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An Inspired Advent: Day 5

Over the years, one of my favorite things at Christmas has been making special gift tags to top the packages I give to my family. I dump my big box of scrapbooking supplies (that I, incidentally, n...

An Inspired Advent: Day 4

Throwback Thursday to Infinity! Throwback Thursday affords us the liberty of re-issuing an older post…especially since it gets everyone ready for our Infinity Scarf Class this coming Wednesday, Dec...

An Inspiring Advent: Day 3

Gift your love of sewing! “Making makes us happy and we want to share that joy with others” says the creator of these sweet sewing kits! We couldn’t agree more!     These felt animals kits by Threa...

An Inspiring Advent: Day 2

Day 2: Ready the guest room! If your ironing board is happily situated in the middle of your guest room AND you have company coming for the holidays…what do you do? You either need to move it or dr...

An Inspiring Advent: Day 1

Despite the fact that Debbie and I write brilliant blogs…ahem…we don’t do them as often as we probably “should.” We, of course, would rather be making something than writing about it. Nonetheless, ...

Our 4th Birthday + Thanksgiving =

…our year of thanks! Those gratitude challenges that graced Facebook at the end of summer are so “last-month,” but that’s when I started to contemplate this blog post. I, for one, really enjoyed re...

Victory Chloe

Here it is, the Victory Chloe Dress! If you shop in our store, you may have seen this on display for quite a while. It took me probably as long to blog about this dress as it did to make it, which ...

Welcome to Cleveland, Merchant & Mills!

“In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets – when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Glouceste...

Floral and Flannel Wrap Scarf for Fall

Ah, fall. I hope you all are enjoying your various fall activities. Last weekend I canned tomatoes and went apple picking. Actually, I picked up a bag of pre-picked apples, because both orchards we...

Tutorial : How to Add Ribbon to Both Sides of a Project

Last year we were asked by a local company to embellish some of their sweatshirts with ribbon. The main reason was to finish the edges of the zipper tape. So we pondered over just how we could do t...