If you’re buying fabric overseas, get the bag. I have to say this is as much a souvenir as the fabric itself. I recall Anvers being this eclectic neighborhood of junk shops, closeout shops, fabric stores and the higher you…
Contemporary quilted jacket class with designer Angela Wolf at PatternReview.com. Mint green, espresso brown. I bought this in Paris in 2007, at a fabric store at the base of the Sacre Coeur in the Anvers neighborhood. A slightly (ok, a…
The dress is done, it is gorgeously beachy and elegant at the same time. I used the directions at SharonSews, but added a hem ruffle and pleated ribbon trim. When Sharon has you trim off the side of your fabric…
August is the busiest month of the summer. And the one I have the least money in. Besides being the 9th annual Tour de Road America, our bike ride to fight cancer (brought to you by 12 volunteers including a…
I’m finally making a pair of sailor pants. These classic button front pants are all over the place (at least on my sewing magazines – in 4/2012 of BurdaStyle, and again in 8/2012, Sew News August has them too). I…
I am in desperate need of summer pants for work. I operate a moderately casual workplace. So in consulting my stash, I found peach twill and linen. I hace been dying to make sailor style pants, so that will be…
and then I put them to good use. Swiss, italian, arizonan, lake superior too. The collector meets the practical meets the frugal. What do you collect?
I love the painted stones in this necklace but I am not happy with my finishing technique. I need some instruction on how to get the wire tightened up near the crimping beads. Not pictures but a video or in…
These soft beachy colors remind me of the lake house. soft white sand dune, slate blue water, dark wet shoreline. I bought the slate blue beads as part of a necklace set at a yard sale nearby the lake house.…
I’ve seen a fair number of posts that question whether Pinterest is making us hyper competitive and fueling the wanties even more than mass media has been doing for decades. I’m an avid Pinterest user. But I also have two…
Tonight, the sun was out again, in a cloudless blue sky as the sun set. The beach (we face an eastern shore here, so the sun sets behind the trees) was still sunlit. I took my two children, five and…
I have a five year old and yesterday after a pool party with friends she asked me why I wanted to lose weight. I said that I did not, but that I had some fat around my middle that I…