Sew a mini zip pouch that’s perfect for carrying just the essentials! Makes a great gift! This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase something through one of those links, you won’t pay a penny more, but I’ll earn a small commission which will help…
This cat tote bag has it all – a cute kitty face on the front, a kitty tail on the bag, and four kitty paws hanging from the bottom! Get the free sewing pattern. If you’ve read more than about 3 posts on this blog,…
I seem to have a knack for finding discarded sewing treasures. I’ve found not one, but TWO, sewing machines by the side of the road. (You can read about the first one here. The second machine I still haven’t had time to crack open.) And…
My daughter needed a full length formal dress. She’s enrolled in a Junior Cotillion, a Southern tradition of taking your awkward middle schoolers and making them feel even more awkward by having them dress up in fancy clothes to learn party manners and basic ballroom…
So… a tutorial. It feels like it’s been FOREVER. I’d actually taken most of the photos for this tutorial way back around Christmas time but had forgotten all about it. Major injury will do that to you, ha! Anyway, I’m happy to be back to…
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) your family needs more time…
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 –they’re harder to use up….
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 knows, maybe someday someone else…
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 might not be a coincidence….
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.) It sounds easy, but choosing…
