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Tutorial: How to do a 3-Thread Serger Rolled Hem on Chiffon

Last week I went down a rabbit hole of trying to learn how to use the narrow rolled hem foot for my new Bernina sewing machine. The main thing I have learned is that there is a major learning curve. But the other thing I noticed was that there are a lot of half tutorials for how to use that foot and none that actually show finishing a project with it. (Or at least none that I found). Specifically I couldn’t find information about how to do corners, like when you are hemming a rectangular scarf.

So this tutorial is not [read more…]

June 10th, 2025|Spoonflower & Fabric Design, Tutorials|0 Comments

Ask me anything: Animals!

Sometimes it’s hard to come up with something to talk about when I sit down to update my blog and I really don’t want to write a tutorial for something every week. So this week I got a deck of cards called “Delve Deck” that are conversation starter questions and I picked out the “Joy edition” because that was one of my themes for 2025: bring more joy. So when I need something to talk about, I am going to pull out a card and answer the question.

This week’s question is [read more…]

Greetings from H&H Americas

I spent last week attending the h&h Americas conference in Chicago. If you’ve never heard of this one, I am not too surprised. It’s only 4 years old and it’s only open to craft business professionals (like shop owners). I’m not a shop owner but I do have a craft-based business and I am a member of the Craft Industry Alliance. I attended the conference with my Mastermind group, a small group of craft business owners (we have me, a quilt designer, a machine embroiderer, and a knitter/craft mom vlogger). We’ve been meeting for almost 4 years and decided [read more…]

May 12th, 2025|An Artist's Life, Out & About|Comments Off on Greetings from H&H Americas

Mini Tutorial: Making Price Signs for your Craft Fair Booth

I have learned that people don’t like to have to ask for prices when they are shopping at your art fair booth, so it’s important to have some kind of price signs that are easy to see. I have used all kinds of different methods for labeling my prices throughout the years: making one big sign, individual stickers, chalkboard signs, cute printed signs. I’ve learned that my very favorite is this one: drink coasters.

  • You can get a package of hundreds of recycled paper drink coasters for not very much cost.
  • They are easy to write on with colored sharpies.
  • [read more…]

April 28th, 2025|An Artist's Life|1 Comment

Hi, I’m Becka.

Talking about fabric design, teaching, and the life and business of being an artist.

Teaching online and in person classes in embroidery, handcrafts, technology, fabric design and artist business skills. Co-author of The Spoonflower Handbook.

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