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.
Each Wednesday throughout the summer we’ll hear from a designer about a pattern or book that caused them to head in a new direction and helped form their career. This is the third post in the series. You can read all of them right here. Mollie Johanson is an embroidery pattern designer and blogger. Mollie’sRead More →
The Peanut Baby Sew-Along is in full swing and you have two more weeks to join the fun (and possibly win a cool prize, too). This sew-along is being organized by my Facebook group, the While She Naps Softie Designer’s Forum. The group is now 230 members strong and made up of women from allRead More →
Cynthia Treen and Alison Kaplan It’s entirely possible to have a thriving business making stuffed animals, dolls, and other whimsical things. My guests on today’s episode of the While She Naps podcast are living proof. I’m talking with Cynthia Treen and Alison Kaplan. Cynthia Treen is a Rhode Island based designer and textile artist. She’sRead More →
The 2nd quarter of 2014 came to a close on June 30. Carefully tracking and analyzing my business’ financial activity helps me to look carefully at what I’m working on and to plan out the rest of the year. That means it’s time for the Abby Glassenberg Design 2nd Quarter Income Report (you can seeRead More →
Each Wednesday throughout the summer we’ll hear from a designer about a pattern or book that caused them to head in a new direction and helped form their career. This is the second post in the series. You can read all of them right here. Diane Gilleland is one of my favorite craft bloggers ofRead More →
I taught a class with Meighan O’Toole on Friday night called Social Media for Aritsts and Crafters. A group of nine women from the Boston area gathered at JP Knit & Stitch, a beautiful independent quilt and yarn shop in the city, to talk about social media with us. Over the course of two hoursRead More →
I think summer is the ideal time to begin new hand-stitching projects. It’s too beautiful outside to be sitting at the sewing machine all day. Instead it’s time to sit on the porch, or in the grass, and soak up the sun. If you’re like me, though, you also need something creative to work onRead More →
On a rainy evening in 2007 I walked into a used bookstore in Waltham, Massachusetts and picked up a dusty craft book. The yellow cover was torn in the corner and nearly all the pictures were black and white. The book was published in 1971, four years before I was born, but to me itRead More →
On today’s episode of the While She Naps podcast my guest is the artist Ann Wood. Ann works with found and salvaged materials, many of them vintage or antique garments. She’s interested in transformation, turning cardboard boxes from the fancy grocery store on her block into turreted castles, and ruined old petticoats and gowns into seas forRead More →
Should you say yes to being part of an upcoming blog tour? Should you have a Black Friday sale? Should you install Google AdSense on your sidebar? When you have an online business, or even just a blog, you begin thinking about these questions and hundreds more. There are big overarching questions like what kindsRead More →