The Winter Garden of Aspirations
Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but look what they do when they stick together. Verna M. Kelly Poetically, winter evokes endings, finality, sadness, loneliness, and isolation. However,…
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Blushing! We’ve been called out by BuzzFeed…
The “Cat” is out of the bag so to speak…. Catherine, Significant Seams’s founder, has contributed a chapter about Significant Seams work to a forthcoming book on “Craftivism.” Last week,…
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Book Review, Sort Of: It’s The BIG Draw Month
I first entered the world of sewing machine drawing at a workshop at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham. The class was taught by Janet Clare, who is now a…
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The Quilt Festival, Part 3: The Quilts, or rather, some of them
Quick reminder: Significant Seams is closed until Thursday, September 5, when we'll be back with jam-packed schedule that you can check out here. Until then, the blog will still be…
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The Quilt Festival Part 2: The Stalls and Nifty Products
At the Festival of Quilts, it is very hard to resist the stalls. They are a–ahem–colourful patchwork of temptation–from gorgeous vistas of colour, to scrumptious tidbits for embellishment. There are…
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The Festival of Quilts in Birmingham 2013: Part 1
If you follow us on Facebook or Twitter you may have clocked that I (Catherine) went to the International Festival of Quilts last week. I was pleased to be offered…
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Book Review: My First Crochet
I was rather flattered when my six-year-old asked me to teach her to crochet. I figure, how long will she actually want to learn things that make her a bit…
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