Sorry for being so silent over here- still settling in and honestly, I’m knee deep in work! I need to step back and do some personal crafting soon (and I’ll let you know if/when I do). But for now, here are a couple of projects I did for the Fall/Winter issue of Stitch magazine.

The cover [...]

I’m still adjusting to our transition and working my fingers to the bone on a big project, and truthfully I haven’t had time to craft a thing for myself lately. I miss my yarn shop job–I’d always have a personal project to work on that was easy enough to stitch between customers. It’s raining cats [...]

Somehow durning my cross country move, I got it together to release this pattern just in time for fall. I have to admit that I’m going to miss fall as I knew it (short lived though it was, it has already snowed in Bozeman this year). I wrote this pattern last year, which is why [...]

If you’ve had your eye on Amy Butler’s new softwares collection, here’s your chance to get it for free. I have a review copy on offer, which I did install (so I could review it) but as far as I know it should still be good to go for one of you who wants to [...]

How’s that for a blog post title? I hope you are all enjoying your Labor Day weekend. I didn’t even realize there was a holiday until I was about to ship something off for a major deadline and I realized, oh, I have to ship it Friday (not Monday) in order to get it there [...]

My old friend the sewing machine has been sitting sadly, waiting for me to come back to her. I can’t even remember the last time I sewed something (it was probably more quilt blocks), but whatever it was had purple bobbin thread. Hmm. I finally uncovered her so I could sew up my August quilt [...]

Now it’s time to announce my “Real Life” book events- which start next week!
But first, let me show you a sneak peek from the book, one of my favorite projects: the Butterfly Apron!

Accent your favorite (or new favorite!) apron with a butterfly pocket and trim. I like this trim because you work it as you [...]

If you’re looking for something different among the host of new sewing and craft books, look no further than Diane Gilleand (aka Sister Diane of Craftypod) for her new book, Kanzashi in Bloom. The book explains the art of making traditionaly Japanese flowers, but with a modern (read: easier) slant.

To begin, Diane shares some history [...]

This fabrics for this month’s blocks came from Sarah of Hip to Piece Squares. She told us to do creative log cabins, and here’s what I came up with.

For the first block, I thought I’d do a couple of little log cabins within the square, and then I added some stripes to fill out the [...]

In the past few weeks I’ve had the chance to work up a couple samples to show off some  yarns at the shop. They were quick and simple, but fun. First up is what I lovingly refer to as the Macho Hacho scarf.

This is made from 3 skeins of Mirasol “Hacho” yarn and I picked [...]