After the Christmas Blizzard of ’09 in Sioux Falls, SD, we have been hearing how some of our customers spent their holiday, alone with their sewing machine. Whether you live blocks or miles from the closest sewing or fabric store, Mother Nature can shut everything down for days on end. Even a holiday weekend closes your favorite store for a day or two. We are learning of sewers who are very resourceful.
After digging out from the 18” of snow and even higher snow drifts, we have heard some wonderful stories of how people spent Christmas. Many of them beamed when they described an entire day of sewing. They were thankful for their fabric stash and UFO projects, and they had plenty to pick from!
But, sometimes certain items ran short. We heard from one customer that she raided her kitchen plastic cutting board collection and sacrificed one of them to make templates when she ran out of template plastic. Ingenious!
Have you been is such a situation and have a great suggestion of an item that you used for sewing that originally had another purpose? Send it to info@heirloomcreations.net.
One we have heard of, and do keep in mind that not everything you read on the Internet is true, is that just last week I read a tip which stated I should cut through tinfoil or sand paper to sharpen scissors. Really? I don’t think so! NOT MY SCISSORS!