HYDRATE, HIBERNATE, HOPE FOR THE BEST: SOHMO AND CAKE & ALE'S CASS MERRIGAN RELEASE A NEEDLE MINDER TO MATCH HER NEW FABRIC COLLECTION New collaboration celebrates the release of Cass Merrigan's latest fabric collection 'Binding Glory' SOHMO has teamed up with Cass Merrigan, the designer behind Cake & Ale, to create a needle minder celebrating her newest fabric collection with KK Fabrics. It's a small item for a project that's usually anything but small - the design and quote lifted straight from the fabric collection, ready to sit on your quilt while you hand stitch the binding. A fabric worth immortalising Sonya Morris, founder of SOHMO, has followed Cass's work for a while, drawn to her dry sense of humour...
SOHMO has joined forces with quilting designer Jemima Flendt of Tied with a Ribbon to create a limited-run magnetic needle minder, designed to celebrate the upcoming release of her new stitchery pattern, Mayfair Petals.
There's a question that comes up often in the sewing community: what do you actually do with your old needles and rotary cutter blades when you're done?
SOHMO at Craft Cinema Night - Love Actually, The Holiday, and a Custom Needle Minder There are few things better than watching a great film. There are few things better than a solid crafting session. Craft Cinema Night, the brainchild of Juliet of Sew Hooked, has worked out that if you put those two things together in a cinema with the lights turned down low - you get something genuinely special. We've been fans of Craft Cinema Night for a while, so when the opportunity came up to be part of an evening as a sponsor, we said yes immediately. The night The films were Love Actually and The Holiday - back to back, at Cinema Nova in Melbourne. A perfectly...
Sonya was recently interviewed by StyleArc for their International Women's Day blog series. You can read the interview below. Q: When you think back, what people, moments, or experiences helped shape you into the maker and business owner you are today? Â My grandmother and my mother are the obvious answers - growing up around women who sewed out of necessity and made them well left a real impression on me as a maker. They introduced me to the satisfaction of taking a piece of fabric and transforming it into a piece of clothing that fits well. But as a business owner, my dad shaped me just as much. He was a farmer, and always entrepreneurial - an early adopter...
