I made my husband underwear. Yep. UNDERWEAR. And as one of my sweet IG friends asked, “Do you always make your husband’s underwear?”, no, I never have before. But I uncovered Kwik Sew 1672 when I was digging through…
Well, now that it’s 2015, it’s time to wrap up my One Little Word project from 2014! Last year, I invited in the word MARGIN. (Or it invited itself. Whatever.) It was a long year of saying NO and…
OK, I won’t bore you with too many of the background details, but this list came from an amalgamation of factors: my desire to sew as much as I can ONLY from my stash of on-hand fabrics in the…
About seven years ago, we had an AMAZING Christmas. Amazing in the sense that there were a LOT of presents. Like, SO many. It was an embarrassment of riches. And I couldn’t quite explain it, but it really did…
Sunday at 1 pm, I’ll be at Fancy Tiger Crafts in Denver to teach a workshop, sewing up the Overmost! I may also be suffering from extreme hypothermia, since it is FREEZING in Denver right now. Good thing the…
So, I asked the question about Google Reader killing blog comments, and not intending to do an experiment, also posted a quick screen shot of the blog post title on Instagram: Really I was posting on IG because…
Remember Google Reader? Remember how much we all loved it? This was totally the way I organized my sewing blogs. This was how I kept up with friends. And when Reader went away, I had a tough time getting…
OK, so this wasn’t REALLY made for Oktoberfest, but it’s that time of year, right? Sorta? And doesn’t this skirt totally make you think of the Black Forest? It’s obviously the vintage trim that makes it feel so German……
I already shared how awesome I think Tula Pink’s mini-collection, Bumble, is. It’s PEACHED POPLIN, you guys. It is this incredibly super-soft cotton base cloth that feels not-quite-fuzzy to the touch. Imagine the softest sheets in the nicest hotel…
In the wake of all the fun of sharing the new Learn As You Sew series and introducing the Get Up & Go Skirt with you, I have even more exciting stuff to share! The Overmost and Pinafore, my…
Seems like in most of the US today, it’s rainy and windy and a little bit cold. Starting to feel like fall! And while those of us in the Deep South don’t believe for a second that it’ll stick–we…
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…
