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Ever finish sewing a straight shirt collar, stitching carefully to the shirt's curved neck edge, even pressing carefully during each part of collar construction, only to have one side of the collar stubbornly refuse to lay flat against the shirt bodice? Directional stitching may help.

Directional Stitching

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” is widely considered one of the best and most famous paintings in history. But according to letters sent to his brother Theo, Van Gogh was staying in an asylum for depression at the time he began that masterpiece, and he wasn’t permitted to paint in his room. After admiring the sky from his bedroom window in the morning, he relied on the deep impression the sky had left in his memory once he had access to his paints. This story lends a poignant depth to his advice to admire all we can, which itself comes from another letter to Theo. Van Gogh’s appreciation for the beauty around him, even in the most challenging of circumstances, led him to produce perhaps his greatest work. What beauty might we glean from our own lives if we were to also cultivate a deep level of admiration for the world around us?

Trust in him at all times, you people;
pour out your hearts to him,
for God is our refuge.


—Psalm 62:8 NIV

Free motion machine stitching is useful for monograming on a standard sewing machine, applying simple embroidery designs, thread drawing, quilting, or holding together scrap pieces of fabric to create yardage. For a unique addition to a fabric surface why not give this stitching technique a try?

Free Motion Stitching

In this Affinity Designer tutorial, we will create a DIY wedding template for the Thank You and RSVP cards in our wedding suite.

DIY Wedding Suite Template - 5.5 x 4.25 Card

In this Affinity Designer tutorial, we will create the RSVP response card and the Thank You card for our DIY Wedding Suite.

DIY Wedding Suite - RSVP and Thank You Cards

Whether spring or summer travel is a local micro-cation or a destination of dreams, having a few travel accessories homemade using colorful fabric scraps or a pretty length of fabric saved for just the right occasion, sewing them to go along just seems right.

Easy Sew Projects for Travel

In this Affinity Designer tutorial, we will create the Save the Date template for our wedding suite. We will start with the finished wedding invitation template. We will remove the text that we used for that invitation and replace it with the text for this template.

DIY Wedding Suite Template Art Deco Save the Date

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In this Affinity Designer tutorial, we will add the text to the 5 by 7 inches invitation template that is part of the DIY Wedding Suite. We will continue to work on the ArtDecoTemplate.afdesign file.

DIY Wedding Suite Template - Art Deco Invitation

Aging well is an aspiration we all strive for. There are times when a few stitches of kindness and a few fabric scraps lovingly saved for just the right sewing project that sparks inspiration can bring practical function to those challenged by daily living.

Sewing Ideas for Senior Living

In this Affinity Designer tutorial, we will continue to work on our DIY wedding invitation suite. We will create the 5 inches by 7 inches template for the Save the Date and the Invitation cards.

DIY Wedding Suite Template - 5 x 7 Inches Template

As a genealogist I started writing letters to distant relatives or others working on families I was interested in finding out about. I have the letters but need to review them as they told stories they knew about our common ancestors.

The imagery, origin and history of Valentine's Day may entertain many a narrative clouded by time, yet the double lobed triangular shape heart symbol, by no means an accurate anatomical figure, seems to have universally prevailed as a popular reminder of love and affection.

Valentine's Day Sewing Ideas