Rocky Mountain Sewing Blog

Happy New Year! We’re so happy to be starting a new year with such a great Sew Fun sessions lined up. We start the year off with a bang, as usual, and here’s a sneak peak at January Sew Fun. Bargello Quilts Create the mesmerizing optical illusion of graceful movement, waves, and...

Happy New Year! We hope everyone had wonderful holidays, and made some special memories with family and friends.  As the New Year gets started, here’s some January events at Rocky Mountain Sewing and Vacuum that are on tap. January Classes As always, we have a full slate of classes...

Ladies and Gentlemen, we’re once again challenging you! It’s time to start the 2019 UFO Challenge! We had so many requests to do the UFO challenge again, we are going to do it. We’ll try to make it a little simpler, but of course, you have to do the real work. How many will you...

Word collages are all the rage. I’ve been etching wine bottles with different word collages I’ve found online, and love the look. I like the way the artist uses different fonts and phrases to create a word collage. So, I was thinking it would be fun to create a Christmas word collage...

I have messy grandkids! So when I dress my Christmas table with the good linens,  I like to have some “wipeable” placemats, that are easy to clean, for the kiddos. I ran across an idea to use oilcloth to make placemats and thought that was a fine idea to make sturdy, but wipeable,...

It’s December! What December events are coming your way from Rocky Mountain Sewing and Vacuum? First of all, we’re busy helping our customers fill their stocking and complete their Christmas lists with some great deals on sewing machines, embroidery machines, vacuums and all kinds of...

So, by now you have probably figured out that I have grandkids and like to make gifts for them. I love the old saying that “If I’d known how great grandkids were, I would have had them first!” At Christmas, I always try to make something for them, especially while they’re...

I am so inspired after being at the International Quilt Festival in Houston. However, I get even more inspired, and humbled, when I see all the wonderful projects our customers “show and tell” at our monthly Sew Fun sessions. Now, I can’t wait until next week to attend the...

Oh, my! Talk about humbling! Sewing is my passion, and I am pretty good at some things, but, man, I have seen some quilts the past couple of days that have really put any of my efforts to shame. I am at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas and have spent the past couple...

I hope everyone had a fun Halloween. We were sad to say goodbye to Harvey, Morty and Morticia, and look forward to their visit next year.  But it’s November now, and the holidays are fast approaching. I don’t know about you, but it always seems to me that once Halloween is here,...