Why hello! I didn’t want May to get away from me before I stopped by my own blog. As you can tell I have been on a sort of blog vacation–pretty much a forced internet vacation with the sl...
Howdy all, hope you’re having a beautiful week! We’ve been having mad storms here the last couple of days, and hallelujah, I’m so happy it’s raining. Our dogs, on the other ha...
Last month I was on a top-secret sewing mission. Not as rigorously top-secret as Sidney Bristow going undercover in a Balkan mob but I can dream. (In college I harbored fantasies of working for the C...
I’m such a copycat. Grease was my first big person’s movie (not, you know, Tubby the Tuba). So of course I really wanted an Olivia bodysuit, just like Christine’s. Then I wanted a n...
These shorts were really fun to make. Or at least I was having a lot of fun saying scallops, scallop. Isn’t it a cool word? The consonance, I guess. They were finished over a week ago, but I re...
This was a dress that started its life as part of my Mise En Place project over the fall. Recently Amy of Sew Well asked me if I was back to working on one project at a time, or working on multiple g...
Well, hello hello, and happy belated Easter! We do celebrate and this year’s holiday was pretty laid back, just spending the day talking with friends under a big oak tree and a little stroll th...
I so so want of these to put all my little treasures. Lost keys, weird European change (oh, I saved all the pre-Euro coins!), sewing supplies.* Lately, my brain has felt like it’s on inspiratio...
In between travels and springing and birthdays and gardening, I was able to squeeze in a new lounge set. Doesn’t that sound better than pjs? And that’s exactly what I do in them–I l...
Do you ever feel like spring is just a bunch of exclamation marks?! !!!!!!!! Growing, growing, green. That unstoppable energy of spring is hard to keep up with. And March in particular is often the o...
Last week I had the honor of being nominated by three lovely bloggers for the Liebster Award. Thank you Amy (Sew Well), Lavender (Threadsquare) and Christine (Daughter Fish) for bestowing your blog l...
My husband and I are pretty much exact opposites when it comes to photographs. I like still, very non-moving and exacting perspectives and can spend hours fiddling with the camera controls. He often ...
Oh my, is it March already? On my leap year day, I played a bit of hooky and spent a long day sewing, basting, hammering, sewing. The coat is so close and soon, I promise, I will be showing up in it ...
For some reason I’m weirdly thrifty about thread. There are gadgets and patterns and buttons overflowing my drawers but when it comes to thread I always buy exactly the color I need and usually...
This was the week to get my coat done. I had lots of extra time for sewing and then a little-turned-big winter cold decided to take over. People, it was 90 degrees here yesterday. Having a fever in t...
When the forsythia blooms, you know spring is coming. (And an old wise gardener taught me that’s when to prune roses in the south.) I love these vines. They look very bramble-y climbing all ove...
Today was a very good stay-inside day. The morning started off with a bit of sleet and then golly oh my that strangest of Austin happenings: snow! Which in terms of current worldwide weather is a bit...
I should probably write that title on the door. Actually, we know to keep this door shut anyway, since cats + sewing area = tsumani. I won’t even get into the story about what I found after the...
When I got back into sewing a few years ago, I was like a kid in a candy shop. Bras! Tailoring! Jeans! Handbags! I never imagined I’d end up sewing with leather but like so many finer aspects o...
My first reaction to this coat was a bit melodramatic. Whoa, this coat is a balloon! I knew what I was getting into, the pattern’s line drawing makes it clear that this is a cocoon-like coat. (...
It appears that nothing resembling winter is ever going to arrive in Austin, which means I am going to have to shelf quite a few of my winter sewing ideas and get cracking on the summer ones. Aside f...
That is no country for old men… This set turned out much more engraved and ancient-looking than I anticipated. I was thinking it’d be just a step up from my first two bras, a lacey black ...
Hello, hello. And Happy New Year! Yes, I know that’s a bit late, but only in internet time–which pretty much came to a halt for two weeks. We had a very quiet and unplugged Christmas in A...
Oh Austin, I love you. {Sign on Silk Road Fabrics.} Something about this struck me as very typical Austin. That people here who don’t generally suffer from workaholism. That there are still pla...
While working on my kimono-sleeved top for the PJs, I got a bit obsessed with t-shirt shaping. I should warn you before diving in any further–there are enough stripes in this post to make your ...
My new lounge set came together last week. I feel like a Hundertwasser painting. Or perhaps a tropical soldier? But this head to toe print is only going inside the house! I wanted to photograph these...
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Even to those abroad who don’t celebrate… it really is a lovely holiday. No pressure. Just sitting around eating and drinking with friends and family. I norm...
Have you ever fantasized about sitting at a vanity, powdering up before bed in a long bias-cut nightgown with a matching housecoat? I think there’s one such scene in Holiday Inn but I can’...
Frankly, I could fill a whole drawer with Stella McCartney bras. So pretty, girly, vintagey. Earlier this year I indulged a visit to Underwear, a local lingerie boutique and got to touch and try some...
Finally, I have moved more than halfway through my ready-to-sew garments from the summer. The latest is a little bit of Studio 54. This is Hotpatterns Good Times Dress, which is inspired by a DVF sty...
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