M’am, Step Away From the Serger and No One Will Get Hurt

What is it about the zeitgeist of the 70′s ?  Was the entire decade was due to the failure of radical politics combined with cheap recreational drugs?  If I hadn’t lived through it to prove it really happened  I could totally see how a person could be come a 1970′s denier.  Some of you have seen this in email, but  – well – it’s [...]

Okay Back to Sewing

This little PC desk came from IKEA and it was easy to put together; the size is perfect as a base for my Touch n’ Sew buttonhole station.  The white bins are IKEA as well; I have eight of them in various sizes.  One interesting thing about their stuff is that its all designed to fit together, the space on the [...]

The Ghost of Christmas Past

My mother sent me these vintage needle booklets for Christmas – aren’t they wonderful?  She said in her note that she found them at a “second hand sale” and as soon as I opened them I felt an immediate and powerful connection to the sewist who used them.

My favorite tools are always the ones I make myself.  I [...]

Expandable Bead Stash Storage

For a while now I’ve been trying to figure out a way to deal with stash storage for my beads – how to you find a storage system that is infinitely expandable for a small but growing collection? Another dilemma for me is visibility – I like my embellishment stash, especially my beads, out in [...]