I’m so excited to announce that I have a new book coming out in March from Potter Craft – Modern Log Cabin Quilting! I adore log cabin – it was the first kind of quilting I ever tried, and is still my absolute favorite. This collection includes ten full-size quilts and fifteen smaller patchwork projects,…
I wrote up two fun pieces this week that I wanted to share over here! First, I was so thrilled to spotlight four West Coast-crafted handmade holiday gifts for the brand-new issue of Venus. I picked a mix of my favorites – a striking Polaroid print from Yellow Owl Workshop (San Francisco), a leaf-embellished glasses…
I mentioned Pearl’s remarkable long and varied list of Halloween costumes she desperately wanted to wear last week (not counting my own pick, Laura Ingalls Wilder, the six I listed a few days ago had been joined by 7. Kangaroo and 8. Yoda – she got the hat from last year’s costume out of the…
Thanks so much for the sweet comments and emails on the baby news in my last post! Super appreciated. We’re getting excited, and it has been so cool to see Pearl getting more and more eager to meet him. I have to admit that I’m having a hard time believing it’s almost November… except for…
So an announcement first – along with the usual boring reasons (work, general busy-ness, and desperately needing to get a new laptop) my blog has been so quiet lately is a more exciting one: I’m expecting another baby! It’s a boy this time (!) and he will be arriving in November. We are so thrilled,…
My Halloween Bazaar post for CRAFT: just went up last week – it was super fun to pick out five favorite things to spotlight over there! I’m extra partial to Lee Meredith’s Old-Timey Moustache knitting pattern (pictured, and knitted, here by Monica/kirbymo in a very cool fun fur yarn!), which comes paired with a superhero…
I’ve been thinking about making Pearl a playroom for months, but now that October has rolled in and the nice days are officially numbered, the time is now. Andrew and I spent chunks of the last few weeks clearing things out of a particularly ugly part of our basement, the charmless water heater corner. We…
Just a quick post since I’m under the weather today… but Diane just emailed me that my own little Yoda is on the front page of CRAFT: for a Halloween how-to special! Thanks, Diane, what a cool pick-me-up! The full Yoda costume tutorial is here, and I made her hat via Heather’s awesome how-to here….
I haven’t had a chance to sew, or really do any crafts, with Pearl in tow 24/7 (besides lots of cooking, which I’ve been pretty obsessed with) but last week a tiny window of time opened and I jumped at the chance to make something! Last year, when she turned one, I pieced two little…
(Hi! This post has taken me a month to start and a week to finish, so hopefully that explains all the July and August talk.) I have always wanted to make my own jam — my grandmother canned everything, and one of my favorite childhood memories is seeing the rows and rows of glossy Mason…
I’m excited to head to Seattle tomorrow for the Conference of Creative Entrepreneurs! (Wow, entrepreneur is surprisingly hard to spell, especially several times in a row, so I decided to simplify the title of this post.) The schedule looks fantastic — a mix of super-interesting hands-on panels and classes, craft and business lectures, book events…
I haven’t had much time to sew or craft lately (and until this morning, I would have said “any” instead of “much”… more on that in a second), so cooking has been pretty much my only chance to be creative. Well, I have also been doing a lot of chalk drawings on our sidewalk, but…