This weekend, you could win a spot in the Essential Sewing e-course that begins on Monday! Jog on over to True Up, our favorite all-fabric-all-the-time blog, and leave a comment for…
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Just announced today at Spoonflower: their new quilt-weight fabric? Kona cotton! Let’s back up. First: I think my long-standing love-affair with Kona cotton is no secret. I know there are lots…
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Literally. Found this little fella outside the bathroom window the other morning as flurries were circling overhead. Tried desperately to snap a shot of him with a single flake scooting past,…
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I have mentioned before my Tony Danza wall quilt. It has been a work-in-progress for a little over two years now. And by “work-in-progress,” obviously I mean I haven’t really started…
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Progress in the kitchen slowed to an almost complete stop while we moved in and got settled, but now not having it finished is making us crazy enough that we’re ready…
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So, I make no secret of the fact that my Rowenta iron and I are veryveryclose. I loooooove my iron, to a not-quite-unnatural degree. I started with a yard sale purchase…
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Hooray!! The first online sewing class I’m offering this year, Essential Sewing, is now open for registration! I really love teaching this class–it offers such a wide range of skills and…
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With everything we’re doing to get moved in and get the kitchen ready for six people to abuse it relentlessly for the next twenty years, I haven’t spent much time in…
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“Hope Springs Eternal” egg that sits on the shelf in my studio Thanks for all the kind words on my last post, y’all! Only good things happening here, and stuff that…
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There is a story, often repeated, about Cortez and his conquest of the Aztecs. Cortez and his men sailed across the ocean from Spain and landed in the New World. They…
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Two things going on here: One, I’m finally sewing in the lining on the Little Black Dress I made with my Fall Wardrobe e-course class back in…what, September? October? It was…
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We have super spotty internet right now, since we don’t have ANY internet right now, and I’m making do with a shifty hot spot. So this may or may not end…