About a year ago, I was having a conversation on the phone with a friend of mine, and noticing that I wasn’t feeling as anxious as I usually did. For months up until that day, I had been battling…
I think in my head, this was a Grand Reveal. But my husband was away all last week, and when he got home on Friday evening, I hurt his feelings by suggesting that I might move some furniture around…
It’s not too late to join us! Sign up and get started right. this. second. Make lovely things that last, make great memories and stronger sewing skills, and make hay while the sun shines to prepare for a happy…
The mattress for our oldest child’s hot pink four-poster bed finally arrived today! Woot! I had been waiting and waiting for it to get here so I could take some photos of these other projects for the Sewing for…
I think it would be hard to do home dec sewing and not make a least one giant pile of pillows. These are for my oldest child, to go on her new hot pink bed, and when she saw…
Next week I begin the Sewing for Your Home e-course, and this week, I’m sharing a few of the projects to give you a taste of what we’ll be doing in class! These are two of the Week 1…
As fantastic as our Easter holiday was this year, our Easter photos didn’t turn out as fabulously as I had hoped. This was the best of the bunch, after the maximum editing I could muster: You’ll notice that…
NOW AVAILABLE: A step-by-step video tutorial and printable project guide! See the post and get the PDF. My sweet friend Mika liked my Kindle cover so much she asked for a tutorial. Since I’ve always been a bit of…
Hooray!! It’s time to get ready for the Sewing for Your Home e-course!! I am super excited about this class–not least of which because it has given me an excuse to sew a whole bundle of lovely things for…
Chain piecing is a simple technique that makes quilting vastly more efficient: source Very simply, chain piecing involves sewing a seam, then rather than cutting the thread and beginning a new seam, tucking the next piece of fabric beneath…
The short version is: we’re still super stalled on the kitchen. The butcher block bar has yet to be installed, and while I’ve pretty much chosen a backsplash, it’s crazy expensive and I can’t seem to pull the trigger. …
My Domestic Bliss quilt top is finished! And it has already been on vacation! We headed up to the lake this weekend, following my appearance at the Festival of Alabama Fiber Arts in Montgomery, and spent the first few…
Hello, Sewing Buddies! I have been typing my little fingers to the bone the past week or so matching up folks from near and far, playing yenta so that stitchers here and there (and sometimes way over there) can…
We are spending a few days of our childrens’ spring break lounging at the lake right now, but I’m still sending out emails, because I’m too excited not to: I’m writing Sewing Buddy introductions to welcome new Sewing Buddies…
When I was in the fourth grade, my entire class took a field trip to Old Alabama Town. It’s an historic district in the center of downtown Montgomery where nearly 100 buildings from the 1800s and 1900s have been…
