Just a couple days left to take advantage of the early bird discount on registration for the Beginning Patternmaking e-course! Get more info on the class here, and click through to register (or just click the button over in…
My mother dropped by and commented on yesterday’s post, saying: I don’t know if I ever shared with you, but your maternal great-grandmother used to piece just such HST quilts. She was, first, a really talented sewer and made…
Inspired by two of Rita‘s quilts, along with the pinwheels we’ve been making for my year-long Your First (Modern) Quilt class, I’ve been on a half-square triangle tear. These will go together into a gift quilt–I know, I’m really…
Our family has accidentally started a tradition. Every year, on Memorial Day, we take a hike–literally. It began, I think, when we were at a reunion for my husband’s family in Gatlinburg one year (an experience in itself) and…
Winners of the Pinafore and Overmost patterns are: Congratulations, y’all! Email on its way to you shortly with your winnings. Have a happy weekend, and thanks to everyone for playing!…
This giveaway closes Thursday night at 11:59 pm! See the original post to enter, and good luck!…
I am super excited to announce that I’m offering a brand-new e-course this summer: Beginning Patternmaking! Like a lot of folks, I started sewing with store-bought patterns but quickly became frustrated when they were never quite what I was…
Happy Giveaway Day, everyone! I’m delighted to be part (again) of the Sew, Mama, Sew Giveaway Day. And: I’m excited to be giving away copies of my TWO digital patterns, the Overmost and the (brand spankin’ new) Pinafore! The…
For the last couple of weeks, copies of Stitch by Stitch have been a little hard to find. Turns out, the book has sold through its first print run and had to be reprinted! Which is pretty cool. Lucky…
In the midst of visiting friends and giggling like a little girl, I met some new folks who made me feel so excited and positive and inspired and ready to come home and get to work making a whole…
Picking up where I left off: Oliver + S, headed by the incomparable Liesl Gibson, is one of my long-standing favorites. Both she and her husband Todd are the most lovely, real, down-to-earth human beings you can ever imagine…
I went to Salt Lake City this past weekend to attend Spring Quilt Market, a professional show for retailers and designers in the independent fabric industry. It’s a little like prom and homecoming and finals week, all rolled into…
There were a couple comments this week asking for suggestions for how to better match colors when shopping for fabric online, so today I’ve put together some suggestions for ways to have greater success getting fabrics together for a…
I’m delighted today to be guest posting for Rae over at Made By Rae as part of her Spring Top Sewalong. I have really, really been enjoying seeing all the entries pop up on Flickr, so when Rae invited…
A particularly frustrating week this week. Not only is it the week of our house inspection (and now radon testing), but it seems as though on the rare occasions when I have time to actually sew, it hasn’t gone…
