Tagged: 2021 October
Passage Quilts Medley
Introduction Brenda Marks Almost a year ago, my father was in the hospital for the last time, trying to outsmart end-stage kidney cancer. When he was finally placed in hospice care, the chaplain visited...
OEKO-TEX and the Environmental/Sustainability Rabbit Hole
As I shop online, I see more and more fabrics advertised and labeled with OEKO-TEX certification. Maybe you have seen this wording, too, and wondered what it really means. The OEKO-TEX website reports this:...
World of Knits: Ponte Knit
“If you were stranded on a desert island with only one fabric to sew, it should be ponte knit.” — Nancy Nix-Rice Ponte knit (aka Ponte de Roma and Ponte di Roma) is used...
Online Treasure Chest
In the Secret Life of a Seamstress, Nancy Bell writes “the story of trying to tailor a modern Life of snags and patches, using old-fashioned skills, patient ingenuity, and the occasional curse to create...
