Taunton's Threads - For people who love to sew
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Threads magazine Creative Sewing and Needlework Festival, Fall 2003: Toronto Threads' reconnaissance team reports on seven newly released items destined to make your sewing easier and more creative Threads recently returned from hosting a booth at the 16th Annual Creative Sewing and Needlework Festival in Toronto, Canada, which we've been attending for more than a decade. This year's show attendance of 40,000 was on-par with the huge draw of the past several years, despite the sharp fall-off in tourism to Toronto earlier in the year, due to threats from SARS. As usual, our booth was constantly jammed with eager enjoyers of the many sample garments we brought from recent issues, Taunton's complete fiber-arts book catalog, and of course, the free sample magazines and bright-red Threads-emblazoned shopping bags, which dominated the view of the show floor (and the surrounding city streets) on all four days, and were hotly sought by all, especially after the day's stock was exhausted! While this show is unique among those we attend in having many booths and demonstrators in nonsewing-related crafts, we did spot some truly interesting new products for the sewer. Check out seven of our favorites. And to find out more about next year's Festivals, visit www.csnf.com. The Sewing Emporium (www.sewingemporium.com) was showing the VelVet "V" presser foot, designed to make sewing on velvet and other high-nap fabrics trouble-free. The foot is available in configurations for all machines. Jonny Seww offered ink-jet printable iron-on stabilizer, a freezer-paper-style stabilizer ideal for paper-piecing, stenciling, topstitching, quilting, and embroidering, using designs created on a computer and printed on the paper, distributed by MacPhee Workshop (www.macpheeworkshop.com).
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