• 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…

  • Summer Dresses at the Beach!

    We attended a wedding in Florida over the Memorial Day weekend, and I thought, as I was last-minute packing, “What better place to take photos of my Summer Dresses samples?”  So…

  • Getting Started is the Hardest Part

    And I am diving in. Don’t tell my husband, because I totally haven’t touched the drapes yet.   Details: Robert Kaufman Essex linen in natural (NOT the wide, because I wanted…

  • Moving to a Big Boy Bed

    We’ve moved our youngest out of the crib.  It feels a little like the end over here–our baby isn’t really a baby anymore, and as far as we know, we won’t…

  • In Progress

    On my cutting table right now.  I am back from Quilt Market (photos on my Instagram) and working on a sample of the Modern Babydoll Dress for my Summer Dresses e-course.…

  • Crazy for Cross Stitch

    I have been on an insane cross stitch kick lately. It all started with this one, which was a gift to me from a friend. We’d had this conversation on the…