42 is familiar to readers of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams and that was half the story when drawing this pattern. I turned 42 earlier this year and thought it a good idea to celebrate through some kind of embroidery with deeper meaning. Keep reading for tips how to make your own piece! 42 Pattern Before we go further, here's the promised pattern, free to download ... View Post
Materials For Hearts Pattern By Carolyn Friedlander
Carolyn Friedlander's beautiful Hearts pattern is a project for friends of appliqué. It's made with fabric from her Collection CF as well as Robert Kaufman Fabrics's Kona cotton. Let's take a closer look at what you need to make a quilt of Wall size (in following order: English, Finnish, Swedish). Hearts Pattern You find Carolyn's PDF pattern Hearts in her own webshop. The Wall quilt ... View Post
Bunting For The Shop
Colourful buntings are not just for parties and other festivities, but for kids' rooms and craft areas, and of course Sentti & Tuuma! Keep reading for a link to the tutorial as well as our tips how to best make your own. Free Pattern and Template The pattern and downloadable template is to be found free of charge on the Simply Sewing (Gathered) website: How to make bunting. It's a sister ... View Post
Comparing Metres and Yards, Fat Quarters, Skinny Quarters, Fat Eighths and Skinny Eighths
It may seem simple at first to sort the differences between metres and yards in quilting fabrics, but add fat and skinny quarters as well as fat and skinny eighths, and measurements aren't as clear anymore. We untie knots of the brain here. Before we begin defining the words, scroll down for an infographic you may download for your personal use. Metre versus Yard If you buy fabric in the ... View Post
How to buy Sentti & Tuuma quilting fabrics
Buying quilting fabrics is straight-forward only when you've figured out how a particular shop sells these goods, so let's take a look at how the Sentti & Tuuma selection is offered. Which measuring system is used? We use the metric system. Fabrics are measured in metres and the increments we offer are 25 cm, 50 cm, 75 cm, 1 m, 1,25 m and so on. In the drop-down menu on the product ... View Post
Introducing Events
When there are public events happening in the Sentti & Tuuma showroom, here's where they will be announced in addition to the dedicated Events page. It could be a flash sale, showroom presentation, meet-and-greet visiting designers and other people of the indistries, or an annual theme thing (we should definitely have annual theme thingies, come to think of it!), anything we can come up ... View Post