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…
Short version, AKA I’m planning to look at the eye candy and then get out of here because I really don’t need to know that much about someone else’s fabric purchases: We recently took a family trip to New…
It starts today! There are still spots open in the Everyday Handbags e-course, and I’d love to have you join us! We’re spending a little time every day over the next four weeks sewing four fabulous bags: the Poolside…
Hooray!! FREE pattern today for the vintage-style teddy bear I made based on the bears my mother sewed for me when I was teensy tiny (turns out she made them when I was a baby in Germany just after…
When my sister and I were very little, we had a bear family, sewn by my mother. I’m sure they came from some Better Housekeeping freebie pattern–there was a baby and a Mommy and this one, the Daddy bear:…
