I am so excited today to introduce you to the very first Learn As You Sew pattern: the Get Up & Go Skirt! This is Series 1, Pattern 1 in the Learn As You Sew Pattern Series, and it’s…
Eeeeep!! I’m am excited and nervous to share with you a project I have been working on for close to a year: my new pattern series. I’d like to introduce you to Learn As You Sew Patterns! I’ve been designing…
I have a new online class available! I’ve teamed up with BurdayStyle to teach patternmaking as a Master Class, over four weeks, and all online! I’m really excited to launch the course–registration is open now and you can come…
If you’ve been sewing for more than six years or so, you remember the old Heather Ross fabrics–Mendocino and Lightning Bugs, all those incredible hard-to-find collections that were SO SOFT. That particular fabric substrate, the actual cloth the fabrics…
No, I haven’t forgotten about sewing for back-to-school. I am just milking the fortunate climate here in the South that allows me to continue to dress my children in their summer clothes while I polish up a new pattern…
Raise your hand if you love POCKETS!! Back in 2012, I created a 14-page printable workbook to accompany a practical workshop in pockets, one of my very favorite details to add to sewn projects. Originally written for Sewing Summit,…
Last week, I turned 40. FORTY. It has been a long road, y’all. And I’ll tell you the truth: these past five years have probably been the hardest since my 20s. (And you couldn’t pay me cash money to…
I have been working like a busy little bee for weeks and weeks and weeks–and it’s almost ready to share! I have THREE new patterns coming out this fall, and I am about to burst, I’m so excited. You’ll…
So many of you were pumped about the 20-minute skirt I included in my post detailing my tween girl sewing list that I put together a quick printable for cutting! The 20-minute skirt is a quick and easy dirndl…
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September is National Sewing Month. Which sneaks up on me every year, in the same way that Grandparents’ Day sneaks up on me every year, because I wasn’t really looking for it, and because it’s not one of those…
I’m guest posting all day today over on Facebook with The Daily Sew–articles and blog links and ideas and questions about your current sewing. I’d love to hear your answers and inspiration! I’m posting every couple of hours all…
Alright! Time to get sewing these clothes for school. I’m starting with the toughest to sew for, and working from there–in our house, that’s our tween girl. She’s 8, so just barely a tween, but old enough that a…
Well, I can cross off two more items from my to-sew list for the kids, thanks to today’s Fanfare Flannel Extravaganza! Plus, I finally got around to sewing up the Sketchbook Shirt from Oliver + S roughly five years…
Amy Barickman of Indygo Junction, one of the kindest and most lovely human beings around, is launching a new book AND a new line of denims. What?!? That’s right: NEW DENIMS. Back when I very first started selling fabric…
