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Join me today at the Daily Sew!

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…

Sketchbook Shirts in Fanfare Flannel

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…

Dimensional Denim from Amy Barickman

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…

Meet Spice Berry Cottage!

Meet Spice Berry Cottage, a fab modern online shop and my newest sponsor! Spice Berry Cottage carries a wide range of modern cottons and apparel fabrics, mostly focused on quilting.  Dina, the owner, created the shop specifically to inspire sewing…

Back to School Wardrobes: Inventory

So, I bought all the kids new shoes and it made me feel pretty confident about starting off the school year with all the boxes checked and all their clothing organized.  Which led me to think/realize that their drawers…

Lobster Shorts for the Boy, and the Myth of Flat Piping

This isn’t a real post, so don’t get too excited.  It’s just a chance to show off a particularly successful pair of shorts I made for our son before we headed out of town on our mega-road trip. Remember…

Three Little Beach Hats

Before our big Summer Road Trip, what really got me started sewing (and sewing and sewing) for myself and the kids was these little hats.  With pale skin, I knew at least that our two littlest would need more…

Stitch By Stitch Giveaway!

Head on over to Creative Domestic today and enter to win a signed copy of my first book, Stitch By Stitch!  Charlotte is offering up a copy along with her other favorite sewing books in coming weeks–a great chance…

Bias-Bound Pouch: Camp Stitchalot Giveaways

Before heading off to Camp Stitchalot, I wanted to do something nice for all the campers.  Since this particular camp session didn’t include formal workshops, I wanted to make doubly extra sure that every camper there was remembered and…

Handmade Knit Tees for the Girls

Before we took our recent ten-day family road trip up the Eastern Seaboard, I flew into a wild sewing rage and made a stack of things to take with us. I knew I wanted some very specific things for our…

One Little Word Update: June

Here’s my monthly video update following this year’s progress with my One Little Word: Margin.  I don’t plan these videos, so this one’s especially stream-of-consciousness, so buckle up.…

Oakshott Cotton Challenge

  I agreed to be part of the Oakshott Ruby Mini-Quilt Challenge with Sew, Mama, Sew mostly because I didn’t really know anything about Oakshott cottons.  I think I had a vague idea that they were crossweaves, meaning that the…