As I was working on my first house for my Advent calendar yesterday, I dug through my fabrics to find just the right ones. My children–blessed little angels–had made a disastrous…
sewing space
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When I was out buying fabric for years and years and years, I would find something I liked and not knowing what I was planning to do with it, simply grab…
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If you primarily quilt or craft, odds are that your fabric collection is overwhelmingly composed of cottons. That might be the case if you mostly sew clothing, too, but apparel sewers…
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Fabric is, by its very nature, addictive: from the moment we enter the world, we experience texture and touch, and are surrounded by woven and knit fibers of various scales and…
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Over the weekend, I tackled The Laundry. It needs those capital letters, y’all: it had practically become another family member, and was threatening to drown us all. I was washing and…
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Also titled: ideas I wish I’d had. I’m so pleased that so many of you have been inspired by this series of posts! It has made me both more motivated to…
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Smaller spaces are more likely for most of us, and even beyond that, SHARED spaces are most common. Combining functions within one room makes it possible to use space more effectively,…
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Not all of us are fortunate enough to have an entire room dedicated to sewing and crafts. In fact, judging by the responses to the survey, the vast majority of us–me…
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This weekend, I decided it was nigh upon time to finally re-organize my studio, now that the bolts of fabric all live at the new shop. I figured, an hour or…