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  • Happy National Sewing Month 2022!

    It’s National Sewing Month! You might remember our blog from last year celebrating the national holiday for sewists and quilters everywhere. Each September, the National Sewing Month website issues a new theme for the month. This year’s theme is “Spread Love, Stitch Love.” This is how they defin... View Post
  • The Best Serger Projects for Beginners

    Happy National Serger Month! Last April, we discussed Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Sergers (But Were Afraid to Ask). Our goal was to demystify sergers for our sewing community. We’ve seen a lot of new sewists enter the Thimbles family over the course of the last few years, and gro... View Post
  • Fall Projects to Quilt & Sew

    Fall is here and it’s a wonderful time to spruce up the home with fall decor. We have lots of new fall fabrics and kits in store to inspire, and to help get you started, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite projects available for free online! First up: Halloween! We know Halloween is just aroun... View Post
  • Our Favorite Paper Pieced Quilts

    Paper-Pieced quilts are on the rise, which isn’t all that shocking given the rush of new sewists and quilters we’ve welcomed to the fold since the pandemic shut us all indoors. Paper-Piecing, aka English Paper-Piecing and Machine Paper-Piecing (depending on whether you work by hand or with a mac... View Post