It’s been a busy summer of birthdays, trips, camp, popsicle-making, cocktail-mixing, gardening, breaking up LEGO battles between small children playing with LEGOs, and reading (I’m nearly through Team of Rivals and sad to see the end approaching). And after lots of pattern math and secret sewing, I’m very excited for my new Back to School…
I’m super excited to join the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day this year – I’ve put together a crafty package with a 3-month Creativebug subscription (so the winner can take my Log Cabin Quilting class any time, plus any others that catch your eye!), plus you can pick out some of my fabric and supplies…
I’m so excited to share my new Log Cabin Quilting class series with Creativebug today! I filmed four hour-long workshops in at their San Francisco studio in February, they came up to Portland to visit me a couple of weeks ago and we filmed some more fun things for the class trailer, and now the…
I share a big love of plastic canvas with Diane, and I was so excited to join her 2014 Plastic Canvas Blog Hop with a project of my own – the Asterisk Sunglasses Case! You can find all the fantastic tutorials listed at the end of this post, or of course visit her blog for…
I really love making special things like dresses, bunnies, baskets, felt eggs, and skirts for Easter, so yesterday afternoon Pearl and I spent a little time after school making what I call Easter pretties! She calls these little scenes “prerrariums,” for “pretty terrariums,” which I thought was pretty awesome too. This is a super fast…
The wonderful MQG SewDown Portland weekend is coming right up, so I wanted to share some of my favorite places for fabric, coffee, drinks, and everything else that makes the local crafty world go around. To make this little guide extra-easy to use, I added transit and parking info where it might be helpful for…
Happy new year (well, second week of the new year, anyway)! I hope 2014 has been good to you so far. Ours has been busy, and full of house projects which feels really good. Whether it’s the new year, that I’m about to have a birthday, or that I’m finally better after my ankle injury…
I’m very excited to head up to beautiful Seattle this weekend for two Sewing for all Seasons events on Saturday – a 1:00 signing at Urban Craft Uprising and a 4:00 trunk show and event at the Quilting Loft! I hope to see you at one of them if you can make it. Kristen kindly…
Hello again after a whirlwind couple of weeks! The short version of my late October was: Sewing for all Seasons release (yay), MRI rapidly followed by the surprise of a missed fractured tibia, dating back from my fall in August (not yay), new walking cast, flying to New York for the first time in almost…
I’m super excited to visit New York for the first time in five years this week – and so happy that Brett Bara is hosting a book party for me at her beautiful new craft space, Brooklyn Craft Company, on Saturday morning! We will be doing a Holiday Garlands project from Sewing for all Seasons,…
I’m so happy that my Picnic String Quilt Block is the PMQG charity block of the month for October and I’ve shared the tutorial here! See below for more details on the finished Picnic Quilt from my book, Sewing for all Seasons. Here’s how to make this quick, simple and very scrap-friendly block, using foundation…
This week was the official release of my new book, Sewing for all Seasons! It’s been a bit of a whirlwind* but I’m super excited to have my book out in the world. You can now find it at Chronicle, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Modern Domestic, and get signed copies at Powell’s! So I…