
What A Team! Janome + Anna Maria Horner
Looking for some great ideas for projects using your Janome machine? Well Janome has teamed up with the very talented Anna Maria Horner to bring you delightful projects including The Right Turn Bag.
I just love that you can use up strips of fabric and use the great decorative stitches on your Janome machine, and with Anna Maria’s instruction, you’ll have yourself a unique tote bag that will turn heads.
Some of our ladies decided to give it a go and here are the results.
Above is Erina’s front and back of her bag using her purple and orange fabrics.
Helen and her daughter on the left decided to have a day together making the bag. Helen is not a fan of straight lines so she did wavy stitching and used lots of embellishments. Helen’s daughter Gemma made the large version of the bag. Deb on the right wanted to use up some of her vast stash of spotty fabrics.
Christine used some scraps of Kaffe Fassett fabrics and used some coordinating solids for the stitching detail.
Check out Janome + Anna Maria collaboration projects here and get stitching today.
Happy Stitching! Kimz Team x

Stitching Leather Bags with Sew To Grow
It was such a pleasure to have Lindsey Rae of Sew To Grow do a Leather workshop here at Kimz in May. We will definitely repeat this workshop with many more ladies wanting to learn how to sew with leather. Lindsey is such an amazing tutor and all of our ladies had a wonderful time and went home with a fantastic Urban Outlook tote.
Teflon feet help when stitching with leather as the metal from standard feet can stick. Also pop in your machine a leather needle so it pierce the leather with its chisel tip.
Danielle loves making bags.
Here is May and Judith sporting their new totes.
Ellen, Susan, Danielle and Cindy
Ellen, Danielle, Lindsey and Cindy
Lindsey has some amazing patterns and great tutorials on her website to check out. Stay tuned for the next workshop we have with Lindsey, as I’m sure spaces will go fast.
Happy Stitching! Kimz Team x