Project details: Tracings of each of our six family members’ hands, on standard autumn-leaf-colored construction paper. Cut out and stitched by machine with white thread. Hung from tacks. Simple, simple. Took about an hour, including cutting, with plenty of…
I can hardly believe that Thanksgiving is this week. It has been made very, very real by the fact that my children are out of school for the week, and so I am surrounded by little mess-makers. Therefore: it…
I used to have a lot more of these. I’ve been knitting, in fits and spurts, since May to make handmade, hand-knit dishcloths for my family for Christmas this year. The plan was to give a set of three…
What a beautiful day for a walk in the wide, wide world! Let’s see if we can find a friend, shall we? Say, who’s that over there? Oh, hai! Wanna come play with us? Hello! So very nice to…
Last fall, while I was working on Stitch by Stitch, I received my semi-weekly Boden catalog in the mail. Of course I can’t find the photo now, but I remember seeing a skirt in it that was an all-over…
Whipstitch is delighted to sponsor the Indie Craft Experience, the wonderfullest handmade marketplace Atlanta has to offer. Their Holiday Shopping Spectacular is this weekend, and we’ll be there! We’re bringing new fabric bundles, some super cute new kits, shop…
I fully stand behind every word I wrote about using multitudes of fabrics from various collections when sewing, to really revel in the color and the chaos, but having said that, today I’ve been working with this: It’s the…
When I first began designing children’s clothing years ago, I came at sewing as someone who has always made clothes. Which seems a little obvious now that I write it out, but at the time it felt like a…
Confession: When I first developed the Sewing Buddy Project, I didn’t really think it would go very far. I mean, it kinda seemed a little goofy: pen pals? for grown-ups? but with sewing? I wasn’t really sure anyone would…
You know how sometimes, your life is so crazy that you don’t realize how desperately you need a break until one is all but forced on you, giving you the unexpected opportunity to see things from another angle, and…
Since early October, I’ve been teaching an e-course on sewing with knit fabrics. It’s my first time teaching in this format, and it’s been exciting and challenging and tons of work and super exciting to meet all the folks…
When I came home from Quilt Market on Sunday, I learned that in my absence I had received my package from Heather Ross from her Studio Sale. It is chocka-chocka FULL of amazing goodies, most of which I haven’t…
We’re heading out on Friday for our annual sewing retreat in the North Georgia mountains, and I gotta say: after the crazy of these past few weeks, I AM READY. We’re staying at the Glen-Ella Springs Inn, which is…
I saw so, so much to love at Quilt Market: fabulous new cotton prints, new patterns, new people. It really was a great chance to connect with other folks in the industry, to share ideas, to get inspired. I…
Y’all, Quilt Market was a blast. This was only my second trip–I went in Spring 2009 in Pittsburgh, but that fall was our famous flood and this past spring our baby was two weeks old, so this trip to…
