Remember my Saturated Stripes quilt? It was inspired by the Fresh Pack quilt made by Dorie of Tumbling Blocks–and now Dorie has a pattern available for download! In Dorie’s Craftsy pattern shop,…
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Summer is here, and we’re still working out what that means for our daily schedule. Yesterday, I did a smidgen of sewing, followed by four hours at the pool with the…
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Have you seen Rae’s new fabric line, Lotus Pond? All organic, all in luscious colors, and all in the sweetest Scandinavian-inspired prints. The folks at Cloud9 were sweet enough to send…
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Before cutting in to my super amazing pink check silk charmeuse for a Datura blouse, I wanted to do a test run. This is the result of that test, made in…
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Rae has a brand-new sewing pattern out, the Bianca Top & Dress, and it’s just the ticket for the hot, hot summer we’re sure to have this year. I made the…
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Ellen Baker of The Long Thread has a new line of fabrics out for Kokka this summer, and I gleefully volunteered to take some yardage off her hands and play with…
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I spent a solid two weeks this spring hand-stitching a zillion little yo-yos using RJR’s Cotton Supreme Solids. They were each like little gems, perfectly round and fluffy and dazzling saturated…
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You’ll have to forgive me for taking photos of a dress that I clearly have been wearing for a few hours–today was registration day for next school year, which involves some…
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Spring has SPRUNG, and it has come so FAST! I can’t believe how quickly the weather has warmed up, and how March and April have flown past me. There was no…
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Winners!! Winner of At Home with Modern June is Veronica, who said: I’m excited to see how many of you are looking to do more sewing with oilcloth! Be sure to check…
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Once upon a time, before Whipstitch existed, I was an archaeologist. My field of study was prehistoric human/plant interactions, focusing on acorn use as a primary foodstuff in the American Southeast.…
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Over the past week+ or so, I have sewn up a gazillion pair of shorts for the children. They all seem to have shot up four inches in the space of…