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DIY Pattern Weights

October 5, 2014October 24, 2014 Aleeah McGinnis

Pinterest strikes again! I've been noticing lots of pins with instructions on how to make your own pattern weights. Pattern weights have always been a frivolous tool that never really found a place in my sewing tool budget. Then, I saw the extremely large washers from a hardware store that appeared in my Pinterest feed one… Continue reading DIY Pattern Weights

New Sewing Tool: Cross-Lock Tweezers

September 23, 2014 Aleeah McGinnis

I have discovered a new sewing tool. It is a set of tweezers that I found while digging through the surgical supply tools in a vendor booth at a quilt show. But this is not any ordinary set of tweezers. They have a "cross-lock action" meaning through some magic of physics both blades cross and… Continue reading New Sewing Tool: Cross-Lock Tweezers