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Be the first on your street to wrap your cupcakes up elegantly in Cupcake Cozies. We're just getting these designs in and there are designs for all sorts of holiday, occasions, and just for every day.

Celebrate life so many ways with this in the hoop design!

A Little Something Sewing up for Your Thanksgiving Holiday!

It's not too late to sew up some really special items to add to your Thanksgiving Day table, preparations, and decorations. And we have some wonderful designs to help you out. Check out these inspirational items to set your own table or add to a hostess gift:

**For the hostess---how about a really cute apron?








**Everyone can use another towel to clean up all those Thanksgiving Day dishes. And we have special turkey designs available for holiday scrubbies. Come in and get the delightful designs to put on cloths and towels. Suddenly those dishes look more fun!  





***We also have tabletoppers, runners, and wonderful designs for mug rugs for lingering over pie and coffee and conversation.

We also have some great designs for napkins. Cloth napkins add so much to a holiday table. Imagine creating special heirloom linens for your holiday table that can be used for years to come. Every year these special linens become part of your holiday tradition. The children won't be able to stand the wait to set the table when your special designed napkins are taken out!

New holiday designs are coming in daily. Come in and see the whole selection! We're here to help with those holiday traditions.

Please watch our website and Facebook pages for special holiday hours and sales. We will be closed Thursday, November  22, Friday, November 23, Saturday, November 24, and Sunday November 25 for a long weekend of giving thanks for all the blessings we've had this year and all of you, our great customers!

Happy Thanksgiving!

  



Sewing Tip

Ever wonder if there was a limit to the size of the USB stick you could use with your Designer Ruby or Designer Diamond?

It turns out that 2G or smaller is optimal. So 2G is the limit that you should expect to use with your Husqvarna Viking Machines.

Machine Quilting

One of the best ways to learn how to sew is to piece a quilt. By the time you've pieced your first quilt top you'll know how to sew a straight stitch. If your top has a bit of applique, you'll be the master of curves, fancy stitches, and those supplemental feet that came with your feet.

And all these skills learned will transfer into other sewing that you do whether it's home decor or designer fashions for your family.

If you've been to any of the great quilting classes at the sewing center lately, you probably have some quilt tops done. If you're the average customer, you are daunted by the next step: the quilt sandwich and putting it all together with machine quilting. At the sewing center we have special classes where we gather together to put our quilts together. It's a job where you may need an extra pair of hands and room to work and we're here to help.

Stitching in the ditch

The most important step in quilting your quilt is basting the sandwich layers together. Sewing Center experts recommend spray basting as the best way to sandwich your quilt components prior to quilting. But if you don't like the spray or have allergies, we have special pins for pin basting or you can baste with a needle and thread. Whichever way you baste, be sure to take your time to get all the layers smoothly together. This will make the rest of the quilting process easy and fun.

Even Feed Foot really helps quilting

One of the easiest quilting techniques is the stitch in the ditch method. This is where most quilters start because it requires a simple straight stitch around the quilt squares. There are special stitch in the ditch feet with flanges that ride the seam to keep your stitches straight. If you're having issues controlling your quilt, try an even feed foot as a tool to keep your quilt straight and evenly fed through the machine.


As you become more experienced you can begin exploring the quilting options your machine gives you. For example, the new Designer Ruby Deluxe has a number of built in quilting stitches that can make the quilting as creative and fun as piecing your quilt. And with these stitches the actual quilting of your quilt becomes less intimidating.



Designer Ruby Deluxe Quilting Stitches



More fun Designer Ruby Deluxe Stitches 

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Your Singer Sewing Machines also have many fun stitches for quilting also.

Singer 7469Q Confidence Quilter 









7469Q Stitches

The best way to try all these fun quilting stitches is to enroll in a sewing center class to  make a pillow topper. A fun, smaller project will bring out the designer in you and will provide courage and experience to tackle those large quilt projects that await you in the sewing room.

The best way to learn sewing is take a class at the sewing center and we have some really great classes planned for this holiday season. Won't you join us, take some time to relax with us and make a few gifts or decorations that are just you. It would be so awesome to help you create a wonderful holiday season for you and your family!



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As you're planning the Thanksgiving Day Turkey dinner why not sew a turkey to help with the holiday dinner clean up?

This turkey is part of Jan Brown's Holiday Towels and Scrubs Design package. Thanksgiving decorations are so fun to make and the turkey's body is a scrubby that will tackle that baked on casserole dish.

And if you're not doing the cooking this year, why not sew one to give that holiday hostess?
    

See us today; they're going fast!



Holiday Season Classes

We have some exciting classes planned for next week as we head into the holiday season. Be sure to call today to reserve your spot for one of these fun projects:        Monday, Nov. 5, Quiet Book 1-4pm Tuesday, Nov. 6, Double Diamond Christmas Tree Wall Hanging 1-4pm Wednesday, Nov. 7,  Snowman Applique Wall Hanging 1-4pm Wednesday, Nov. 7, 5D Group 3 1-3 Thursday, Nov. 8, Sincerely Yours 6-9 Friday, Nov. 9, 5D Group 4 1-3     **Just a reminder that all our instructors suffer with allergies, we appreciate you NOT wearing scented lotion or perfume to class!  Thank you.**     To View all Store Events |  Website

Kalamazoo Sewing Center News

The new Designer Ruby Deluxe has arrived at the Sewing Center! The new Ruby Deluxe glows and its embroidery glows too with the metallic thread so easy to sew with this super machine. Hurry into see a demonstration of the machine in operation and to take advantage of the limited time offer that comes with the Ruby Deluxe purchase.

If it's a new general purpose sewing machine that you're after we have two brand new Husqvarna/Viking models---the Opals. The Opal 640 and Opal 670 are on sale right now. We have a convenient layaway for holiday gift giving. But hurry in; at these prices the limited quanitities will soon be all sold out!    

And we have a lovely holiday ready to sew up. Christmas quilts, decorations, wall hangings, table runners, ornaments and trees. We have all sorts of gift giving projects, ideas, and patterns.

Please be sure to plan a visit to the store to see what we've gotten together just for you to brighten up your holidays.