• 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…

  • FREE Pattern Download: Ruby Star Spring Bee Skirt!

    Local Atlanta fabric designer Melody Miller is a dreamy lady to know.  Her new fabric collection, Ruby Star Spring, is just out in the softest, most luxurious cotton/linen blend, and she…

  • Wanna Help Me House Hunt?

    So, we’re living in a rental and looking for a new house to buy.  Don’t get me wrong, not having a mortgage is pretty hot, but the rental is actually a…

  • Oh, Pants.

    I have a friend, a British friend, who makes me laugh non-stop.  Mostly when she doesn’t intend to make me laugh.  She falls down a lot, loses things constantly, once found…