Week in Review 11-3 to 11-7-2025

by Maureen Lewicki · Published November 9, 2025 · Updated November 9, 2025

It’s a new week in the Stitchuation Room, a daily live stream at 8am central where there’s always friends, fun, and birthday cake! The cake is virtual so it’s calorie free. Grab your coffee and stop by. Can’t make it because of pesky life demands? No worries, watch the replays when you can. I watch while my husband watches sports.

#FQS October Sew Sampler Reveal, Weekend Stitching Update, the Stitchuation Room, 11-3-25

Monday 11-3-2025 Becky showed all the progress on projects she stitched up over the weekend and revealed the October Sew Sampler subscription box from the #FatQuarterShop. Don’t you just love new goodies? The fabric in this one was from Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura in Little House on the Prairie. Wow! Who knew that little ‘Laura Ingalls’ would grow up to become a quilter and fabric designer! The fabric is “Evening on the Prairie and it’s delicious.

Use #Embrilliance to Pre-cut Embroidery Applique, #Kimberbell, the Stitchuation Room, 11-4-25

On Tuesday, 11-4-2025 the star of the show was the Brother ScanNCut as Becky showed step-by-step how she created her own SVG cut files for Kimberbell’s Classic Christmas, Vol 2, the Deck the Halls wreath. Her new favorite tool for this is HotFix Adhesive. No more ruined mats! You can see her method using #Embrilliance embroidery software and HotFix in this video. Use the Coupon Code POWER for 10% off.

#Kimberbell Merry & Bright Wreath Hooping #1, The Stitchuation Room 11-5-2025

Wednesday, 11-5-2025, the proof was in the pudding to make sure that all those cut applique shapes actually fit the placement lines. Perfection! The Cricut presses Becky uses are in her Amazon store. There are tips in this video to place those pieces so that they don’t overlap the placement line or are too small with a gap.

Thursday, 11-6-2025, It was fun to see how to match up multiple hoopings for Dresden Wreath from the Merry & Bright Kimberbell Classic Vol 2. using the thumbtack method. Ingenious! This is a fail-safe method I need to try.

Click here for the start of the tutorial for How to use thumbtacks to match multiple hoopings

Becky also gave a quick tutorial how to ‘Franken-bat’ with a Join Stitch on a sewing machine to sew batting scraps together. The technique works for stabilizer too (Franken-stable) but it’s best to overlap the stabilizer pieces a bit.

Here’s a photo of the Franken-bat. Click here to see the tutorial.

Here’s the whole program for the day. The Wreath is coming along!

#Kimberbell Thumbtack Method for 3rd Embroidery Hooping; the Stitchuation Room, 11-7-25

Friday was the fabulous finish of the sweet, completed pillow top! Becky demonstrated how she used the Design Center on her Luminiare to digitize cute little berries for the wreath and then scanned the pillow top in the machine for perfect placement. Bring out the Kingstar metallic thread!

Done and so satisfying.

Be sure to subscribe to Becky’s channel to follow along. You never know what’s going to happen in her sewing room.

Friends, the Pre-order for the KB Sweetheart Street Bench Pillow is available now. When the winter holiday decorations get tucked away, my house always looks a little drab, so I’m excited that Becky’s planning a Sew Along after the holiday rush! This cute little Kimberbell bench pillow will add a bit of whimsy to a bench or couch. I am also thinking the little ‘sweetie street’ would make a super cute table runner, or wall hanging. Which would you like the best?