Kathy loves to share information that can improve the sewing experience for Creations’ customers. For the past couple of years she has been sharing this information online via blog posts and YouTube videos. In the listing below, you’ll find links to past posts that cover topics such as: sewing techniques, new helpful quilting and sewing notions, and ideas for pairing various fabrics with our latest (or most popular) clothing patterns.
Metallic Thread — Add some Glitz!
Hope you are enjoying my conversations about various threads and needles and decorative stitching. No thoughts would be complete without talking about metallic thread. I can already hear the “ugh’s” and “My machine doesn’t like that thread”… I am here to tell you that your machine doesn’t really know what he likes. He knows how…
Invisafil – Hand applique by Machine
I love hand applique, especially if I can do it by machine. I am a thru and thru machine girl. I want my machine to help me if at all possible. With a few setting and tension changes, the right needle and Invisafil thread, I can get the look of hand applique while accomplishing it…
Invisafil Thread – Think Thin Thread!
Have you ever noticed just how many threads are available for us to use. Before I just jump in talking about Invisafil thread, let’s be sure we all understand how to tell what the thread you have selected is going to do. Thread is assigned a “weight”. To me, it’s just a number. All I…
Decorative Stitching – Glam Bag
In our recent Decorative Machine Stitching Lesson 1 post we gave you the set up for success in working with 12 wt thread on your sewing machine. Hope you have a chance to try it and see how wonderful those stitches look when done with a heavy thread using a 100 Topstitch needle. (Be sure…
Easy Machine Binding Technique
We all love to piece and quilt. Maybe one more than the other, but we rarely hear “I just love to bind the quilt.” When it’s time to bind the quilt, we are so close, but so far away. We have spent time and money to get this far, but we truly have nothing until…
Decorative Machine Stitching Lesson 1
I have sold sewing machines for 42 years so I’ve “seen a thing or two”. Machines have always had decorative stitches, but we didn’t always have a variety of threads. It’s the thread, needle, tension, and stabilizer combination that makes for successful decorative stitching. Sounds confusing, but it’s really not when I give you my…
Needle Knowledge
As a seller of home sewing machines for over 40 years, we have seen many changes. Machines have more capabilities and we have more choices in fabrics and thread. With these new choices, we need different needles for different jobs. We are not talking about industrial machines or long arm quilting machines….we know home sewing machines!…
Garment Sewing 101
When we opened Creations in 1978, it was the end of the polyester double-knit era. We opened as a fabric shop with natural fibers. We carried, wool, silk, cotton, and linen. We still carry all of those fabrics in our shop. It was in the early 80’s that quilting surged. Many of our customers who…
Crazy Curves Template
Some quilts you just love to make again and again because they look so different with different fabric choices. We have used the Crazy Curve Template over and over to create the Crazy Curve Quilt and some of its variations. The quilt shown here is one we did about 7 years ago and we still…
Log Cabin Trim Tool by Creative Grids
We are at it again!! Everyone has been very supportive for our first efforts so we decided to do another video. This time we will show one of our favorite Creative Grids “trim tools” for the Log Cabin quilt block. We love “trim tools” because you get to trim to the correct size after stitching.…
Let’s Keep in Touch
I never thought much about the lack of posting on this blog. I knew customers could just come into the shop and enjoy being there. Who would want to read about it when you could be there in person. We so enjoyed the conversation, coffee, and fabric hunting. Reality has struck and we live in…