• Nested Fabric Buckets Tutorial

    UPDATED!  You can now watch this tutorial as STEP-BY-STEP video on YouTube, and download a PDF tutorial guide with measurements and written instructions.  Have fun sewing! I didn’t invent the idea…

  • Scrap Project Bucket #3: Ticker Tape

    Bucket #3.  Or #4, depending on if you count the Heather Ross bucket.  So, number three or number four.  You decide. This one holds all the ittiest bittiest pieces, the ones…

  • Scrap Project Bucket #2: Hexies and Yo-yos

    Of the three larger fabric buckets, I’m pretty sure this is my favorite one.  This is an older Farbenmix print I got from the same stashbuster sale where I scored the…

  • Scrap Project Bucket #1: Postage Stamp Quilt

    I love these little fabric buckets.  They have, I know, been done a dozens times over, but somehow the revelation that they’d be a perfect way to organize my scrap projects…

  • Sorting My Scraps

    You know how sometimes, it’s as though an idea is sitting in your brain, right next to another idea, and the two ideas really work together pretty much perfectly, but somehow…

  • Sewing Buddy Project: Round 2 for 2011! CLOSED

    Alrighty, folks!  The Sewing Buddy Project is in full effect.  If you’re in the market for a Buddy, and are looking for someone to encourage you and support you in your…

  • Super Cute New Boy Fabric Designs!

    Have you been following the Michael Miller/Spoonflower Boy Fabric Design Contest? It’s called Project Selvage, and Michael Miller is looking for their next fabric designer.  They’ve partnered with Spoonflower to accept…

  • Sewing with Kids, Lesson 6: Responsibility

    I think most of us hesitate to teach our kids to sew not because they’re not very interested–they all seem to love the tools and toys and gadgets that go along…

  • Infinite Variety

    If you are in New York City, will you please, please, please drop what you’re doing and head DIRECTLY to the last day of this amazing installation? Short version of the…

  • Downtime

    I’ve been doing a lot of sewing around here, but most of it is stuff I can’t show you–either for my current e-course (we’re up to the button-up collared shirt and…

  • Look Who Came Home With Me!

    Thanks to all of you for the great advice! I had a REALLY good time reading all your sewing machine love stories–and you gave me such good things to consider as…

  • Happy Birthday, Whipstitch!

    Exactly one year ago today, Whipstitch Atlanta opened up an independent shop front in West Midtown.  It has been a hard, tiring, exhilarating, joyous year, and we’re all super excited to…