I finally made the time last week to sew up the Miette Skirt by Tilly of Tilly and the Buttons. I downloaded and printed the pattern ages ago, but you know how it goes with PDFs–you kinda forget you…
Just a heads-up, y’all: I have been working diligently the past week-plus to sort through my ENTIRE stash of fabrics and separate out the ones I cannot live without and the ones that I think would be better used…
Oh, Camp Stitchalot. What can I possibly say that would sum up how glorious this past weekend was? In a red barn, in the middle of the Michigan countryside, in two sewing rooms filled to bursting with folks who…
Uh….anyone notice I totally didn’t manage a One Little Word update for April? Yeah. When you word for the year is “margin,” it’s more than a little ironic when your schedule gets so far away from you that you…
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…
