Remember my Saturated Stripes quilt? It was inspired by the Fresh Pack quilt made by Dorie of Tumbling Blocks–and now Dorie has a pattern available for download! In Dorie’s Craftsy pattern shop, you can download the Fresh Pack Quilt pattern…
Summer is here, and we’re still working out what that means for our daily schedule. Yesterday, I did a smidgen of sewing, followed by four hours at the pool with the children. I took a cross stitch project, but…
Have you seen Rae’s new fabric line, Lotus Pond? All organic, all in luscious colors, and all in the sweetest Scandinavian-inspired prints. The folks at Cloud9 were sweet enough to send over some yardage, and I couldn’t be more…
Before cutting in to my super amazing pink check silk charmeuse for a Datura blouse, I wanted to do a test run. This is the result of that test, made in a cotton double gauze I’ve been hoarding for…oh,…
Rae has a brand-new sewing pattern out, the Bianca Top & Dress, and it’s just the ticket for the hot, hot summer we’re sure to have this year. I made the dress length, because the more I wear my…
Ellen Baker of The Long Thread has a new line of fabrics out for Kokka this summer, and I gleefully volunteered to take some yardage off her hands and play with it. Double gauze, which comprises about half this…
I spent a solid two weeks this spring hand-stitching a zillion little yo-yos using RJR’s Cotton Supreme Solids. They were each like little gems, perfectly round and fluffy and dazzling saturated in color. Problem was, when I went to…
You’ll have to forgive me for taking photos of a dress that I clearly have been wearing for a few hours–today was registration day for next school year, which involves some sitting and turn-taking and waiting (kinda like school),…
Spring has SPRUNG, and it has come so FAST! I can’t believe how quickly the weather has warmed up, and how March and April have flown past me. There was no Whipstitch Sewcial in March, but I didn’t want…
Winners!! Winner of At Home with Modern June is Veronica, who said: I’m excited to see how many of you are looking to do more sewing with oilcloth! Be sure to check out Kelly’s shop for more supplies and her…
Once upon a time, before Whipstitch existed, I was an archaeologist. My field of study was prehistoric human/plant interactions, focusing on acorn use as a primary foodstuff in the American Southeast. (This is a true story, y’all. Some folks…
Over the past week+ or so, I have sewn up a gazillion pair of shorts for the children. They all seem to have shot up four inches in the space of time it took for us to have a…
There are days where it would be so, so, so much easier to let the kids come home from school, turn on the TV, and let it roll. We try pretty hard at our house, though, to limit TV…
I have been, since two Christmases ago, somewhat obsessed with doll clothing. I spent an entire holiday season bringing together an awesome collection of hand-made vintage Barbie clothing via eBay for our seven-year-old as her Christmas gift, and the…
The weather is warming up nicely (at last), and I’m hand sewing like a madwoman these days. These little beauties are all samples for my workshop as part of Camp Aloha Friends this summer. Little rounds of fabric, all…
