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…
So, OK, this took waaaay longer than I expected. Partly because–duh–I realized that you can’t really do a complete inventory without first doing the LAUNDRY so you know that you’ve really counted everything. Fortunately, I didn’t wait to start…
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…
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…
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…
