Hooray!! The first online sewing class I’m offering this year, Essential Sewing, is now open for registration! I really love teaching this class–it offers such a wide range of skills and…
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With everything we’re doing to get moved in and get the kitchen ready for six people to abuse it relentlessly for the next twenty years, I haven’t spent much time in…
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“Hope Springs Eternal” egg that sits on the shelf in my studio Thanks for all the kind words on my last post, y’all! Only good things happening here, and stuff that…
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There is a story, often repeated, about Cortez and his conquest of the Aztecs. Cortez and his men sailed across the ocean from Spain and landed in the New World. They…
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Two things going on here: One, I’m finally sewing in the lining on the Little Black Dress I made with my Fall Wardrobe e-course class back in…what, September? October? It was…
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We have super spotty internet right now, since we don’t have ANY internet right now, and I’m making do with a shifty hot spot. So this may or may not end…
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I need your advice. So, we’re packing up to move. Again. This is what it looked like when I packed my studio to leave the last house: took 32 boxes. Not…
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We’re rolling along on the kitchen at the new house over here–plan is to move in next Thursday (eek!) and be in the house for Christmas Eve. I am in terror…
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I picked this up at Quilt Market in Houston at Halloween. I’m a sucker for a Scottie dog, for one thing, and for an enormous hip button, for another. At nearly…
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This: Has become this–such fantastic Italian wool: Book deadline: next week. Book release: late summer/early fall. Book outlook: seriously awesome, I won’t lie. I feel privileged to have been able to…
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Last year, I did an Advent calendar based on the one my mother hung up each December when I was little. Some of the little houses that line the street up…
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It begins: the updates as we make this house our home. Prepare yourself. Naturally, we immediately ripped the kitchen to complete shreds. We got some allowances when we bought the house,…
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It took 90 days. Yes, you read that right. If you follow me on Twitter, you know that we’ve gone back and forth and wondered if this was the right house,…
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I once had a “friend” who said, “Oh, well, Deborah, you don’t cook–you bake!” I could argue that she meant it as a compliment to my skillz with an oven, but…
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I was digging and digging yesterday, worried that I’d lost it: the hands garland I made last year for Thanksgiving. Each of our family’s hands, traced and cut out, then stitched…
