I am, at heart, a planner. I tend to make lists and sketches and diagrams and schematics, and wrestle endlessly with ideas–talking them out loud to myself as I bring them…
-
-
So, I’m a die-hard no-Christmas-til-the-day-after-Thanksgiving kind of girl. We don’t get out the decorations or the stockings or go see Santa until after the turkey has cleared the table (or the…
-
We’ve gotten dozens and dozens of new fabrics over the past couple of weeks, and in the coming two months we have nearly TWO HUNDRED more on the way. We need…
-
Project details: Tracings of each of our six family members’ hands, on standard autumn-leaf-colored construction paper. Cut out and stitched by machine with white thread. Hung from tacks. Simple, simple. Took…
-
I can hardly believe that Thanksgiving is this week. It has been made very, very real by the fact that my children are out of school for the week, and so…
-
I used to have a lot more of these. I’ve been knitting, in fits and spurts, since May to make handmade, hand-knit dishcloths for my family for Christmas this year. The…
-
What a beautiful day for a walk in the wide, wide world! Let’s see if we can find a friend, shall we? Say, who’s that over there? Oh, hai! Wanna come…
-
Last fall, while I was working on Stitch by Stitch, I received my semi-weekly Boden catalog in the mail. Of course I can’t find the photo now, but I remember seeing…
-
Whipstitch is delighted to sponsor the Indie Craft Experience, the wonderfullest handmade marketplace Atlanta has to offer. Their Holiday Shopping Spectacular is this weekend, and we’ll be there! We’re bringing new…
-
I fully stand behind every word I wrote about using multitudes of fabrics from various collections when sewing, to really revel in the color and the chaos, but having said that,…
-
When I first began designing children’s clothing years ago, I came at sewing as someone who has always made clothes. Which seems a little obvious now that I write it out,…
-
Confession: When I first developed the Sewing Buddy Project, I didn’t really think it would go very far. I mean, it kinda seemed a little goofy: pen pals? for grown-ups? but…
