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.
I'm very excited today because I just got my July/August issue of Cloth Paper Scissors and I am featured as the Artist Profile this month! See the little reference on the front? There is a five page spread inside. This is the first page. The author of the article, Cate Prato, was great to talkRead More →
Hooray! I'm so excited to begin this make-a-long with you. Thank you to Melissa Crowe for suggesting this wonderfully evocative Emily Dickinson poem that I think is perfect for this project. #1755 To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,One clover, and a bee.And revery.The revery alone will do,If bees are few.Read More →
We went to Natick Organic Farm yesterday afternoon to visit the animals. I love this farm. It is five minutes from Wellesley center and so low key and easy to enjoy. The goats came right up to the fence as we parked the car so the girls ran out to pick dandelion greens from theRead More →
Yesterday and today I worked on a patchwork elephant. This was one of those projects that began while sifting through big piles of fabric. All my cotton fabrics are sorted by color in six plastic bins in our bedroom. Bins are great because I keep even very small pieces that cannot be neatly folded onRead More →
A sweet Springtime bird. Have a great day, everyone!
In my Etsy shop now. I feel good that the shop is now restocked and there are lots of things to choose from, including four new Springtime birds. And I wanted to share with you links to my Facebook and Twitter profiles. I hope you'll find me in these two new spots if you areRead More →
Our first CSA pick-up of the summer at Land's Sake in Weston was so wonderful. (Yes, Stella is wearing a bikini top. She insisted she was too hot, even though she was wearing a cotton tank top, and that was all that I could find in the diaper bag. And we went to the playgroundRead More →
I love the color combination on this bird – hot pink, yellow and grey. So great together. I hope you like her, too. She is up in my shop now. Our first CSA pick-up of the season is this afternoon. It is sunny and warm here and I can't wait to get back to theRead More →
My house is on the Cookie magazine blog today! We had a lot of fun photographing the rooms in our house and explaining where all the artwork and mid-century furniture came from. I almost never show my house here so if you are interested, check it out! And another Springtime bird is in theRead More →
I was introduced to food processor bread over the winter by Jennifer Judd-McGee who, if you didn't already know, is a very talented artist and a very kind person, too. Jennifer – thank you! This has got to be the easiest homemade bread recipe known to man and it is so good. I think itRead More →