I’ve got new entries up in the Video Sewing Glossary! I’ll be adding new terms weekly for the rest of the year. Check out that snazzy new theme song, too, y’all. Meee-ow. Suggestions for new terms to include? Leave…
It’s finished! I think the idea to make an all-yellow quilt took root about three years ago, and at last my quilt top is complete. It’s twin-sized, measuring 6 blocks by 7, or roughly 72″ x 84″ or so.…
I suspect I haven’t mentioned this previously, but I was actually born in Germany, on an American Air Force base where my father was stationed. My mother, who had (quite coincidentally) taken German as a foreign language in college…
I mentioned when I shared my newly-upholstered sofa that sending that sofa out to be done by someone else freed me up to do some sewing on the DIY tip with the extra time. My new online class explores…
As we continue the saga of updating our house, I have learned to become less attached to things I love and be a little more honest with myself about them. I have also learned that no matter how DIY…
Have you read Austin Kleon’s book? I remember when it was first going around as a blog post, which he uploaded after he very first gave it as a commencement address at a small community college. And now it’s…
The vintage maps I decoupaged on my empty cardboard diaper boxes turned out really pretty, but the upper edges had a tendency to peel and unroll, and I was concerned that lots of tiny hands would make short work…
This is the story of a problem and a solution. And it all starts with house hunting. Join me, if you will, on a (short-ish) journey all the way back to 2011. When we very first were shopping for…
I am delighted this fine Friday to announce that my new site is up and live and fabulous! This is one of those projects that was months in the making, with lots of in-the-car-drive-time daydreaming about what elements would…
Even I didn’t know how many there were. See them now, all in one place.…
I loved Lush when it came out five years ago. It was one of the very first collections I ordered for the shop, back when it was all housed in my basement, and it was the paint-by-numbers prints that…
My oldest child is going off to college this month. On the one hand, I have wrapped my brain around that and am excited for her–and for us, with all the changes that come along with launching a bird…
This is the Lisette Passport jacket, one of the patterns put out by Liesl Gibson of Oliver + S for Simplicity. It’s one of the four patterns featuered in the Fall Wardrobe e-course that starts next week, and I…
I haven’t really been a pattern tracer, up until now. And possibly I still wouldn’t be, except someone made a comment on a post (I think this one, about notches) saying that she was surprised I cut into my…
This is the Colette Sorbetto tank, a simple and flattering sleeveless shell with a front pleat detail and bias-bound neck and armholes. I stitched this one up last year out of some Amy Butler voile (and a couple eagle-eyed…
