Top: Calendar Patchwork Tote, designed by Susan Wasinger. Bottom: Mudcloth Tote, designed by Zelda Grant. Fast and Fabulous Bags While it's true that I sew all year-round, let's face it, my summertime sewing time drops off a bit. It's hard...

Happy Friday everyone and welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday! If you're just joining us, here's how it works: Every Friday (unless it's an ultra-busy day at Sew Daily HQ and we forget) we post a blog with something from our office...

A pillow in need of a makeover. When I moved into my house almost four years ago, I was going from a one-bedroom city apartment to a full-size suburban home, and while I had collected and inherited some nice items over the years, I didn't have enough...

I was sewing for many years before I discovered beeswax. I knew about it and I scoffed at it. What was the use of adding one more step to the sewing process? I wanted to have my project finished already! From all the notches in my beeswax, you can see...

Patchwork Telly wall quilt by Penny Layman, from the Summer 2011 issue of Stitch. Perfect Patchwork Made Easy I love patchwork projects. They offer a great way to use up scraps, plus you can get creative by mixing and matching prints and experimenting...

Happy Friday everyone and welcome to this week's edition of Freebie Friday! This week we're giving away a large grab bag of thread from Coats & Clark. This package contains about 30 spools of thread of varying types and weights: - Dual Duty...

Excerpted from Quilting Daily : Where Did You Learn Your Sewing Techniques? —July 7, 2011 Earlier in the day, Cate Prato, online editor of Cloth Paper Scissors Today , sent me an email: "When you have a minute, I have something funny to show...

We have a guest this week! Below, Jeane Hutchins, editor-in-chief of PieceWork magazine gives us a sneak preview of the May/June 2012 PieceWork : Learning about some of the people from the past who encouraged the development of various types of lace or...