Dear Baby Zoey, I made you a little cushion to decorate your nursery. It is a little vintagey and a little moderny. I was so happy with how it turned out… until I realized I had spelled your na...
It’s been 10 months since I got a Yudu (nicely discounted at Michael’s). I’ve had it on a shelfdu in my sewing room since then and I see it everyday. I finally pulled it out last ni...
So I made an ice wrap for my ankle a few years ago. Then I lost it. I left it in someone’s freezer after staying at their home. No problem because my ankle got better and I resumed playing indo...
We have a nice little architectural salvage shop in downtown Fort Worth that I just adore. It’s busy and packed full of all kinds of things and a fun place to go and poke around. Not everythin...
One day a shirt, the next day a bag. Jersey was easier to work with than I thought – very stretchy and very forgiving. Lining the bag with regular quilting fabric helps the jersey keep it̵...
Tutorial: Creating A Repeat Design in Photoshop here. After my Spoonflower post I got into a conversation with a commenter about creating a repeat design for fabric printing. Although I’m not...
So after years of wanting to, but never feeling like I had a Spoonflower-worthy design, I finally took the plunge and printed something! First off, let me say that I am NOT an artist. In fact, the r...
Yep, decorating, not remodeling – there won’t be any new cabinets or anything big – just a little touching up here and there. The size of this laundry room was one of the big reaso...
In spite of the many, many fabric choices out there for quilters and sewers, sometimes I see some non-traditional sources of fabric and just have to nab them up. This shower curtain at Target was on...
And it turns out, as I suspected, that hexagon cards are a lot easier than hexagon quilts. It’s been years since I’ve made these fabric patchwork cards. They’re still super fun to ...
I’ve been seeing some hexagon quilts around lately and falling in love with them, I quickly forgot the difficulty of my last hexagon project. This baby quilt is for a little guy named Dash bor...
Today is Christmas Eve and I am grateful to have gotten some baking done. Instead of cookies for the neighbors this year it was fresh-baked bread and a jar of jam. And each loaf needed it’s o...
Three girls. Three favorite colors: pink, yellow, purple. Three quilted cushions for Christmas. Well, three plus one, actually. I went a little overboard with the pink quilting and had enough for an...
A couple of weeks ago I came across some old skeins of wool that I had forgotten about and I turned them into felted balls. I thought they would make a great dog toy for my giant dog who loves to ch...
Around Christmas I like to give my little children’s church and Bible study kids a little something handmade. When I found these Lego molds at this Etsy shop, my love of crayon melting kicked ...
It was a last-minute, quickly-planned trip. Short and sweet. I think this is the way I prefer to do Quilt Market: grab Cindy, drive down in the morning, take it all in, drive home in the late afte...
How can I call myself crafty and never have made a costume for my kids for trick-or-treatin’? All these years of watching people do things for their kids and I’ve never had anything to s...
Do you ever read stories about women in the “olden days” and wonder how they could be so strong? Sometimes I wonder if I would act similarly in a situation or if I would just crumple in ...
When we were on vacation this summer, hiking in the mountains, resting for a snack on a large boulder, there was a little blue and black bird that hopped around us while we ate our snack. He had the...
“In A Pear Tree” Advent Calendar I’ve been putting together an advent calendar tutorial for SewMamaSew. Information is on her blog here (note: there are prizes involved). The pears...
***And the winner is Lori of SeeLoriSew. Thanks for playing along, everyone!*** There’s a cute new little book that came out this summer, and I have a project in it! A lucky Facebook won one ...
This summer I made a mental note to resist buying myself a bag in Taiwan. Bags with that handmade look are everywhere you go. I resisted and resisted until one day I abandoned my family part-way up...
One of the things I love about Taiwan is the bazaar (maybe a little bizarre, too) nature of many shopping experiences: small shops crammed into tight quarters, dodging other shoppers while moving alo...
Any of your boys crazy about Legos like mine are? Taking pictures of Sensei Wu has really been fun on our trip to Taiwan and if you can stand a little silliness, you’ll see what we’ve be...
The kids have been swimming a lot this summer at the neighborhood pool while I sit in the shade and watch. I wish I was the kind of mom that would swim and play in the water with them but I can̵...
The first week of the month is always sorta fun around here because it’s the week when everyone puts out their bulk trash. It’s really just a change of scenery for when I’m out jog...
June 29, 2011 Hi Boys! I hope you had a good day today! I wanted to show you this picture of an cow elk. The COW part means that it’s a girl. I heard this elk before I saw it. I heard it sn...
As much as I have an almost paralyzing fear of sewing clothes for myself, I keep trying. And what could be easier to fit than a loose-fitting coat that only comes in 1 size? This breezy summer coat ...
We moved into our house 5 months ago. FIVE MONTHS! And piles of frames were still all over the house. My excuse is that the house needed to be painted first. But that was done last month so reall...
I love it when the kettle corn guy is at the local high school craft show. Even if I don’t buy anything at the show, I’ll bring home some kettle corn for the family. I’ve tried th...
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