Fall Wardrobe e-course now open for registration--a five-week online class to master sewing with commercial printed garment patterns. Make a top, a skirt, a jacket and a lined dress.…
It has been a while since we’ve been able to put in a real garden. Last summer, we lived in a rental house. The summer before, we were “on the market,” and didn’t think it was wise to dig…
Did you guys read today about the Super Online Sewing Bee hosted by Sew, Mama, Sew? It was just announced today, and I am stoked. image courtesy of Sew, Mama, Sew It’s modeled after the Great British Sewing Bee,…
A fabulous orange stripe seersucker Laurel dress with a center front trim detail and in-seam pockets: I got the idea for this one right around the time the Laurel pattern was released. That pattern coincided with a (very rare)…
Sometimes, it looks good in your head, and then when it’s up and on the wall, it’s not what you’d hoped, you know? This is our living room, which hasn’t made much progress since I finally got all the…
For a while now, folks have been asking me to make a video version of my continuous bias tape tutorial from a few years ago. I teach this technique both in my in-person classes and my online Essential Sewing…
Bits and pieces of what I’m doing this week: I’ve been planning an all-yellow Scrappy Trip-Along since I was about…oh, I don’t know…three blocks into my first Scrappy Trip-Along. And it has begun! I’m doing as little editing as…
A little randomly, at some point over the past year I decided to challenge myself and see how long I could go sewing with only white thread. I know: that really goes beyond nerdy and gets into “slightly weird”…
This past Friday was the very last day that I will have to drive a 90-minute car pool school run. And I cannot tell you in words how that makes me feel. Dude. It makes me feel like this…
We attended a wedding in Florida over the Memorial Day weekend, and I thought, as I was last-minute packing, “What better place to take photos of my Summer Dresses samples?” So in the suitcase went a stack of dresses,…
And I am diving in. Don’t tell my husband, because I totally haven’t touched the drapes yet. Details: Robert Kaufman Essex linen in natural (NOT the wide, because I wanted a seam in this one). Seams set off…
We’ve moved our youngest out of the crib. It feels a little like the end over here–our baby isn’t really a baby anymore, and as far as we know, we won’t be having any more–but it also feels like…
On my cutting table right now. I am back from Quilt Market (photos on my Instagram) and working on a sample of the Modern Babydoll Dress for my Summer Dresses e-course. I’m working my way through all the variations…
Hooray!! Registration is finally OPEN for the Summer Dresses online class. I am beside myself, I am so digging on these dresses and everything I have planned. These are three original patterns that I have been working on for…
I have been on an insane cross stitch kick lately. It all started with this one, which was a gift to me from a friend. We’d had this conversation on the Twitters, and she tweeted the quote above, and…
