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  • Camp Aloha Friends!

    I am super, super, super excited to share with all of you a project I have been working on the past few weeks.  My sweet friend Mel from Single Handed Knits…

  • Sewing Studio Tour

    Maybe it’s my intense desire for spring to go ahead and spring already, but I’ve been sprucing up my studio the past couple of weeks–got a bee in my bonnet, so…

  • The Complete Photo Guide to Clothing Construction

    As an unapologetic collector of sewing books, I am always excited when a new, beautiful and truly useful sewing reference is published.  When that book is also written by a friend,…

  • Handmade Birthday Club: February

    This year, thanks to Instagram, I’m taking part in the Handmade Birthday Club that Susanna Kate has got going. Here’s the deal: we all are partnered with 11 other people, to…

  • One Little Word: February 2014

    I don’t really know what happened with the sound here–all was going well, and then suddenly it wasn’t.  Maybe it’s the battery in my mic?  I thought about shooting the whole…

  • Updating a Vintage Metal Find

    I work on an Ikea table top, which holds my sewing machine, my laptop, an external monitor, and all my papers: calendar, notebook for ideas, sketch book, catalogs, printer paper.  I…

  • Modern InstaBee, Hive 6: Block 1

    I love how Instagram brings people together.  It really is true micro-blogging, in the sense that you can use the platform to shoot a photo, write a few words, and update…

  • February Sewcial is TODAY!

    Come on down to the Chattahoochee Coffee Company this morning and sew along with us!  Today is the monthly Sewcial meet-up, and we’ll be hand sewing and sharing coffee and some…

  • Fabric-Covered Mat for Framing

    My margin cross stitch has long since been completed, but is not yet hanging on my wall.  And I even went out and bought a frame for it.  It’s just that…

  • Imagine Gnats Goes to Print! Pattern Giveaway

    Rachel of Imagine Gnats designs super cute patterns.  Let’s just start there.  And she has two super darling girls to model them for her–and for us! Rachel has been releasing her…

  • One Little Word: January Check-In

    So, earlier this month, I chose a One Little Word for 2014.  I chose MARGIN, because that’s what I sense I need most this year, a chance to make some space…