• Organizing Your Fabric Stash: By Color

    Fabric is, by its very nature, addictive: from the moment we enter the world, we experience texture and touch, and are surrounded by woven and knit fibers of various scales and…

  • On Organized Pack-Ratting

    Over the weekend, I tackled The Laundry.  It needs those capital letters, y’all: it had practically become another family member, and was threatening to drown us all.  I was washing and…

  • Organizing Your Sewing Space: Unusual Spaces

    Also titled: ideas I wish I’d had. I’m so pleased that so many of you have been inspired by this series of posts!  It has made me both more motivated to…

  • Organizing Your Sewing Space: Small Spaces

    Smaller spaces are more likely for most of us, and even beyond that, SHARED spaces are most common.  Combining functions within one room makes it possible to use space more effectively,…

  • Organizing Your Sewing Space: Large Rooms

    Not all of us are fortunate enough to have an entire room dedicated to sewing and crafts.  In fact, judging by the responses to the survey, the vast majority of us–me…

  • Sewing Goals 2010, Feeling the Sewing Glee

    On Wednesday, I took our teen to see the premiere of the new season of Glee at a charity event to benefit Grammy in the Schools.  It was shown at an…

  • Easter Sewing–Something for Each of Us

    Easter is absolutely my favorite holiday, and the weather this year was so insanely gorgeous that I didn’t want to pass up the chance to stitch a few memories for our…

  • Working on my Yellows

    The Sew Liberated trunk show is officially done, and we’re changing things up in the window over at the shop.  So I’m in the studio today, working with my yellows–nothing says…

  • Spring Top Week Over at Made By Rae!

    I’m so flattered and excited to be part of Rae’s 2010 Spring Top Week.  Last year, I marveled at all the entries and had such a good time feeling inspired by…

  • Inside the New Shop

    At the risk of the blog becoming all-shop-all-the-time, one more post about our new retail space: last Thursday, we opened to the public and hosted our very first Sewing Circle inside…