Rope Basket
Recently I took a class at Sew Much More in north Austin. It was the Rope Basket Class. I’d had the It’s A Wrap book for years (literally), but hadn’t done anything more than read through it several times. I was happy when I saw they were offering a rope basket class. So here’s my [...]
Next, Next Christmas
I took an appliqué class recently. The morning of the class, I had my sewing machine, class supplies and lunch all loaded up. I looked as if I was going off to camp for a week instead of a one-day class. I had seen the wall-hanging appliqué quilt at the quilt show and I thought, [...]
How To Shop For Fabric
Some time ago I talked the editor of my local chapter of the American Sewing Guild into letting me submit columns for the quarterly newsletter. I named the column “Thread Tales.” (A cute sewing/writing pun, I thought.) For those of you who are not a member of the Austin chapter of the ASG, here is [...]
