Hello, my friends! Brief snow storms and budding allergies (ah-choo!) and book deadlines sum up this month for me. I'm in the midst of wrapping up a very big deadline for the next sewing book, so I'm doing a rapid-fire, bare-bones update today. Fingers crossed that there are no late nights ahead of me! Here are the things I created for this sweet, short month (you can see more images on Instagram here): WEEKLY SEWING A gingham cross-over button-down shirt from Simply Sewn: Clothes for ... Read more
January Round-Up
Hello, hello! This is my first post of 2021, though it's already the end of the month. How's 2021 going for you so far? I've been trying something new over on Instagram. I've never been on much of a schedule with IG in the past, but I thought it might be fun to stick to a twice-a-week posting regimen to see how long I can keep it up. My aim is to practice surface pattern designs and to establish a weekly sewing habit (i.e. sewing for myself -- sewing for K when she was little was much, much ... Read more
2020 Free Holiday Printables
Hello, hello! I am, as ever, a creature of habit: the annual Advent calendar (this year's is my absolute favorite to date, by the way), the monthly blog posts, and all the other various habits I've cultivated over the years that I uphold with a Pit Bull determination. For the month of December, I created some cute holiday tags and print-at-home goodness for my Patreon members and then remembered that I normally offer up free printables here on the blog during this season. So I started ... Read more
Non-Halloween + Costumes over the years
Hello, hello my friends! I drew some Halloween-inspired watercolor doodles in my sketchbook today, and like this witch, I'm feeling a bit melancholy about this season. My neighbors are going all out in the decoration department, so there's an air of spooky festivity in our 'hood, but this is the first year in a very, very long time that I haven't sewn a costume for K because: pandemic. Trick-or-treating isn't happening, obviously. Then again, now that she's in high school, maybe it wasn't going ... Read more
Nuanced Not Faded
Hello, my friends! I received this luscious bouquet from a dear friend a couple of weeks ago, on my birthday. We did a social-distanced hand-off of the flowers, which was quite funny. As I gazed at these blooms the phrase that came to mind was, "faded beauty." It's what everyone says, right? The faded beauty of dying roses. Although these roses are no longer in the full blush of its blossoming floral youth, I don't think their beauty has faded at all. If anything, it's deepened and is more ... Read more