Sewing Tip of the Week #1: Thrift Store Patterns


Sewing Tip of the Week #1

I have been in love with clothing since I was a little girl. How colors looked on a model, how the fabric draped, and most especially, how their full ensemble looked once all the pieces were in place all appealed to my visual and creative senses. I would spend hours a day designing new looks and rumminging through JC Penny, Sears and Speigal catalogs imagining the day I would make manifest the ideas on the sketch pad in front of me

J&O Celebrates National Bicycle Month with Discounted Fabrics

May is National Bicycle Month and J&O is celebrating by offering 10% off selected novelty cotton and tapestry bicycle themed fabrics. From choppers and dirt bikes to professional race bikes and biker symbols, J&O has them and wants to share them with all of our riders througout the month of May.

Whether you are darting through Center City traffic on your blue BMX or peddling into work on your Tonino Lamborghini Leggenda 3-speed, bicycling is not only a great way to help save the planet through the reduction of air pollution caused by excess car emission fumes, but is an enjoyable, stimulating, and healthy mode of transpo for all ages