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  • Portable English Paper Piecing Travel Projects

    As quilters and sewists, it can be difficult to bring our projects with us when we go away on vacation. Unless you’re hitting the road by car and have room for your sewing machine, the likelihood is you’re leaving most of your projects at home. Unless you love English Paper Piecing! English Paper... View Post
  • Stash Bust with Stash Pot Pie!

    The desire to use up all the beautiful bits of fabric we acquire is common among Thimbles’ sewists. So this year, we really focused on ways we can bust through our ever-growing fabric stash. The stash busting desire fueled our recent blogs featuring Our Favorite Scrap Projects and Even More Scra... 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
  • What Tool is That? The Longarm

    The last few years have brought us a generous influx of new sewists, and we’re so happy to welcome them into the Thimbles family. The more, the merrier!  As we’ve added more educational classes and workshops to the Thimbles roster, we’ve come to realize we’re teaching to all different levels of ... View Post