• Finished: First Sweater!

    I finished!!! My very first knitted sweater is all done.  Well, mostly done.…

  • Rosa Parks: A Great Woman In Sewing

    I grew up in Montgomery, Alabama.  The earliest school memories I have celebrated the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March from Selma, and the Civil Rights movement in a very personal and…

  • Knitting for Humility

    On the first night of Intro to Sewing class, a young woman walked in with a brand-new sewing machine still in the original box and set it on the classroom table.…

  • LAST CALL for a 2016 Sewing Buddy!

    I am deep in the trenches of hand-matching our Sewing Buddies for 2016!!  If you haven’t signed up yet but would like to join us, TODAY is the very last day…

  • The Only Reason The Internet Works

    I was watching an old Hepburn & Tracy movie over the holidays, Desk Set, all about replacing a crack reference librarian with a computer, back in the 50s.  And it occurred to…

  • The Rope Basket Craze

    So, not too long ago, I made my very first rope bowl.  One minute, the words “rope bowl” were some vague 70s-era shady memory and POOF! the next minute, it seemed…

  • Button Sorting

    The other day I walked into our kitchen and found this on the counter.  The children had taken the giant trifle bowl filled with random buttons that I keep in my…

  • The Murder Mystery Quilt: Sew It to Solve It

    FOR THE 2020 PROJECT, VISIT The Murder Mystery Quilt SITE! In the first grade, when I was six years old, my class did a unit on Ancient Egypt.  I was, as most children are,…