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  • Days for Girls: A Sewing Charity to Embrace

    One of the things Sewing Buddies have done over the years of which I am most proud is sewing for charity.  There are some really amazing organizations around the world and…

  • Tula Pink Bumble: the Return of Peached Poplin

    If you’ve been sewing for more than six years or so, you remember the old Heather Ross fabrics–Mendocino and Lightning Bugs, all those incredible hard-to-find collections that were SO SOFT.  That…

  • 8 Things I Have Learned Now That I’m 40

    Last week, I turned 40.  FORTY.  It has been a long road, y’all.  And I’ll tell you the truth: these past five years have probably been the hardest since my 20s.…

  • Sketchbook Shirts in Fanfare Flannel

    Well, I can cross off two more items from my to-sew list for the kids, thanks to today’s Fanfare Flannel Extravaganza!  Plus, I finally got around to sewing up the Sketchbook…

  • Dimensional Denim from Amy Barickman

    Amy Barickman of Indygo Junction, one of the kindest and most lovely human beings around, is launching a new book AND a new line of denims.  What?!?  That’s right: NEW DENIMS.…

  • Handmade Knit Tees for the Girls

    Before we took our recent ten-day family road trip up the Eastern Seaboard, I flew into a wild sewing rage and made a stack of things to take with us. I knew…

  • Major Destash on Instagram TONIGHT!

    Just a heads-up, y’all: I have been working diligently the past week-plus to sort through my ENTIRE stash of fabrics and separate out the ones I cannot live without and the…

  • Camp Stitchalot

    Oh, Camp Stitchalot.  What can I possibly say that would sum up how glorious this past weekend was? In a red barn, in the middle of the Michigan countryside, in two…

  • Cappuccino Dress

    You’ll have to forgive me for taking photos of a dress that I clearly have been wearing for a few hours–today was registration day for next school year, which involves some…

  • Shorts Season

    Over the past week+ or so, I have sewn up a gazillion pair of shorts for the children. They all seem to have shot up four inches in the space of…

  • Dollar Store Academy

    There are days where it would be so, so, so much easier to let the kids come home from school, turn on the TV, and let it roll.  We try pretty…

  • Oilcloth Make-up Tray + A GIVEAWAY!

    For the two+ years since we moved into this house, I have kept my make-up on the bathroom counter in the travel bag that I got at TJMaxx the week I…