Have you seen Elea Lutz’s new quilt book, Pretty Playtime Quilts? Oh my–it is filled with the sweetest quilts! Well, today kicks off a whole late spring & summer Quilt-a-Long blog hop hosted by the Fat Quarter Shop. I’m super excited to join this, and I…

My friend and co-author Minki and I created a video to show you how to transfer a design and create a sewing illustration project. We’ve had a lot of questions about this technique and here is a video that shows you how it’s done! This project…

This morning I was treated to the wonderful surprise that the book that I co-wrote with my friend, designer Minki Kim, was available for pre-order on Amazon. Not much else to say about that right now, except that it’s a dream come true. Share List

I’m giving away five (5) copies of Sewing World magazine over on my Instagram account! Sewing World is a UK-based sewing magazine with loads of adorable projects. This issue features the adorable Bunny Snack Mat featured in the photo, designed by my friend and co-author of…

I was gifted this gorgeous knitting bowl from by the talented woodworker Chris MacBain and couldn’t be happier with it! Have you seen these before? The concept is fairly new to me, but makes a lot of sense. If you have ever knit out of…

Tea with a dear friend to just catch up on life. Candles burning, Christmas music playing, tree lights blazing. A chance to bring out and enjoy the Christmas tea set. Bliss. Share List

The holidays can be so overwhelming–so much to pack into already full days and nights. So, I am going to look for little things this month that make me happy. I want to let the busyness go and enjoy Chrismastime. The month leading up to…

My oldest son is an awesome musician and his high school puts on a Halloween show every year called Spooktacular. It has a different theme each year and this one was one of the best I’ve ever seen–Dia de los Meuertos, or Day of the…

I cast on a new lap blanket for the Prayer Shawl ministry at church. This is the Ted’s pattern from Alice’s Embrace. I’m really a quilter, so the patchwork design appeals to me. I’m hoping it will be a nice project as we read through Hatchet…

When I sat down with the calendar on Sunday to create a meal plan for the week, I realized that this is a very busy week: soccer, music, play rehearsals and performances. Still, we need to get dinner on the table every night, busy or not. Here is…