April 1930’s<\/a>, centers on vintage Singer Featherweight machines and their attachments. Those of you who own older sewing machines will be especially interested in the attachment details she will be including in her posts, since many older machines don\u2019t include these special stitches. April also does a lot of our sample sewing and pattern testing, and we frequently rely on her expertise.<\/p>\nApril’s first series of posts, a number of short tutorials which will start running tomorrow, focus on seam finishing techniques. We hope you’ll enjoy and learn from April’s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m pleased to announce that April Henry will be joining us as an occasional guest blogger focusing on interesting sewing techniques you can use to make your Oliver + S garments even more special. 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