How it came to be.

 

Hi, I’m Lisa — owner of Soto and Stitch 🧵, named after my kitty Sooty Tooty 🐱. I’m a horse trainer 🐴, cat rescuer 🐾, and a proud Buffalo girl (Go Bills! ❤️💙).

I first picked up sewing after paying for a $250 wool horse cooler repair that didn’t go as planned 😫. What seemed like a disaster at the time led me to a love of sewing.

When Joann’s closed, I was stocking up on clearance fabric and came across two fabrics that stuck together. They were soft, quiet, reusable — and unlike anything I had worked with before. After using them in some projects, I started passing pieces along to friends.

Friends shared it with friends, and I started hearing how people were using it: one friend used it to pad her CPAP mask, a vendor friend used it to wrap and display breakables at craft fairs, and a friend’s mom even made a belly band for her dog. Before long, I needed more — and so did they.

That’s when I started digging deeper into how it was made and where it came from.

The fabric itself has two working sides — hook and loop — and after a very long search, I found each side in different regions, one on the East Coast and one on the West Coast.

Sales has never been my world, but at 45 (yes — floppy disk old), I taught myself how to build a website, package orders, and ship everything out — because people kept asking for it, and it was quietly solving everyday problems.

And that’s how Soto and Stitch came to be!

Thanks so much for stopping by ❤️ I can’t wait to see what you’ll do with it.

🤝 Let’s keep in touch on socials! I love experimenting with this fabric and sharing tips, tricks, and inspiration.