Let's Take a Tour of the New Website

As of last week, some of you have already discovered our newly remodeled website, but for those of you who are new, let me give you a little tour! So much to glean from, even from the Home Page! First stop -- the Schoolhouse!  This is probably the best feature of our new site.  It has the most c...

Engaged!

Our employee, Rebekah, arrived to work today.... with Carm, Christian and Ruthie and I anxiously awaiting her to walk in the door.  You see, we had "Going to the Chapel...." (by the Dixie Cups) on pause, ready for my finger to hit play.  As soon as she brought the mail bins in the music blasted. ...

Road Trip

We are getting ready for the Workshop Tour and so we thought we'd catalog the event by having a special section of the blog for our big "Road Trip"!  You can follow us along at each Workshop stop and enjoy our sight-seeing adventures with us.  Carmon has been to a couple of these places in the pa...

We’re Getting Ready!

We are going to pause the Featherweight Weekly Hint because we are getting ready to begin featuring a machine in the special Featherweight Collection! The first one will be the Wrinkle finish Featherweight 221 (aka: Crinkle finish)… While we wait for the first specialty, rare machine to be po...

Under Construction

2015 was a year for so many changes and upgrades and updates, etc. Some of them realized (moving), some of them not-quite-yet realized (website)... for so many, many months it felt like we were floating out on the ocean with no clear sign of land! And now that 2016 is here we can finally see the ...

Merry Christmas Trinket Boxes

Several years ago I was meandering through an antique store near Seattle, Washington. It was at Two French Hens in Burien if you desire to have a peek there sometime - they have the sweetest offerings!Anyway, I stumbled upon an old stationery box with various old cards -- in it were these littl...

A Week With Ray

We are finally settling back in and getting caught up after being gone for a couple of weeks, doing something I have wanted to do for years. My 15-year-old son, Christian, and I had the distinct honor of spending a week with Ray White. If any of you are not familiar with Ray, he is generally r...

Chain, Chain - Snip, Snip

I am teaching my daughter to chain stitch piece, and she was fascinated that you could just “keep going” after stitching each small section without having to stop. So, when my close friend came over last week to do our weekly sewing and quilting day I caught her using her Thread Snips afte...

My Best Quilt

Nothing like being under the weather with fever and sickies.  I feel like I need to be doing something productive and yet just the thought of moving makes me close my eyes again.  But thanks to mobile phone technology I can at least type this blog post with my thumbs and share with you abo...

The "Collection"

Many of you are already aware that back in December we obtained a very rare Featherweight collection and that April1930s.com has been commissioned to sell them in the coming weeks and months. This was quite a fun adventure and getting prepared to make the Featherweights available has been a lo...