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It has been a while since we’ve been able to put in a real garden. Last summer, we lived in a rental house. The summer before, we were “on the market,”…
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Did you guys read today about the Super Online Sewing Bee hosted by Sew, Mama, Sew? It was just announced today, and I am stoked. image courtesy of Sew, Mama, Sew…
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A fabulous orange stripe seersucker Laurel dress with a center front trim detail and in-seam pockets: I got the idea for this one right around the time the Laurel pattern was…
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Sometimes, it looks good in your head, and then when it’s up and on the wall, it’s not what you’d hoped, you know? This is our living room, which hasn’t made…
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For a while now, folks have been asking me to make a video version of my continuous bias tape tutorial from a few years ago. I teach this technique both in…
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Bits and pieces of what I’m doing this week: I’ve been planning an all-yellow Scrappy Trip-Along since I was about…oh, I don’t know…three blocks into my first Scrappy Trip-Along. And it…
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A little randomly, at some point over the past year I decided to challenge myself and see how long I could go sewing with only white thread. I know: that really…
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This past Friday was the very last day that I will have to drive a 90-minute car pool school run. And I cannot tell you in words how that makes me…
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We attended a wedding in Florida over the Memorial Day weekend, and I thought, as I was last-minute packing, “What better place to take photos of my Summer Dresses samples?” So…
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And I am diving in. Don’t tell my husband, because I totally haven’t touched the drapes yet. Details: Robert Kaufman Essex linen in natural (NOT the wide, because I wanted…
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We’ve moved our youngest out of the crib. It feels a little like the end over here–our baby isn’t really a baby anymore, and as far as we know, we won’t…
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On my cutting table right now. I am back from Quilt Market (photos on my Instagram) and working on a sample of the Modern Babydoll Dress for my Summer Dresses e-course.…
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Hooray!! Registration is finally OPEN for the Summer Dresses online class. I am beside myself, I am so digging on these dresses and everything I have planned. These are three original…
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I have been on an insane cross stitch kick lately. It all started with this one, which was a gift to me from a friend. We’d had this conversation on the…
