MyFavorites - Enjoli

Welcome to our "MyFavorites" blog series. Here you will get a chance to know our staff members better. We will have a good time and assuming that our distributor can keep up with us we will have stock in store of all the products you hear about here! 

Enjoli is up first, so here it goes...

Q: What is your favorite sewing/quilting book?

A: My current favorite book is “Practical Guide to Patchwork” by Elizabeth Hartman. I want to make every quilt in this book, AND in June Elizabeth is releasing her second book that promises to be just as great as her first.  It’s called “Modern Patchwork”. I’ve also picked up a few new releases that are fantastic, called “Modern Minimal” by Alissa Haight-Carlton, and “Quilting Modern” by Jacquie Gering. 

(NOTE: "Modern Patchwork", "Modern Minimal" and "Quilting Modern" are all new release books and have not made it into our store yet. Keep an eye out for them soon!)

Q: What is your favorite sewing notion?

A: This is a hard question, I have so many favorites, its hard to choose just one. I love my “machine needle pack”, it holds all of my packaged and loose needles and has labels so I don’t have to guess which ones are which.

I also can’t go to any class or sit and sew without knowing where my “Bohin sewing gauge” is. It is awesome and has survived my 2 year old using it!

And last but certainly not least, my “Rainbow Easy Kut” snips are my favorite for clipping threads on chain piecing or paper piecing projects. They are easy to use and stay sharp forever!  

Q: What is your favorite sewing foot?

A: Right now my favorite sewing foot is my Jeans foot! Despite the name you can actually use it for sewing knit as well. And since I have been altering jeans into maternity jeans and sewing up knit maternity tshirts it has come in super handy. And even though its not a sewing foot, it helps to use a straight stitch plate when using the jeans foot because the opening in the stitch plate is a single hole instead of an oval opening. The jeans foot (for my Bernina it is foot #8) has a single keyhole opening as well and the sole of the foot is hinged so that you can go over the thickness of denim. Check out the video on Bernina’s website to see how cool this foot it!  (http://www.berninausa.com/product_detail-n25-i51-sUS.html)

Q: What is your favorite hand/machine sewing thread?

A: I am partial to sewing with Prescenia or Auriful thread for piecing and quilting. The Prescenia thread is so thin that you keep a true ¼” seam when piecing. You still get super strong thread but you don’t have the bulk of some other types of thread. As for Aurifil, well…I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! It is just a great all around thread, also very thin. I use it for everything, piecing, quilting and even embroidery. It is not a shiny thread like you’d find with Isacord (which I also love for embroidery) but embroiders out beautifully and runs through my machine like butter without leaving a lot of fuzz!

Q: What is your favorite sewing blog(s)?

A: Oh my..I currently have 60 websites/blogs bookmarked on my web browser! :P I have to say that my top 5 are:

1)    “OhFransson” by Elizabeth Hartman

2)    “Handmade by Alissa” by Alissa Haight-Carlton

3)    “Tallgrass Prairie Studio” by Jacquie Gering

4)    “Fresh Lemons Quilts” by Faith

5)    “Stitched in Color” by Rachel Hauser

I visit these sites constantly and find myself adding projects from each of them to my “To-Do’ list! Each are so inspiring and have fun tutorials and projects, as well as beautiful pictures to just lift your spirits!

Leave a comment here telling us what your favorite sewing books or notions are and next Monday (the 21st) you could just be the winner of a $25 gift card to SLH!