Posted by sewjournal on June 30th 2010
Looking for the Hawthorne Threads Give Away? It’s here. The trials of a novice machinist Monday I was doing some sewing on my new machine. Something I haven’t done for about 2 weeks. I began to sew some 2.5″ squares for a rotary cutting and sewing accuracy test. The test went well but the stitches were [...]
Posted by sewjournal on June 29th 2010
Looking for the Hawthorne Threads Give Away? It’s here. I just want to take this opportunity to welcome all the new readers that have found their way here in the last 24 hours. I’m enjoying reading your comments and I agree that it is hard to pick a favourite collection from Hawthorne Threads. I guess [...]
Posted by sewjournal on June 28th 2010
Sewjournal – Hawthorne Threads Give Away! Today’s the day! Hawthorne Threads have generously offered my readers the chance to win a US$50 gift voucher! You have two chances to go in the draw , I’ll explain in a minute. Quilter- friendly website The Hawthorne Threads website is so quilter-friendly. I don’t know if you’ve noticed [...]
Posted by sewjournal on June 27th 2010
Camera bag I had quite productive day yesterday and went to a sit and sew where I managed to complete a hand sewn and quilted camera bag for my new camera. They say the best camera is the one you have with you and I wanted to keep mine in my handbag but I didn’t [...]
Posted by sewjournal on June 26th 2010
I felt like cooking today and I played around and came up with this muffin recipe. I wasn’t sure whether or not it would work out but they didn’t turn out too badly. Pretty they are NOT (in fact if you wanted muffins that look like platypuses then this’d be the recipe to use) but [...]
Posted by sewjournal on June 25th 2010
Art Gallery Fabrics Give Away Winner Draw Today I painstakingly wrote out all your names and added them to a bowl to draw the winner of this great Art Gallery Fabrics prize. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 – the winner is… Ros Gale! Congratulations Ros! I’ll have emailed you to organise your prize delivery. [...]
Posted by sewjournal on June 24th 2010
I had no idea what Pojagi or Bojagi was – in fact I’d never even heard the word before – until I read some posts on the Silly Boo Dilly Blog. This is a traditional Korean patchwork art and produces some really beautiful items. It was used by Royalty and commoners alike in Korea. One [...]
