Whatcom County stores, classes help people make holiday gifts, decorations

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Whatcom County stores, classes help people make holiday gifts, decorations
For more ideas about homemade crafts using inexpensive or recycled materials, go online to Etsy.com or pinterest.com. … The school offers a day of crafts, including rolling beeswax candles and sewing or making translucent stars to paste on windows …
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Needle & thread
Isaac Merritt Singer patented the first sewing machine in 1851 after adding a presser-foot to feed fabric through the machine and a needle arm that prevented thread breakage to the basic design of a Lerow and Blodgett Company version of a sewing machine.
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