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Sew Creative
\n14 Elliott Street
\nBeverly, MA. 01915
\nphone: \u00a0978 524 8848 \u00a0 fax: 978 524 8858
\nweb site: www.sewcreativebeverly.com<\/p>\n
Hours: Tue – Sat 9:30am – 5:30pm; Thursdays until 7pm, Sundays 12-4pm, closed on Monday.<\/p>\n
A guest sent us an email suggesting we add “Sew Creative” to Bettina’s Blog. She also sent a review of the shop and urged us to put her review in the Blog. \u00a0We were intrigued and went to visit. \u00a0It was everything she described.<\/p>\n
Her review follows:<\/p>\n
“During a recent visit to the North Shore, where I spent several days in a Bettina Network home, \u00a0I spent one morning looking for sewing, quilting, arts and crafts stores, – since this is my interest and I always like to see what’s out there when I get the opportunity to visit other cities.<\/i>
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\n<\/i>I literally stumbled over ‘Sew Creative’ and almost didn’t stop because I was rushing to meet a friend for lunch. \u00a0I doubled back, however, called my friend and she met me at Sew Creative.<\/i>
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\nIt is a wonderful, warm, friendly shop which contains everything you need, to do all kinds of quilting. \u00a0Yards and yards of beautifully printed cottons; all the findings – like thread and equipment you might not have or run out of; patterns, and more- but mostly the people who own and work in the shop are unbelievably helpful. \u00a0They have classes and regular times when you can just show up and sew with like- minded people.<\/i>
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\nThere is an Embroidery Club, a Quilters Boot Camp, which gives you the basics of quilting; a ‘Girls Night Out’ which is $20 and gives you five hours of uninterrupted sewing time to work on a project of your choice and get expert help. The projects include quilts, clothing, using sergers, machine embroidery and some general sewing. \u00a0There are also classes for kids with no adults allowed.<\/i>
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\nWhat is shameful is that there are so few such stores around today where one can buy the beautiful materials I used to buy on a constant basis, whether I needed them or not. \u00a0I have quite a stash, but my heart goes out to those young people who won’t know the joy of finding an exquisite piece of silk for a beautiful suit to take home and sew or stash the material away for rainy days. \u00a0They won’t know the excitement which comes from discovering that all the pieces of material you have so carefully stored away – after making a project or cutting up an outfit you can no longer wear – are enough to make a divine quilt. \u00a0With the pieces from old outfits, it is especially wonderful to discover you have the kind of clothes and pieces of material which you can use to make a memory quilt.<\/i>
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\nWhen I return to Massachusetts I will always make Sew Creative one of the stops during my stay.”<\/i><\/p>\n
Ed Note<\/b>: \u00a0We sent someone to Beverly to check out Sew Creative. \u00a0It is as described and we had a lovely late morning stay. \u00a0We also added Sew Creative to Bettina’s Menu of Events.<\/p>\n
We had an unexpected bonus from that trip. \u00a0Our ‘checker’ found material we were looking for to use to upholster walls. That has been a request from a couple of our bed & breakfast host families, but we haven’t had the time to go searching for just the right under-cloth to use. We will give you a write-up on wall upholstering in another blog – mostly because our host families wanted to know how to do it to save on their heating bills.<\/p>\n