• GIVEAWAY: Vintage Buttons from Whipstitch! CLOSED

    I’m delighted to be part of the Sew, Mama, Sew Giveaway Days today and offer up some of our delicious vintage buttons for your sewing and crafting pleasure!  I discovered these…

  • Looking for a way to do some good this holiday?

    Most of us are familiar with Groupon, the email that alerts you to deals at discounts at stores in your area.  Not as many are familiar with Kiva, an organization that…

  • Emergency Dress

    So, it’s 11 am on Tuesday.  And I sort of lazily think about the rest of my week.  I’m mulling over the classes I have to teach on Tuesday and Thursday,…

  • Vintage Buttons Now At Whipstitch!

    I have been spending some meditative time today carding up the amazing vintage buttons I picked up at Quilt Market a few weeks ago.  They are so, so lovely to touch,…

  • A Dream Has Died

    Last night, I taught an English Paper Piecing workshop, and was reminded how enamored I am of this technique.  It’s very Zen and meditative and repetitive in the most soothing way,…

  • Organizing My Fat Quarter Stash

    As I was working on my first house for my Advent calendar yesterday, I dug through my fabrics to find just the right ones.  My children–blessed little angels–had made a disastrous…

  • Advent Calendar Sew-Along

    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…

  • The Day After The Day After Thanksgiving

    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…

  • Weekend Coupons in the Whipstitch Shop

    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…

  • Our Family's Hands

    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…