The other day I walked into our kitchen and found this on the counter. The children had taken the giant trifle bowl filled with random buttons that I keep in my sewing room, and were sorting them by type.…
Now open for registration! Both the Murder Mystery Quilt AND the League of Adventurous Dressmakers are now ready for you to join! The League of Adventurous Dressmakers is a monthly subscription club that focuses on in-depth technique lessons for better garment…
FOR THE 2020 PROJECT, VISIT The Murder Mystery Quilt SITE! In the first grade, when I was six years old, my class did a unit on Ancient Egypt. I was, as most children are, completely mesmerized. The story of Howard Carter and…
VISIT THE NEW-AND-IMPROVED LEAGUE SITE FOR 2019 AND BEYOND! When I was in college, I was required by the School of Theatre to do a semester in the costume shop. Most of the other kids groaned and whined and did…
Hooray, hooray!! A whole bunch of you have already registered for the 2016 Sewing Buddy Project. I am beyond delighted to welcome back some familiar faces and to greet some new ones–yippee for Sewing Buddies!! The Sewing Buddy Project…
The Sewing Buddy Project is BACK!! Registration is open NOW through January 30, 2016. All Buddy pair matches will be emailed out no later than February 1, 2016. The Sewing Buddy Project is a pen pal program. People from…
Today, on a whim, I searched my own blog to see what I’d posted in past years during Christmas time. If you had asked me, I would have told you there were two or three posts, four max. But…
Yesterday, in my newsletter, I sent out two different surveys looking for feedback as I plan for 2016.…
What is it with this year? December is going SO QUICKLY. Hanukkah is already upon us, you guys! Seems like usually by this point in the Christmas season, I’ve already cut out most of my projects and have set…
Years ago, I re-created my mother’s Advent calendar and interpreted it as a quilt-as-you-go project, complete with template. The year I finally buckled down to make this for our family, I worked on one house a day each day…
There is some debate still about whether there is a distinctive division between our right brain and our left. But most experts agree that each half of your brain bears the larger portion for certain mental tasks. And sewing? Sewing…
We’ve done a family Halloween costume for the past four years. We did Scooby Doo, Sound of Music, and Harry Potter. This year, we did a little more steering than previously, where the kids had a heavy hand in…
When I looked at the photos I took of my Halloween dress, I noticed some puckering at the princess seams that made me feel unhappy:…
I sew, a lot. Way more than normal people–and by normal, I guess I mean the average person, who probably doesn’t even know how to sew, making that an unfair and inaccurate comparison. So maybe I just sew way…
I have gotten into the habit of sharing finished projects, and hardly ever walking through the steps to getting from fabric selection to final garment. It’s just SO much faster. But this dress was an exception–I tried it on…
