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Camp Aloha Friends!

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…

Sewing Studio Tour

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…

The Complete Photo Guide to Clothing Construction

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…

Handmade Birthday Club: February

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…

One Little Word: February 2014

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…

Updating a Dining Room Chair with Fabric & Paint

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…

Updating a Vintage Metal Find

I work on an Ikea table top, which holds my sewing machine, my laptop, an external monitor, and all my papers: calendar, notebook for ideas, sketch book, catalogs, printer paper.  I also keep a small desk lamp and a…

Modern InstaBee, Hive 6: Block 1

I love how Instagram brings people together.  It really is true micro-blogging, in the sense that you can use the platform to shoot a photo, write a few words, and update the world on your every action.  For those…

February Sewcial is TODAY!

Come on down to the Chattahoochee Coffee Company this morning and sew along with us!  Today is the monthly Sewcial meet-up, and we’ll be hand sewing and sharing coffee and some friendly sewing chat, all for free.  RSVP or…

All-Yellow Scrappy Trips Around the World Quilt Finished!

All finished!  I have been steadily working my way through my pile of incomplete projects, and wanted to get both this and the triangle quilt all done–and here it is.  Jubilee! This could very easily be my favorite quilt…

Choosing Plants and Choosing Plots

My seed catalog from Baker Creek arrived today, which is pretty exciting.  I’m still eagerly awaiting the arrival of my Seed Savers Exchange and Seeds of Change catalogs, so I’m not quite ready to make my selections, but I’m…

Fabric-Covered Mat for Framing

My margin cross stitch has long since been completed, but is not yet hanging on my wall.  And I even went out and bought a frame for it.  It’s just that the frame was…boring. See what I mean?  Totally…

Have You Ordered Your 2014 Seed Catalogs Yet?

It’s all happening!!  Almost time to watch the temps begin to rise–as hard as that seems when we’re all hunkered down waiting for snow to hit Atlanta one. more. time this year (and people on the streets/in the grocery…