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Susan Pennington Stewart fell in love with fabric and sewing before she started elementary school! Heirloom sewing by machine techniques computerized machine embroidery are her specialties. She designed, stitched, and wrote for Sew Beautiful magazine for many years, and has taught around the country. She has recently taken on the exciting task of translating her heirloom techniques into quilting. In this site you will find children’s garment patterns and unique quilts incorporating those techniques, some of the fabrics and laces suited to these designs, and available classes.
As a result of personal experience, Susan has also become interested in providing patterns and supplies for sewing comfort nightwear, using special moisture-wicking fabrics, to help women who are dealing with night sweats due to menopause or chemotherapy.
Exciting news! My quilt "Oriental Lace" was awarded the $5000 Superior Threads Master Award for Thread Artistry at the 2008 Quilts: A World of Beauty Contest at the Houston International Quilt Festival. This quilt also recently won 1st place in the Large Wall Quilt - Home Sewing Machine Quilted category at the 2009 American Quilter's Society Paducah show. See a detail image and read about the quilt here.
Heirloom Machine Sewing for Quilters
Full of heirloom sewing techniques and projects, this is a great resource book for quilters and non-quilters alike. Lots of step-by-step photos take you through many wonderful techniques. Read more about it or place an order by clicking here.
I'll be happy to sign your copy, if you'd like. Just contact me and let me know if you'd like it personalized for someone in particular.
For free instructions and embroidery design to make this bonnet, which matches the dress and free "Genevieve" pattern featured in Sew Beautiful, Issue 111, contact me. I will e-mail you and send both the embroidery design and the directions. Photo courtesy of Sew Beautiful.
Kitties are so entertaining! There is no place so wonderful as a sunny, open window!
And, of course, they help me with my sewing...Fluff checked out the inner recesses of "Gloria's Garden while I was working on it...
and helps me with embroidering...
Stella checks out the fit in the case for my embroidery module...
And Fluff LOVES to shred the newspaper after we finish reading it (or before we read it, if she gets the chance!) Sometimes she settles down for a nap in her shredded paper nest...
Okay, I'm easily entertained!!!
