Australian Stitches

Holiday Sewing – Don’t Do It!!

Do you want to hear a sad story? Probably not, but here goes anyway ...

A few years ago a woman told me that after her sons had gone back to other cities after the holidays she found her lovingly made, matching, tartan Christmas hats tucked away in a closet - left behind, - not taken away, never worn.

This story broke my heart as it did every sewer who has tried to

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