Sewing, blogging, and creative business.
I’m very excited to have finished this patchwork Progress Pride Flag quilt. The pattern is by Bobbie Gentili from Geeky Bobbin. All of the fabrics are scraps from my stash.
This was a fun project and the finished quilt is really bright and colorful. As part of this process, I also enjoyed learning more about how the design of the Progress Pride flag came to be.
Photo by my friend, Lisa Neighbors. I was chatting the other day with a woman who is just beginning to build an online presence for her sewing business. She was having a tough time with social media because she just didn’t feel comfortable talking about herself all the time, yet that’s what platforms like InstagramRead More →
Please note that all Amazon links in this post are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through one of these links I receive a small percentage at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support. On today’s episode of the While She Naps podcast we’re talking about building a career as aRead More →
Several things are special about this book. First is how I came to get it. For the five years that Chad Dickerson was CEO of Etsy I used Twitter to get in touch with him. It’s hard to make contact with a busy CEO, especially a CEO of a public company and especially when you’reRead More →
A new quilting podcast has launched recently. Called Just Wanna Quilt the show is described as a “research podcast” and is produced by Elizabeth Townsend Gard, a law professor at Tulane University who studies intellectual property. Townsend Gard opens each episode by saying, “We explore all kinds of things. Stories about quilting, tools, field trips, maybeRead More →
On today’s episode of the While She Naps podcast we’re talking about building an audience around your creative passions with my guest, Lauren Fairweather. Lauren Fairweather is a YouTube content creator, an Etsy seller, and an independent musician who runs all of her creative businesses from home. She’s also a YouTube NextUp winner and mom. LaurenRead More →
When you’re self-employed you have to take control of your own professional development. Nobody is going to send you to a conference or offer to train you on new skills. When money is tight and you’re busy running your business it’s easy to let months, even years, go by without investing in yourself. This year I’mRead More →
On today’s episode of the While She Naps podcast we’re talking about owning a quilt shop and a premier quilt show with my guest, Jean Wells. Jean is an art quilter who is inspired by nature and the world around her. She’s also the owner of The Stitchin’ Post, a quilt shop in Sisters, Oregon thatRead More →
Indie craft was fueled by this radical idea that we could take traditional craft skills and reclaim them for our own time. We could infuse new life into traditional ‘women’s work,’ bringing it into a modern context, making it relevant to our lives now. Indie craft fairs were places to share this vision with aRead More →
I’m super excited to be launching my newest pattern, the Chit Chat Puppet! I’ve been interested in making open-mouthed puppets for a long time now and finally got some time to explore them over the summer. I made so many prototypes in an effort to come up with a design that would be adorable, easyRead More →
On this episode of the While She Naps podcast we’re talking about building a career in the sewing industry with my guest, Mathew Boudreaux. Mathew Boudreaux of Mister Domestic learned to sew as a kid, but never really got into it until he had his daughter Helena, who is now four and a half. HeRead More →