WRITINGS, MUSINGS, & PHOTO TUTORIALS

WRITINGS, MUSINGS, AND PHOTO TUTORIALS

Welcome to the blog! This is where you’ll find written tutorials, encouragement, posts from some of the coolest blog hops, and occasional musings. I also write periodically for my industry and some of those posts can get a bit chewy if you’re just here for the pretty pictures, so feel free to skip right over those!
The blog includes written tutorials, and you can go here for a list of them. If you want to check out our video tutorials, go here.

2017 Back to School Blog Hop for Sewists

  The Back to School Blog Hop (for sewists) returns next week! It kicks off with me on Tuesday August 15th, and then we get 32 days of wonderful tips and tricks from my industry [...]

  • Holiday Snow Globes is a foundation paper piecing pattern that features three snow globes. One has a triangle shaped santa, the second has a snowman with a red scarf, and the third has an evergreen tree made from several green fabrics.

Holiday Snow Globes – Snowman Tutorial

Today I'm sharing some construction tips for my new pattern, Holiday Snow Globes. Holiday Snow Globes is a paper-pieced pattern, and you can construct it vertically for a wall hanging, or horizontally for a table [...]

Thoughts on Pattern Quality

Early in May I received an email from a reader who is quite frustrated with her recent purchases of patterns with costly cutting errors in them. She wrote to ask me to tackle this issue [...]