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  • One Little Word 2014 Wrap-Up: MARGIN

    Well, now that it’s 2015, it’s time to wrap up my One Little Word project from 2014! Last year, I invited in the word MARGIN. (Or it invited itself. Whatever.) It…

  • One Little Word: MARGIN

    I love this idea of having a word for the coming year.  Ali Edwards has done it for the better part of a decade now, and I must have seen it…

  • The Margin of 10000 Hours

    I remember sewing before the internet.  For me, and for most of the folks I knew who were sewing, it was primarily about achieving a goal–usually a finished garment.  Sewing wasn’t,…

  • Gilbert Top by Helen’s Closet, in white linen

    I made the Gilbert Top, pattern by Helen’s Closet, specifically for a trip to Greece over the summer. I used a sortof windowpane? hemstitch? linen for it, and planned to wear…

  • Christmas Sewing Deadline: Handmade Pajamas

    As our kids get older, some traditions we’ve held close to our hearts are changing and growing along with them. I’ve sewn a new pair of pajamas for our kids each…

  • Ogden Cami Hack: Tiered Maxi Dress

    It’s Ogden Cami month! And I’ve made…a bunch. Once I completed the first version, it was easy to see why this is such a tried-and-true pattern for so many folks on…

  • Flashback 70s Archer Shirt in Cotton Lawn

    I am (forever, it would seem) on the hunt for the very most perfect button-up shirt with a stand collar that I can find. This one is ALMOST it, not exactly,…

  • Deliberate Transitions

    There was an article in the LA Times in the past week about getting dressed to stay home, and the author is experiencing this HUGE backlash where people (mostly on Twitter)…

  • Get Dressed On Purpose and With Purpose

    This is the fifth post in a series about how getting dressed, even when you’re only going from your bedroom to the living room and back again, can have an enormous…

  • Pants Are For Every OTHER Day

    This is the fourth post in a series about how getting dressed, even when you’re only going from your bedroom to the living room and back again, can have an enormous…

  • Stop With The Jeans Every Day. Stop.

    This is the third post in a series about how getting dressed, even when you’re only going from your bedroom to the living room and back again, can have an enormous…

  • Wear ALL the Things!

    This is the second post in a series about how getting dressed, even when you’re only going from your bedroom to the living room and back again, can have an enormous…

  • The Flip Flop Dress: What Makes It Special

    The Flip Flop Dress pattern started out, years ago, as a style my mother manufactured when she made children’s clothing for her cottage company back in the late 80s and early…

  • TUTORIAL: Exposed Enclosed Zipper

    Ever since I learned to install the “exposed enclosed zipper,” I have been minorly obsessed with them.  They seem to work on, like, a zillion different projects, perfectly.  I used one on…