Designer Wool Boucle

These new designer wool boucle coatings in the store are a delightful play of color and texture! Designer pieces like these are always such a fun find for us - we snap them up whenever we can! 

 With cold weather coming, it's time to start sewing your new coat. And nothing helps you beat the grey midwinter blahs like a pretty, colorful, cheerful coat!

Shop our wools here!

Treadlette Tuesday: Rebecca's Holiday Panel Crafts!

When we got a sweet holiday panel with forest friends, Treadlette Rebecca just had to make some crafts with it! 

She created gift tags, gift card holders, and amazing tiny gift boxes from this great fabric, plus a little wool felt!

Like these crafts? Stop by the store to pick up a FREE pattern sheet, including free pompoms! Rebecca's detailed instructions will have you making your own tags, ornaments, and boxes in no time!

Buy the panel at our store, or click here to shop online!

Impressionistic prints

Check out these new cotton prints with the feel of impressionist paintings. We love the bold brushstrokes and saturated color!

Shop them all here!

Friday Fun Fact: Pinking shears

Ever wondered how pinking shears got their name?

The word pink dates back to the 13th century, when it wasn't yet associated with a color; it meant to pierce or stab. Eventually pink became used to describe the regular, zigzag-cut edges that were so fashionable during the 16th century and onward. It's possible that without pinking shears, this meaning would have been lost to history.

And the color? Pink is the common name of the garden flower Dianthus, a sweet little bloom with rosy petals and zigzagged edges - they look like they've been pinked! So our Dianthus was named pink for its sawtooth edges, and pink eventually came to mean Dianthus-colored.

You can shop pinking shears and lots of other notions at our website - click here!

Treadlette Tuesday: a cottagecore look from Grace

Are you a lover of cottagecore - all things soft, woodland, and vaguely old-timey? Grace has created this gorgeously curated ensemble that's giving us major cottagecore vibes.

She made a sweeping circle skirt from a vintage floral fabric, a soft dirndl blouse in handkerchief linen, and a double-breasted vest with teeny buttons in a mustardy ocher cotton. It all works so perfectly together with an air of vintage charm!

Grace used the blouse pattern from Folkwear 123 Austrian Dirndl and the vest from Folkwear 222 Vintage Vests. She self-drafted the skirt.

Friday Fun Fact: Your tape measure's secret!

 Did you know you have a secret measurement gauge in one of your most common sewing tools? It might even be right next to you right now!

Of course your tape measure, well, measures, but you can also use it as a seam gauge in a pinch. A standard tape measure is exactly 5/8" wide - the same as our most common pattern seam allowance.

So next time you need to check a seam allowance, just turn your tape measure sideways for a quick look!

Watch for more Fun Facts in our upcoming emails and on this blog, every Friday!

It's the big fall flannel post!

We have LOADS of new flannel prints! Get started on comfy pajamas for fall and winter.

Shop them all here!