Porkchop'
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
Alas, Parker can't sew. "I knew it was a weakness," Parker says now. "I usually have a person sewing for me. So I just tried to make something creative and ...

Monday, February 9 - Get Fiscally Fit at the Library
Examiner.com - USA
For more great classes on everything from knitting to crafts and cooking to fashion, check out the library's extensive Fresh City Life offerings.

Alameda County fire dispatcher's writing career is scorching hot
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
She also keeps a blog called Yarn-a-Go-Go, in which she muses about knitting, writing and life. Herron said she has been knitting since she was 5 years old. ...

Coconut Grove abounds with arts and crafts events
MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church is gearing up for its 21st Arts and Crafts Show, which coincides with the Grove's annual Arts Fest. ...

CraftBits and Craft Gossip
Baltimore By Hand - Baltimore,MD,USA
Have you heard of Craft Gossip? These are two marvelously crafty web sites that contain a wealth of ideas, projects, articles and just about any other craft ...