• Drawstring Shift Maxi Dress

    Drawstring Maxi shift dress pattern by Whipstitch in blue chambray stripe cotton. A classic summer maxi dress with racerback and drawstring waist.…

  • Geranium Pink is the New Black

    Currently, this is our girls’ room.  Our six-year-old and three-year-old share this space, and we’ve only recently moved out the crib and made way for a bigger bed.  It was the…

  • Creamsicle Laurel Dress

    Orange cotton seersucker version of the Colette Patterns Laurel dress with center front trim.…

  • Fall Wardrobe E-Course Now Registering!

    Fall Wardrobe e-course now open for registration--a five-week online class to master sewing with commercial printed garment patterns. Make a top, a skirt, a jacket and a lined dress.…

  • Simple Garden

    It has been a while since we’ve been able to put in a real garden.  Last summer, we lived in a rental house.  The summer before, we were “on the market,”…

  • Super Online Sewing Bee

    Did you guys read today about the Super Online Sewing Bee hosted by Sew, Mama, Sew?  It was just announced today, and I am stoked. image courtesy of Sew, Mama, Sew…

  • What I’m Working On Now

    A fabulous orange stripe seersucker Laurel dress with a center front trim detail and in-seam pockets: I got the idea for this one right around the time the Laurel pattern was…

  • This one might have been a mis-fire.

    Sometimes, it looks good in your head, and then when it’s up and on the wall, it’s not what you’d hoped, you know? This is our living room, which hasn’t made…

  • Week In Review. Ish.

    Bits and pieces of what I’m doing this week: I’ve been planning an all-yellow Scrappy Trip-Along since I was about…oh, I don’t know…three blocks into my first Scrappy Trip-Along.  And it…

  • White Thread

    A little randomly, at some point over the past year I decided to challenge myself and see how long I could go sewing with only white thread.  I know: that really…

  • The New Normal

    This past Friday was the very last day that I will have to drive a 90-minute car pool school run.  And I cannot tell you in words how that makes me…