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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. Bitten by the quilting bug in 2004, she took on the exciting task of translating her heirloom techniques into quilting, and incorporating machine embroidery into quilting in exciting ways. In this site you will find children’s garment patterns and unique quilts featuring those techniques, some of the fabrics and laces suited to these designs, and available classes.
Also available are moisture-wicking fabrics and patterns for Comfort Sleepwear.
A new addition to this website is unique jewelry, crafted by Sue's daughter, Annie. Annie earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in 2009, and is currently making pieces incorporating sterling silver and machine embroidery!
Big news! My quilt "Gloria's Garden" was awarded the $12,000 Gammill Longarm Machine Quilting Award at the 2010 American Quilter's Society Show in Paducah, KY. The quilt is now part of the permanent collections of the National Quilt Museum in Paducah. This quilt also won 1st place in the Computer-Aided Machine Embroidery category at the 2009 Quilts: A World of Beauty contest at the Houston International Quilters Association 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 for the bonnet. The dress pattern is available in the magazine only. 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!!!
