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We love the online fabric shop Above All Fabric. The fabric selection is terrific and the site is EASY TO NAVIGATE. They’ve got a VERY thorough collection of all the popular patterns.

You’ll want to come back for their Rewards Program! You must register as a customer on their site, but then you’ll get 4% credit to use on your next purchase. Nice!

But, the best part? Shipping is always just $5.00! WHAT!?!? Okay, here it is again:

SHIPPING IS $5.00.

Check it out here: Above All Fabric.

This find has many faces: an Etsy shop, a brick & mortar store in downtown Spokane, WA, a line of handbags…and that’s what we love about Buttercuppity.  That, and she refers to her husband as Captain Hotpants!

We also love the selection.  We’ve had trouble finding fabrics designed by Hoodie, but she’s got some Sparkling Paris left!  And look at the knits she’ll be getting in next week.  All at great prices!

You’ll even find some vintage fabric every now and then.  Gotta love that!  Great variety of patterns, too.

Check out Buttercuppity Fabrics today!

I use my Havel’s Sewing Snip-Eze for almost everything.  I use them as a seam ripper, a thread cutter and as a little tiny finger to pull the bobbin thread loop up once it’s been threaded on the machine.  So, I’m not surprised when they get dull.  It can happen within a couple of quilts’ time.  Especially if you have to unsew part of a block or row. 

The dullness used to make me sad.  But now, to alleviate that sadness, I use two different snips when I’m working on a project.  (And I try to be good about using an Ultra Pro Seam Ripper - which won’t get dull due to all the extra blades.)  Enter the Dura Snips.  They’re on a neck strap so they’re always close at hand.  I use them to snip thread and starter pieces of fabric.  The Snip-Eze are still my tiny fingers and my sometime seam ripper, but they don’t dull as quickly now that the Dura Snips take on the “heavy duty” snip cutting.

Got a gift dilemma for a crafty sewist in your life?  Try Kayte Terry’s latest book: Applique Your Way.  Chock full of great projects and detailed instructions, this is a must for every crafter’s library.

Kayte Terry is the woman behind this is love forever, an inspiring blog for handmade fans.