S. Denise Hoyle | November 20, 2009
SEWnFit.com is having a huge sale on all of their bestselling repair ebooks, including the popular “Sewing Machine Repair as a Home Business” book which has NEVER been put on sale before. For a limited time you can get a whopping 30% off all sewing machine, serger and treadle repair books! This is a great [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | November 18, 2009
You can make a variety of pillow styles using simple points and scallops. We’ll cover a couple of them here. The pillow in front uses a 13″ square fabric “frame”. Cut the “points” using the following pattern: Cut 16 of the point pattern pieces from a co-ordinating fabric (I used solid white so the detail would show up). [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | November 17, 2009
Lark Books is sponsoring their Quilt It! Contest that runs until January 5, 2010. The Quilt It! contest was created to “encourage, inspire, and engage” quilters everywhere, and to celebrate some favorite quilting books. Entrants must create an original quilt of any size that includes at least three of these five elements: Bird(s) Mountains Silver [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | November 16, 2009
Thanksgiving is coming up really quickly – as in a week from Thursday! Do you have everything lined up already? Are you going to stick with the old favorites for the meal, or try a few new dishes? I always like to find a few “new” dishes to make – and rarely do I hear [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | November 13, 2009
PayPal has been the dominant presence in the online payment arena for quite some time now, however both Amazon and Google have been fiercely competing with PayPal for a share of the online payment business. Now PayPal is launching their new platform, PayPal X, which will let third party developers incorporate the PayPal online payment [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | November 12, 2009
Singer and Craft have a great winter contest going on, the Me, My Scarf and I Contest. There is still time to enter and all you have to do to enter is submit a picture of yourself wearing a scarf you’ve made using a sewing machine, along with a description of how the scarf fits [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | November 11, 2009
Today we would like to say a special THANK YOU to all of the veterans of military services! In addition we’d like to say thank you to all of the active duty military personnel that are away from their families and doing their duty to protect us and our United States! My husband is a [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | November 10, 2009
The online holiday shopping season has already begun according to the IRI Holiday Forecast. With only a month and a half until Christmas, and less than three weeks until Black Friday, most people have already started their holiday shopping, so you should be busy with holiday promotions for your business. Consider the predicted 2009 shopping [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | November 9, 2009
Did you know that November 9-13 is National Distance Learning Week? Distance learning is just what it sounds like — instead of driving downtown to the local college to take a class or two, you take classes online from various colleges or websites that offer classes you might be interested in. The benefit of taking [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | November 8, 2009
In the past, when my quadruplet grandbabies were very young, we had to bypass many little outfits simply because the legs didn’t have snap closures to make diaper changing easier. Well, today’s tutorial that I found made me say “Why didn’t I think of that a few years ago???” (those quadruplet “babies” are now 4 [...]
