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Peace and Joy
A very merry Christmas and happy holiday season to all of our OFS readers. May this coming year bring you love, joy, and peace (and great sewing adventures). We look forward to serving you in the...
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Happy New Year
A very Happy New Year to all of our OFS readers! We appreciate your loyalty. This year we’re ramping up our user-friendly tips and information on the endless creative and practical uses for our...
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Take Stock of Your Fabric Stash
Collecting a fabric stash is a great habit for the home sewer. You can save money by buying fabric on sale or clearance. With careful planning you can stock up on basics along with fabulous unique...
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Spring Colors 2013–The Pantone Report
Graphic from Pantone.com Now that you have taken stock of that sewing stash, it’s time to look at colors that you can use to update your stash and sew fashionable new spring outfits. This year fashion...
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I Spy…Richloom Blossom Cape
Ginnifer Goodwin AKA Snow White on the ABC show “Once Upon a Time” rocking a Richloom Blossom cape. OFS carries this same fabric in Mist. Photo From Once Upon a Fashion...
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Colorful Spring Looks for Your Home
I usually don’t mind New England winters. But for the first time, I’m really craving spring and warmer weather. It is around the corner, right? It has to be. But even though we’re not quite in the...
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If I Could Sew My Own Clothes
As I mentioned, I’m headed to Sweden in a few weeks and will be getting a sewing lesson or two while there. It’s not like I have never worked with a sewing machine before. I have! Once. It was 2003 in...
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Sewing Spring & Summer Dresses
When spring is awesome, it’s awesome. That is, when everything’s blooming, the sun is out and it’s warm, but not the sweat-dripping-from-every-surface-of-you kind of warm. Maybe we’ll get one of those...
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5 DIY Mother’s Day Gifts
Kids love their mamas. And their heartfelt and handmade Mother’s Day gifts and cards reflect that. But it’s not until later in life that we actually appreciate our mothers, is it? For me at least. I...
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5 Tips for Sewing With Chiffon
Ever watch Project Runway on Bravo? I guess that’s a silly question since it’s virtually impossible to avoid a show that runs weekend-long 24/7 marathons. But I believe it’s watching that series that...
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6 DIY Baby Shower Gift Tutorials
My favorite gifts when I was expecting each of my two boys were the practical ones. Things we needed, and could use on a daily basis. And if they were handmade? Bonus. So based on items I appreciated...
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9 Fresh Peach Recipes to Try
At an OFS team meeting this morning we were discussing one of the challenges of selling fabric online: describing how it feels. And peachskin fabric came up. You would think its name alone would be a...
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Secret to Finding the Perfect Fabric
The other day, before I introduced you to the delightful peaches growing in my front yard, I briefly addressed a problem inherent in selling fabric online. You can’t touch it. Selecting fabric has...
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DIY Hostess Apron Tutorial by Style Me Pretty
Forget back to school season, have the Halloween displays hit your area yet? And you know those turkeys and fake trees aren’t far behind. That means the whole holiday entertaining season is virtually...
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Fabric Face-Off Round 3 (and Gift Card Giveaway!)
Hope you guys had a nice weekend! Unfortunately, Premier Prints fabric did not. Joel Dewberry (AKA all you awesome voters!) pretty much killed it in the Face-off Round Two. The closest race by far...
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Fabric Face-Off Final ($100 Gift Card Giveaway)
Two votes! Joel Dewberry squeaked by P. Kaufmann fabric with two votes in the Fabric Face-off Final Four. And now it’s just these brands left. So who will get the deepest discount on Cyber Monday?...
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New Joel Dewberry Fabric
I swear. I am not trying to influence any Fabric Face-Off results here. I just wanted to share some of the new Joel Dewberry fabric we got it in yesterday. Because I had a feeling you might like. So...
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Handmade Gift: Fold-Over Clutch (Video Tutorial)
It’s the day before Thanksgiving and I have some good news. We have someone on the web team that can churn out sewing projects — without all of the swearing and jamming of machines that may have...
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Happy Friday Fabric
Stacks of burlap. Pallets of fleece. Hundreds of rolls of stylish decor fabric. These are some of the things I regularly see as I walk through the OFS receiving and loading docks area. But one day I...
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