I'm so glad you are here visiting my newly designed website! I'm Michelle and I am a Sewing Machine Artist and I love using all of my machines and tools to make beautiful creative embellishments.
Whether you own a sewing, embroidery serger or quilting machine or all of the above...hey, I won't tell your significant other, if you don't tell my husband! Anyway, I use them all. Heck, I'll even throw in a little handwork in there too!
A Treasure Trove of Bobbin Information Greetings Sewing Friends! I came upon a helpful website today, and just have to share it with you. It's called The Thread Exchange. It seems they have a list a mile long of every sewing manufacturer known to mankind. The helpful thing [...]
Greetings Sewing Friends! I recently posted this picture on my Facebook page for fun and captioned it Nailed It. Thank you all for the response and requests for a video. As promised, here is a video showing you two Clover notions I use to make this happen. Clover's Fork Pins, pictured on the left, are key to getting points to match up perfectly! As you can see, this is a U shaped pin, so it's like having two pins in one. What makes this so special is that it prevents the fabric from shifting. Nest your seams together as usual, and use the Fork Pin to straddle the seam. In the [...]
Once upon a time ago, not too long ago, I was a beginner sewer. The year was around 2007, and I recently purchased my very own sewing machine. This machine was so special that I gave her the name "Big Sister". It was because of Big Sister that I am where I am today. Big Sister was a Singer Quantum XL 6000, and her super power was...she threaded herself. That's right!!! She threaded herself! All I had to do was simply pull about 8" of thread from the spool and guide it to the left to a thread cutter. (I remember spending a whole day trying to decipher instructions printed in a [...]
