If there’s a longevity award for fabric shops, it probably belongs to Dick Raudabaugh, who opened The Fabric Center 54 years ago. What started as a go-to store for garment fabrics, today features a wide range of quilting fabrics and draws customers from Virginia, New Jersey, Philadelphia, as well as from around the world.
Fabulous Fifteen!
This week - Jo Morton is sharing one of my favorite blocks, the T-block. Why is it my favorite? It's got flying geese and half-triangle squares! It's also a block that allows for a lot of variation just by changing color and value placement.
It also has flying geese and half-triangle squares.
That's how much time was saved with the invention of the sewing machine - folks could sew in one hour what used to take them over fourteen hours to do by hand.
This is a vintage Coronado sewing machine from the 1950s. It was made in Japan and is related to Brother sewing machines.
Today - June 13th - is National Sewing Machine Day!
