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…
For the two+ years since we moved into this house, I have kept my make-up on the bathroom counter in the travel bag that I got at TJMaxx the week I first moved to Atlanta from college, almost (coughcough)…
Waiting on my cutting table for me to dive in: This is an incredible silk charmeuse that I bought from Emma One Sock back when I was working on the projects for Stitch Savvy. I think I had this…
After my love affair with long-sleeved and raglan tees recently, I’ve made more than my share of cuffs from knits. Using photos from those sewing sessions, I put together a quick tutorial for making simple, no-serger knit cuffs–I’ll be…
These are my grandparents, and without question, they are the best people I have ever known. They did more to influence my worldview and my behavior than I ever could have realized while they were alive. And as of…
In which I laugh, cry, and make the bed.…
I am super, super, super excited to share with all of you a project I have been working on the past few weeks. My sweet friend Mel from Single Handed Knits invited me to join her this summer for…
Maybe it’s my intense desire for spring to go ahead and spring already, but I’ve been sprucing up my studio the past couple of weeks–got a bee in my bonnet, so to speak, and between a trip to Ikea…
As an unapologetic collector of sewing books, I am always excited when a new, beautiful and truly useful sewing reference is published. When that book is also written by a friend, and that friend is someone whose taste and…
This year, thanks to Instagram, I’m taking part in the Handmade Birthday Club that Susanna Kate has got going. Here’s the deal: we all are partnered with 11 other people, to make a crew of 12. Each month, we…
I don’t really know what happened with the sound here–all was going well, and then suddenly it wasn’t. Maybe it’s the battery in my mic? I thought about shooting the whole video over again, but I feel really strongly…
In my workroom, I have two tables (well, I do now, anyway): one for my sewing machine, and one for my serger, with my computer monitor on the angle where the two meet in an L-shape. For over two…
