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Sewing Machines & Quilting At Stitches Etc Home Center we have over 4,000 bolts of beautiful quilting fabrics and we carry Warm Company products such as quilt batting (Warm and White), Steam-a-Seam, Fusible Warm Batting; Thangles; Creative Grid Rulers; EZ quilting rulers and tools; Olfa rotary cutters and replacement blades; Horn of America and Arrow sewing machine cabinets and sewing furniture; and we specialize in easy-to-piece-and-quilt patterns that we design ourselves! Need assistance selecting fabrics for your quilt project? We’ll be glad to help you coordinate fabrics from our great selection! And if you’re thinking about getting a new sewing machine, come to the store and “test” drive our Janome machines! Janome is the largest manufacturer of sewing machines in the world today! Janome machines are easy to use, very reliable, and very competitively priced! Janome has a machine to fit everyone’s budget. Get more machine for your money with a Janome from Stitches Etc Home Center! Visit our Janome Sewing Machines and Sergers page to see the models that we love and carry in our store.
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Emily showed a strong interest in sewing at a very young age! Here she is one Christmas just a “few years ago” with her very first sewing machine—which she still owns! |
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2195 Greenspring Drive Timonium, MD 21093 410-561-3101 Tuesday-Friday 10 am—6 pm Saturday & Sunday 11 am—4 pm |
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Do Your Scissors Need to Be Sharpened? If you’re struggling to cut fabric or threads with dull scissors, bring them to the shop for John to sharpen! While not all scissors can be sharpened, John will examine your scissors, check to see if they have been bent or damaged beyond repair and if they can be sharpened—he’ll do a great job for you! |
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How To Be a Happy Quilter Here are some tips that we came up with to help you be a Happy Quilter! 1.0 Take a class at Stitches Etc Home Center and make new friends. 2.0 Be realistic about your projects that you undertake. Determine what it is about a particular quilt that you like— the colors, the shapes, a particular fabric—and then “facilitate” the design of the quilt so that it will be a project that you can realistically accomplish. 3.0 Give yourself permission not to finish a quilt. If you’ve learned something from a project—even if it’s that you don’t like the technique, the fabrics, the colors—you don’t have to finish the quilt—chalk it up to a learning experience and move on to something else that you do enjoy! 4.0 Practice!! The more you practice the better you get—and that is true of everything—appliqué, piecing, quilting, free motion quilting, making pie crust, skate boarding (OK maybe skate boarding should be relegated to the under 20 year old set, but you get the idea!) 5.0 Buy 1/3 yd cuts rather than 1/4 yds—a 1/3 yd doesn’t cost much more than a 1/4 yd—but you can get an extra strip or two out of a third yd! 6.0 Label all your tools. When you come to a sewing workshop and you leave something behind, if it has your name on it we’ll be sure that it gets returned to you! 7.0 Change your rotary cutter blade often. A dull blade makes you press harder when cutting and can cause more accidents! 8.0 Change your sewing machine needle often. If you wait until your sewing machine needle breaks, you’re probably not changing your needle often enough! If your sewing machine starts to “eat” the points of your triangles when piecing, it’s probably getting dull and needs to be changed. 9.0 Clean your sewing machine. Ideally, it’s best to clean your sewing machine after you finish a project since all the lint will steal the moisture from your machine—but clean it at least before you start a new big project. 10. Cut up your stash!! Don’t be afraid to cut up the fabric in your stash! If you have fabric that is left over from other projects, cut it up into usable size strips or squares so that you can make scrap quilts quickly! |