Games make an awesome gift, whether you’re shopping for the holidays or for a birthday. There are so many games for kids on the market it can be a bit overwhelming and hard to know which ones are worth getting. With three kids (ages 5-12) we’ve tried lots of games over the years and we…
Happy Halloween!
My kids absolutely love Halloween. They start brainstorming costume ideas in April and talk about it pretty regularly all summer long. Our neighborhood is a great place to be on Halloween. Families spend a lot of energy decorating their yards with ghouls and gravestones and spider webs. On October 31 the elementary school (which is…
Upcoming Classes on Creative Small Business at the Wellesley Free Library
That’s me speaking at Midwest Craft Con last year. Photo by Chris Rutan. I’m excited to be teaching a series of three classes on creative small business at the Wellesley Free Library throughout the month of November. These classes are free and open to the public and people often drive in to take them (they…
Patchwork Elephant and Baby Quilt Print Pattern is Here!
After many months of work I’m excited to finally have the Patchwork Elephant pattern available as a print pattern. And I’ve added a coordinating baby quilt that uses up several more of the pre-cut strips used to create the elephant. Together I think this project makes a really lovely baby gift. The print pattern has…
Goldfish Hat from Fleece Hat Friends by Mary Rasch
My middle daughter, Stella, loves to wear hats. All summer she wore a Spiderman baseball cap. When she gets dressed up she wears a fedora. And in the winter she likes to have a fleece animal hat to wear. Most of the winter animal hats in stores are for little kids and after lots of…
Casey the Crab Free Pattern in Patchwork
I was looking for a fun summer patchwork project and decided to make my free Casey the Crab pattern up with some quilting cottons (the original sample is in fleece). I grew up in Maryland going to the Eastern Shore with my family every summer. We would always get Maryland crabs one night, usually at…
Studio Update and Pre-Order for Brand New Enamel Pins!
This summer I’m working on a series of fun projects that I want to share with you. First, though, I have to tell you about a most amazing gift that I received from a blog reader. A few months ago my friend, book agent Kate McKean, reached out to me asking if I knew anyone…
10 Free Softie Patterns to Sew for Sew-a-Softie Day
Tomorrow, July 16, is Sew-a-Softie Day. This is a worldwide event organized by sewing pattern designer and sewing teacher Trixi Symonds. Trixi is the author of Sew Together Grow Together, a collection of hand-sewing projects she developed over twenty years in classes and workshops for children. She blogs at colouredbuttons. The goal of Sew-a-Softie day is…
Article about Bill Volckening in Modern Patchwork
I’m excited to have an article in the Summer 2016 issue of Modern Patchwork which will be hitting newsstands soon. This piece is about quilt collector Bill Volckening. Bill began collecting quilts by accident when a girlfriend took him to a small quilt show in a New York brownstone. He has since become an internationally…
New Pattern: Sweetie the Popsicle
For our middle daughter, Stella’s, 10th birthday we took a small group of her friends to Fun and Games, a nearby arcade. The kids ran around putting coins into machines, playing wack a mole and skeeball for nearly and hour. By the end each kid had a sweaty palmful of tickets to be redeemed at…
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