Hello, hello, my friends! What do we have here? It's my newest book!!!! It's called ANIMAL FRIENDS TO SEW: Simple Handmade Decor, Toys and Gifts for Kids and will be released May of 2020 through Sasquatch Books. I'm so in love with this book. SO in love. It's very much the book I would have wanted when I first began sewing for K and all her itty bitty friends, and it's a grateful nod to the numerous Japanese craft books that inspired me to teach myself how to sew back in the early days. I ... Read more
Greetings from Japan!
Hello, hello! K and I have spent a glorious time in Japan for the last 11 days, and we're having a hard time leaving. I have so many thoughts and emotions right now and though I'm unable to organize them in a coherent way at the moment, I wanted to pop in to say hello. I also wanted to talk about Ogden camis. For this trip, I somehow made four Ogden Camis by True Bias Patterns in two days before embarking on the plane to Narita. I originally purchased the PDF pattern and then printed it ... Read more
TEENAGER + BOOK GIVEAWAY {CLOSED}
Hello, hello! Here is a rare photo of M -- this one's from 13 years ago. K is only a few days old in this image, and for several months, she frequently slept on M's chest like this. Today, my baby is 13. THIRTEEN. M had a birthday last week as well, and he always says that K has been the best present he's ever received and I couldn't agree more. Perhaps the one downside is that ever since she popped out, his birthday has been upstaged by hers (sorry, honey). He doesn't seem to mind. I ... Read more
A whole new world (no more PDF taping!)
Hello, my friends! How are you? I'm getting ready to travel to Indiana to visit relatives this weekend, and despite my best efforts, I was unable to fully execute my glorious vacation wardrobe sewing plan I had in mind. However, in the process of attempting said sewing plan, I've discovered a life-changing thing: PDF Plotting. I found out about PDF Plotting through a very thorough and super helpful blog post on Sew Liberated. I bet most of you sewing mavens are already familiar with this ... Read more
Attention Span + New Sewing Gadgets
Hello, my friends! How are you? Are blogs still a thing? I'm committed to updating my little space at least once a month, but I get the sense that the collective attention span has been rapidly dwindling (including mine for sure) and Instagram is so much easier, isn't it? Despite my amoeba-like attention span, I can spend so much time just consuming images -- which perplexes me. There have been times when an entire HOUR (or more!) will have been frittered away while I mindlessly scroll through ... Read more