My son loves those little Velcro wooden fruits that you can cut into pieces with the wooden knife.  The set Santa brought was in a cute l...

I've been dying to share this silk blouse with you all!  As a resident of the Bay Area, I am absolutely thrilled and hon...

The anticipation!  After three silk muslins, the good stuff was finally cut into and sewn.  I'll be revealing photos of the finished ...

For Christmas, my husband gave me the most perfect gift: a dressmaker's form!  Until now, I spent a lot of time topless (or bottomle...

As my last post of the year, I wanted to share the two aprons I made for my youngest's daycare teachers. Both were based on this vinta...

Hands down, my favorite decoration for the house is this advent calendar, made three years ago.  I based it on my in-laws wood version, bu...

Other than the tree skirt , I only set out to make aprons for my son's daycare providers for Christmas this year in a conscious effor...

After seeing this tutorial , it was immediately imperative that I make a tree skirt.  Not that we needed one; on the contrary, I own a bea...

I bought that sweet mug at a student pottery sale at my college yesterday!   Even in a land where I know the location of 3 pairs of sung...

During my recent visit to Britex I purchased a beautiful stretch silk floral fabric, the most expensive piece of fabric I've ever purch...

I  could not resist this pin cushion pattern from Heather Bailey.  Truly, the price was a bit high at my local boutique fabric store, but...

Samantha from At Home with Mrs. H has created a lovely new pleated purse/clutch pattern and I had the opportunity to test it out!  For ...

As part of the Sewing Buddy Project , for Challenge #2 we were instructed to "create two projects that coordinate or reference one ...

So I started back to teaching this week, very part-time, but working nonetheless.  Sewing (as well as many other things) gets shifted into l...