Here's the thing about trying to launch a new project/creative employment while still maintaining your current one. It happens in bits and spurts. You push forward, make some progress, and then your paying gig starts requiring more attention, or (God forbid)...
I recently had the opportunity to pattern test the new OneCardigan pattern by Serger Pepper. It’s a girls pattern but it comes up to a size 16, so I was able to test it for my 11-year-old daughter. I sewed...
I have a hard time throwing away scraps. I can make a good case for saving my tiny bit of quilting cottons, because I can use them for all kinds of scrappy projects. But those smaller bits of knit fabrics...
So I’ve been absent for a couple of weeks… at least from this blog. I’ve been busy, busy, busy behind the scenes. Building. That word again. I’ve been playing around in my studio and have a couple of tutorials planned. ...
Building. Warning: This is a long, rambling kind of post. I actually hesitated to write it, but I want a good part of this blog to be about the journey of building my business, so I'm including it anyway. Who...
Two days into 2015 and I’ve had two dreams of houses. In both, I’m a young 20-something single person leaving my mother’s home and striking out on my own. One of my friends told me that having this dream twice...
So my friend Laurie turned me on to One Word. The idea is to choose one word - just one little word - to be your focus for the coming year. (Read her post about the word she chose here.)...
I rarely decorate for New Year's. Like, ever. But this year I thought it would be fun to make a banner to welcome the new year. It was one of those random. "Hey, you know what would be neat..." thoughts...
Remember this? And how I was going to make a pattern? Just finished it! Wow, that took me longer than I had expected. But what was I thinking, it’s December y’all. That’s crazy schedule time! Those two weeks were spent...
**This post was edited to add the free pattern. Read on for the free pattern download!** It was getting close to Thanksgiving when I started thinking about Christmas decorations. It's hard not to, every store is often piled high with...
