Owl & Drum's Sew Very Modern

Especially for this week's Fabric Friday, we have Soul Mate, the gorgeous new collection from Amy Butler for Free Spirit Fabrics. Consisting of 24 prints in a cotton poplin, Soul Mate is pure Amy Butler - from the stylish prints to the vibrant colors! Amy describes Soul Mate as: "A sweet reflection on love and the perfect co-creation that happens when synergy and beauty meet. The two peacock lovers in It Takes Two are the stars of the collection and - in a light, tongue & cheek way - represent finding my soul mate in my husband, David. Being in tandem...

Sewing a zipper? There's a handy dandy way to make it easier. Keep a glue stick on your sewing kit, and its your new best friend when its time to install that zip!  Washable glue stick is just strong enough to hold a zipper in place on the fabric, and it washes out, just like the name says.  Apply a little glue stick along the edge of the zipper tape before you position each side into place. Add a couple of pins if you think it needs it, but you can even go pin-less. Look at you, you sewing rebel!...

Anna Maria Horner has done it again! Our Fabric Friday spotlight this week is for Anna Maria's newest collection, Floral Retrospective. Floral Retrospective features some of Anna Maria's favorite floral prints, with some classic and new colorways. This 16-piece collection pairs well with a variety of looks - from vintage to modern - and these fabrics work well in everybody's fabric stashes! These fabrics are a high-quality quilting cotton that you always find from Free Spirit Fabrics. We know you will love creating with this collection in whatever sewing and quilting project you may have in mind. You can find Floral...

How can a spider help you with sewing or quilting? Well, don't worry, we're not talking about arachnids! A "spider" - also called a "leader" and/or an "ender" - is a scrap of fabric that you run through your machine at the beginning and end of each seam. The spider ends up attached to your fabric by short threads, and then you just trim them off and use the spider again and again. The funny name comes from how it looks after its been used - with lots of thread "legs" hanging off.  Spiders help in many ways:  They save thread because less is wasted at each...

Owl & Drum is excited to announce that we now have the new Cotton + Steel thread by Sulky! The colors are out of this world, and this thread - a 50 Wt., 2-ply, high-quality thread made from 100% Egyptian-grown cotton - can be used for both quilting and sewing. You can find C+S thread in our Tulsa shop on 15th Street. If you are an out-of-town shopper, just send us an email letting us know what colors you would like and we would be happy to ship them to you! To learn more about this gorgeous thread watch this...