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Tutorial: Pincushion for English Paper Piecing Travel Kit | Red-Handled Scissors

Tutorial: Pincushion for English Paper Piecing Travel Kit

Love your English Paper Piecing Travel Kit? Enhance your on-the-go quilting experience with a handy little pincushion designed specifically to snap onto the pocket of my popular hexie-inspired pouch! See? Perfect fit!

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In Which the Modern Quilt Guild Makes Me Very, Very Happy | Red-Handled Scissors

In Which the Modern Quilt Guild Makes Me Very, Very Happy

I love the idea of crafting-specific guilds, bees, and stitch ‘n bitch gatherings—clearly, therein I will find my people. So, it is with absolutely no embarrassment whatsoever that I will admit to the following: When my Modern Quilt Guild membership package showed up in my mailbox today, I squeaked out loud, then tore open the …

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Review: AccuQuilt English Paper Piecing Hexagon Dies | Red-Handled Scissors

Review: AccuQuilt English Paper Piecing Hexagon Dies

Fact: AccuQuilt’s new English Paper Piecing Hexagon Dies are currently my favorite tools in the craft studio. I mean, cutting perfectly matched fabric pieces AND paper templates at the same time? Goodness, yes! Available in both a ½" size and a 1" size, the AccuQuilt English paper piecing dies basically take the ease of buying …

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Introducing Betty, My New Singer Featherweight | Red-Handled Scissors

Introducing Betty, My New Singer Featherweight

Ladies and gentlemen, please allow me to introduce Betty, my new Singer Featherweight sewing machine! Betty was made on November 5th, 1936, and is a Singer Featherweight 221. She’s an AE series machine with a lovely scrollwork faceplate, and was just one of 15,000 machines made in Singer’s Elizabethport, New Jersey factory on that day. …

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