• Bootleg Peg Leg

    When we moved out of our old house and into the rental where we are currently living, I knew we’d have to move my cutting tables. I built them from Ikea…

  • I Have Done This Before

    I’m back from fabulous Cincinnati, and my brain is pretty close to fried.  Am taking a day of R & R, sorting my scraps.  You might recall I did this once…

  • I am not dead. I am just in Cincinnati.

    I flew up yesterday, for a week with my publisher.  It’s exotic, let me tell you that.  A week on my own: no kids, no house to keep, no mini-van to…

  • Sewing that Gives Back: do.Good Stitches

    I don’t actually volunteer as often as I’d like.  I mean, I don’t say no as often as I’d like, either, and somehow all my time gets committed before I realize…

  • National Sewing Month: Sewing Connects Us

    It’s the end of September, National Sewing Month, and I’ve been seeing some really cool projects all over the internet in celebration.  I ran across an article, though, that made me…

  • Best of Atlanta 2011: Whipstitch!

    Y’all.  We are having a BIG week this week.  Not only do we have obscene amounts of new fabric coming in, but we just learned (thanks to Diana, our uber-manager, who…

  • Out of the Hopper

    You know how when you have a lot of projects that you’re working on, you say you’ve got some stuff “in the hopper”?  I’ve been cranking out deadlines the last few…

  • Little Apples

    I was minding my own business, really I was, at the shop, teaching my class last night. But then I look down and my hands are full of fabric. A giant…

  • Essential Sewing

    I was going to write a post about the fail that is my new dishcloth that I knitted (knit?) while on vacation, which makes it now look as though I wash…

  • His Heart Grew Three Sizes That Day

    Conversation with my husband, over freshly washed fabric. Me: So, tell me which one of these you want to have for your pajama pants this Christmas. Him: Wait, are we all…