UPDATED! You can now watch this tutorial as STEP-BY-STEP video on YouTube, and download a PDF tutorial guide with measurements and written instructions. Have fun sewing! I didn’t invent the idea of the fabric basket/bucket–nothing like–but I am certainly…
Bucket #3. Or #4, depending on if you count the Heather Ross bucket. So, number three or number four. You decide. This one holds all the ittiest bittiest pieces, the ones that weren’t 9″ x 9″ (not scraps, folded…
Of the three larger fabric buckets, I’m pretty sure this is my favorite one. This is an older Farbenmix print I got from the same stashbuster sale where I scored the Heather Ross squares–I tell myself I love it…
I love these little fabric buckets. They have, I know, been done a dozens times over, but somehow the revelation that they’d be a perfect way to organize my scrap projects was just the push I needed to finally…
You know how sometimes, it’s as though an idea is sitting in your brain, right next to another idea, and the two ideas really work together pretty much perfectly, but somehow you don’t quite connect the two–and then, when…
Alrighty, folks! The Sewing Buddy Project is in full effect. If you’re in the market for a Buddy, and are looking for someone to encourage you and support you in your sewing in 2011, today is your day! Sewing…
Have you been following the Michael Miller/Spoonflower Boy Fabric Design Contest? It’s called Project Selvage, and Michael Miller is looking for their next fabric designer. They’ve partnered with Spoonflower to accept submissions of original boy-related fabric designs, and the…
I think most of us hesitate to teach our kids to sew not because they’re not very interested–they all seem to love the tools and toys and gadgets that go along with sewing–but because we worry that they won’t…
If you are in New York City, will you please, please, please drop what you’re doing and head DIRECTLY to the last day of this amazing installation? Short version of the story, if you haven’t heard it: Woman turns…
I’ve been doing a lot of sewing around here, but most of it is stuff I can’t show you–either for my current e-course (we’re up to the button-up collared shirt and they are cuuuute) or for semi-secret projects that…
Thanks to all of you for the great advice! I had a REALLY good time reading all your sewing machine love stories–and you gave me such good things to consider as I looked at my options. I went ahead…
Exactly one year ago today, Whipstitch Atlanta opened up an independent shop front in West Midtown. It has been a hard, tiring, exhilarating, joyous year, and we’re all super excited to see our first birthday roll around! I can’t…
I’ve written before about my Viking Rose that I got from Sandra. It’s a heckuva great machine, and has done me and Sandra both proud lo these many years. Time has come, however, when I think my little Rose…
I splurged and picked up not one, but TWO of these Liberty mini-bundles this week. They’re for a project–I swear!–but they feel like little bits of luxury. The lawn is so soft, so supple, and it’s cool to the…
You guys. I checked in on the Spring Swap Flickr page I posted about not too long ago, and what I found is just sad. Embarrassing, really. Are y’all telling me you REALLY don’t have a bunch of bits…
